Hello, I'm Shane
I look forward to meeting you, somewhere between the tissues, and discovering together the doorways to healing and transformation.
May we dance in the exploration of the wild inner being with wonder and without urgency.
A Bit About Me
I have found the greatest growth in the smallest and most subtle shifts of perception.
I enjoy and delight in the quiet listening of body and spirit, finding the resonance between two points when a third option, pathway or perspective is brought to light.
I find play and curiosity a thru thread to joy and living a life in flow with nature.
I like to imagine ourselves as curious explorers with our flashlights of consciousness as we attune and bring awareness to the mystery of the human experience.
I believe in the dynamic play between stress and rest as well as expansion and contraction with an emphasis on how we in these times can learn more from nature’s long exploration of rest and rhythm.
I value the seeking of truth and understanding while holding such compassion for the variety of human experience. The right acknowledgement seen and felt can be such a fulcrum for healing and change.
I have personally found that acceptance and grief work have been paramount to healing.
My path into bodywork
I am a Licensed Massage and Bodywork Therapist whose path to healing work was walked through contrast — years of service as a Medical Sergeant with US Army Special Forces, and the long, patient work of attending to my own healing afterward. That lived tension between harm and repair, between the body pushed to its limits and the body tenderly restored, is the quiet foundation beneath everything I do. I found it a blessing to witness the adaptability and growth of the human being in multiple directions. More than a decade of bodywork, improvised dance, craniosacral therapy, psychotherapy, breathwork and vibrational medicine have been the foundation of a nervous system coming back from PTSD and developmental trauma.
I graduated from the Body Therapy Institute in 2014 with an emphasis on somatic psychology and a myofascial approach to the body as informed by Tom Myers’ Anatomy Trains.
In recent years I have continued my clinical education through study in Visceral Manipulation, a gentle, precise approach to releasing restrictions within the body's internal organ systems. My work is rooted in somatic awareness — the understanding that the body holds what the mind cannot always name, and that healing moves at its own pace, on its own terms. Supporting the structural analysis of fascia in the body, I have also completed Level 1 of Fascial Manipulation Method by Stecco. These two modalities I believe work well together to weave together the deep systems of the body with the superficial layers of fascia.
Alongside my clinical practice, I am also a student of Yoruba culture and an Initiate of Ifá and Ṣàngó in the lineage of Olúwo Fálolú Adésànyà Awoyadé of Òdè Rẹ́mọ. This initiatory path has deepened my capacity for presence, deep listening, and attunement — qualities that move through my bodywork as much as through any spiritual practice.
My approach is integrative in the truest sense: shaped by western medicine, somatic education, and an indigenous wisdom tradition that understands the human being as inseparable from the forces and mystery that animates the world.