“I am the woman my Ancestors dreamed — Living in the world as I am. Nothing less and nothing more. This becomes the bridge for those yet to come.”

This is not a website.
This is a remembering. A reclamation. A return — to self, to Dreaming, to weaving, to being. A rising - into self, life and purpose from your power, truth and heart.

This is my story to yours. If I can, you can.
A sacred space where truth is not just told — it is lived.
Where legacy is not merely honoured — it is forged in real time.
A fire built from Country, story, breath, and strength.

I am Shantelle Thompson,
Proud Nguuku of the Barkindji and Ngiyampaa peoples. A woman weaving life and Dreaming from and into self, mother, Aunty, and all of the roles I hold and carry.

Mother, Aunty, Barkindji Warrior. Dreaming-led Way-finder. Matriarch in the making. Black Belt. Word Champion. Storyteller. Founder. Truth-carrier.

I am known as the Barkindji Warrior, a name gifted to me by my Aunty and Elder, Aunty Sharon Kirby. I weave together many roles: black belt, world champion, mother, storyteller, founder, guide. My identity is layered, ancestral, lived, learned and whole. And from this has evolved the Warrior Heart - stand in your power, be your truth and follow your heart.

My story and journey was seeded in the womb of my Ancestors and planted in the Dreaming of my Songlines.
I rise not as a performance, but as presence. As purpose. As peace.
We are Warrior Hearts — sovereign women rising with strength, spirit, and legacy.

This space weaves together the many sacred strands I carry:

🌀 My journey to becoming the first Black Belt World Champion of my people
🌾 My work with Kiilalaana, creating cultural, personal, and spiritual sovereignty for our women and youth
🔥 The Warrior Heart movement, born of my lived experience, ancestral calling, and unwavering belief in human potential
💛 My truth as a mother, a woman, a leader who is choosing peace and purpose — not performance — as the path forward

This is my way of walking back into the world fully — no longer fragmented by the roles I play, but integrated through the wisdom I carry.

If you are here, maybe something inside you is stirring —
A longing to reclaim your voice, your rhythm, your Warrior Heart.

💛 The Woman and Mother

The woman is the birth place of humanity. First as a woman who than is born into being a mother. My being as a woman and mother is the womb that carries all else.
I walk as one whole being — dreaming, weaving, birthing, loving, guiding and showing the way.

I choose peace over performance, power over perfection, and truth over titles.
Because how I am, lead, and live is the message, is the way, is the story, becomes the legacy. This is where all things begin — the first seed of becoming, the first circle of legacy.

🌀 The Black Belt Journey

An evolution of my path from suicide to world champion — now walking toward becoming a Black Belt World Champion, not just in sport, more deeply in self, spirit and ways of being and doing.
This journey matters because it shows what’s possible when a woman chooses herself — when she rises from survival and walks from sovereignty and alignment with the Dreaming seeded by her Ancestors. And the self and spirit that is birthed from life and experience.
It is showing the way that Dreaming, Courage, and cultural strength can carry us across oceans of doubt, trauma, fear and violence.

🌾 Kiilalaana Foundation

A movement of cultural, spiritual, and personal sovereignty for our women and youth.
Not about rescue — but remembering, rising, and resurgence.
Because our communities do not need fixing — they need space to breathe, belong, and become.
Kiilalaana is seeded in ancestral law and matriarchal care — it is the soil that nurtures collective strength. By sitting, walking and weaving with one person at a time to come home to self and rising from survival to sovereignty.

🔥 Warrior Heart

A movement, a story, a legacy, a practice and principle — it is a way of being and doing.
Born of my lived experience and ancestral mandate, Warrior Heart is a fire lit within, calling others to reclaim their own rhythm, story, and power.
It matters because it offers a new narrative — not rooted in trauma, but in truth, healing, and human potential.
It is the echo of our Ancestors saying: “You were always meant to rise.”

🌿 Together, These Are Not Separate Stories — They Are One Weaving

Each strand — the woman, the warrior, the foundation, the fire — was seeded by the same Dreaming.
They flow from the same sacred source: a deep knowing that we are not here to be saved or silenced, but to become.
Together, they form a living framework of reclamation, leadership, and legacy — a woven map for others to walk their own path home.

This is my way of walking back into the world fully —
not as one role, but as a whole being.
Not to prove, but to guide. Not to inspire, but to ignite.

And if you are here, maybe something inside you is stirring too —
a remembering… a whisper… a longing to reclaim your voice, your rhythm, your Warrior Heart.

This space is for you too.
For those who were silenced.
For those who are rising.
For those ready to weave a new way forward — led by Dreaming, not fear.

Come. Sit at the fire.
Listen deeply.
Remember who you are.
Then rise — with your whole self.