Meet Alexis Stein | Meditation & Mindfulness Coach

We had the good fortune of connecting with Alexis Stein and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Alexis, can you walk us through the thought-process of starting your business?
For most of my life, I carried a tremendous amount of internal stress. On the outside, life looked full, but internally I was anxious, overwhelmed, and searching for something more. Learning to meditate changed that. It gave me a way to calm my nervous system, become present, and actually experience the life I had worked so hard to build.

At the same time, I became deeply curious about what it really means to live a meaningful life. I immersed myself in studying philosophy, religion, psychology, neuroscience, and the experiences of people who had navigated profound hardship. What I discovered was that peace isn’t something we stumble upon by chance. It’s a skill that can be cultivated.

Once I experienced that transformation firsthand, I couldn’t keep it to myself. I wanted other people to know that no matter what they’re carrying, whether it was stress, heartbreak, burnout, uncertainty, there are tools that can help them reconnect with themselves and live more fully. That desire became the foundation for SHANTI by Alexis.

Can you give our readers an introduction to your business? Maybe you can share a bit about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
What sets SHANTI apart is that it isn’t just about teaching meditation, it’s about helping people come home to themselves. So many of us have been conditioned to look outside of ourselves for answers: achievement, approval, status, perfection. Yet the people I work with often have everything they thought they wanted and still find themselves asking, “Why do I feel like something is missing?”

Through meditation and intentional conversation, I help clients quiet the noise long enough to hear their own inner wisdom. The meditation calms the nervous system and creates space, but the perspective shifts and questions we explore together often unlock parts of themselves that have been dormant for years. The answers they’re searching for are already within them… they just haven’t had the opportunity to access them.

I arrived at this work through lived experience. For most of my life, I was the person who now sits across from me in my sessions… high-functioning on the outside, but carrying stress, anxiety, grief, and a persistent feeling that there had to be more to life. Learning to meditate and changing my mindset transformed the way I experienced the world. It helped me become more present and opened the door to a deeper understanding of who I was and how I wanted to live.

Building this business hasn’t always been easy. The biggest challenge has been introducing people to a service that is unconventional, that doesn’t fit into a traditional box. This is a service I have never before seen offered, but the service I craved when I was on my journey. Also, meditation is often misunderstood as something “woo-woo” or inaccessible, when in reality it’s one of the most practical tools we have for navigating modern life. But SHANTI by Alexis isn’t just about meditation… it’s about learning to see yourself and your circumstances through a different lens. It’s understanding that while we can’t always choose what happens to us, we can choose the meaning we assign to it and how we choose to live moving forward.

What I’m most proud of is witnessing people reconnect with themselves. My goal has never been to have clients depend on me forever. It’s to give them the tools, confidence, and self-awareness to navigate life with greater peace and clarity long after they leave my sessions.

If I want the world to know one thing about SHANTI by Alexis, it’s this: the answers you seek aren’t somewhere outside of you. Sometimes all you need is the space to remember who you are, discover what you truly want, and trust yourself enough to create a life that reflects it. That’s what we do at SHANTI by Alexis.

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
We’d start with early mornings and no agenda. Coffee and breakfast burritos from Bluey’s, Alfred, or Bardonna, followed by a drive through some of LA’s iconic neighborhoods and canyon roads as the morning light begins to illuminate the mountains.

No visit would be complete without time by the Pacific Ocean. We’d take long walks on the beach and meditate nestled in the sand, listening to the waves crash on the shore. There is something about the ocean that reminds you that you are both incredibly small and part of something unimaginably vast and beautiful at the same time.

We’d spend our days wandering the shops along Montana Avenue or at the Brentwood Country Mart, lingering over long lunches on sun drenched patios from Santa Monica to Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, hiking in the Santa Monica Mountains, or simply curling up outdoors with a great book and nowhere else to be.

As the afternoon turns to evening, we’d slow down enough to watch the light change. One of my favorite things about Los Angeles is to see the sun dip lower in the sky as golden light shines through the trees and gives way to the city’s famous pink and purple sunsets. There is an expansiveness here, between the ocean, mountains, and endless sky, that never gets old.

Evenings would be filled with great food and even better conversation. Depending on the mood, we might end up at e Baldi in Beverly Hills, Jon & Vinny’s for something more casual, or Nobu Malibu with the sound of the waves in the background.

What I love most about Los Angeles isn’t any one place. It’s the way the city invites you to experience so much beauty in a single day. From the Pacific Ocean to the canyon roads to the mountains, Los Angeles is a constant reminder to slow down, look around, and appreciate the extraordinary world we get to call home.

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
I would dedicate my shoutout to the book “Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives” by Michael Newton, Ph.D. Newton was a counseling psychologist and hypnotherapist who spent decades documenting the experiences his patients described while under deep hypnosis, exploring their beliefs about the soul’s journey and the lessons we are here to learn. Whether one interprets the book literally or symbolically, its message profoundly changed the way I live my life.

It reminded me that we are all here to grow, and that our greatest lessons often come from experiences we never would have consciously chosen for ourselves. Challenges and hardship weren’t portrayed as detours to avoid, but as essential parts of the human experience. That perspective helped me reframe many of the painful chapters of my own life.

Instead of viewing heartbreak, loss, and adversity as evidence that something had gone wrong, I began to see them as catalysts for growth and transformation. They shaped my resilience, deepened my compassion, and ultimately guided me toward the work I do today.

The person I became on the other side of those experiences wasn’t someone I stumbled into by accident. She was someone I was meant to grow into. For that reason, “Journey of Souls” will always hold a special place in my story.

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Photo Credit: Laura Huertas