"I teach and serve because I want to share with others the life that healing and embodiment can give them."
"I teach and serve because I want to share with others the life that healing and embodiment can give them."
- Shannon Kassoff
My Journey & My Calling to Serve and Heal
My journey with healing modalities started with yoga. Like most in the West, I pursued yoga as a form of fitness, but somewhere along the way my purpose for practicing changed to a more spiritual path or self-actualization. The more I learned about the ancient wisdom of yoga the more I wanted to know. I began to have a sense of fulfilling my potential on this planet, of finding my true purpose. Yoga offers self-reflection, the practice of kindness and compassion, and continued growth and self-awareness. Through the practice, I strive to be my best self with others and with the world.
After attending a few workshops and yoga programs, I decided to take the next step into teacher training with no real plan to become a teacher. Instead I was following the desire to immerse myself in all things yoga. About half way through my first training, there was a profound internal voice that said you have to share this path with others. I was being called to serve.
I fell in love with teaching and I am always learning. I completed my 200-hr yoga teaching certification in Power Vinyasa in 2010, Restorative/Yin Yoga training in December 2011 and completed a 500-hr certification through YogaWorks Professional Teacher Training Program in April 2014, Roll Model Method: Ball Sequencing & Innovation Training February 2017, I am a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider and I continue to grow in my personal practice and love of yoga.
This inner voice continued to guide me even when I didn't always recognize it. My first trip to India 2017, in the ancient sacred city of Varanasi, brought another loud and clear message that "I am a healer, I will follow a healing path, and I will be trained in reiki". Wow, this was not my regular monkey mind at work, this voice was so clear and drowned out any limiting beliefs. I felt overwhelmingly driven to follow this message. I didn't even know what reiki was but about two weeks after returning home, I was trained and attuned in reiki, soon became a Reiki Master Teacher in multiple reiki modalities, started seeing clients and training and initiating others into this beautiful healing modality. It has shifted my life in the most beautiful way and allowed me to fine tune my inner guidance (from my Higher Self), awaken my innate intuitive and psychic abilities, trust the communication with my spirit guides and angels and cracked my heart wide open like nothing else has.
In both yoga and reiki, there are breath techniques to awaken life force energy within the body, to clear blockages and to balance the energetic system. These tools are a regular part of my personal healing, as well as, techniques that I share with others. This brings me to my next calling; Clarity Breathwork. This is not part of the yoga or reiki systems, but a technique that evolved out of Re-birthing Breath from the '60's. In my first session, I was blown away by my own experiences of healing trauma, clarity of purpose and integration of higher frequency energies into my physical, mental, emotional and subtle systems. I continue to work with this breath modality, guided by my teachers for my own healing. I was later called to be trained as a facilitator of this gentle, yet powerful way to guide others into a safe and effective way to tap into the subconscious mind and let go of limiting beliefs, fears, and traumas. As my clients clear these lower frequencies, they align their bodies consciousness more and more with their Soul's Consciousness. This alignment brings peace, ease, and the experience of oneness that is our true nature as a Source Energy Being.
I am here to teach, heal, and help open the hearts, minds, and bodies of all that I have the privilege to guide on the path that is our awakening journey. Thank you, thank you, thank you, I love you, I love you, I love you.
After attending a few workshops and yoga programs, I decided to take the next step into teacher training with no real plan to become a teacher. Instead I was following the desire to immerse myself in all things yoga. About half way through my first training, there was a profound internal voice that said you have to share this path with others. I was being called to serve.
I fell in love with teaching and I am always learning. I completed my 200-hr yoga teaching certification in Power Vinyasa in 2010, Restorative/Yin Yoga training in December 2011 and completed a 500-hr certification through YogaWorks Professional Teacher Training Program in April 2014, Roll Model Method: Ball Sequencing & Innovation Training February 2017, I am a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider and I continue to grow in my personal practice and love of yoga.
This inner voice continued to guide me even when I didn't always recognize it. My first trip to India 2017, in the ancient sacred city of Varanasi, brought another loud and clear message that "I am a healer, I will follow a healing path, and I will be trained in reiki". Wow, this was not my regular monkey mind at work, this voice was so clear and drowned out any limiting beliefs. I felt overwhelmingly driven to follow this message. I didn't even know what reiki was but about two weeks after returning home, I was trained and attuned in reiki, soon became a Reiki Master Teacher in multiple reiki modalities, started seeing clients and training and initiating others into this beautiful healing modality. It has shifted my life in the most beautiful way and allowed me to fine tune my inner guidance (from my Higher Self), awaken my innate intuitive and psychic abilities, trust the communication with my spirit guides and angels and cracked my heart wide open like nothing else has.
In both yoga and reiki, there are breath techniques to awaken life force energy within the body, to clear blockages and to balance the energetic system. These tools are a regular part of my personal healing, as well as, techniques that I share with others. This brings me to my next calling; Clarity Breathwork. This is not part of the yoga or reiki systems, but a technique that evolved out of Re-birthing Breath from the '60's. In my first session, I was blown away by my own experiences of healing trauma, clarity of purpose and integration of higher frequency energies into my physical, mental, emotional and subtle systems. I continue to work with this breath modality, guided by my teachers for my own healing. I was later called to be trained as a facilitator of this gentle, yet powerful way to guide others into a safe and effective way to tap into the subconscious mind and let go of limiting beliefs, fears, and traumas. As my clients clear these lower frequencies, they align their bodies consciousness more and more with their Soul's Consciousness. This alignment brings peace, ease, and the experience of oneness that is our true nature as a Source Energy Being.
I am here to teach, heal, and help open the hearts, minds, and bodies of all that I have the privilege to guide on the path that is our awakening journey. Thank you, thank you, thank you, I love you, I love you, I love you.