Body, Root & Soul
"A TREE STANDS STRONG NOT BY IT'S FRUITS OR BRANCHES, BUT BY THE DEPTH OF IT'S ROOTS" 

"When we begin to inhabit the body as our primary way of sensing, feeling and knowing the world, we find that we as humans are in a state of intimate RELATIONSHIP and CONNECTION with ALL that is"

Reginald Ray

 

Being a life long student of the body and the embodied healing arts, Shannon has been a movement guide and somatic educator and coach since 2001. Her practice includes movement medicine, various somatic based practices, somatic meditation, LifeArt Process® , breath work, nervous system rebalancing and polyvagal exercises, expressive arts and creative process, dance, Gyrotonic, Pilates, and alignment somatic based yoga, as well as dream tending, herbalism and intuitive arts and movement and somatic therapy. Movement practices that not only engage deeper postural muscles, but learning to INHABIT these deeper layers of ourselves while exploring gestures and unconscious movement patterns that we have learned and inherited as survival strategies. We learn to inhabit and LIVE in our bodies, fully. Tuning in to ourselves, is the practice. LISTENING, REMEMBERING, FEELING and SENSING. That is the language of the body. PRESENCE. This is what the body teaches us. And of course,  the art SLOWING down and learning to unfold into ourselves and open up to our own mythic stories that lie within.

 

 

Shannon has taught and coached many from, professional athletes, dancers, people with disabilities or injuries, scoliosis, those who are dealing with autoimmune or chronic illness, cancer survivors, pre/post surgery clients, pre/post natal and those moving through transitions, grief and loss, menopause and rites of passage, as well as those dealing with anxiety and ptsd. ​Supporting them to come into deeper alignment with the essence of self and deeper embodiment and purpose.

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Learning these somatic practices allows us to move through whatever life is throwing our way as we have gained an invaluable resource as an ally, OUR BODY. Shannon fully believes that healing is possible, balance is possible, and our body wants this all the time, to move back into a state of homeostasis, balance and healing is what our body KNOWS. 

 

Embodiment is learning the language that our body is speaking to us all the time, tuning in and attuning, just as a mother does with her newly born child. Recognizing its calls of distress and joy, learning its resonance, answering the call or cry of our own bodies. This is deep decolonization of our own thinking and deprogramming our way of relating to our own flesh, bone and earth. This is deep work of coming home. 

 

The bodies language is SENSATION This is a language most of us were never taught, yet it is never too late to learn. Before we could speak, we could move, dance, sense and feel. Sensation and intuition is our birthright, it is not something we learn, it is something that we remember and reclaim. It's essential. It is our lifeline. Our body has our back from the very beginning to the very end. Beginning to build a RELATIONSHIP with ourselves and OUR BODIES is building a practice of connecting to ourselves, holding space for ourselves and being present with ourselves. Our movement practice can become an actual lifeline, a common thread moving through our lives, no matter what life throws at us, we can respond, sense and feel from a place of integrity, authenticity and presence. This is the gift of the body. 

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"Our bodies have a soul. Our bodies have a purpose. Our bodies are poetry and they are speaking to us all the time. That is how I see and PRACTICE. Learning to LISTEN and RECEIVE. Creating this space for our inner body to SHOW UP. The awakening of the INNER BODY is a prayer, a meeting, a joining of body/mind/soul, a uniting, an allowing, deep attunement with our self. Taking a break from the constant outer noise, to tune in and connect to YOU."

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 Remembrance. The more your body will guide you, as you learn this new language, the more we practice showing up fully and deeply embodied. The body IS a way of knowing. We think in our minds, but we KNOW in our bodies. Our body is a map, a compass, a history of our past and ancestry and we can learn to metabolize emotions, even ancestral and intergenerational trauma, and deal with stress and overactive nervous systems by practicing embodiment. Our body is unique. Our bodies are amazing. Our bodies need us. Your body needs you. the world needs more embodied humans in touch with their own heart and sensitivity.

 

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