About
Hi, I am
Yana
Mori
Creatress
I was born in Siberia and have since lived across the world.
The stories came from somewhere older than any of these places.
Mama Shamana arrived the way such things do — as a voice I was already hearing.
I began writing her songs in Japan, half-asleep between one life and another.
I don’t always understand the tales myself. I write what comes, and I trust it.
At least, I am trying to trust.
The words find whoever needs them
The Mama Shamana trilogy — Songs of Mama Shamana, Cookbook of mama Shamana, and Mama Shamana Spills Salt — grew from those first fragments into three books, translated and carried across the world. The oracle cards came later: two decks woven from the world of Mama Shamana, and a third — West of the Moon — a world of its own.
As many of creative people, I am a multidisciplinary artist. I work across many forms — silver, wood, dried flowers, clay, paper, and the word, which is my favourite of all.
Beauty is the one constant.
The book kept warming me. I returned to it again and again. It was like a message of freedom — I was in my own prison of inner convictions, and your book opened a door.
Irina Chekhova
I packed this book in my emergency bag — the one you grab if you have to leave fast. It stays with me through everything.
Svitlana Bachynska
A chapter found me in a stuffy office. I read it and was suddenly standing on a glacier, wind in my hair, ribbons woven through it. That moment began my long path back to myself.
Anastasia G.