Ceremonial and Medicinal Music * Sound Healing Sacred Embodiment * Internal Alchemy * Qigong Energy Medicine * Subtle Bodywork
Shannon lives in the Victorian seaport of Port Townsend, WA, where she currently has a teaching and healing practice that serves her local community, as well as national and international clients. She also contracts as a Comfort Therapist with both Assured Hospice and Hospice of Jefferson Healthcare. Shannon offers private sessions, classes, personal and group retreats. She also offers medicinal music, celtic harp, and sacred chant concerts throughout the Pacific Northwest both as a soloist and in the duo Evenstar.
Credentials and Training…
Classical Daoist Healing Arts Completed 5 year training with Master Zhongxian Wu
Certified Qigong Teacher Certified by Master Zhongxian Wu
Massage Therapist WA State Licensed and Nationally Certified with NCBTMB Lic #60485548
The Santa Fe School of Massage (previously known as The Sherer Institute of Natural Healing) Santa Fe, NM 700hrs
CranioSacral Therapy with Ursula Popp of Seattle WA
Certified Energy Medicine Practitioner
Completed 2 year certification program at White Cloud Institute, Santa Fe, NM
Certified Therapeutic Harp Practitioner Completed 3 years of training with The International Harp Therapy Program based at San Diego Hospice, San Diego, CA
Terrain of Essence Subtle Energy Work Training with Kim Lincoln Olympia, WA Completed 3 year program consisting of 300+ hrs of training 2009-Present
BA Healing and Expressive Arts The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA Concentration in Holistic Healing Arts and Music 2000-2005
Reiki level I, II, and Master Level Training with Judith Hitt and Laurel Geyer Taos NM, San Diego, CA, and Port Townsend, WA
2006-2009
Ordained Minister Universal Life Church 2008
Professional Harpist 2005-Present
Trained with many teachers including IHTP, Christina Tourin, Diana Rowan, and Alice Giles
Have also contracted with hospice as a Therapeutic Harp Practitioner since 2008
Well over 5000 hours of study and practice in Yoga, Qigong, and Sacred Dance including
*Devoted yoga practitioner since 1996. Studied with many teachers, my most influential being Sofia Diaz.
*Have developed, sustained, and deepened a daily yoga sadhana practice that continues to serve as a foundation for every living day.
*Completed year-long full time integrative somatic studies program Women and Wisdom/Yoga and Emotion at TESC 2001-2002
*Lifelong Qigong student of Master Zhongxian Wu
*Train in other lineages and styles of Qigong with various teachers including Healing Tao for Women and Wuji Qigong with Caryn Diel, Wisdom Healing Qigong with Master Mingtong Gu, MogaDao Qigong, Internal Alchemy, and Daoist Sacred Sexuality with Master Zhenzan Dao, Hun Yun Gong with Michael Gilman and Stephanie Morrell, and Awakening Light Gong with Teri Applegate. 2000-Present
*Trained in Butoh Dance Theatre with Doranne Crable including many performances in college dance troupe as well as with her professional dance company Kugami 2000-2004
*Studied Orissi Dance with Jamie Lynn Colley 2004
*Studied 5 rhythms dance with Melissa Michaels, Jonathan Horan, Amara Pagano, Sara Pagano, and many others 1996-2003
*Surfing the Creative International Youth 5 Rhythms Dance Intensive with Melissa Michaels 2000
*Many years of bellydance and tribal bellydance classes with various teachers 1998-present
Kamana Naturalist Training Program The Wilderness Awareness School 2003
Tracker School with Tom Brown Jr. 2002
In deepest gratitude to all of my teachers
My beloved guides of both human and nonhuman realms
It is your transmission that has awakened my highest potential
And your methods who have challenged me to grow beyond what I ever dreamed possible
Thank you for your everlasting encouragement and support
You who walk the earth, and you who have already passed through the veil, or have always lived beyond it,
How brilliantly your wisdom, healing, and presence live through me
You have blessed my path
You have blessed my work
And all who are blessed by this offering
Are truly blessed
By you
In Deepest Gratitude,
Shannon Ryan
