Expansion Somatics

05/05/2026

❓️Are you living in fight or flight?

🙋‍♀️I was, for most of my life.

🧠And what I’ve learned is this:
When your nervous system is dysregulated, it will reach for coping mechanisms that can slowly start to impact your relationships… your choices… your life.

❗️But regulation doesn’t have to be complicated.

💗Sometimes it looks like:
Legs up the wall.
A gentle butterfly hug.
Tapping.
A deep inhale through the nose…
and a slow exhale with sound—woo, ha, hum.

🤸‍♂️Sometimes your body needs to move.
To shake.
To roll the hips.
To soften the shoulders.
To be felt.

🙏The key isn’t doing it “perfectly.”

🌬The key is this:
Can you pause…
and actually listen to what your body is asking for in this moment?

👩‍🍼Because your body isn’t working against you,
it’s trying to guide you back to safety.

📣If this resonates, try one small thing your body is asking for right now. Let me know what shifted for you in the comments 👇

📭Send me a DM if you’d like to explore how I can support you in this process.

04/28/2026

✨Grief is not only the loss of a person.
Sometimes it’s the loss of a relationship, an identity, a version of yourself, a belief, or a future you thought you were going to have.
Healing often asks us to grieve the parts of ourselves that cannot come with us into the next chapter.

🌿Grief lives in the body as energy that we experience as sensation...oftentimes an uncomfortable one.
For me, it feels like heaviness in the chest, emptiness, density, like the wind has been knocked out of me.
And grief is rarely just grief. There is often anger, fear, sadness, abandonment, and disappointment wrapped inside it.

🌀This week, we’ll explore how to move that energy through the body...through breath, movement, and vocalization.
Because healing is not just understanding.
It is allowing the body to process what words cannot.

❓️Are you ready to move what's been living in your body? Send me a DM
Remember, be gentle with yourself, you're healing 🤍

04/27/2026

✨The ghats in Rishikesh are sacred steps that lead down to the Holy Ganges River. They’re places where people come to pray, meditate, bathe, and connect with the river, which is considered holy in Hindu tradition. You’ll see morning rituals, evening aarti ceremonies with fire and chanting, people offering flowers, and others simply sitting in silence. The ghats are more than just steps, they’re spaces of devotion, reflection, and daily life happening right at the water’s edge.

❓️ What place in the world has made you feel at peace? Tell me in the comments 👇

04/24/2026

I have finally arrived in Rishikesh 🌿✨
Waking up to the sunrise over the Himalayas feels like medicine for the soul. Today begins with a sacred dip in Ma Ganga, followed by yoga at Devi Ghar Ashram in Lower Tapovan.

I’ll be sharing more from this journey...introducing you to Somatic Emotional Processing, Rebirthing, and Kundalini Yoga practices that support deeper healing and inner expansion.

I’m also so excited to introduce you to Thailand Trixie ✨
You can find her on Instagram and YouTube at Good Vibes Thailand—please go follow, like, and share her beautiful work linked below
https://youtube.com/?si=_Ll1pk7MgYI4mL2m

Good Vibes Thailand

You can also find my videos on her YouTube channel under the playlist Somatics with Shannon.
This is just the beginning… we’ll be collaborating on future workshops and retreats, and I can’t wait to share more with you.
Stay tuned 🤍

04/21/2026

Hello 🇺🇸 Assalamu Alaikum 🇦🇪 Namaskar 🇮🇳
Masala chai for the win, paneer tikka for my belly ☕🌶️

We’re officially 3 countries and 27 hours into travel with 4 more to go until Rishikesh… and I’m a little delirious 😅

Fresh clothes, a quick reset, chai in hand, and suddenly all is right in the world again.

Finally in Delhi, somewhere between exhaustion, devotion, and complete surrender to the journey.

There’s something about arriving in India that shifts you instantly...the chaos, the color, the energy, the sacredness woven into everything.
Rishikesh, we’re on our way.

The Himalayas are calling, and so is something deeper within.

Coming home to the body, to spirit, to stillness.
Om Namah Shivaya 🕉️

04/19/2026

🌿After quite a few very challenging months, I’m heading to Rishikesh, India for another Kundalini Yoga teacher training.
🪷I’ll be documenting everything along the way... the yoga, the teachers, the people, Ma Ganga, the daily life inside this sacred place.
🙏Not as an expert. Not as someone who has it all figured out. Just as I am, arriving and opening to what this next chapter wants to teach me.
🔥Come along for the journey...let's experience and practice together.

‼️What’s one thing you’re doing to invite new beginnings this season? Comment below or send me a DM 🌿💗🙏🔥🌿

🌀Stay tuned for some Somatic Release Tutorials coming this week 🧘‍♀️

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04/17/2026

🔥We’re in a moment of rebirth🔥

Something new is opening here.

Trauma recovery. Kundalini yoga. Sacred rebirthing. Somatic emotional processing.

If you feel it, comment FIRE 🔥 and I’ll send details.

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04/17/2026

The rebirth is coming...stay tuned 🔥🔥🔥
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12/13/2025

✨️🌀Your body speaks Your energy moves.🌀✨️
Sometimes all you need is a space to listen.

Awakening the Energy Body is a one day beginner immersion in Rishikesh, India blending Somatics with Reiki to help you reconnect to your subtle flow, release tension, and learn simple self-healing techniques.

You will explore:
• Somatic grounding practices
• Basics of the energy body
• Reiki principles & hands-on techniques
• Breath, touch & awareness
• Nervous system regulation
• Gentle partner exercises

No experience needed, just openness.
Lunch is included. Early bird and group rates available

21, December 9 am - 6 pm
@ Maharishi Yoga Peeth, Laxman Jhula
DM to register.
Limited group for a safe and supportive space.m

Send a message to learn more

08/22/2025

✨ The Feminine Doesn’t Need Fixing ✨

So much of what we call healing is really just trying to manage, silence, or control the parts of us that feel too much.

But grief is not a malfunction.
Desire is not a flaw.
Anger is not a disorder.

These are messengers.
They rise from the deep, feeling side of our being, the inner feminine current that lives in every one of us.

And she does not need to be solved.
She longs to be acknowledged.
To be witnessed.
To be held in safety.

Healing is never about rushing or fixing.
It unfolds in presence, in stillness, in belonging.

✨️ You are not broken.
You are becoming.
And the becoming is holy.

Remote sessions available worldwide 🌍
In-person sessions (MA • FL • Thailand • India)
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