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Body, Root & Soul

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Body, Root & Soul

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Specialties
Sports Medicine,Therapeutic, Rehabilitative, and Fitness based Pilates. Also uses Iyengar Yoga and Gyrotonic. Meet the Business Owner: Shannon K.

Somatic & Soul based coaching, Holistic Health and Wellness, Energetic Herbalism, Dream Tending, Hakomi, Mindfulness, Somatic Healing Arts, Neuro-Affirming Space, Specializing working with Highly Sensitives, Grief, Transformative Life Stages, Belonging Pre/Postnatal, Pre/Post surgery, Injury prevention, pain management, posture and alignment issues, back pain management, and overall body and core strengthening. Experienced in working as a therapeutic Pilates teacher in Physical Therapy Clinics, Chiropractic Offices, gyms and Pilates Studios. Shannon has taught Pilates for over 18 years in Physical Therapy Clinics, Chiropractic Offices, gyms and Pilates Studios. She has extensive knowledge of the body, and how to deal with all kinds of issues and injuries, from herniated discs, sciatica and specializing in scoliosis. Pilates really is a way to find new movement patterns in the body, and Shannon treats each client with care and precision to allow her clients to release old movement patterns, and find ease and alignment while standing on one's own inner balance and strength. Shannon also leads and guides in other movement modalities, from subtle yoga, breathing awareness, somatic meditation, restorative yoga and other nervous system regulating practices, as well as expressive arts, and helping clients develop ways to deeply care for themselves through self/soul care. Holistic health and wellbeing through embodied movement arts.

11/02/2026

Annual Albany Craft Fair, this Sunday November 8th, 10-3 at Albany Middle School. 50+ vendors, great place to support local small businesses and artisans getting ready for holidays. (Me included 😊)

I have 3 handmade herbal infused body oils this year, which have been infused in sun and moon over the summer. These are high potency herbal medicines that are applied directly to your body, helping helping support and ease muscle and nervous system tension. Herbal body oiling is safe for everyone, (including children and elders) and is a great way to integrate somatic self care practices that help you slow down, unwind and let go. Herbal body oils help support a nervous system that may be stuck in vigilance snd in a sympathetic response. (Know anyone like this?)

They support a depleted, burnt out and fried nervous system (who’s not fried right now 😭)They are deeply nourishing, physically, emotionally and energetically. I use them before going to work, and also at the end of the day. Anytime you may need a little extra layer of support.

🌿 Sacred Ground Herbsl Body Oil 🌿
Organic Olive oil infused with Calamus Root (anchoring), Holy Basil (mind quieting) Mugwort (intuition)🌿
I think of this oil as a bridge helping connect and integrate mind, body and spirit. Deeply grounding, clearing, rooting, protecting, and uplifting. Helping to clear stress and quiet mental chatter, while grounding one deeply into their own body, aligning our intuition with our mind.

🌿Rose & Root Herbal Body Oil🌿
Organic Olive oil infused with Rose (heart connecting), Burdock Root (grounding), and Mugwort (intuition)🌿
This oil also helping to ground and stabilize within our own heart. This oil is grounding and protective, while helping one process deep emotions, supporting grief and moving stagnant and stuck emotions. Deeply nurturing and nourishing, when we feel burnout and depleted.

🌿Restoring Ease Body Oil🌿
Organic Olive Oil infused with Rose, Chamomile. Lavender, Holy Basil🌿
Energetic nervous system reset, a Soothing balm for the heart. Supporting grieving, tired and exhausted hearts and nervous systems. Calming, protective and uplifting to the spirit.

10/30/2026

Only a few spaces left, and it’s the last day to sign up! Please join us this Sunday for our seasonal grief tending circle. Link and more information in bio ❤️

10/27/2026

This Sunday, all grievers welcome to attend this Grief Tending Circle, a space to gather in community to honor and tend to our own griefs, be it loss and change of identities, grief around unlived dreams, global and systemic grief around genocide and ecocide, chronic illness, death and loss of loved ones… and so on….Grief is everywhere and often shunned and disregarded in our grief phobic society, in this space we welcome grief and slow down to honor and make space to tend to our withered hearts. This will not be a grief process group, but rather grief tending through personal reflection, guided meditation, partner shares, nature based ritual and creative process. Lead by Shannon Knorr and Petra Gojun. Please share with the grievers in your life. ❤️ Artwork by Kimera Wachna

10/22/2026

Grief Tending Circle at The Alembic in Berkeley, Sunday November 1st, from 10-12, lead by myself and colleague Petra Gojun.

All grievers are welcome.

This is not a grief process group, but rather, a space to hold and make space for our own grief and heart tending.

We will grief tend through our own personal process, somatic exploration, creative process, guided meditation, altar tending, partner shares, all in the shared community space with fellow grievers.

This is a slowed down, uninterrupted and intentional space for you to be with and listen, to connect and give space to that which needs tending to.

Grief work is soul work.

“Grief work is not passive, it implies an ongoing practice of deepening, attending and listening. There is some strange intimacy between grief and aliveness, some sacred exchange between what seems unbearable and what is most exquisitely alive.”

Francis Weller

Please join us ❤️ Link in Bio

https://momence.com/Berkeley-Alembic/Grief-Tending-Circle-with-Shannon-Knorr-and-Petra-Gojun/143475692

10/13/2026

f you are interested in engaging more with your own grief and grief tending, please check out my next piece. This piece speaks to motherhood as grief, breaking dysfunctional ancestral patterns of silence and denial, while feeling into the relativity and connection that our own grief work offers to ourselves and others. Grief and uncertainty are like the connective tissue that connects us to humans and the more than human world.

Entering into fall, the place between light and dark, and getting more comfortable and familiar in the darkness. Often in grief our protective strategies and personas no longer work or even exist, as grief strips us raw with nothing for our egos or familiar personalities to hide. In grief our own personhood and lives are shattered. How do we put together these pieces that have become fragmented but are not fully broken, but just need to be rearranged, as the world we knew, no longer exists. In grief, normalcy does not exist. Often in grief the only constants are uncertainty and the unknown.

In fall we often welcome change, but what if the change in our lives, ourselves and loved ones, is not the change that we imagined, hoped for our dreamed of? What do we do with the grief of this?

If these are questions you are curious about, please read and share.

Subscribe for about once a month posts and reflections ❤️

10/01/2026

Grief does not need to be explained, rationalized, or analyzed. Grief craves to be held, felt, listened to and moved. Grief itself is wild. Grief connects us deeper to nature, the nature that surrounds us and our own inner nature. Wildness doesn’t have to mean, chaotic, cathartic and intense. Roots are wild. Flowers are wild. Clouds are wild. Wild meaning are truest nature, the parts of ourselves that are here from beginning to end this time, and untouched by trauma, yet moved by grief.
Join us in our grief tending circle, November 1st in Berkeley, link in bio

09/24/2026

A space to honor and tend to grief through somatic work, movement, Dream Tending, art making and creative process, writing and reflexive dialogue, nature and land connection, altar building, praise and beauty medicine and ritual; all in the support of holding our own personal and collective grief. Living in a grief, phobic culture, many of us, abandon, suppress, or deny our own sorrow and loss, yet, grief surrounds all of us in this life. Death, loss and change are integral parts of living, yet our culture turns away from grief, denying its own existence. This is a space to slow down and honor our grief with others through the many regenerative practices named above, which can help us metabolize and move through and with our grief. Grief is not something to fix, get rid of, explain or analyze. Grief is physical and often grief changes us. This is a sacred space of ritual and container that is built and held by those who are present. This is not a grief process therapy group, talking through our grief, but rather a grief tending space, focusing on earth based practices, supporting us in moving through our grief and defending our grief as an ally, as many of us walk with grief, our whole living lives. Grief is a living sacred entity that needs care, expression, and ritual tending in community with others.

This circle will be ongoing and offered seasonally, and is open to all grievers. We welcome those navigating the death of loved ones, shifts of identity, life transitions, chronic illness, aging, ending of relationships or unfulfilled dreams, while also holding space for the continuous heavy grief of our collective reality, from global to climate crisis to systemic violence to the exhausting pressures of living within late stage capitalism. Link in bio ❤️ November 1st 10-12 at Berkeley Alembic

09/01/2026

I have been writing more and more offline, and sharing less online on these platforms, as I do not always feel my vulnerable shares and reflections belong in this space. I have started a platform on Beehiiv, if you want to subscribe and join me there.

This is my first piece, specifically about grief and the loss of my brother to mental illness from a neurodivergent and highly sensitive perspective. I hope to continue to write and share about musings and reflections from a highly sensitive person and reflections on life as a therapist, being a bodyworker for twenty plus years and what I have learned and witnessed about healing, grief tending, trauma and trauma recovery, relationships, consciousness and dreaming, being an aging woman and changing careers at the age of 50, life with a sibling with mental illness and at times psychosis, death and loss of identity, mothering, life after cancer and living with chronic illness and more. Please join me and share ❤️

If you are looking for a space to be with and honor grief, slow down and reflect on your own sensitive nature or the loss of our greatest loves, I would love to have you. Link in bio

08/31/2026

❤️ t w e n t y ❤️
This one has definitely kept us on our toes and on the move. He was the kid that wanted and tried everything, full of energy and spirit from day one.
Happy 20th Joaquin! We are so proud of you and excited for this next step of your journey to play baseball in Seattle! Love you 🥰

08/06/2026

Big Sur will always have my ♥️

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Oakland, CA
94611

Opening Hours

Monday	7am - 9pm
Tuesday	7am - 9pm
Wednesday	7am - 9pm
Thursday	7am - 9pm
Friday	7am - 9pm
Saturday	8am - 6pm
Sunday	8am - 6pm

Website

http://www.bodyrootandsoul.com/

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