Meet Shannon Knorr
Shannon has been a somatic educator, movement, wellness coach and facilitator for twenty years. After helping people with chronic pain while healing from injuries and illness, she realized that teaching about functional movement was of course helpful, but, the pain and postures of the body were just the symptoms of the underlying causes of many times unaddressed trauma with emotional and spiritual roots that need tending to. Following her own roots back as she recovered from her own spiritual and health crisis recovering from unprocessed trauma and her journey with cancer, Shannon began uncovering deep underlying core beliefs as she explored her own intergenerational and personal traumas and began to rewrite the stories that she inherited.
Shannon believes in the innate wisdom of the body and that we all have access to this primal intuition and instinct and that the body ultimately longs and knows how to heal itself. We are a part of the living natural world and reclaiming ourselves, our bodies and our belonging is the first step to healing. The body is the terrain we will navigate together, the body not just a vehicle for our soul, but our bodies are expressions of our soul. Shannon believes in this place of sensation, memory and flesh, here we meet what lies beneath, the depths of our beings, so that we can begin to unravel our conditioning while returning and coming home to self, remembrance of who we truly are so that we can express, connect and relate from this deeper place of knowing, changing how we relate to others, our lives and ourselves.
Shannon uses a holistic and body centered approach of therapy, which is client centered and collaborative, she follows your lead and honors your innate knowing while deeply listening to what needs tending to in body, heart, mind and soul.
Shannon graduated in 2023 with MA in Somatic Psychotherapy. She is a Hakomi Level 2 Graduate, has a BA in Dance/Movement Therapy, and a Tamalpa LifeART Level 2 Graduate. She is an AMFT at Axis Mundi under supervision of Elysha Martinez LMFT #93493. She has experience with and continues to study...
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Body Centered and Somatic Therapies
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Hakomi
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Expressive Arts/Tamalpa LifeArt Practitioner
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Polyvagal Theory and Psoas Integration
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Deep Ecology/Eco-Psychology
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Intergenerational Trauma and Ancestral Healing
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Trauma Recovery and Trauma Healing
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Plant Spirit Medicine and Herbalism
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Depth Psychology and Dream Tending
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Rites of Passage, Ritual and Ceremony
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Soul Tending and Spiritual Psychology
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Therapeutic and Restorative Yoga
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Shadow-work and Jungian Psychology
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Internal Family Systems and Parts Therapy
To learn more about Hakomi Depth Somatic Therapy that Shannon practices and utilizes, please check out the Hakomi Institute Website at https://hakomiinstitute.com
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Body and Soul Centered Therapy
Why Body Centered Therapy?
It can help with
Hakomi is Mindful Somatic Therapy
In Somatic Therapy we can rewire neural patterns and move out of habituated patterns of relating, thinking and behaving, while addressing deep core beliefs, which are often unconscious. In Hakomi we create a safe space for the unconscious to come into consciousness. In order to change something, we do not try to get rid of it, but rather, really get to know it, so we can move towards coherency, self awareness and deeper knowing.
Stress and Trauma are Housed in the Body
Talking about stress and trauma often stresses and re-traumatizes the system, while body centered therapies follow the lead of the body while helping to heal and recover from stress and trauma. Telling our stories may be a part of our therapeutic process and healing, with someone who we feel trust and alliance with, while focusing on the safety, support and relational aspect of the therapeutic relationship and container. Somatic therapy is relational and experiential. We learn from experience. Insight is helpful, and somatic therapy can take us further into the change and integration of self that we may feel like we are missing.
Stress, Emotions, Implicit Memories and Thoughts Affect our Body and How We Relate to Self and Others
All of the above can have drastic physiological affects on the body, and can be addressed through the body not just the mind. The mind thinks and the body knows. We tend to see ourselves through the lens of our early life and cultural experiences. The maps that were created a long time ago become our reality, yet, these are often outdated and these survival strategies which once saved us, can be honored, and also we can learn to shift these patterns of protection that may no longer serve us in relationships, and may even be causing more harm than not.
Deeper Authentic Connections
Our bodies are with us from day one and building a relationship with our body can help us foster deeper intimacy and relationships to others. Most of us long for connection, and this begins with how we relate to ourselves and our own body. Returning to self, and learning that we don't have to be anything, except ourselves. Remembrance of deep knowing that our selves are also deeply woven and linked to the greater world around us. We find ourselves first and then weave ourselves back into this web of life.
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Hakomi is relational somatic therapy, meaning, there is the exploratory somatic work, exploring and uncovering roots of current relational patterns and behaviors, yet not alone. We do this within the relational structure of the therapeutic relationship. Trauma often happens with relationships, and the healing that is needed to repair from this trauma also
Sensory Awareness
Sensations are the language of the body, re-learning this language is key to gaining self agency. The body and soul speaks in images, sensations, emotions, words, rhythm, memory, dreams and archetypes. We still talk in somatic therapy, but we also value the language of the body and psyche. There is a sense that there is communication within the wholeness of self and of our being. Our body may hold the patterns and beliefs and how we see ourselves, and the body, mind and spirit are all a part of the whole being.
Body Intelligence
Our body has its own intelligence which is quite different than the mind's. The body holds wisdom and answers to many of the questions that we hold. We live in a dysregulated world, and our own symptoms are actually healthy responses to life and the world we live within. Instead of trying to silence the symptom, we learn to lean in, and turn towards the parts of us that we may want to turn away from. We can learn to have more compassion and presence with ourselves, and often listen to our own systems impulse of what it needs to come into more wholeness and coherency as a united whole, rather than fragmented and disconnected parts.
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Specializing in Working With
Self Esteem and Worth
Trauma Healing
Body Image
Disordered Eating and Relationship to Body
Belonging
Shame, Body and Sex Shame
Relationships and Boundaries
Anxiety, Stress and Hypervigilance
Nervous System Imbalances
Life Transitions and Identity
Honoring Grief, Loss and Death
Depression
Life Threatening Illness, Cancer, Auto-Immune
Rites of Passage, Aging and Menopause
Women's Empowerment
Mothering and the Mother Wound
Highly Sensitive People and Empaths
People Pleasers & Appeasement as a Trauma Response
Intergenerational Trauma and Ancestral Healing
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510-859-8158
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