Martha Ballesteros-Shakti

Educator  Therapist   Life Coach

Come Home to Who You Truly Are
The Star of your own story

Beneath the layers of fear, pain, and self-doubt lives your truest self—whole, wise, and quietly waiting. Through deep healing, mindfulness, and transformational coaching, I’ll help you return to that inner truth. 

Then it can become the foundation of a life lived with clarity, strength, and meaning.

Welcome to Your Healing and Empowerment Journey

Step into a life of clarity, strength, 
and inner freedom.

I’m Martha Ballesteros-Shakti, and I’m honored to walk beside you on your path to healing and transformation. With over 35 years of experience in holistic therapies, I guide individuals through deep emotional release, self-discovery, and lasting empowerment.

Healing is not about fixing what is broken—it’s about remembering who you are at your core: whole, wise, and resilient. My approach integrates Rapid Eye Therapy, Transformational Coaching, mindfulness, and trauma-informed methods to help you reconnect with your inner resources, dissolve blockages, and live with renewed purpose.

A Sacred Space for Growth

In our work together, you’ll learn to identify and release unconscious patterns rooted in childhood experiences. As these layers dissolve, your relationship with your body, your creativity, and your inner power will deepen. We nurture the heart space—where true transformation begins.

The Power of Self-Love and Inner Alignment

When we cultivate self-care, gratitude, and compassion, we no longer seek approval from outside—we begin to love from wholeness. And as we heal ourselves, we become a force of healing for the world around us.

“Transforming your life is not only a personal act—it’s a contribution to collective healing.”

In Their Own Words

Honest, heartfelt stories from our clients' journeys of transformation.

My sessions with Martha were deep, inspiring and life-changing. She has incredible skills and profound sensitivity, and she's immensely available, compassionate, and committed to get to the "crunch" of any issue you're exploring with her. She is able to keep you on track in a very direct, no-nonsense way, while being fully graceful and respectful of where you are in your process. I reconnected to my inner sources of trust, self-respect and creativity thanks to her guidance and support. I highly recommend in-depth, continued series of sessions with her.

 

~ Premo, AZ

 

Martha has been fantastic. She is warm, trust worthy supportive and a very skilled practitioner. I recommend her highly. Her "Heal the Healer" program is a must for all therapists looking to release, restore, and renew themselves.

 

~M. Bulger, MRET, Westfield, NJ

 

There are masters who draw us to them through their presence, there are those whose words ring true to us and we want to hear more and there are those rare ones that prove to be a mirror where we can see our true selves – all undeniably beautiful in their unique power to draw us out of slumber. And yet there is a fourth kind – those rare masters who are windows that reveal the rainbow colors of our own potential and innate magnificence. Masters who can not only show us what we are now, but what we were born to be. Masters who not only see it themselves but also know how to show it to us! One session with Ma Shakti and she hands you a picture of yourself – the way you are afraid to imagine yourself lest you feel you’re in a fairytale.

 

Ma Shakti has an array of tools that she wields with utmost refinement…knowing not only how to use each tool skillfully but also when it isn’t needed anymore. I ask myself what I learned from her – the one thing that has more meaning for me in life -Awareness. That secret ingredient, that potent essence she gathered as nectar from every Master she has loved, lived with, listened to and learned from, that priceless gem that yogis spend lifetimes yearning to achieve through penance, she simply hands out to you over a cup of tea, with a tender smile that lights up her benevolent eyes and a few gestures of her expressive hands. And you sit there wondering, how on earth I got so lucky…until she snaps her fingers to wake you up and out of your daydreams, reminding you with her sharp voice that “You need to be practical Navaneetha!” 

 

Ma Shakti is an advocate and protector of the quality of feminineness – not just of feminity or women’s rights as most of us often might see it. She understands this essential quality as the fragrance of the innermost sanctum of both men and women, seekers and non-seekers alike and rightfully channels its expression and preservation.

 

~Navaneetha Dwarakanath

 

My name is Manuel Gonzalez and I want to emphasize the tremendous work we made with Shakti and the aid of Rapid Eye to surpass a depression stage that framed my life in past months due to a separation. 

Thanks to Shakti’s undeniable gift of healing, her arduous work - she gave me sessions that sometimes extended to 3 hours, the Rapid Eye process and my commitment I can say that I managed to release my depression totally.

I continue practicing the life skills and philosophical concepts I have learned from Shakti and Rapid Eye Technology. I can definitely say that whoever decides to start this therapeutic process and is constant and persistent, can go beyond their traumas and is able to start a journey of spiritual illumination. I am deeply grateful to Shakti for her love and dedication towards her patients and I hope she can go on helping and enlightening many more human beings on their journey towards healing. Rapid Eye is an absolute miracle and my therapist Martha is a miracle worker. For years I have been working on myself and still there were some issues I just never seem to be able to move past because they were so deeply rooted. Rapid Eye is so effective and easy it almost seems too good to be true but It's TRUE. My life has shifted 180 degrees in only months thanks to Rapid Eye and Martha's intuitive instinct in assisting me to get to the true root of the issue and then release it once and for all. Thank you for giving me true freedom. With love and in deep gratitude I bless you Martha.

 

~Manuel Gonzalez

 

Dear Shakti being of light and love, I thank God for having met you as a friend and therapist; every session of Rapid Eye I shared with you was a wonderful journey to explore and recognize that happiness did not have to be searched for very far, as it was within me the whole time. 

 

~Maria Arias

 

I feel I have to tell my story because many people can benefit from it. I owe much to Martha Ballesteros and Rapid Eye. I guess if I could pick one of the benefits from doing this therapy I would say the most important is that I have myself back, I feel free. I didn’t know there was so much peace, power and strength resting within me.

My father sexually abused me when I was 9. As far as I can remember I always had a great fear about life and a horrible sense of insecurity within myself. My mother was dead, so there was no one there to care for me. I stumble from school to school, later on from man to man, had a time with drugs and alcohol. Life was very difficult, all I wanted was to be dead, but I have a child I have to care for, so friends talked me into doing something about it. I went to AA meetings and that helped, but I felt sort of imprisoned within and I was still carrying so much fear.

Then I met Martha. With her sessions she helped me to let go of fear and negative feelings. With the life skill classes she gave me, I started to understand how my experience. Of the abuse was a filter to my perception of life and the choices I made. I choose men and experiences based on my feelings as the abused child. It was such a estrange game, for or against men, life, work. I was certainly a prisoner of my unconscious memories. From the very beginning my changes within and without were so profound that I committed myself to do as much Rapid Eye as I could. I went through all the sessions. I worked with the Life Skills book. It was like entering into a new world. Martha is a real wise woman; with her help I even changed my eating habits. I am no more the needy person in my relationships and I can really enjoy intimacy now. The best of all is the wonderful feeling to be in my body and the enthusiasm I have for life. I feel grateful about my life now and I know I have the power to make anything I want out of it. Thank you Martha, may God bless you for the wonderful help you are to people.

 

~Ann L. 


 

 

RET is an absolute miracle and my therapist Martha is a miracle worker. For years I have been working on myself and still there were some issues I just never seem to be able to move past because they were so deeply rooted. RET is so effective and easy it almost seems too good to be true but It's TRUE. My life has shifted 180 degrees in only a few months, thanks to Rapid Eye and Martha's intuitive instinct in assisting me to get to the true root of the issue and then release it once and for all. Thank you for giving me true freedom. With love and in deep gratitude I bless you Martha.  

 

~Tracy R.

Through all my years of searching, trying different healing techniques I found RET to be very effective in helping me release and uncover deep emotional wounds and Martha is the best therapist and coach I ever had. She is also an excellent massage therapist. I love her sense of humor. She is a great asset to the healing of this planet.

 

~ Michael B.

 

I met Martha previously to a very decisive time of my life, just entering the thirties in the middle of a crisis in my marriage and after being fired from my job as an attorney in a prestigious law firm. I know now that God always places things in front of us at the right time, and surely that was the reason why Martha was there to help me find in myself the strength and capacity to accept life as it is. That knowledge has allowed me to live my life with patience, love, tolerance and great faith, virtues that I learned with her help resided in me and for my enjoyment. More than a therapist she has always been a comprehensive, tender and warm human being for whom my personal difficulties have been important as a friend.

 

~CR Vaquero

 

Dear Shakti, I like to say thank you. You have been a blessing in my life. I appreciate your integrity and clarity. God bless you!

 

~Don

 

With gratitude I write this testimonial. I came to Martha Ballesteros looking to relieve my insomnia, depression and worries. I found a very professional and compassionate human being who helped me to let go of my negative thoughts and emotions guiding me to accept and embrace myself unconditionally. 

I was very efficient in sabotaging myself. Today I know I have the power to make a wonderful life for myself, and I am aware that I'm making my life with each one of my thoughts, perceptions and decisions. Thank you Martha for your teachings and great help.

 

~Oscar B 

 

 

 

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