Shanti Carlisi
January 12, 1986—July 18, 2013
Intelligent, Wise, Kind, Creative, Beautiful
Shanti grew up in Patagonia. She attended Stevenson Boarding School in California, where she earned the highest grades ever received there. She went to college at Parsons School of Design in New York City and created her own vintage clothing design business. She never had a child of her own, but she took care of Polo, a young child from Tucson, for one and a half years. She provided profound tender care and generated love from everyone.
Shanti’s parents teach and study yoga and Ayurveda. Shanti and her sister Mira grew up in a setting of spiritual development.
Shanti loved many things. She traveled to 27 countries, had been a wife, rode horses, swam with sea turtles, fed baby tigers, sailed in the Pacific Ocean, biked the Grand Canyon, rowed on river trips, rode on elephants, practiced yoga, meditated, snowboarded, skied, was an excellent cook, a model, a soccer athlete, a lifeguard, an excellent artist, and a very good daughter, sister, friend.
We were blessed. She will be missed.
“All I ask is, forever you remember me as loving you.”
—from Shanti’s journal, age 18
[This was sent to us from Croatia, where Shanti’s mother, Cynthia Carlisi, traveled last month to visit the site of the car crash that took the life of her daughter one year ago.]