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.

Holistic health through embodied movement methods and somatic arts of Pilates, therapeutic yoga and somatic therapy, nervous system regulation, body mind centering, mindfulness, Hakomi, Dream Tending, Flower Essences, Eco-Therapy and more. 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.

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

There is always today… happy new year ✨🌙✨
01/01/2025

There is always today… happy new year ✨🌙✨

My dad took my brother and I here 40 years ago! I love revisiting places that I encountered as a child, bringing my own ...
12/29/2024

My dad took my brother and I here 40 years ago! I love revisiting places that I encountered as a child, bringing my own children to meet them. It feels important to me and something about revisiting and bringing my own descendants, even though I really don’t “remember” this place as a 10 year old, I do believe my body remembers something about this place that called me back to it.

It used to be called Patrick’s Point, and it has been renamed to its original indigenous name, Sue Meg ❤️

In the past few years I have gotten way more into winter and “wintering”, slowing down, taking time off, doing less, goi...
12/29/2024

In the past few years I have gotten way more into winter and “wintering”, slowing down, taking time off, doing less, going inward, turning my attention towards opening the eye of my heart, drawing, writing and reflecting on my dreams, reflecting on this past year and of course visiting the wild sea and forests; all as a practice to reorient myself to the wheel of the year, the seasons outside of capitalism, recentering and orienting myself to my self.

Many of my ancestors would have celebrated Yule, where instead of killing a tree and bringing it indoors, we would have gone outside, decorated and adorned a tree, sang to it and celebrated its life that we are so inseparable from. Red and green symbolizing life in the deep dark of winter, the red berries and the green of evergreens.

This year I came to visit the ancient old growth redwoods, trees 1500 years old! 😳 A magical experience, feeling awe, inspiration and a deep love to help me release the old, remember to dream, and that we are never alone.

“By choosing to enter into kinship with your dreams, you will come to recognize a deeper authority than the ones of the dominant culture. As a result, you will most likely experience erosion in your ability to tolerate hierarchical structures of power. And you will have to navigate their mighty and tenacious counterparts within you that try to keep you from realizing your origins. You will encounter the ways in which your life force has been inhibited, thwarted, co-opted, or neglected. As you unlearn the habits and conditions that led to these losses, so too willl you receive guidance, synchronicity, and inspiration as your rewards.”

The Dreaming away, Toko-Pa Turner

To Dreaming 🌙✨🎄❤️💚

❤️ Medicine 🌿 coming soon 🌿 Take care my loves ❤️
11/08/2024

❤️ Medicine 🌿 coming soon 🌿 Take care my loves ❤️

For those of us who hold space for others, to grieve, mourn and express rage, a gentle reminder to remember to allow you...
11/08/2024

For those of us who hold space for others, to grieve, mourn and express rage, a gentle reminder to remember to allow yourself to be held as well. For those of us who tend to hold and carry collective or familial grief, remember to lean into the larger containers that also hold you.

What holds you in all of this? Seen and unseen?

May we take turns, holding each other up and being on the front lines. There is a rhythm that we may find between fighting, grieving, resisting, loving, rebuilding and resting. We take turns holding each other up, leaning into the collective, bringing our medicine and resources to others and to ourselves. May we be the balm that our aching hearts need to continue to move through this, together. ❤️

I am so excited to offer honoring the menopause journey in an all day retreat, at and urban farm in Berkeley, on Septem...
08/28/2024

I am so excited to offer honoring the menopause journey in an all day retreat, at and urban farm in Berkeley, on September 21st from 10-5. We will be exploring the transformation of menopause, and this for perimenopausal, menopausal and post menopausal women. As we move into the second half of life, taking the time to retreat and pause, listen and explore through somatic, depth and eco-therapy, this second adolescence of life. The personas and masks we have put out into the world, are rarely who we truly are, we often betray our own authentic and true nature. Who are we becoming? What is our calling? We will explore through somatic therapy methods, nature therapy, art making and creative process. Tapping into our souls calling, in this rite of passage and initiation into deeper resonance and intuitive living. More details in link above or at www.tendingourwildroots.com 🌿

All moved in 😅😍🥺🥰🤩😢😭
08/25/2024

All moved in 😅😍🥺🥰🤩😢😭

“The heartbreak forces us to begin to learn how to court the divine, the first grand step toward becoming a whole person...
08/01/2024

“The heartbreak forces us to begin to learn how to court the divine, the first grand step toward becoming a whole person, a person who can turn loss into grief and grief into a song of life giving praise. This is the metabolization of grief into beauty.” Martin Prechtel

Survivorship is about life after diagnosis and treatment. Survivorship lasts from diagnosis until the rest of our lives. In this workshop series, we will dive deep each month into a different theme around issues relating to survivorship and stages of healing and recovery. These workshops are for anyone in any stage of recovery. We will explore through somatic explorations, creative process and expressive arts. Please bring art materials of your choice, for drawing or painting, as well as writing materials.

August 3
Honoring our Grief
Love is the mother of grief, in this workshop, we will explore deeper in what it is that we deeply love, and how do we honor that which we have lost? We explore our grief about the changes in which we have experienced in this journey, physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and energetic. These experiences often deeply change us yet our lives that await us often expect us to be the same person we were before. What can we release and let go of and how do we create rituals to honor what we have lost?

Please join me this Saturday August 3rd, 10-12pm on zoom, for our monthly survivorship group. To sign up you must fill out intake form at Women’s Cancer Resource Center here, then sign up under wellness workshops.

https://www.wcrc.org

“The heartbreak forces us to begin to learn how to court the divine, the first grand step toward becoming a whole person...
08/01/2024

“The heartbreak forces us to begin to learn how to court the divine, the first grand step toward becoming a whole person, a person who can turn loss into grief and grief into a song of life giving praise. This is the metabolization of grief into beauty.” Martin Prechtel

Survivorship is about life after diagnosis and treatment. Survivorship lasts from diagnosis until the rest of our lives. In this workshop series, we will dive deep each month into a different theme around issues relating to survivorship and stages of healing and recovery. These workshops are for anyone in any stage of recovery. We will explore through somatic explorations, creative process and expressive arts. Please bring art materials of your choice, for drawing or painting, as well as writing materials.

August 3
Honoring our Grief
Love is the mother of grief, in this workshop, we will explore deeper in what it is that we deeply love, and how do we honor that which we have lost? We explore our grief about the changes in which we have experienced in this journey, physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and energetic. These experiences often deeply change us yet our lives that await us often expect us to be the same person we were before. What can we release and let go of and how do we create rituals to honor what we have lost?

Please join me this Saturday August 3rd, 10-12pm on zoom, for our monthly survivorship group. To sign up you must fill out intake form at Women’s Cancer Resource Center here, then sign up under wellness workshops.

https://www.wcrc.org

I created this offering as after my cancer treatment, the doctor told me, I would now be transitioning into what they ca...
06/28/2024

I created this offering as after my cancer treatment, the doctor told me, I would now be transitioning into what they called, Survivorship. Hearing that word, I felt excited, yet was quickly disappointed as these were just continuing doctor appointments at the cancer center that solely focused on continuation of medical treatments and bloodwork and testing. Missing this emotional and spiritual component and healing of integration that I felt a deep longing for. I wanted to offer a space for community to gather and create and heal together while exploring ways to transform and alchemize the pain and poison of our experience, into medicine.

I am excited to announce an offering for cancer survivors, Survivorship, a monthly wellness group. Survivorship begins once a diagnosis has been made, and lasts for the rest of our lives. Survivorship explores life after diagnosis and treatment. Each month we will dive deep into various themes related to life after treatment and diagnosis, related to healing and recovery. For many, receiving a cancer diagnosis changes one forever. There is often an immediate change in one’s life trajectory, one’s beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions of life, relationships, and self.

And the first of the series, Saturday, July 6, via Zoom, 10-12 PST, we will explore themes of nourishment, restoration and loving ourselves in this very moment, exactly as we are. We will explore through mindfulness, somatic explorations, creative process, expressive arts and movement.

A diagnosis often sets off a landslide of what needs to be tended to inside of us. Can we touch in and walk with our wounding, rather than fixing, controlling or dominating the pain that we feel. Honoring our own divine timing, listening to our own heartbreak and betrayal, can we allow grief and rage to birth new levels of self to emerge.

To sign up for this workshop, you will need to first need to go to the Women’s Cancer Resource Center website and fill out their intake form.

https://www.wcrc.org

Then register for the group here, under wellness workshops.

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlc-GpqD4oH9P3fc_JxRJPjehtcvAMXsX5

“The overculture (dominant culture that creates social norms and punishes those who do not live by them) does not offer ...
06/28/2024

“The overculture (dominant culture that creates social norms and punishes those who do not live by them) does not offer rituals and resources for the brokenhearted, only distractions and numbing agents….” Pixie Lighthorse

I created this offering as after my cancer treatment, the doctor told me, I would now be transitioning into what they called, Survivorship. Hearing that word, I felt excited, yet was quickly disappointed as these were just continuing doctor appointments at the cancer center that solely focused on continuation of medical treatments and bloodwork and testing. Missing this emotional and spiritual component and healing of integration that I felt a deep longing for. I wanted to offer a space for community to gather and create and heal together while exploring ways to transform and alchemize the pain and poison of our experience, into medicine.

I am excited to announce an offering for cancer survivors, Survivorship, a monthly wellness group. Survivorship begins once a diagnosis has been made, and lasts for the rest of our lives. Survivorship explores life after diagnosis and treatment. Each month we will dive deep into various themes related to life after treatment and diagnosis, related to healing and recovery. For many, receiving a cancer diagnosis changes one forever. There is often an immediate change in one’s life trajectory, one’s beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions of life, relationships, and self.

And the first of the series, Saturday, July 6, via Zoom, 10-12 PST, we will explore themes of nourishment, restoration and loving ourselves in this very moment, exactly as we are. We will explore through mindfulness, somatic explorations, creative process, expressive arts and movement. 

A diagnosis often sets off a landslide of what needs to be tended to inside of us. Can we touch in and walk with our wounding, rather than fixing, controlling or dominating the pain that we feel. Honoring our own divine timing, listening to our own heartbreak and betrayal, can we allow grief and rage to birth new levels of self to emerge.

To sign up for this workshop, you will need to first need to go to the Women’s Cancer Resource Center website and fill out their intake form.

https://www.wcrc.org

Then register for the group here, under wellness workshops.

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlc-GpqD4oH9P3fc_JxRJPjehtcvAMXsX5

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