Description
Come home to yourself
Life can pull you away from your own knowing. You may find yourself living by familiar roles or inherited expectations, feeling stuck, disconnected, or unsure what comes next.
Beneath the demands of everyday life, your body and imagination can offer ways to listen inward, discover what matters, and reconnect with your own direction.
Whether you’re navigating a transition, seeking renewed purpose, or sensing that something within you is ready to emerge, this retreat offers a compassionate space to pause and explore.
This isn’t about fixing yourself or following a straight line toward self-improvement. It’s a spiraling journey of awareness, expression, integration, and renewal.
A supportive space to explore what’s emerging
Over three days, you’ll experience an approach that brings together embodied awareness, imagination, creative expression, relational inquiry, ritual, and reflection.
You’ll have opportunities to:
- Reconnect with your body and become more aware of your lived experience.
- Use imagination and creativity as pathways to insight.
- Notice patterns shaping your life and consider new possibilities.
- Connect with others through authentic dialogue and witnessing.
- Clarify what’s emerging in this season of your life.
- Develop personal practices to help carry your discoveries into everyday life.
You don’t need previous experience in movement or the arts. Artistic ability isn’t the point. The invitation is to bring curiosity, presence, and a willingness to listen to your experience.
Meet your Guide
Dr. Shannon Simonelli facilitates each session, with support from a trained guide as the group grows. Dr. Shannon is an Imaginal Creative Arts Therapist with over 25 years experience in private practice and in group creation and facilitation. She is the author of The Circulatio: A spiraling process to get unstuck and cultivate your authentic being in life and practice.
Her work brings together embodied awareness, symbolic imagination, creative expression, relational inquiry, ritual, and integration through her Circulatio Method™. The approach is experiential and group-based, offering a structured yet spacious setting for you to explore your own experience.
Experience the Circulatio Method
The Circulatio Method is an experiential approach to transformation. Rather than teaching a collection of techniques, it brings together embodied awareness, creative and symbolic expression, relational encounters, reflection, ritual, and integration.
Transformation isn’t always linear. This process moves in a spiral: creating a supportive space, listening to what’s present, making room for new insight, and bringing what you discover into everyday life.
Throughout the retreat, you’ll explore how body, emotion, thought, and spirit interact, and how a deeper relationship with your experience can open new ways of being.
Your three-day journey
Day One
Inquiry: Entering the Circle
We begin with ritual, movement, and community building to create a supportive space rooted in your choice and creative expression. Through movement, dialogue, reflection, and creative practice, you’ll explore what called you to this retreat and what it means to “come home” to yourself.
Capacity: Building the Wisdom of the Body
Here the focus is on curiosity. Can I feel myself in this body? Can I open to being more than this body? Through free movement, expressive arts, guided imaginal practices, reflective writing, and small-group dialogue, you’ll build embodied awareness and begin to discover the relationship between body, imagination, Spirit, and inspiration.
Day Two
Remedy: Release What No Longer Serves & Open
Make space to release. Breathwork, creative anchoring, and supported witnessing invite you to follow what arises, loosen familiar patterns, and make room for new possibilities. The emphasis is on surrender, trust, and the restorative intelligence of embodied experience.
Day Three
Re-Story: Living a New Narrative
Explore what’s emerging through reflective writing, movement, witnessing, creative inquiry, and dialogue. Your attention shifts from what you’ve released to the stories, images, and possibilities now taking shape. You’ll also be introduced to language for BodySpirit: the experience of embodied presence and the sense of aliveness, meaning, and imaginal richness that comes through authentic practice and living.
Mastery: Bringing the Journey Home
The retreat closes by bringing the immersions discoveries into embodied, imaginal practices you can carry into everyday life. Through ritual, movement, reflection, and community witnessing, you’ll harvest your learning and head home with greater clarity, resilience, and authenticity.
Guided support, reflection, and community
You won’t be left to make sense of the experience on your own. Supportive teaching, facilitator witnessing, reflection, and group check-ins give you opportunities to explore your experience and find personal meaning.
Discovery Pages will support deeper reflection, with opportunities for facilitator witnessing on the first and third days.
You’ll also be invited to post-retreat Zoom integration calls for your participation pathway. These gatherings offer time to reconnect with the group, reflect, and support the integration of what you discovered.
After participating in a Circulatio event, you can join the members-only Facebook group to share, ask questions, and stay connected with Shannon, the team, other group members and Circulatio community members.
What others say about their work in this work:
I’ve learned how to listen to my body * I’m building my foundation IN my body * I’ve learned how to not self-abandon while holding space for others * I can show up, express myself and I’m okay * I’m more confident and capable * I’m more patient * I experienced bringing fragmented parts of self into alignment, into coherence * I’m feeling more resourced, resilient and in alignment with myself* the multimodal flow is a way to get energy moving* It’s life changing work.
Choose your participation pathway
General Participation Pathway: $695
Includes the three-day retreat experience and participant resources.
Inaugural payment option: Two payments of $385, for a total of $770.
Professional Integration Pathway: $795
Includes the retreat experience and professional integration resources, including a Certificate of Completion with hours and learning objectives.
Inaugural payment option: Two payments of $437.50, for a total of $875.
March 18-20 9:00 am – 6:00 pm,. Choose the pathway that best fits your intentions.
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Your retreat resources
Your experience includes:
- Lunch, tea, and snacks during the retreat.
- A BodySpirit Practices guide.
- Discovery Pages tailored to your participation pathway.
- A Certificate of Completion with hours and learning objectives for Professional Integration participants.
- Two bonuses: The Circulatio eBook and a personal journal for your retreat notes.
The retreat offers space to explore questions such as:
- Can I come home to and rest in my body?
- Can I sense a larger direction for my life?
- What image, idea, or impulse is ready to emerge?
- How might I bring more of my authentic self into daily life?
A supportive invitation
This retreat isn’t about becoming a different person. It’s an invitation to explore your own experience with care, curiosity, and support.
If you attend and fully participate but don’t feel you’ve gained a deeper understanding, expanded experience, or renewed connection with yourself, your enrollment fee can be credited toward another offer in The Circulatio suite of offers.
Is this retreat for you?
This experience may be a fit if you:
- Feel stuck, disconnected, or ready for a meaningful reset.
- Are moving through a life transition or seeking renewed purpose.
- Want to listen more closely to your body and inner experience.
- Are curious about movement, imagination, creative expression, and reflection.
- Want practical ways to continue integrating what you discover.
The retreat offers space to explore questions such as:
- Can I come home to and rest in my body?
- Can I sense a larger direction for my life?
- What image, idea, or impulse is ready to emerge?
- How might I bring more of my authentic self into daily life?
No movement or arts background is needed. You’re invited to participate at your own pace and in ways that feel right for you.
Your invitation
Take three days away from the usual demands. Make space to listen, explore, and reconnect with what matters to you.
Embodied Transformation: Coming Home to Yourself
A three-day, in-person immersive retreat in Salt Lake City, Utah. March 18 – 20 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
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A note about the guarantee and cancelation policy
If you participate in the full experience, including all group sessions, Discovery Pages, and the online portal, and don’t see or experience results, you may request a return of your enrollment fee. Once you have reserved your spot it is yours. There are no refunds.
Leadership Certificate Pathway
For those who feel called to carry The Circulatio Methodology into their professional or community leadership, The Spiraling Way Home seasonal groups, Embodied Transformation in-person immersion, and Architecture of the Self in-person immersion together form the experiential foundation for advanced Leadership Certificate training in The Circulatio Methodology. Completion of all three programs will be required before applying to the Leadership Certificate pathway. This advanced training will be developed and offered when sufficient interest exists to support a committed learning cohort. This body of work has already trained two cohorts to date.
