Dance teacher

Mixed Media
42.0 x 29.7 cm
2026
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Awakening to Your Power What happens when you begin to see beyond the identities, fears, and illusions that once defined you? Awakening to Your Power explores the moment when awareness begins to change everything. Standing between darkness and an emerging horizon, the central figure represents the self that is no longer willing to remain unconscious of its own strength. The contrasting faces, the solitary flower, and the mysterious symbols beneath her feet evoke the hidden forces that shape our lives, the truths we bury, and the possibilities that emerge when we dare to look deeper. Awakening is not about becoming someone else. It is about recognising what has always been within you, reclaiming the parts of yourself you abandoned, and choosing to move forward with greater consciousness. Your power begins where the old illusions end.
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Oct 17, 2026
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About the artist
About Anika Shamanka Anika Shamanka is a self-taught visionary artist whose work emerges from the depths of the unconscious, spiritual exploration, and the hidden dimensions of human existence. Working at the intersection of dark surrealism, symbolism, and the mystical, she creates original artworks shaped by inner visions, personal transformation, and encounters with the unseen. Her imagery explores duality, shadow, identity, sovereignty, and the mysteries that lie beneath the surface of ordinary perception. With a background in psychology and dance, Anika's artistic expression is inseparable from her exploration of the human psyche, embodied experience, and the transformative power of confronting one's own darkness. Her art is an intuitive process, guided by spontaneous imagery and the symbolic language of the unconscious. Rather than following conventional artistic formulas, she allows each work to emerge organically, giving form to what often remains hidden, unspoken, or beyond rational understanding. For Anika, art is not merely decoration. It is a language of the soul — a meeting point between the visible and invisible worlds, where darkness becomes a source of revelation and transformation. Each piece is an original expression of her inner landscape: raw, symbolic, and deeply personal. Anika Shamanka — Self-Taught Artist • Dark Surrealism • Symbolism • The Unconscious • Spiritual Transformation
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Born in 1982 in Avenue Edouard Aynard, Écully, France. Currently residing in Lyon, France.





































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