Body, Root & Soul

Body, Root & Soul 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.

Last day to sign up and register to join us in Honoring the Menopause Journey starting next week October 8th. Sign up by...
10/01/2025

Last day to sign up and register to join us in Honoring the Menopause Journey starting next week October 8th. Sign up by today October 1st to receive tinctures that we will be working with each week. We will explore themes related to this portal of change, remembrance and reclamation of our true essence, body as soulmate, menopause as spiral of nature, deconstructing and dismantling internalized beliefs and systems, rewriting our own story and mythic journey, coming into right relationship with body, self, and the greater world, what is our souls calling? Exploring the unraveling, honoring love, grief, and rage and un-woken dreams, exploring death, rebirth, and renewal, the necessary darkness before birth, being in uncertainty and the mysterious void, alchemizing the wound, exploring our own unique medicine and magic. Each week working with plant medicine through the lens of somatic therapy. 🌿 Yarrow🌿 helping us to differentiate, not only from oppressive systems and others around us, but also, supporting us in the ability to differentiate between our own parts, and trauma, so we are able to face our own deepest wounds, with courage and clarity. Link in bio and

An ally, guardian and protector as we navigate the spaces of in between 🌿Rosemary🌿 We will begin our j...
09/30/2025

An ally, guardian and protector as we navigate the spaces of in between 🌿Rosemary🌿 We will begin our journey together with beloved Rosemary, reconnecting and reuniting with our core essential self. Sign up by tomorrow October 1st to receive tinctures before our first meeting on October 8th. Link in bio and

We begin next week with beloved Rosemary 🌿 Rosemary for Remembrance 🌿 Beginning our journeys through a somatic therapy l...
09/30/2025

We begin next week with beloved Rosemary 🌿 Rosemary for Remembrance 🌿 Beginning our journeys through a somatic therapy lens, reclaiming and reuniting with our core essential self. Sign up by tomorrow October 1st to receive tinctures before our first meeting online October 8th link in bio and at

🌿Mugwort 🌿An ancient herb, used and revered all over the world for dreaming, protection, rituals and for women’s health,...
09/30/2025

🌿Mugwort 🌿
An ancient herb, used and revered all over the world for dreaming, protection, rituals and for women’s health, fertility, childbirth, menstrual cycles, and transitions. Mugwort spiritually is known for rebuilding intuition, dreaming, death and rebirth, associated to Artemis, Hecate and the ancient mother goddess.

Mugwort associated with labor, birth and death. In menopause, we are what is transforming, what is being birthed, and the midwives ourselves.

Explore and reflect in community on your own transformation of entering into the second half of life, in a 6 week online course, through plant medicines, somatic and expressive arts.

Sign up by Wednesday October 1st to receive tinctures before our first meeting on October 8th 🌿🌿🌿 Link in bio and at

Starting back up Saturday October 4th, an ongoing monthly supportive space for cancer and chronic illness survivors. Thi...
09/24/2025

Starting back up Saturday October 4th, an ongoing monthly supportive space for cancer and chronic illness survivors. This is an online space held via zoom on the first Saturday of the month from 10-12PST. In this space we explore and navigate themes related to survivorship, recovery, resiliency, and integration, who are we now? Navigating what happens next, after treatments, diagnoses, and our lives being interrupted by cancer or illness. These changes impact our bodies, our minds, our spirits, often asking us to change our careers, personal lives, values and relationships. Each month we delve into diverse themes related to stages of healing and recovery, grief tending and more, through a somatic and spiritual lens in community with others. we will explore through somatic and intuitive practices, nervous system exploration, and healing arts, creative process of writing, art making, movement and breath, creating a safe space for our emerging self. These monthly workshops are $25 and free for WCRC members to attend. To be a member of the women’s cancer resource center, you must be registered through them as a member and be a resident of Alameda County to receive the code. Please reach out with any questions, link to sign up in profile

I have such a deep love for chamomile, as I know many that work with them also do. Chamomile is often overlooked by the ...
09/24/2025

I have such a deep love for chamomile, as I know many that work with them also do. Chamomile is often overlooked by the dominant over-culture, for many reasons I believe, one being that it is common and well known, as well as safe, meaning it can be used by babies and the elderly. But I believe the plants that have continued with us and show up in the kitchen cabinets, on the grocery shelves and in mainstream culture as acceptable, have extremely deep and powerful medicine and magic. It is also overlooked, as chamomile medicine is seen as small or gentle, as the dominant culture tells us more and big is better, which is ironic because chamomile is big medicine, that is very counter culture, that teaches us that rest is sacred, rest is a portal, and that we do not have to sacrifice our own well being and protection of self for the sake of productivity. Link in bio to go deeper

Sign up by October 1st to receive tinctures of the plant medicines we will explore together in this 6 week space togethe...
09/23/2025

Sign up by October 1st to receive tinctures of the plant medicines we will explore together in this 6 week space together, exploring the liminal and uncertain emergent space of menopause. Meeting our own true nature in its unfolding, moving away from the over-cultures way of mechanizing, colonizing and trying to master our own body, which cuts us off from our own innate and vital essence and knowing. Individuation is a process of seeing and embodying our own uniqueness as we move into the second half of our lives, how do we want to embody ourselves and live our lives that nourish our self and the greater world.

Oppressive systems tell us we can’t heal, we don’t know enough, that there is some all mighty expert out there who tells...
09/16/2025

Oppressive systems tell us we can’t heal, we don’t know enough, that there is some all mighty expert out there who tells us what is best for us. Counter culture pushes us beyond our limits while we often cut off from our own internal sense of knowing and intuition. We do not learn to be intuitive, we are intuitive beings by nature and birth. We can rehabilitate and restore our intuition through intuitive practices and arts. There is no experience necessary or an expert going to tell you if you are doing it right or wrong when working with plants in this way. These meditative and somatic practices of working with plants energetically help build our intuitive muscles, which I also find strengthens during this portal into the second half of life. Please join us link in bio 🌿🌿🌿

Explore the threshold and portal of moving through and into this second half of life. An opportunity to answer the call ...
09/04/2025

Explore the threshold and portal of moving through and into this second half of life. An opportunity to answer the call of our deeper self and soul. Spring does not arrive overnight, there are shifts, signs seen and unseen over time and underground. Slowly we may feel the air begin to change, the light reflects differently, a bud beginning to bloom, until we are fully arrived in the splendor of spring. Explore through somatic arts and practices, creative process and energetic herbalism. Link in bio 🌿

Working with the spirit and medicine of rose, beyond capitalist ideals of love and beauty, rose teaches us, holds us, ro...
09/02/2025

Working with the spirit and medicine of rose, beyond capitalist ideals of love and beauty, rose teaches us, holds us, rocks and sways with us through love, death, grief and beauty. Offering us strength, protection, truth, discernment, nourishment, a place to rest, resilience, courage, roots, strength, vulnerability and embodiment. Please join us in exploring relationships with rose in a 6 week series honoring the menopause journey, link in bio. 🌹🥀🌿

Not sure about you, but when I went through the portal of menopause, I searched high and wide for reflections of my expe...
08/28/2025

Not sure about you, but when I went through the portal of menopause, I searched high and wide for reflections of my experience or spaces where I felt held, supported and nourished in my process. Instead, I came across a lot of sites, gimmicks and hacks that promised me that if I did what they said, I could stay skinny, sexy, young.. relevant. But, this isn’t what I was looking for, or even possible for me at this point, my body being ravaged from poisons for cancer treatment and being forced into an abrupt chemically induced menopause. I wasn’t the same person I was, even 4 months prior. Who was I? I’ve created a group/space/course for those who are curious and brave enough to encounter their own death and rebirth process, as we enter into this second half of life together. We explore through somatic practices, Hakomi, mindfulness, alongside with plant allies each week of Rosemary, rose, yarrow, mugwort, chamomile and lemon balm. Each week we explore various themes as we work with each plant. More info in link in bio 🌿🌿🌿

05/22/2025

San Francisco Carnaval is this weekend!!! A celebration of life, music, dance, arts and culture! If you’ve never been, I highly recommend, it is a spectacular show and the energy is 🔥This years theme is honoring the global impact of the African Diaspora in the “Americas”

I am dancing with Bloco Ginga Brasil, number 12 in the parade, so get there early! Parade starts at 9:30am in the Mission District SF!

💕🔥🧡🎉🧡🔥💕

Photos by Robert Werner

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