Today we’d like to introduce you to Sanchel Brown.
Hi Sanchel, we’re thrilled to have a chance to learn your story today. So, before we get into specifics, maybe you can briefly walk us through how you got to where you are today?
I am a Baltimore native who began dancing at the age of 6 in church. I understood the power of creative expression and ministry from a young age. I would choreograph dances to Aretha Franklin and many other greats in my living room. Then put on shows for my mother. It was not long before I began formal training at the age of 8, and I continued my journey through college, where I received my B.F.A in dance and choreography at VCU. I then went on to apprentice with Urban Bush Women in Brooklyn, NY.
Dance was my saving grace; it was how I maintained internal balance in the midst of childhood traumas, brutal life initiations, and life-threatening spiritual attack. Singing and writing were medicine. I used my karaoke machine and my diary as a sacred medicine. Although I was too young to realize I was regulating myself this way, these are the very same mediums I use today to heal myself and others.
For ten years after graduating from college, I pursued a professional career in dance and theater. I freelanced all across the East Coast and the Southeast. I traveled to Senegal in 2015 for the first of ten times and studied with Germain Acogny at Le Ecole de Sables. I also traveled to the Philippines through Next Level USA as a hip-hop ambassador, teaching my signature dance style, Afroclub. This form combined Baltimore Club and West African dance. My work as a freelance artist expanded via commercial, underground, theater, and concert dance. Wherever I was, I brought innovation. Eventually, I began to seek ways to combine my healing modalities with art. While I was in the thick of the creative industry, I was also studying ATRs (African Traditional Religions), fasting, learning about the chakras, praying, and working continuously on my spiritual evolution.
In 2023, the call came through very clearly. I was exhausted from emotionally abusive relationships, I was 3 years post-partum and drained from single mothering, I grew fatigued of bloodline curses, and realized I was being exploited by the dance industry. In fact, the entire industry was built on exploitation. I decided to commit to one year of wearing all white. The message came to me via a vision during meditation. I assumed I was being prepared to be initiated into IFA or Palo. Spirit was initiating me into my own power. I resisted at the start of the initiation, still engaging in activities that were more harmful than helpful. Seeking love from unequally yoked partners.
Eventually, I had to clear it all out, using vices to regulate my emotions, codependency in love, living in fragmentation, and that’s how the REBEARTH was born. I began constructing a protocol that infused all the forms of dance I explored in my career, correlated it with the chakras, and created music for each chakra. I cultivated this practice based on principles I learned in various African Spiritual traditions and my knowledge of Hinduism. I crafted a practice of energetic coherence and sovereignty within 6 months I began to attend retreats in Peru and the Dominican Republic. I also invested in coaching. Soon, I was hosting my own retreats, 4 locally and 1 internationally.
After so much experimentation, I have found my path; my art is no longer available for exploitation. I am creating music and dance that brings the essence of freedom onstage. I am a sovereign artist; I have chosen not to re-enter the industry and craft my own experiences that honor my core values. Through the REBEARTH, I have been ushering hundreds of women into their own sacred initiations back into their power. It has been such a rewarding and simultaneously difficult journey. There is no blueprint, and I am consistently moving through transformation while learning to stabilize my power. But, I wouldn’t trade it for the world.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
I have been crafting my journey on a shoestring budget and with very little guidance. Along the way, I have experienced:
-childhood traumas rooted in emotional neglect that affected my ideas around worthiness
-housing instability with my toddler, at one point, we were Airbnb hopping, sleeping in “friend’s” living rooms. Being treated as if we were illiterate and incapable due to our situation.
-lack of resources, poverty
-single parenthood with a parent who lives out of the country
-plagiarism of my creative concepts
-being overlooked for opportunities and falsely blackmailed by those I trusted in the community
-emotionally and mentally abusive partners
-many betrayals- many moments where I was left with no support, when I needed it the most
-health scares via constant stress.
-years of long hours and hard work with nothing to show for it.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I am a performing artist and ceremonialist who ushers profound transformation via dance, music, and sovereignty training rooted in spiritual evolution.
I specialize in hypnotherapy, African Diasporic dance forms ( although I am classically trained), chakra therapy, rap, and afro-funk music.
I am known for my unique blend of dance forms, Afro-centered performance expression, and energy healing work. I am also known for powerful choreographic vision and lyricism.
I am most proud of the global impact I have made despite the harsh economic and karmic realities I have had to face and work through creatively. I have traveled across the globe for business and healing, and in each place have made a positive impact through my art or my presence. I have been to the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and Senegal ( multiple times), Peru, and all across the United States through my creativity and healing work.
I approach my healing work as an artist and my art as a spiritual practitioner. I know how to take what’s established and bring a completely new perspective to it. And due to the expansive nature of my life experiences, I can always find common ground with anyone I have the privilege to speak to. They will leave inspired, triggered, or both. It’s all medicinal, and that is what sets me apart.
Any big plans?
In the future, I will continue leading and building the women I am assigned to work with.
We are on the precipice of a creative and spiritual Renaissance, and I will be a part of that conversation.
I will be traveling globally performing as a sovereign artist, crafting deeply profound ceremonial performances that serve as a catalyst for inner freedom for all who witness. My music and movement will be a healing balm across many lands.
I will fully honor motherhood as a part of my calling, raising a priestess who knows her power before she hits puberty.
There will be multiple REBEARTH Temples around the world that will house this expansive vision.
Pricing:
- $55 Bi-Monthly Virtual Dance Ceremonies
- $3500 Annual REBEARTH Retreat in Senegal
- $15k + 1:1 Initiation + Institutional REBEARTH Immersions
- $250 – Single Hypnosis or Spiritual Advisory Session
- $3,000 – Hypnosis or Spiritual Advisory Packages
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rebearth__/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shelly.a.brown.14
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanchelbrown2026/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@therebearth
