ABOUT

SOUL of

MAHDIYA

Mysticism meets Movement.

Welcome, I’m Yasmina, also known as Mahdiya Moonshine.

I’ve always been sensitive, perceptive and deeply curious about people, energy and the unseen layers of life.

To me, being a mystic isn’t about having all the answers or living outside the real world. It’s about being curious about what we can’t always see or explain, paying attention to intuition and exploring the meaning we find in our experiences.

Connection and curiosity run through everything I do, whether that’s through readings, movement or performance. I’m interested in what happens when we trust what excites us, explore the parts of ourselves we might usually keep hidden and make a little more room for the things that make us feel alive.

What Shapes My Work

Readings & Events
Performance & Shows

My Story

Some of my earliest memories are sitting around a round table as a child, watching my mum and her friends read tarot cards, cast runes and speak about all things mystical beneath the glow of a warm amber 70s light. The room was filled with cigarette smoke, wine, laughter and stories.

Spirituality, for me, was never sterile or perfect. It was human. Messy. Grounded. Alive.

That perspective still shapes the work I do today.

I don’t relate to “love and light” spirituality or the idea that being spiritual means being endlessly enlightened or removed from real life. My own path hasn’t been linear, and I don’t pretend to have all the answers. What I do believe is that intuition can help us see things differently, hear ourselves more clearly and make choices that move us towards the lives we actually want to be living.

Dance has always been another form of expression for me. Raqs Sharqi (belly dance) became a way to reconnect with my Tunisian heritage, where music, movement and connection are deeply woven into the culture. Burlesque entered my life in 2022 and quickly became another extension of storytelling, transformation and self-expression.

For a long time, I tried to keep these parts of myself separate. The mystic belonged over here. The dancer and performer belonged over there. Eventually, I realised I didn’t want to separate them anymore.

Soul of Mahdiya is the home for all of it. The intuition. The movement. The artistry. The mystery. And the very human experience of finding meaning, connection and a little magic while still living in the real world.

My Values

  • Your life and your choices belong to you. My role isn’t to tell you what to do or decide your future for you. It’s to help you hear yourself more clearly, explore what’s possible and decide what you want to do next.

  • Creating experiences that help people connect with themselves, their intuition, each other and what makes them feel alive.

  • Staying curious about ourselves, each other, mystery and the unseen without needing to have all the answers. Curiosity applies to my work too, I expect my practice to develop and change as I learn and grow.

  • Making room for all the different parts of ourselves. Through movement, storytelling and performance, expression can be playful, sensual, emotional, strange, powerful or simply fun.

  • Finding meaning, connection and a little magic while still living in the real world. Spirituality doesn’t require perfection, enlightenment or escaping the messiness of being human.

  • Making space for the messy, emotional, imperfect and very human experience of figuring life out. This also means respecting the people, cultures and lands connected to the practices I draw from.

  • Approaching intuitive and spiritual work with honesty, ethics, responsibility and care. I don’t claim to have all the answers, predict an inevitable future or make someone else’s choices for them.