Today we’d like to introduce you to Tania Smith.
Hi Tania , it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
My journey has really been about following what fascinated me and trusting where it led.
I was born in Tasmania, Australia, and from a very young age I knew I wanted to be a musician. That dream took me around the world as a professional keyboard player and singer. I toured internationally with Kylie Minogue, was musical director for Jamie O’Neal, and have had the opportunity to perform and work with other major artists including Michael McDonald and Willie Nelson. I’ve also written music for recording artists, including a song that won a Grammy, written for Nintendo, appeared on television, and had some pretty extraordinary experiences along the way.
But music eventually opened a completely different door for me. After years of performing, I became fascinated by something I had always sensed but couldn’t quite explain – **energy**. I began noticing how profoundly music, sound, people and environments could affect us, and I started studying energy healing.
At the same time, I was dealing with debilitating migraines, sometimes lasting for weeks and sending me to the ER. I became determined to understand energy and healing not just intellectually, but through my own experience. That exploration completely changed my life.
For more than 20 years I’ve studied with teachers from Tibetan, Indian, Japanese and Peruvian traditions, eventually finding my deepest connection in the ancient Tibetan Bon tradition. After more than 12 years of intensive training with Tibetan Lama Geshe Chongtul Rinpoche, I became a certified Tibetan soul healer and Tse Dup Lopon, or teacher. I was also one of the first practitioners, and the first non-Tibetan teacher in the U.S., of Tse Dup Yang Bod, an ancient Tibetan soul-healing practice.
Along the way, I realized that my two worlds – **healing and creativity – were never really separate.** My years in the music industry taught me how deeply energy influences creative people, performers and audiences. Today, through Rainbow Lovina Healing Arts, I bring those worlds together as an energy healer, spiritual guide and creative mentor.
I work with people who want to heal, grow and also create a life that actually feels like *theirs*. I teach a certification program in Tibetan soul healing, work one-on-one with clients, mentor creatives and healers, and continue to make music and art.
I think the biggest lesson of my journey has been that our path doesn’t always unfold in a straight line. Sometimes the things that seem like completely different chapters of your life are actually preparing you for exactly what you’re meant to do next. For me, it has all come back to one thing: **following my bliss and helping other people find the courage to follow theirs.**
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Definitely not. In fact, some of the most challenging parts of my life have ultimately shaped the work I do today.
There have been times when I’ve had to completely reinvent myself. I went from a successful career in music and touring to following a much less conventional path into energy healing and spirituality. That meant letting go of the security and identity I had built around one career and trusting something I couldn’t always explain to other people.
I also experienced years of debilitating migraines. There were periods when I wondered if I’d ever be free of them but I was determined that I would, which led me to keep searching on the road less travelled, and those experiences became a catalyst for me to look much more deeply into energy, healing and the connection between our physical, emotional and energetic bodies.
Building a career in the spiritual and healing world has had its own challenges. It’s not always easy to create something that is deeply personal and outside the mainstream, especially when you’re trying to honor an ancient tradition while also making it accessible to a modern audience.
I’ve learned that the road isn’t supposed to be smooth. The twists, the endings, and the uncertainty have all taught me to trust myself more deeply. Looking back, I can see that many of the things I thought were detours were actually redirecting me toward the work I was meant to do.
Now, when I work with creatives, healers and people who feel like they’re in a transition, I can honestly tell them: **you don’t have to have the whole path figured out. You just have to be willing to take the next step.**
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
My work brings together **energy healing, spirituality and creativity**. Through Rainbow Lovina Healing Arts, I work with people who are ready to heal, evolve and create a life that feels aligned with who they truly are.
I specialize in Tibetan soul healing, particularly Tse Dup Yang Bod, an ancient healing and longevity practice from the Zhang Zhung Bon tradition of Tibet. I’m a certified Tibetan soul healer and Lopon (teacher), and I teach a three-year Tse Dup certification program for practitioners. I also work privately with clients and offer workshops, retreats and creative mentorship for people who want to move beyond what is holding them back and step more fully into their own gifts and soul mission.
I’m probably best known for bringing together two worlds that aren’t often seen together – **ancient spiritual wisdom and the creative life**. Before becoming a healer and teacher, I spent many years as a professional musician, touring internationally and working with major recording artists. That experience gave me a deep understanding of artists, performers and creative people – the pressure, the sensitivity, the self-doubt, but also the incredible power that comes when someone is fully connected to their creativity.
I believe creativity is a form of energy, and that healing and creativity are deeply connected. When we clear the things that keep us small – fear, old patterns, limiting beliefs or energetic blocks – we have much more freedom to create, express and live our lives fully.
What I’m most proud of is bringing this ancient Tibetan tradition to a wider audience while respecting and honoring the lineage from which it comes. I’m especially proud to be one of the first non-Tibetan teachers in the U.S. authorized to teach Tse Dup Yang Bod and to have trained for many years with my Tibetan teachers.
What sets me apart is really the combination of my experiences. I’m not only a spiritual teacher or healer – but also a lifelong creative, musician, mentor and entrepreneur. I’ve lived the highs and lows of pursuing an unconventional path, and I bring that lived experience into my work. I continue to release music and am currently working on a new recording project as well as a book, and I also love introducing clients to the magic of sacred sites, most notably Egypt.
Ultimately, I don’t want people to become someone else. **I want to help them become more fully who they already are.** That, to me, is where healing, creativity and our soul mission meet.
Risk taking is a topic that people have widely differing views on – we’d love to hear your thoughts.
I’ve taken some pretty big risks in my life, although I don’t know that I’ve ever thought of myself as a risk-taker. I think I’m more of a **trust-taker**.
One of the biggest risks was leaving Australia at the high point of my career there to move to the US and start again and then after much studio work, culminating in co writing a Grammy winning song for Ashley Cleveland with Rafe Van Hoy ( a Nashville Songwriters Hall Of Fame inductee) and Kenny Greenberg (an acclaimed Grammy Award-winning session guitarist, record producer, and songwriter), leaving that career in music that I had worked very hard to build. I had toured internationally, worked with some incredible artists and had a life that, from the outside, looked like a dream. But there was a growing feeling that there was something else I was meant to explore. Choosing to follow that feeling into energy healing and spirituality was not the obvious or safe choice. I was essentially starting over in a completely different world.
There were other risks along the way – trusting myself enough to teach an ancient Tibetan tradition, building a business around work that can be difficult to explain in conventional terms, and continuing to create music and art while also developing a completely different identity as a healer and teacher.
I’ve learned that risk doesn’t necessarily mean jumping without a parachute. Sometimes it means listening to that quiet inner voice when everything around you is telling you to stay where you are. It means being willing to disappoint people, change direction, start again and not have all the answers.
I also think there’s a difference between taking a reckless risk and taking an **aligned risk**. An aligned risk can still be scary, but underneath the fear there’s a sense of knowing – a feeling that something in you is asking to move forward.
For me, the biggest risks have usually happened when I chose to trust that feeling rather than let fear make the decision for me. And almost every time, the risk has opened a door I couldn’t have seen from where I was standing.
I’ve come to believe that sometimes the greatest risk isn’t taking the leap – **it’s staying in a life you’ve already outgrown because you’re afraid of what might happen if you change.**
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.rainbowlovina.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rainbowlovina
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rainbowlovina/
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thetaniasmith
