Description
A different kind of journey toward change
Transformation doesn’t always follow a straight line. The Circulatio Method™ offers a spiraling process for exploring change with curiosity, care, and room for discovery in a highly experiential framework.
Across six online sessions, you’ll explore five stages:
- Inquiry: Notice what’s calling for your attention.
- Capacity: Build connection with your body, your resources, and your imagination.
- Remedy: Explore the loosening of familiar patterns and make room for new insights, awareness and possibilities.
- Re-Story: Give meaning to the images, insights, and stories that are emerging and allow the new narrative to take shape.
- Mastery: Bring what you’ve discovered into a personal practice in your everyday life.
The process is structured, but spacious enough for each person’s experience to unfold in its own way. You’re invited to participate at your own pace, with choice and care. There’s no pressure to share more than feels right.
Introducing The Spiraling Way Home
The Spiraling Way Home: An Online Circulatio Method™ Seasonal Practice is a six-session creative journey for people who want to deepen their relationship with their body and lived experience, explore what’s emerging in this season of life, and bring meaningful discoveries into everyday practice. It is offered in two pathways: the general participant experience, and a Professional Integration Pathway for helping professionals.
Together, we’ll work with movement, guided imagery, art making, journaling, dialogue, ritual, and reflection. Dr. Shannon Simonelli and the group will support you as you explore, make meaning, and consider what comes next.
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.
JOIN THE SEASONAL PRACTICE
What you’ll explore
Reconnect with your body and lived experience
Build awareness of what you sense, feel, and notice. Make room for your body’s experience as part of how you understand yourself.
Meet familiar patterns with more awareness and choice
Explore habitual ways of responding with curiosity. Build your capacity to consider new possibilities instead of moving automatically through old patterns.
Engage imagination and creative expression
Use movement, imagery, writing, and art making as pathways to insight, meaning, and a clearer sense of what may be emerging.
Learn the Circulatio’s spiraling process for change
Become familiar with Inquiry, Capacity, Remedy, Re-Story, and Mastery as a framework you can draw on again and again, as you navigate change.
Create a personal practice
Gather your discoveries into practices you can return to in daily life, supporting reflection and integration beyond the sessions.
Your six-session journey
Each online session lasts 2 hours and 15 minutes. The experience unfolds over 12 weeks. We’ll meet live online Wednesdays 10 am MST, groups will be recorded (excluding personal sharing), although you are strongly encouraged to attend in person. The number of participants is limited so we want your energy and participation in the room with us.
Session One: Opening & Inquiry, Entering the Circle
Build connection with the group and begin exploring what’s brought you here and what “coming home” to yourself might mean.
Session Two: Inquiry & Capacity, Building the Wisdom of the Body
Explore embodied awareness, imagination, and inspiration through movement, guided practices, reflection, and dialogue.
Session Three: Capacity & Remedy, Release What No Longer Serves & Open
Notice the resources available to you. Explore what may be ready to loosen or shift, practicing full permission to let go and see what’s “there”.
Session Four: Remedy & Re-Story, Winding Round and Through
Work with what’s releasing and open to emerging insights, images, and stories through movement, writing, witnessing, and conversation where new possibilities might take shape.
Session Five: Re-Story & Mastery
Explore BodySpirit, the experience of embodied presence and aliveness. Honor what’s taking shape through your practice.
Session Six: Bringing the Journey Home
Gather what you’ve learned allowing personal practices to emerge and help carry your discoveries into everyday life.
Each season supports the work
Winter
Shorter days, turning inward, gathering around the hearth in community, rest, allowing time and space to face what needs attention so there is space for tending the seeds that are ready and wanting to germinate.
Spring
The return of light, finding balance in transitions, new growth, planting, sprouting and rebirth energy, yet sometimes feeling tired. Can we learn to listen to our own rhythm and tend to our desire and inspiration for mindful, authentic and enthusiastic new beginnings.
Summer
Long days, full bodied energy, warmth, blooming gardens, outward focus and aliveness is this season’s signature. Engagement, play, projects, juicy fruits and juicy life – hot, languid, dreamy – how to meet it all? How abundant is your life and how do you meet it?
Autumn
A break from the heat as the days shorten, the leaves turn, kids are back in school and schedules find more balance. Harvest time. A transitional season, endings, letting go…making space, emotions, tears, melancholy, what is hiding in the darkening days that needs to be grieved or put to rest?
The seasons work together to move you more deeply into your authentic self expression.
Support between sessions
Your work doesn’t have to stop when a session ends. Discovery Pages offer prompts and practices to help you reflect, notice what’s unfolding, and make meaning at your own pace.
You can share reflections, questions, insights, and musings in the community portal. Dr. Shannon and fellow participants can respond and witness your process. You may also connect with a peer or small group during the journey.
Sharing is invited, not required. You can take part in the ways that feel right for you.
Your practice companion
The Living Ritual Field Guide
This companion features multisensory practices for engaging body, emotion, thought, and spirit. Explore ways to create meaningful personal rituals and an altar that reflects who you are and who you’re becoming through this season.
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.
What’s included
General participant experience
- Six facilitated live online group sessions, each 2 hours and 15 minutes
- A 12-week seasonal experience
- Guided movement, creative expression, reflection, dialogue, and ritual
- Discovery Pages and suggested between-session practices
- Access to the community portal for sharing and connection
- The Living Ritual Field Guide
- Bonus: The Circulatio ebook, valued at $10
- Bonus: Threshold, a self-guided experiential initiation journey, valued at $49
- Bonus for the first five to join: a 40-minute private consultation with Dr. Shannon Simonelli, valued at $200
Professional Integration Pathway: everything above, plus
- Certificate of completed hours and learning objectives
- A private professionals-only space within the online community
- Professionally oriented reflection prompts
- One 60-minute live Professional Integration Circle after the group is complete to discuss how you might draw on your experience to inform your work
Designed for therapists, counselors, coaches, educators, and other helping professionals who want to experience The Circulatio personally while considering its relevance to their professional lives. This is a distinct professional pathway, not simply the same experience with a completion certificate. You’ll be exploring the work’s relevance to your practice. This is not Circulatio facilitator training, and it does not authorize you to teach the method.
Is this journey for you?
The Spiraling Way Home may be a good fit if you:
- Feel that something in your life is ready to shift or emerge.
- Want to understand familiar patterns without starting from self-criticism.
- Are curious about movement, imagination, creative expression, and reflection.
- Want a supportive group setting where participation is guided by choice.
- Are ready to explore what you discover and bring it into everyday life.
- Are a helping professional curious about how this work relates to your own practice (see the Professional Integration Pathway above).
No previous experience in movement or the arts is needed.
This is a facilitated personal development experience, not a substitute for mental health treatment. If you’re seeking support for trauma or other mental health concerns, consider whether this group is right for your needs and consult a qualified care professional.
Dates
All groups take place on Wednesdays 10:00 am – 12:15 MST.
January 13, 24 February 10, 24 March 3, 17. If you are unable to attend a meeting they will be recorded with an effort to not record personal sharing content. It is best if you are able to be present for most or all of the meetings, both for yourself and for the group.
Your investment
Choose the pathway and payment option that works for you:
General Participant Experience
Founding participant rate: $595
or three payments of $210 ($630 total)
Regular value $696
Professional Integration Pathway with certificate of completion
Founding Professional Rate: $695
or three payments of $245 ($735 total)
Regular value $825
Trip Around The Sun – All 4 Seasons with a BIG savings to you
Give yourself a year of connection and transformation. Invest in a Trip Around The Sun with The Circulatio and the seasonal practice of The Spiraling Way Home. This is an introductory offer for first time enrollment with a significant savings for both pathways:
General Participant Experience enjoy a $380 savings with one payment of $2,000
Professional Integration Pathway enjoy a $450 savings with one payment of $2,330
A full year of growth, support and new experiences will bring this deep teaching into your body and allow your psyche a channel of communication with you. You will learn to listen deeply, to move with and to see more clearly what is arising in your inner life and wanting to take shape in your life and expression in the world.
Founding rates are available for a limited time.
The first five participants to enroll in any pathway, any level of comittment, will also receive a 40-minute private consultation with Dr. Shannon Simonelli.
CHOOSE YOUR PATHWAY & ENROLL
A note about the guarantee
If you participate in the full experience, including all group sessions, Discovery Pages, regular involvement in the between-session work, and the online portal, and don’t see or experience results, you may request a return of your enrollment fee.
Begin your journey home
You don’t need to have every answer before you begin. Bring your curiosity, your questions, and a willingness to listen to what’s emerging.
Join The Spiraling Way Home.
ENROLL IN THE SPIRALING WAY HOME
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.
