Being Danced: Embodied Art

Being Danced:  Embodied Art Embodied Art
Develop your relationship with the somatic intelligence that guides your life. Nourish Because you deserve your own undivided attention. I dare you.

Being Danced: The Divinity Map
A guided journey through somatic intelligence, emotional alchemy, and play FULL permission to remember and embody your divinity.

7 points of the Divinity Map:

Potency:
Play
Presence
Prayer
Power
Re-parenting
Re-programming

POTENCY:

Through our embodiment we gain greater and greater potency as a divine be-ing. Simply getting in your skin-suit on a moment to moment basis can change everything. Yet how can we commit to creating and choosing embodiment everyday when life has so many demands on yOUR attention? This is true self love. A practice for gaining greater potency in your body so you gain access to the incredible wisdom stored there. Join me for Embodied Alchemy


PLAY:

It has been scientifically proven how vital play is to our well-being. Animals and young children are always playing which supports their nervous systems to be fluid and flexible. Ever notice how contracted life can feel when we are taking ourselves too seriously? Just a small dose of play per day can expand you into a state of awe of joy and aliveness. How can we remember to play? Let me support you! Say hello to your inner child and show them enough love that they feel safe to play again. Activate your silly self
Certainly come along with your most goofy goofball self. Skip, Skamper, talk jiberous, roll like a dog,
Engage your inner comedian
Let the wild one win
Send yourself the permission slip for spontaneous creative good times. Join me for Experiment in Communal Play! PRESENCE:

Come home to your true heart through presence. We all know what a gift it is to be present. To be wholeheartedly engaged in the moment, which expands your sense of awe and availability. Your participation with presence is needed to wake up to the truth of who you are. A unique emanation of source. We can reach with curiosity into every moment to anchor into a deeper interiority through presence. What leads us to being present?

~creating your container for the day. Your spherical miracle of love and support
~Slowing down
~breathing deep
~ creating space for all your feelings
~Listening deep within to those still small voices until they become your choir of welcome home. Join me for Energy Attunements Guided by Grace

PRAYER:

Prayer is single handedly the most valuable and potent tool you have. The question is, are you using it? Prayer is not to be saved for emergencies or that thing you skip over absentmindedly while someone is praying for you in church. Prayer is how you wake up everyday and put in your order to the universe/creator. Prayer is reaching into the magic of infinite possibilities and pulling out your own unique blend of Heaven on Earth. It doesn’t happen all in one lightning fast moment, though I guess it could. You’ve got to build your foundation. One loving prayer at a time. Courageously pre-paving what you desire, need, and want in your life. You are worth it. You deserve it. If you don’t ask, it won’t come to you. Ask for help everyday. No topic is too big or small. You can affect the fabric of reality through an honest, humble embodied prayer. Let’s do this family of light. What would it be like to wake up every day with a poetry prayer slam that you speak out loud with the power of your voice. Join me for Prayer Mandala Medicine Path/ Infinite Prayer Possibilities

POWER:

You are powerful
You are an unbridled expression of divinity
You are welcome in this safe and loving container to harness the power and potency of your anger and rage. There is so much fear around expressing our anger, has it as often caused harm. Yet if our anger is shamed and not allowed to be expressed in a healthy way it drastically minimizes our true power. Our ability to state crystal clear boundaries, and needs. Our clear claimed yes’s and NO’s. If anger is repressed and unexpressed we have a lack of focus and direction. We allow others to choose our path for us. We are like a leaf in the wind. How can we feel safe enough and stimulated enough to tap into the unlimited energy, focus, crystal clear direction and passion of rage? What would it be like to realign that force of nature so we have access to the full broadband virtuoso that lives inside you? Let us find a way so we can re-claiming our wholeness. Join me for Sacred RAGE: A dance ceremony to unlock your full power

RE-PARENTING:

In a perfect world we would all grow up with fully evolved parents who were able to give us accurate reflection, unconditional love and lots of emotional attunement and conscious touch. The absence of these qualities in your early life is not your fault. Yet it is your responsibility to pick up where they left off and re-parent yourself into healing and well-being. Developing an honest and welcoming relationship with your inner child is vital to your healing and sovereign empowerment as an adult. Dedicating time to listen to the needs of your little one, so you can begin the process of re-growing TRUST and safety within. Is it hard for you Trust others? Step one is always looking within, and in this case rebuilding any broken or damaged bridges between your adult self and your little one. Signs or symptoms that your inner child needs your loving attention:

~You are prone to addiction
~Blaming and judging others or yourself is your pattern.
~Resentment towards others without taking responsibility by naming your needs
~Believing others should know what you need by telepathy. (you expect others to know what you are thinking and feeling without actually using your words to let them know)
~a consistent lack of clarity on your life vision or direction
~a long list of unspoken expectations of how your friends and loved ones ‘should’ show up for you. (again without directly asking for what you want, and being willing to hear a no)
~Shame or embarrassment are regular energies that you wrestle with. Shame can show up as unworthiness, lack of self confidence, a feeling of constant discomfort in your own skin around others.
~Expecting others to re-parent you


Join me for Grow Your Love: A Mystery School Curriculum for re-Parenting yourSelf. RE-PROGRAMMING:

Join me for Sophia Circle Journey

RE-PROGRAMMING:

Allow me to be your magical guide, as we walk through The Sophia Code® by Kaia Ra. A sacred text designed to radically upgrade your capacity to love yourself, receive daily guidance from your higher self, and how to cast a circle of empowerment around yourself daily. The codex is a living transmission with 8 potent initiations to uncover the endless well of divine love and empowerment within you. This is a 13-session online group experience, to embody, activate and realize your sovereign divinit
* Classes include, prayer, meditation, group reading from The Sophia Code, and journaling prompts. Especially potent and pertinent in this time of worldwide upheaval and radical changes, this codex supports you to find solid ground and stability within yourself while revolutionizing your perspective of reality. What to expect:
*Deepen your capacity to love yourself in challenging situations.
*Remember to ask for help daily from the unseen realms, especially when the rubber hits the road!
*Heal from old patterns of self-sabotage and procrastination
*Develop a healthy relationship with your inner-child
*Feel the flame of Faith and how to keep that fire alive within you.
* Develop mentor relationships with Ascended Masters. (beings who realized their full potential while in human form)
*Daily communion with your Higher Self, and how to discern that voice from all other voices inside you. If your curious to know more about the Sophia Circle Journey™, DM me to set up a discovery call and fill out the survey here:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KWHL768

Join me for Sophia Circle Journey

starting Jan 9 at 4pm PDT/ 7pm EST

This workshop is a wonderful opportunity to nourish our nervous systems through the lifelines of Play and Rest.  Our mor...
10/17/2025

This workshop is a wonderful opportunity to nourish our nervous systems through the lifelines of Play and Rest.
Our morning will be enriched with somatic shenanigans as we dive into Experiments in Communal Play. An improvisational playground for collaborating in community through movement, theater, and humor. Our afternoon session will be dedicated to reseting our nervous systems through the practice of Nesting and Resting: A space to remember what it feels like to be held—by your own presence and by others. Through gentle structure and shared rest, we explore co-regulation, ease, and the tenderness of true togetherness.
Let me support you to reclaim the health and vitality of your nervous system through delicious doses of Play and Rest.

Needing to warm and tend to your being at this change of season?  Join us tonight for Woodside Dance Church with Rabelli...
10/14/2025

Needing to warm and tend to your being at this change of season?
Join us tonight for Woodside Dance Church with Rabellion.
An 85 acre pristine property an hour from SFO and and hour from Santa Cruz.
The nourishment of music ministry, gentle contact improvisation warm-up, and the abiding peace that is present in the natural world, up here on the moutain.

Register for dance alone or with accomodations
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/woodside-dance-church-tickets-1704326970849?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR71IBaaBUixDgcz39mQBDGwpDVl4Zz9nO25_4Gu8jlwJWc8LuxQ9WpirYoajw_aem_D3aRf8iOkrB22gORn10p-A

What a delight to bring all my years of warm water immersion into play with all my years of facilitation.   How deliciou...
10/07/2025

What a delight to bring all my years of warm water immersion into play with all my years of facilitation. How delicious to have my classroom be a warm water pool, and to feel the water guide my pacing and guidance given. Offering workshops at the Inner Sanctum has been such a healing grace on my nervous system as it supports me to recognize that my being thrives in nature, and my facilitation thrives best in rural environments!
Join me on October 18th for Liquid Contact. We will begin, on land, with embodied consent to set the tone for attunement and deep reverence with one another in the water. Dropping into presence and slowing our pace with the embrace of the warm water. Enjoying the opportunity to hold and be held by each other and the water.
Registration link in bio

Your nervous system carries the weight of modern life. Constant connectivity, deadlines, and responsibilities create a c...
09/04/2025

Your nervous system carries the weight of modern life. Constant connectivity, deadlines, and responsibilities create a cycle of stress that’s difficult to break. That’s why we’ve created REJUVENATION WEEKEND.
Join us for 𝐑𝐄𝐉𝐔𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊𝐄𝐍𝐃 at The Inner Sanctum. Together, we will move through an intentionally programmed weekend of music, dance, nature immersion, liquid contact in our warm water womb pool, and community connection experiences; with space for rest and relaxation in between. - every element has been selected to create the ideal environment for deep restoration.
Between activities, you’ll find ample time for rest, reflection, and personal renewal. This balance of gentle stimulation and relaxation creates the perfect conditions for your nervous system to find equilibrium.

𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: The Inner Sanctum is in Woodside, CA, just a 15 minute drive from Alice’s Restaurant, and just under one hour from San Francisco and Santa Cruz. Address and directions will be sent out upon registration.
𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐓𝐒:
You are welcome to join us for a single day, or for the full weekend (Fri-Sun).
𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 (𝟗/𝟏𝟐) 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐬:
https://is.theinnersanctum.org/87431fcc-bdf0-493e-bfe5.../
𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲 (𝟗/𝟏𝟑) 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐬:
https://is.theinnersanctum.org/a933b9bf-549d-4526-aec0.../
𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝟏𝟐-𝟏𝟒 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐬 (𝐅𝐫𝐢-𝐒𝐮𝐧):
https://is.theinnersanctum.org/9abf1805-dc5d-4625-9aee.../
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Join us for 𝐑𝐄𝐉𝐔𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊𝐄𝐍𝐃 at The Inner Sanctum as we reset our collective nervous systems. Together, we will move...
09/04/2025

Join us for 𝐑𝐄𝐉𝐔𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊𝐄𝐍𝐃 at The Inner Sanctum as we reset our collective nervous systems. Together, we will move through an intentionally programmed weekend of music, dance, nature immersion, liquid contact in our warm water womb pool, and community connection experiences; with space for rest and relaxation in between. 𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐓𝐒:
You are welcome to join us for a single day, or for the full weekend (Fri-Sun).
𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 (𝟗/𝟏𝟐) 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐬:
https://is.theinnersanctum.org/87431fcc-bdf0-493e-bfe5.../
𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲 (𝟗/𝟏𝟑) 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐬:
https://is.theinnersanctum.org/a933b9bf-549d-4526-aec0.../
𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝟏𝟐-𝟏𝟒 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐬 (𝐅𝐫𝐢-𝐒𝐮𝐧):
https://is.theinnersanctum.org/9abf1805-dc5d-4625-9aee.../
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Tomorrow we have the one and only Neptune blessing the temple at Sweet’s Ballroom with his special blend of Audio Alchem...
08/30/2025

Tomorrow we have the one and only Neptune blessing the temple at Sweet’s Ballroom with his special blend of Audio Alchemy for your mind, body and soul.
I will be hosting and offering the Contact Improvisation class to ground our bodies in community connection and attunement.
Join me at 10am for class, and set sail for a scintillating Sunday Funday.

Sweets BallRoom
1933 Broadway Oakland
Bart (19th St. Bart)
Sunday August 31st
10:00am-1:00pm

It is with great honor and excitement that I announce a NEW Dance Event being born.  Arielle Brown and I are collaborati...
08/28/2025

It is with great honor and excitement that I announce a NEW Dance Event being born. Arielle Brown and I are collaborating to bring to you a potent space for navigating and celebrating life. Please welcome.....𝐖𝐎𝐎𝐃𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐔𝐑𝐂𝐇!
Our intention is to cultivate an exquisite container for our souls to dance to the forefront of our experience and for each of us to be guided by our inner knowing.
We gather the second Tuesday of each month at the Inner Sanctum in Woodside beginning September 9th. (one hour from SF and Santa Cruz)
Enjoy our 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞-𝐎𝐟-𝐓𝐡𝐞-𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 System, and immerse yourself in pristine frequencies. Housed in our cathedral-like dance temple, the space is intimiate and only open to 50 dancers.
Arielle will be providing the music ministry as DJ HoneyFroth and closing sound bath with the gorgeous hues of her voice.
I will be offering the Contact Improvisation class to kick off the night with embodied connection and closing the night with a fabulous meditation/closing circle.
We give the option at registration to book overnight accommodations, for you to luxuriate and enjoy a deep night of sleep on this peaceful land.
It would be an honor and pleasure to have you join us for our opening dance on September 9th, 7-10pm.

Link to register in my bio

Discover a World of Movement in the graceful embrace of warm Water. Our first gathering was a success, and I was moved t...
08/21/2025

Discover a World of Movement in the graceful embrace of warm Water.
Our first gathering was a success, and I was moved to tears to witness the beauty, care and reverence of the field we created. Join us on August 23rd for our second edition of Liquid Contact.

A guided aquatic exploration and jam followed by a warm bowl of nourishment, heart shares, and tea. Enjoy the soothing warmth of a 97-degree pool with enchanting soundtracks playing above and below the surface. Feel supported as you explore various water principles and movement states, delving deep into self-awareness and presence. From this place, we lean into platonic intimacy with others as we are guided by the water to explore yielding, listening, and surrender.

Register here: https://is.theinnersanctum.org/ff0f5d9b-5f62-4ee4-a221-bf2b9deec6e0

Our first gathering was a success, and I was moved to tears to witness the beauty, care and reverence of the field we cr...
08/08/2025

Our first gathering was a success, and I was moved to tears to witness the beauty, care and reverence of the field we created at Liquid Contact. When we hold one another in the warm womb of water, the energy becomes intoxicating.
**Still. Vast. Steeped with PRESENCE. **
I let that energy devour me and all that is left is the tangible fabric of NOW. That is my idea of a good time.
I hope you will consider joining us on August 23rd for our second edition of Liquid Contact. A guided aquatic exploration and jam followed by a warm bowl of nourishment, heart shares, and tea. Enjoy the soothing warmth of a 97-degree pool with enchanting soundtracks playing above and below the surface. Feel supported as you explore various water principles and movement states, delving deep into self-awareness and presence. From this place, we lean into platonic intimacy with others as we are guided by the water to explore yielding, listening, and surrender.
See you soon at the Inner Sanctum.
Link to join in bio

I call them my golden years.   8 years of living in the sacred waters at Harbin Hot Springs.  Holy Wow the amount of tim...
07/17/2025

I call them my golden years.
8 years of living in the sacred waters at Harbin Hot Springs.
Holy Wow the amount of time I spent in deep reverence to the water as my teacher.
I became so dedicated to listening to my inner being through the meditative state that arises naturally when immersed in healing waters.
Someone asked me last week, how I would describe the experience that warm water immersion facilitates.
Time slows down.
Relaxation is immediate
Presence steps forward through the comforting, all surrounding touch of warm water.
The sensations of the water creates a trance that tethers you to.... This very present moment.
The mind takes a back seat as your body re-claims its seat as the experiencer of your life.
Bliss, Peace and Contentment support you to know your True Self.
A dialogue with Eros unfolds as your body remembers its innate guidance system, found through pleasure.
I am so pleased to be offering a new workshop enviornment where I will take participants on a journey of receiving the water as their teacher.
Saturday, August 2nd at The Inner Sanctum in Woodside.
Join us for an intentional day of guided aquatic exploration and Liquid Contact aquatic space with an underwater soundtrack, followed by a warm bowl of nourishment. Through our community journey we will deepen trust, explore consent, playfulness, & experience nourishing relaxation. We will conclude the evening with heart shares, and tea.
Spots are limited. Tickets: https://is.theinnersanctum.org/3bed5087-dd16-44a7-acd7….
https://www.facebook.com/events/2708552406158189

Finding Ground7-8pm  Friday’s in July at Farifax Ecstatic Dance This class series with Shannon is a delicious opportunit...
07/16/2025

Finding Ground

7-8pm Friday’s in July at Farifax Ecstatic Dance

This class series with Shannon is a delicious opportunity to deepen your strength and structure as a practitioner of Contact Improvisation.

We will focus on the 3 tiers of weight sharing:

1. Know your center. 2. Lean into a shared center 3. Get over it or Get under it. (a person’s center must be under another for them to be lifted)

This dance practice explores the skills of falling, rolling, counterbalance, lifting using minimal effort, how to make ourselves light when being lifted, centering techniques, and responsiveness to our partners and surroundings.
Join Shannon Sahaja for discovering more of your embodied genius.

Tomorrow is my 51st Birthday.                          WoW.I am not sure how this many numbers added up.  Time....or tim...
07/12/2025

Tomorrow is my 51st Birthday.
WoW.
I am not sure how this many numbers added up.
Time....or timelessness. I choose the latter.
Feeling the wisdom keeper in my silver hairs, and the grace of joy that lives in my beingness. Feeling so grateful for the health of my body to DANCE and PLAY.

My prayer for this chapter of my life: To lay down the protective ways that somehow kept me safe at one point, and are now needing my full loving attention, in order to dissolve. From this place.... to LET MORE LOVE IN> I want to show up for myself with less judgement and critical thoughts, and Give that gift to everyone else who happens to get close to me. (there is a micro vulnerable share inside that last sentence)

I have been deeply working on simplifying my life, with some success, yet desire so much more SPACIOUSNESS and EASE. The older I get, the more I NEED to be with myself and nature.....Instead of the pattern of overcommitting to work, travel and community activities. I deeply desire to continue on the path of True LISTENING to my soul’s pace, rhythm and needs.

Another major intention/NEED for this year is to commit to a weekly sabbath. A 24-48 hour period of ZERO phone or computer time. No Screens. I have been playing with this off and on for the last few months. I found that the weekend was the easiest time to have success with this weekly fast. So after I send this message...my phone and computer will be turned off and stowed away. So I GET to experience ME...uninterrupted. So I get the benefit of having my own attention directed towards real time life, as it unfolds in its own delicious timing.
Who wants to join me in this?

I feel inspired to bring this health protocol to more of my friends and family. These screens are so Handy. And boy are they zapping the true presence and well being right out of our hearts.

What are your prayers for me this year?
Inviting friends to join me at Point Reyes Dance Palace for the Contact Improvisation Jam tomorrow 11-1:30.
I couldn’t find an event link, yet your GPS will take you there with the above location and venue.

Photo with dear friend Ali Williams

Address

1970 Chestnut Street
Berkeley, CA
94702

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 6pm
Sunday 9am - 5pm

Telephone

+15105847893

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Being Danced is an exploration in expanding your range of movement, your field of perception, and your participation with presence. Each event will focus on a different theme which will provide awareness training and skills for how to consciously compose and co-create the space together. We will take the theme and the tools learned, add excellent music, and dive into a conscious dance journey as a living,breathing,work of ART. (Awareness Resting in Timelessness) Shannon Puja Sahaja is devoted to helping people dance and move and connect with their bodies so that they can be happy and healthy and enjoy life to its fullest!!! Shannon teaches a unique and innovative style of dance that creates a safe, playful, and loving space for you to release inhibitions and dare to be seen. Dance is her first language and she has performed, taught, and trained in dance for the past 20 years. Her main influences for Being Danced are contact improvisation, Burning Man, and spontaneity.

Classes take place at Finnish Hall in Berkeley. 1970 Chestnut Street.

For class times and details go to: www.shannonsahaja.com