Be the leader
of your life.
Build a nervous system that matches your ambition and honors your whole self through the seasons of your life.
Find clarity and support at your crossroads.
Say your big vision for your life out loud.
Break down actionable steps to realizing it.
Complete stress cycles in your body to unlock your executive mind, catalyze your creative problem solving along the way.
Take better care of your body, heart, and soul - and those around you.
Hi there, I’m Shannon.
I am a somatic coach and yoga teacher.
Somatic means is any technique that works through the body: breath, movement, sensation, awareness, to shift how your nervous system is running, rather than trying to think your way to calm.
Yoga is more than stretching. It’s a way of life that unites body, mind, spirit, and heart.
I work with individuals groups + businesses.
I coach individuals when you’re ready to activate your genius and make room in your life for your whole self.
I facilitate experiences for businesses and groups to connect better and build beautifully.
I’m also an artist and community builder.
You can read about my art and community on this website. If you feel it resonates with you, it might be a good clue that we will work well together.
I am driven to see a world where people unlock their gifts.
It’s a tough world out there. Too much for any one of us to navigate on our own, and yet, we’ve all got something unique the world needs-our gift. Our gift is something we live.
It can be small or large, personal or collective. We can express it in different ways. It might be our work, or it might be beyond work.
My gift is creating containers for human empowerment. I express my gifts via coaching, workshops, art, movement, and making places.
The long and winding road.
When I identified my gift under the mentorship of a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) in 2012, I felt lost initially. I was deeply suffering, despite being very accomplished.
I hadn’t processed the hard stuff, my identity was fragmented, and my effort misaligned. I wore braces on both my wrists and drank to soothe my hurting soul, which only caused more pain. I couldn’t see how to get free.
I knew I needed help. I continued working with my SEP and many yoga teachers who helped me uncover a path closer to myself through an intimate relationship with my body.
It wasn’t and isn’t easy. I had messes to clean up, tons of ups and downs served up with plenty of setbacks. But I put down the bottle and picked up the path to vision, rituals to regulate, and a sense of purpose to support conscious human connection that has been the grounding cord of my life.
Yogic lifestyle + somatic skills +
mentorship, works.
These are liberation practices. They work through giving structures we repeat to access our wisdom and compassion. They unlock better ways of thinking.
I know they work. I’ve felt it in my life. They allowed me to envision and build the art, community, and businesses that align with my gift.
I offer these tools in my coaching to empower you to do the same. I’ve seen clients move from feeling dull and lost to shining bright over and over again.
Some days conscious breathing is the work. It is enough. On days it’s easier to breathe, this work makes it easier to reconnect to your why.
You are more than your role.
You contain multitudes.
This is a layered map of a yogic perspective on an individual. How these layers function shapes your moment to moment experience of yourself.
Each layer is a manifestation of who you are, but not everything you are. Each layer is an entry point for self-discovery, healing and actualization.
Our work holds a mirror to your layers to see where you are resourced, where there’s work to do. Together, we enhance self-awareness, skills and knowledge to build balance across your strata.
Harmonize your layers.
Resonate your radiance.
Ambition, balance, and coming into your gifts is a life long journey. The process not linear. It’s a spiral. Growth can sometimes be challenging.
In my life and in what I’ve seen of the people I work with, the most challenging moments are precursors to break throughs.
We work to build your capacity for your evolution.
That’s actually where the name Radiant Light comes from - these practices connect us to our intrinsic radiance underneath life’s fluctuations.
Radiance to me is wholeness, brilliance, potential, and unique purpose. You build a relationship with radiance by making space for it in you body, mind, and spirit. Relationship with your radiance gives you vision and strength.
Radiant lights.
There’s radiance in us all. I see in the many people I work with be they ages 2 months to 92, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, Latinx, C-suite Executives and Architects, office teams, pregnant and new moms, dads, artists, creatives, athletes, working professionals, housewives, people who work with their hands, doctors, healers, social workers, teachers, attorneys, techies, persons with disabilities, and dying people.
I have made commitments to help people fulfill their dreams and aspirations. I feel joy when people shine.
I see my role as meeting you where you are, learning where you want to go, helping you clear obstacles and get out of your own way, and enjoy living along the way, in connection with your radiant light.
“When I first started working with Shannon, I felt stuck in areas of my life and leadership and was holding myself back. Through our 1:1 somatic coaching work, she has helped me unlock an inner strength and bring more of it into how I show up in the world. I have greater clarity, more confidence in my voice, and practical tools to ground and regulate myself so I can show up better at work and in my personal life.
Our work has also fundamentally changed how I see and navigate situations and relationships. Shannon has helped me build a much deeper awareness of myself and others — to understand what may be happening beneath the surface, recognize patterns and dynamics more clearly, and respond with greater intention rather than simply reacting. That increased sense of relatedness and situational awareness has made me a better leader, partner, and human.
Shannon is an incredibly gifted practitioner. Her ability to hold space for me as a whole human is unlike anything I’ve experienced before. There is room for the full range of emotion in our work together: fear, anger, grief, joy, humor, and everything in between. I leave our sessions feeling more connected to myself, clearer, and stronger.
I’ve been raving about Shannon and the impact of our work together, both personally and professionally, for years. I’m deeply grateful for her and will continue investing in myself and in this work with her for years to come.”
“We at EcoR1 are grateful for our yoga sessions with Shannon. Her sessions are a meditative break from a busy workday, giving us the ability to unwind and take care of ourselves both physically and mentally. Since March we have continued our sessions via videoconference, and we have been very happy with them. Thank you Shannon! ”
“Shannon is a profoundly wise teacher. Taking what she has learned from many books, her own life, and great teachers, and applying it directly to her life on and off the mat. Shannon weaves it all into her teachings and shares with grace and clarity. Her integrity, strive for balance, and true compassion makes her a trust worthy teacher. Shannon’s Asana classes are the perfect *balance of challenging yourself and restorative*. She helps you to build strength by working up to challenging poses. Combined with supportive grounding poses and meditations to help release tension in the body. I always walk away from class having learned something for my mind, body, and spirit. Feeling supported, strong, and uplifted.”
“Your First is Always Special. Shannon was our morning yoga guide on a company retreat. The other (younger) team members were stupefied that I had managed to live over 60 years, much of it in Southern California, without ever doing yoga. Shannon was super encouraging, and managed to tailor sessions that challenged the more experienced practitioners, but also allowed a novice to explore and enjoy the satisfaction of accomplishment.”
Who I’m not
I am not a licensed psychotherapist. Though at times I partner with mental health professionals, I work outside the mental health system. The coaching I offer is body and nervous system based, and based in learning yogic lifestyle and creativity.
The services I provide are not mental health treatment, western psychology, psychotherapy, or psychiatry. I do not diagnose or provide psychological treatment. I am not a medical doctor. I’m also not a one and only style coach. I love to collaborate with your care. I can and will refer you to others when it is appropriate.
I am a 500+ hour certified yoga & meditation teacher with a decade of daily spiritual study. I am a trained landscape designer, artist, writer, dancer, teacher, facilitator, mother and human being. I have a certificate in Somatic Experiencing® which helps you focus on present-moment awareness, body literacy and self-regulation skill building . These modalities are the lenses through which I help you build the capacity to bloom outside the box.
Guiding an outdoor retreat with Naked and Afraid star Laura Zerra and Heather Nodelman near Lake Louise, Montana. September 2021. (Photo credit: Heather Nodelman)
“Meeting Shannon is a perfect example of the universe sending me exactly what I needed. As soon as I walked into the yoga studio I was immediately struck by Shannon’s energy, her openness, her smile, her grace (and her adorable outfit!). After an hour of yoga with Shannon, and reconnecting myself to yoga, I had an epiphany. I realized a large part of the reason why I had taken such a long break from yoga wasn’t just because I had no time, but because I hadn’t felt fully aligned with a yoga teacher in a long time. Shannon had opened her door to me and I walked through. I knew I had found something special. Amidst my current crazy and busy schedule, I have managed to commit to yoga again! It is Shannon’s creative classes and dedication to learning more about yoga, herself and her connection to the world, that keeps me coming to class, and refreshed and reconnected to myself when I leave.”