Jayne Stevenson
Jayne Stevenson is a teacher, healer, depth psychotherapist, writer, and co-founder of Big Shakti.
Jayne guides people into the deep places of the psyche. Since age 17, she has followed the river of the Dao and the dark yet luminous current of the unconscious, learning to read the images the psyche sends up through dreams, the body-mind, and its symptoms, and to translate them into guidance a person can live by.
She carries the patience of a Daoist practitioner, the detailed eye of a filmmaker and the ear of a depth psychologist. Whether she accompanies a client into their shadow, traces an archetype through a dream, shapes the arc of a new course, or teaches the ancient art of sankalpa, she brings the same devotion to beauty, truth, and the slow recovery of the true Self.
Her work moves in two directions at once: downward into the valley of the soul, where grief, desire, and memory gather, and upward toward the clear, transcendent light of spirit. When these two paths meet and are grounded in embodied awareness, life becomes meaningful and vibrant: conscious and full of shakti.
Jayne is devoted to the exquisite living principles of the dao, yogic knowledge, depth psychology, the creative force, her students and clients.
Together with Swami Shankardev Saraswati, she continually shapes and reshapes Big Shakti as a living expression of their shared dharma—a place where inner awakening matures into outer transformation.
Jayne illuminates the soul's hidden life with grace, imagination, and a passionate faith in each person’s capacity to become whole.
“Thanks for the meditation teaching, Jayne. Now I know I can meditate!”
Natalie Rook
“I just ‘stumbled’ across your article from an online search, and all I can say is WOW. I love the framework around passion, purpose and life purpose.”
Taria Buchanan
“It feels good to be back in my body after losing myself to technology. Decoding my recurring dreams and your deep care got me there.”
Leon
My Psychotherapy Practice
My psychotherapy practice is devoted to deep inner work. Clients come to me at turning points in their lives: when an old wound keeps reopening, when a relationship or vocation has lost its meaning, when a powerful dream or image asks to be understood, or when they sense a larger self waiting to be lived.
Our sessions offer a confidential and unhurried sanctuary where every part of a person is welcome, including the parts long kept hidden. I listen closely, follow what the psyche brings, and honor each person’s own pace and wisdom. Over time, clients come to know themselves more fully, meet their difficulties with steadier strength, and find their lives guided by a renewed sense of meaning.
Sessions are held on Zoom. See Healing and Dreamwork sessions here:
My Journey
At seventeen, a serious car accident led me to my principal teacher, who opened the way to martial arts, Dao meditation, and Traditional Chinese therapies. For twelve years I studied with him, watching people recover whom Western doctors had judged lost causes, and built the ethical and spiritual foundation that has governed my life.
My healing awakened a deeper question about wholeness, and Carl Jung’s work answered it. Jung showed me that the psyche speaks through dreams, the body, our repeating patterns, and the great archetypal images, each one returning neglected parts of the self to awareness.
Since 2017 I have brought these lineages together with clients, using dreamwork, shadow work, and active and embodied imagination to reach the depths of soul and the clarity of spirit, always returning to the body and the present moment.
Creative Work
My creative life began at design school, where I discovered a love of both design and film. Over the following decade. I wrote and directed several short films and a 50-minute feature, which screened in art galleries, at festivals, and on television networks, earning various awards and nominations. You can read more about my diverse creative journey in Many Sankalpas - One Lifetime.
From 1993 to 2004, as Creative and Marketing Director, I helped establish Avant Card, an ethical Australian ambient media advertising company.
That long apprenticeship in image, story, and sound shapes every course and meditation on Big Shakti.
"Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?"
Carl Jung
Experience My Work
What is Dreamwork? (Free)
LECTURE {Foundation}
Explored the Frontiers of Your Unconscious Mind
Interview with Jayne Stevenson by the Hanuman Academy
Video Lecture, Dream Recall Steps, 30 minutes
Facing the Shadow
COURSE
How to unify the dark and light aspects of your mind and emotions
2 Modules, 27 Lessons, 2 Meditations, 13 Integration Exercises, 8 CPD Points
Find Life Purpose
COURSE
Journey to Your Heart’s Desire
10 Modules, 115 Lessons, 9 Meditations, 9 Integration Exercises, 20 CPD Points
