Expansion Somatics

06/05/2026

⭐️My second week at the Kundalini Yoga ashram. The weekend. A new moon. And I want to talk to you all about dynamic meditation.

🌛As we move into this new moon, it feels like such a powerful time to release what no longer serves us ...old identities, old survival patterns, old emotions, old timelines...moving into something new.

🌬Dynamic meditation feels like the perfect practice for that.
Everyone is blindfolded.
Just you and your experience.
We begin with intense inhales and exhales, building energy through the body over and over and over until it feels like a volcano about to erupt.

🔥And then comes the release.
Screaming. Primal wailing. Yelling. Cursing. Punching pillows. Throwing tantrums on the floor like a child who was never allowed to fully express their anger, grief, fear, or boundaries.
And because everyone is blindfolded, there is a freedom in it that is difficult to explain unless you experience it.

⚡️A freedom to finally let the body say: “No.” “Don’t touch me.” “Stop.” “I’m angry.” “I’m hurt.” “I deserved better.”
The kinds of things many of us never felt safe enough to express in the moments the energy originally became trapped in the system.

🙏Then after the release, we move through other phases that help the energy continue moving before eventually falling into complete silence and stillness.
And in that stillness, you can feel it.
Energy moving through places that once felt blocked. A lightness in the body. An openness. A current flowing through the system where tension, suppression, fear, grief, and survival once lived.

🎶Then the music begins.
And the body starts moving differently. The hips. The pelvis. The spine. The shoulders.
Not from performance. Not from force. But from freedom.

💪As someone who has spent much of my life in a fawn response and deep people pleasing patterns, having the space to express rage, boundaries, resistance, grief, and truth in such a raw embodied way was incredibly liberating.
It felt like reclaiming parts of myself that had been frozen for a very long time.

💗 Hi, I'm Shannon. I help overwhelmed people stuck in their bodies or carrying trauma feel calm, safe & in control again using gentle somatic & yogic practices.

✨️Contact me for details
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06/04/2026

☀️Beautiful Sunday. I finished my first week at the Kundalini Yoga ashram in Rishikesh, India and just came out of an Abhyanga massage, a traditional Ayurvedic oil treatment that nourishes the nervous system and supports the body in releasing stored tension and stagnation. They wrapped my head and put me in the steam box afterwards. Somehow I feel both exhausted and deeply rejuvenated at the same time.

⭐️This process has been incredibly intense, but powerful. We’re cleansing and purifying the physical, mental, and energetic body. Opening places that have been locked down for years. Moving stagnant energy through asana, kriya, pranayam, and deep presence.

🔥A lot has surfaced this week. Deeply buried emotions. New boundaries. Old subconscious patterns. Relationships that no longer align. My body feels tired, but open. My mind feels still and peaceful most of the time. My emotions are being felt and moving instead of staying trapped inside me.

🌛More than anything, I feel grateful. Grateful for growth. Grateful for this path. Grateful that I’m learning to choose myself beyond validation, beyond abandonment wounds, beyond an echoing desperation to be loved.

🤍I'm learning to care for myself in a much deeper and more embodied way...I'm excited to see what comes next.

🪷 Hi, I'm Shannon. I help overwhelmed people stuck in their bodies or carrying trauma feel calm, safe & in control again using gentle somatic & yogic practices.

✨️Contact me for details
linktr.ee/ExpansionSomatics

06/03/2026

🌕 Full Blue Micro Moon 🌕

📍I'm back in Phuket, Thailand! Welcome to Expansion Somatics.

🌛This Full Blue Micromoon invites us into a powerful moment of release and renewal. While a micromoon appears slightly smaller in the sky, its symbolism is no less potent...a reminder that profound transformation often begins in the quiet, unseen places within us.

🪷What fears, doubts, insecurities, or limiting beliefs have been keeping you from the most ignited, passionate version of yourself?

🔥Allow them to burn in the fire of this moon. Allow them to burn in the fire in your belly.

🙏Let your fears become fuel. Let your doubts become devotion. Let your insecurities become catalysts for your evolution.

☀️This is a time for forward motion. A time for expansion. A time to step more fully into who you came here to be.

It is time. 🔥✨

✨️Contact me when your ready for change

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🙋‍♀️ Hi, I'm Shannon. I help overwhelmed people feel calm, safe, and back in control using gentle somatic work and yogic practices

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 🤍

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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