Join us for a live event at Soma, Sage & Soul 4434 S. Highland Dr., Holladay, UT 84124 please RSVP

Come and celebrate the release of Shannon Simonelli's book: The Circulatio.

Enjoy appetizers, drinks, an author reading, and get your own author signed first edition copy of The Circulatio.

Schedule:

4-4:30 Arrive & mingle

4:30 - 5:30

Opening welcome with Susan Bollow, owner of Soma, Sage & Soul

Blessing ceremony with Vanessa Davis

Author reading & community conversation

5:30 - 7:00

Book purchase and signing

DJ Sukara will mix music for dancing.

The path to healing lies within. Here is an invitation to awaken your unique expression in the world.

The Circulatio offers a community framework to find your own way, to face the hard stuff, reclaim your creativity and courage, and follow your direct experience into your own authentic being, first in your own life and then in your practice with those you serve. Now more than ever, the world needs people in their own center in a grounded and embodied way—authentic, courageous leaders living from their own brilliance and standing in their own trustworthy presence.
The Circulatio has group work at its core, but the experiences in the book can be used for personal discovery, application in practice with clients, patients, students, or with friends and family. Take this spiraling journey toward wholeness, freedom,
and the deepest expression of who you truly are.

"The Circulatio is a beautiful practice engaging us with a compelling mix of art,
movement, dance, breathwork, shamanistic journeys, ceremony, writing, and
myth. The reader is invited to circle around through each level of being—body,
nature, emotion, imagination, spirit, ancient wisdom, sharing/intersubjectivity—
to follow the author’s own personal journey along with those of other witnesses.
The experience of thus inhabiting one’s unique, embodied and autonomous self
is at once breathtaking and lifegiving."
- Alan Fogel, author of Body Sense (2013) and Restorative Embodiment and
Resilience (2021)

RSVP HERE

Unofficial parking in lot just south - Valley Mental Health

*If you are unable to attend, please consider purchasing a personalized author signed hardback copy to be mailed to you from www.TheCirculatio.com.

Available on Amazon, at Barnes and Noble and at your local bookstore beginning June 16, 2026. Thank you for your support. Remember to leave a review at Amazon or on Good Reads, this is a great way to show your support as well.

Shannon Simonelli Ph.D., ATR
is an innovative voice in Imaginal Psychology, embodiment and psychospiritual group work and program design. Dr. Simonelli is a founding partner at the NeuroImaginal Institute where she is in private practice and offers online and in-person experiential training and retreats. She dances, Djs, spends time with friends and family and hikes with her beloved dog Fritz. Shannon lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Photo credit: David McCall @spiritual_gainzz

Moving Awareness is a movement based, music supported, gently facilitated practice to invite participants into their moving body awareness. To engage with the present moment, moving in space with themselves first, practicing noticing, then expanding awareness towards being with others moving, and then to the moving group. Practicing to receive impressions of other movers and to offer those back through one's own resonant body. To practice being seen and seeing others in the spirit of witnessing, and together building a moving field for expansive embodied awareness and expression of personal and Archetypal images and stories. Art making will assist with meaning making and structured sharing will help to fill out the picture of both the individual and group experience.

After the direct experience and meaning making, discussion of key psychological and somatic concepts will be anchored. These concepts will have been experienced through the moving experience first, then discussed and anchored as relevant to therapeutic practice. A sourced handout is available for participants at the end of the session.

Ecstatic Dance is a welcoming conscious dance practice – no experience is needed and all are welcome. Ecstatic Dance SLC weaves together world class DJs, immersive sound journeys and free- form movement for a full bodied and full hearted experience. It’s a substance-free, community celebration where you can simply be yourself. Experience rejuvenation and inspiration through connection, dance and music.

Event at the Salt Lake City Krishna Temple 3370 South 965 East

Schedule: (Arrive and/or leave anytime)

6-7 pm yoga or movement instruction

Opening Circle

7-9 pm Ecstatic Dance with DJ Unalome AKA Shannon Simonelli – lightly facilitated to get you into your body and into the groove

9 pm closing music and closing circle

Ecstatic Dance is a welcoming conscious dance practice – no experience is needed and all are welcome. Ecstatic Dance weaves together immersive sound journeys and free- form movement for a full bodied and full hearted experience. It’s a substance-free, community celebration where you can simply be yourself. Experience rejuvenation and inspiration through connection, dance and music.

Event at The Clubhouse (The Ladies Literary Clubhouse) 850 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84102

Schedule: (Arrive and/or leave anytime)

11-12 am yoga or movement instruction

12 noon Opening Circle

12 - 2ish  Ecstatic Dance with DJ Unalome AKA Shannon Simonelli – lightly facilitated to get you into your body and into the groove

Closing circle and food after

Ecstatic Dance is a welcoming conscious dance practice - no experience is needed and all are welcome. Ecstatic Dance SLC weaves together world class DJs, immersive sound journeys and free- form movement for a full bodied and full hearted experience. It's a substance-free, community celebration where you can simply be yourself. Experience rejuvenation and inspiration through connection, dance and music.

Event at the Salt Lake City Krishna Temple 3370 South 965 East

Schedule: (Arrive and/or leave anytime)

6-7 pm yoga or movement instruction

Opening Circle

7-9 pm Ecstatic Dance with DJ Unalome AKA Shannon Simonelli - lightly facilitated to get you into your body and into the groove

9 pm closing music and closing circle

Full Moon in Scorpio and Lunar Eclipse! A powerful time to go deep - into the body and emotions, to move through and let go of what you are DONE WITH. It is also called the flower moon and has the energy of letting go into new beginnings, bringing vulnerability to the process - getting real. Self care energy is also present in these energies...thank goodness! "May the energies of transformation be kind with me" is a good way to go with this!

A perfect time to be with women moving together. Bring an alter item for the community alter (you will take it home with you), and bring a girlfriend to join the experience.Daughters under 18 attending with mothers are free. Small ones need to be able to respect the 'no talking on the floor' agreement. No prior experience needed.

Ecstatic dance is a free flowing, unstructured experience. Drug and alcohol free, although Cacao – a heart opening hot chocolate – is usually available for $5. I will do some gentle and minimal facilitation at the beginning of the set. We will gather at 6:30, with an opening circle at 6:45 pm, then dance and a sharing circle to close.

The event is sponsored by Women’s Ecstatic Dance, this is not a workshop or experience that I am producing, I am the guest DJ. I would feel blessed by your attendance and support, if you feel called I hope to see you on the floor.

Pay at the door $20, if you need to come late or leave early that is acceptable, and feel free to bring any women friends.

I can't believe I am finally DJing! I have been working at this for some time and am taking the leap! My first DJ event! A Women's Ecstatic Dance is the perfect place for me to spread my new DJ wings.

I am excited and a little nervous - in a new growth sort of way. If you have never been to ecstatic dance - it is a free flowing, unstructured experience. Drug and alcohol free, although Cacao - a heart opening hot chocolate - is usually available for $5. I will do some gentle and minimal facilitation at the beginning of the set. We will gather at 6:30, with an opening circle at 6:45 pm, then dance and a sharing circle to close.

There is a large alter in the center of the space with divination cards, crystals, candles and a place to put a personal alter item if you would like to bring one. The event is sponsored by Women's Ecstatic Dance, this is not a workshop or experience that I am producing, I am the guest DJ. I would feel blessed by your attendance and support, if you feel called I hope to see you on the floor.

Pay at the door $20, if you need to come late or leave early that is acceptable, and feel free to bring any women friends.

Life continues to give you so much...some of it difficult, grief filled or painful, some of it hopeful, joyful and expansive. Deepening into your own experience, the truth of what is alive within you, is so very important. It brings you into conversation with your emerging story...the only place you are truly free.

For this we turn towards the body, and embodied exploration through music and movement, we turn towards your inner imagery, art making to bring what's inside...out. We turn towards reflection, writing the twists and turns of emerging truth, we turn towards each other, sharing in safe circles.

No prior experience necessary, only a willingness to explore, express and discover.

Tea and a variety of snacks are provided. Shannon has been facilitating experiential groups for over 20 years and deeply trusts these modalities, herself and the wisdom of the group.

If you have questions email ShannonSimonelli@gmail.com

Image credit: Ellen Hampel

A JOURNEY INTO YOUR YEAR WITH INNER WORK

This time of year brings a turn towards the new beginning. Yet, we are living in the residual of all that life has heaped on our plate already. So we just start where we are. We slow down. We turn inward, with inner vision. We feel, we give time to breathe and move, we reflect and make art. We get curious and see what arises right here, just where we are is where we start to vision into what is next.

Three Saturday mornings to tune in, to begin where you are.

You will be guided into:

Your Inner Vision - Learn and practice to awaken your active imagination through your inner imagery and a growing awareness of your dance in life

Your Moving Imagination - Bring the body alive as a vital partner and guiding force in what matters most then let it lead the way

The Voice of Your Soul - Cultivate, curate and listen to the longing and desire of this most intimate partner in the guidance and creation of your One Wild Life

Each week you will:

• Experience a blend of movement, dance, art making, reflection or ritual with a Master Guide
• Receive a practice to work with during the week
• Connect with a group of like minded people
• Learn to listen deeply and be moved
• Have specific time for YOU

How you can benefit:

With the ever-changing stresses in life, COVID-19, working from home, financial challenges, homeschooling and more, this Vision Quest 3-session series will give you:

• Total permission to begin where you are
• Awareness of what your BodySpirt is feeling, wanting, needing
• Identifying the supports and containers that will assist you
• Visioning from your Body, Spirit and Soul
• Tools to find more calm, clarity, connection and grounding into your new year

Learn to access your own moving imagination and better understand the messages from this embodied, imaginal resource. This work brings congruence to the nervous system,  and offers a deep sense of healing, calm and clarity. Bring your awareness to what is moving in you and let your movement metaphors unlock your inner life.

Give yourself the gift of time and sweet support to listen deeply, to feel, to make space for all that is tender and fierce in your heart of hearts. Then let this be the inner guidance to inform your year.

This is a live streaming / virtual event. You will receive a welcome letter upon registration to support your best possible experience. Sessions will be recorded, if you are unable to attend you can request recorded link at team@luminouslifemaps.com.

Darkness is both the experience of shorter days with longer nights and the pull into a deeper place that you may not visit that often. Darkness does not have to be heavy or scary, in fact, turning to face and get curious about your own dark places can bring release and new energy. Remember, things grow in the dark.

What might you give more space to? How might you grow your capacity to BE WITH what is? What in your or your life is waiting to grow in this dark time ... what needs tending first to prepare the ground for new growth?  

When we tend to the things that grow in the dark we actively also move towards the light. Towards more awareness, towards better self care and greater understanding. In this Virtual Mini Series we will join with the rhythms of nature to look inward, riding the energy right into the Winter Solstice, the turning point towards longer days, more light and the coming of Spring. Learn to honor and access the healing power of Nature...and your own inner nature. 

Three Sundays in December from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm (MST)

December 6, 13, & 20 with a Winter Solstice ritual in our last session. 

Each week you will: 

• Experience a blend of movement, dance, art making, reflection or ritual with a Master Guide
• Receive a practice to work with during the week
• Connect with a group of like minded people
• Learn to listen deeply and be moved
• Have specific time for YOU 

How you can benefit:

With the ever-changing stresses in life, COVID-19, working from home, financial challenges, homeschooling and more, this Tending Darkness 3-session series will give you:

• Total permission to feel what is right under the surface
• Self care time, practices and tools
• Awareness of what your BodySpirt is feeling, wanting, needing, grieving or longing for
• Opportunity to express and heal
• Tools to find more calm, clarity, connection and grounding in your body and life

Learn to access your own moving imagination and better understand the messages from this embodied, imaginal resource. This work brings congruence to the nervous system,  and offers a deep sense of healing, calm and clarity. Bring your awareness to what is moving in you and let your movement metaphors unlock your inner life.