What are you MADE for? When I said YES to being on the the ‘warmup’ team for OLOX, the Siberian NeoShamanic Arctic Ecstatic Dance Diva, I didn’t give it much thought. Ha! Foolish me. As I have prepared with my collaborating magic friend Vanessa, I have felt a strange importance to it all. I have …
by Shannon Simonelli 
Being SEEN Remarkable & Amazing! I just had a birthday. Along with well wishes I received these amazing flowers! Real roses, color treated to be these playful, beautiful, unexpected, joyful blooms of goodness. When I opened them I was giddy! They just burst their joy into the room. I was laughing and completely delighted. What an …
by Shannon Simonelli 
PERSONAL CONNECTIONS. It seems we all want them, but don’t give them the attention needed… Who has time right?! I’m hungry for real connections….I’m talking about BodySpirit centered connections…SOUL call connections… Precious face to face & body to body time. Community. Where we feel welcome and like we are home. So I’m responding …
by Shannon Simonelli 
MOVING WITH THE MYSTERY This weekend we got the call that a family member slipped on ice and broke a hip. We moved into response mode. We pulled together. I went into that expanded sense of time, where things slow down a bit. The unexpected in life is one of the places where the …
by Shannon Simonelli 
SPRING Happy Spring Equinox to you! The middle point, equal space between the shortest and longest days of the year…we are moving out of the darkness and into the light. Hope returns, potential bursts forth, rebirth is all around! So why do so many of us feel TIRED?! The season change does that to …
by Shannon Simonelli 
HAPPY SOLSTICE! The shortest day of the year…the longest night. A beautiful time to come together with friends and loved ones, mark the end of Fall and the true beginning of the Winter season. Gather around the fire, sing, dance & tell stories…share food & drink. Rituals of turning inward…listening to the quiet …
by Shannon Simonelli 
Forgiveness is powerful medicine and greatly needed in our culture (62% of Americans feel they need more forgiveness in their lives). When we do not forgive others or even more importantly, our self, we are at greater health risk. People who carry resentments often feeling angry or done wrong by others, disappointed or upset with …
by Shannon Simonelli 
I HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT FORGIVENESS. Ug. A wonderful concept and experience when I can muster it but boy is it hard when I can’t seem to let go of some seemingly righteous, justified upset. Since the new year, life has given me a couple of situations in my life that have challenged me around forgiveness. …
by Shannon Simonelli 
THIS WEEK I HAVE BEEN REMINDED of why I do inner work…both as a Guide and as a faithful student. I have spent the past 5 days with no voice from an upper respiratory gamboo. I have felt tender and quiet…except for the frustrating engagements I have had with my 80 year old mother …
by Shannon Simonelli