The Tilt Shift with Shae Elise Allen

The Tilt Shift with Shae Elise Allen Shae is an embodiment educator and leadership coach, supporting women at midlife.

She partners with, guides and holds space for women’s deepest stories and transformation in relation to their body, place + belonging for empowered self leadership.

A little photo shoot to celebrate fresh hair and five months of natural grow out! This is a big deal for me & I’m so dam...
10/03/2025

A little photo shoot to celebrate fresh hair and five months of natural grow out! This is a big deal for me & I’m so damn proud of myself.
What I’ve noticed:
✨Colour wise much more grey around the top LHS of my crown and much less on the right—looking like a streak is forming!
✨Some days I feel totally washed out with my cooler hair coming through and other days I feel like a silver priestess. Realising that ideas and conditioning around ageing play a huge part in how I feel about myself
✨I am giving way less f***s and loving every minute of it
✨The demarcation line is a bother but mostly because I can’t believe how much damage I did box dying my hair

I had a male friend comment on my last natural grow out update “Do what you want mate. You’re a big girl who can make her own decisions for what’s best for you. Grey or not grey, who cares, as long as that’s what you want”

At first glance, this seems like a supportive, neutral stance—of course, I can do what I want. But the deeper truth is that women’s choices around beauty don’t exist in isolation.

Naomi Wolf,, describes how the pressure to conform to beauty standards intensified as women gained more rights. As we broke barriers in politics, work, and society, new forms of control emerged—ones that kept us fixated on our bodies, appearance, and desirability rather than our power, wisdom, and agency. Grey hair, in particular, carries layers of meaning for women. While men are often seen as “distinguished” as they age, women are conditioned to see grey as “letting themselves go.” The choice to embrace it—or not—is never just a neutral, personal decision. It’s a deeply conditioned one.

So when I grow out my grey, it’s not just about preference. It’s about navigating a culture that tells women we lose value as we age. It’s about reconditioning my own gaze so that I see power, presence & desirability where society has told me to see decline.

To say “who cares” misses the point. We care—because we have been taught to.

So yes, I am a big girl, no s**t! But I also know that my decision like all women’s decisions around beauty—does not exist in a vacuum, and that is absolutely why it matters.

The face of a woman who has just spent three magnificent days in Bali receiving the deepest, most divine Ayurvedic treat...
09/12/2024

The face of a woman who has just spent three magnificent days in Bali receiving the deepest, most divine Ayurvedic treatments, one, after the other, after the other courtesy of a magnificent bunch of absolutely gorgeous, loving friends for my 50th birthday ♥️🥹♥️

I am so deeply nurtured, thanks to the team at bali botanica day spa. The professionalism, care and love the therapists exude is wow factor amazing! Starting each day with Arati and chanting, I’ve been guided through the most blissful bodywork experiences.

Receiving this deeply is exactly what I needed at this stage of my life. Been mothering pretty much since I could walk, time to release some of the load.

My heart is full to the brim and I’m so grateful.

Letting the love in ♥️

So my friends, my higher education journey is continuing! On to a program I have wanted to do for literally years but di...
13/07/2024

So my friends, my higher education journey is continuing! On to a program I have wanted to do for literally years but didn’t think I could without an undergraduate degree.

I’m really excited to have accepted a place to study post graduate sexology at Curtin University and plan to work toward the Masters degree over the next couple of years.

This is huge for me as when I completed high school no one in my family had a degree and there was no expectation I went to university. I struggled in the mainstream education system, even though I was so interested in the world, even though I cared about what I was learning and had so much to offer, and I say this in retrospect, I certainly didn’t feel I had a lot of offer at the time. I was just considered not academic, even though I’ve always been a deep thinker with intellectual excitabilities that take me down deeeep rabbit holes 😅. There was just no conversation or understanding to foster it.

Thank god we are living in an era where neuro diverse thinkers are being seen appreciated for their unique and important minds. My self worth as an adult is all the better for it. I now see myself and understand myself better. As hard as it is to reach this realisation at nearly 50, at least I’m here and at least the generations to follow won’t walk such a difficult path.

Last year I did my first post graduate certificate by experience and then was able to talk my way into post graduate sexology by experience with the help of a wonderful tutor at ACAP and the incredible support of people in my life who I’ve worked with and who believe in me.

I want to acknowledge Curtin University for making this possible because not all universities allow this type of post graduate entry. Lots of bright minds, usually women, slip through the cracks of the education system, especially solo mothers who often don’t have the capacity to hold parenting, financials & study on one income.

I’m doing this degree because not enough research goes into women’s experience of their body and sexuality at midlife. It’s such a vulnerable stage of life for so many reasons and we deserve quality education and research dedicated to it. cont. in comments.

A very special offer for (peri)menopausal women seeking support, connection and wellbeing  in Melbourne....I’ve been hea...
19/05/2024

A very special offer for (peri)menopausal women seeking support, connection and wellbeing in Melbourne....

I’ve been hearing your need for community during your midlife transition and I am thrilled to join forces with Spiros to present this community offering:
The Menopause Sessions, a late afternoon wellness immersion.

Join us for ‘Reimagining Midlife: A Talk & Interactive Practice’ to inspire your transformational shift, followed by the healing power of Acunidra and sound healing with Spiros.

Location: Moss Studios, 101 Evans Street, Brunswick
Date: Saturday 8th June, 3.30pm - 6.30pm

Tea will be offered in between sessions.

This first event is by cash donation on the day.

For more information about the practice and guidance:
https://www.facebook.com/acunidra
www.shaeelise.com

Please feel free to share this with your people!

Register your attendance via the following link:
rb.gy/9bfook

* Wear warm, comfortable clothes and bring a water bottle.

My article 'Navigate Midlife Longing to Unlock a Higher Love' from a couple of weeks ago seemed to hit a chord, so this ...
27/04/2024

My article 'Navigate Midlife Longing to Unlock a Higher Love' from a couple of weeks ago seemed to hit a chord, so this week I offer you a powerful ritual practice that I usually offer to my 1:1 clients to support the integration of that article.

I invite you to take time to gift this to yourself and honour your inherent worthiness. xo

Substack  #3 is out! This one explores new frontiers in leadership and personal growth. My latest Substack dives into ho...
20/04/2024

Substack #3 is out! This one explores new frontiers in leadership and personal growth. My latest Substack dives into how the transformational experience of menopause can unlock unparalleled leadership qualities in a complex world. Discover how the transformational experience of midlife paves way for a unique lived perspective that humanity is craving.

This weeks substack has been published! I'd love you to check it out and subscribe
13/04/2024

This weeks substack has been published! I'd love you to check it out and subscribe

𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐎𝐏𝐀𝐔𝐒𝐄, 𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐋 𝐎𝐅 𝐇𝐔𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐘 When it comes to the evolution of humanity and existential threats, the...
01/12/2023

𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐎𝐏𝐀𝐔𝐒𝐄, 𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐋 𝐎𝐅 𝐇𝐔𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐘

When it comes to the evolution of humanity and existential threats, there is a common apathy that exists. I follow thought leaders who are doing the work of asking the highest level questions and thinking beyond geo politics to seek the answers for earths survival. I’m highly selective about who I follow in this realm, because the cyber Wild West conspiracy world is no place I want to be. I listened to Daniel Schmachtenberger’s talk at Impact week held in Sweden last month. He is an incredible philosopher and polymath with an extraordinary amount to say about biosphere compatible living and one of the best things I heard him say was to sit with and feel the depression of where humanity is at right now. This isn’t an invitation for everyone to lose themselves in it however being conscious of how our bodies feel and what our bodies are telling us is a missing key for humanity.

We’re profoundly conditioned to believe we work problems out intellectually—and it’s an important avenue of understanding, but it only ever gets us so far.

When we invest time into exploring the wisdom of the body, we discover that the body has a profound intelligence that we’ve been overlooking for eons.

It’s time to return to somatic awareness and learning to trust the body. It’s a huge ask for humanity because we are so obsessed with what can be measured and evaluated and the body is mysterious. It’s a monumental shift for most of us to trust the body enough to be guided by it.

It’s where we are at though. It’s what’s needed.

We can’t implement the necessary strategies and changes needed for the planet to survive without somatic awareness and emotional intelligence.

It’s our responsibility to begin the work of building this relationship with self and taking action from the wisdom cultivated somatically to save us. Literally.

Midlife women transversing menopause are ripe for this. We feel lost because we are disconnected from our bodies. The world needs us connected to ourselves.

Let’s begin 💜

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐈𝐃𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍As a woman who feels intensely and is devoted to deep intimacy, I don’t shy away from ex...
26/11/2023

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐈𝐃𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍

As a woman who feels intensely and is devoted to deep intimacy, I don’t shy away from exposing my vulnerability.

From my present stance as a midlife woman who has invested in personal development over the years, my inner wisdom has deepened and I’ve become a lot more practiced now in my ability to hold myself in my truth and expose my heart.

Still, it feels intense and risky when I embark, it’s sometimes painful, and of course it’s deeply tender because in exposing my vulnerability I open my heart wider to the often squally winds of human connection—and the potential of being unmet.

It feels more vulnerable as a midlife woman and it seems natural we would want to avoid that. The pain of exposing ourselves and being unmet…the associated activation of longing that can feel like it's swallowed us whole…the swell of the hollow heart that yearns to be filled.

But what if in our willingness to go deep into the well of the hollow heart we discover a portal to a higher love? An energetic veil designed to dissolve as we meet it, where we open to an experience of safety beyond what we thought possible?

An alchemical shift.

Most of us default to sitting in the contraction when we feel that hollowness, and when we choose this, we limit the possibility of accessing a personal transformation, a deeper wisdom initiation. Whereas, when we choose the path of meeting our vulnerability, we learn to hold space for ourselves and trust our process…we expand and we become more self knowing and courageous.

Through the intentional observation of our embodied, mental, emotional and spiritual process (introspection)—we awaken to own safety and truth.

This is not a linear experience. It requires the willingness to trust, experiment and iterate—and celebrate our iterations rather than see them as another loss or failure.

In order to trust, we suspend our desire to control outcomes and we prepare to meet what we have been conditioned to reject within ourselves. The heart is the conduit for this alchemical process.

When we meet our shadow, the parts of us that feel too vulnerable to expose—our trauma, our sexuality, our fear of rejection, of being too intense, of not being enough—when we make the choice to not cloak these parts of ourselves in shame, but welcome them into the heart, we transform. In my personal experience, and my experience coaching women through this process, this is where we discover safety, and it's profound.

The experience of true belonging can only originate here.

I’ve felt the weight of this emotion throughout different stages of my life, and here at midlife I definitely feel it more intensely, but I move through it with greater confidence. The human condition still fears its ache but the more I choose expansion, the deeper I trust and the swifter I integrate.

At midlife we also become more aware of our mortality and our desire for inner union as well as union with a beloved can be overwhelmingly strong.

When we expand into longing rather than contract, we learn to vibrate in a higher love. In doing so, we draw on the pulse of the earth and cosmos—the energy of our creation—and we learn to understand we belong and that we’re worthy.

From here we become magnetic attractors of all that is beautiful, of all that is for us.

I am interviewing women for limited private 20 week mentorships starting in early 2024. I only have 6 spots available. For more information and to apply: https://www.shaeelise.com/mentorships

The earth needs you.Humanity needs you. Not to be at ‘your best’ (whatever that means)but to dig deep, to be willing to ...
05/06/2023

The earth needs you.

Humanity needs you.

Not to be at ‘your best’
(whatever that means)
but to dig deep,
to be willing to share
your uncomfortable lessons
…how you opened
your heart to yourself
to renew
to keep loving
to keep trusting
to keep believing

This is how we steward humane leadership, we lead unapologetically as we learn and grow, with hearts as wide as the sun.

I’m taking a 7-10 days out next week to make art, be creative and listen to the spirit of life flow through me. I will b...
25/05/2023

I’m taking a 7-10 days out next week to make art, be creative and listen to the spirit of life flow through me. I will beautify my environment with flowers and candles get some supplies and some clay, collect things in nature and I’ll write too. The idea came to me in an absolutely extraordinary women’s group/bookclub I’ve been religiously going to that Tracy Kopp kick started 6 weeks ago. Love that woman.

And I just want to say how incredibly grateful I am to be able to even say this, that I’m spending 7-10 days in pure wild artistic abandon… truly, what a gift.

Im not intending to make anything or develop a project; I’m doing it to free myself, to remember myself, to let my inner child play and with no expectation other than to see what flows from me.

Sharing this post isn’t so much an accountability measure for the creative period, it’s simply a celebration for coming up with this brilliant idea and saying yes to something so damn beautiful.

✨✨✨✨✨

Dripping dew. The process of vapour transforming to liquid as temperatures drop. How does your dew drip? How do you empo...
12/04/2023

Dripping dew.

The process of vapour transforming to liquid as temperatures drop.

How does your dew drip? How do you empower yourself to create transformational experiences in your life? What is your alchemy and magic that supports your transformation?

Mine is autumnal morning walks and receiving this transmission from nature; it’s taking intentional time for meditation and visioning as I rise in the morning; it’s massaging, self pleasuring and loving my body; eating nourishing food and remembering every single day how extraordinarily blessed I am to live this life; and it’s speaking the truth of my heart and offering it up to the higher order of all things, trusting that in doing so, there is a special magic that is always birthed—and I needn’t be attached to what that is. I just know it’s so.

Wishing you a heart opening and magic filled life. It’s there waiting for you. x


 
 

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I’m here to support you to feel empowered in the knowledge that you are safe and to come to know and trust your body intelligence -- that your relationship to it is truly revolutionising -- and that this is your birthright.

Regrettably, we live in a world where this knowledge is not free. Our powerful body wisdom has been swept under the carpet in favour of navigating life via the mind and only the mind.

From a very young age the majority of us have been taught to disconnect from the body. Initially being told as young children to stop exploring our ge****ls (perhaps even that it’s dirty); not being encouraged to use our voices to express our rage, grief or ecstasy; through to growing up with a media that promotes a toxic sexuality and body image, spearheading the the painful and ongoing battle many women have with their bodies. Many of us hold this conditioning within, resulting in a disconnection from our innate wisdom, our sexuality and pleasure and our power.

When we transition into peri-menopause and menopause we are being called into our absolute power, our bodies begin to heat up and the opportunity is there to burn all of what no longer serves. Women are struggling through this transition because there is no clear path forward in this youth obsessed media culture, no rite of passage that honours and reveres women through this most important life period, and no space afforded to embody our ecstatic power at this stage of life and beyond. My work offers an opportunity to remember, honor and repattern the mid life narrative, supporting all women to live their wild hearted truth in mid-age and beyond.