Shannon is now a regular contributing writer for Kiss & Tell Magazine - a platform that covers sexual health, mental wellbeing and physical health honestly and without shame.
Read “The Day I Lost My Clit: A Personal Story on Clitoral Atrophy & Menopause”
https://www.kissandtellmagazine.com/clitoral-atrophy-menopause/
A Somatic Wellness & Intuitive Art Studio
Intimacy begins when you romance your own soul first.
Somatic Healing. Energy Work. Illuminated Art. Creative Expression.
For the Woman Finding Her Way Home.
A space built for your becoming.
In an 1890 cottage in Historic Ellicott City’s Arts & Culture District, there is a studio where women come back to themselves — nervous systems settled, energy seen and honored, stories told in ink and thread and light. Some women come to be held. Some come to be read. Some come to be painted. Most discover they came for all of it — because here, your body, your energy, and your story were never separate things.
One-to-one somatic connection work for regulated, peaceful living — and the 333 Clairvoyant/Clairaudient Energy Session, where what I see in your energy becomes a drawing and a story you keep forever.
Restore
The Intuitive Studio: story-fueled art, spirit-fueled art, couture fantasy gowns — and A Celebration of Body & Aura, illuminated fine art made of you, for the woman saying hell yes to herself.
Create
Small circles, big healing, beautiful connection: HER Awakening classes, the Somatic Book Circle, Reclamation nights, Retreats, and evenings you'll dress up for.
Gather
The Safe Container - The Somatic Healing Foundation
Once Upon a Connection is a women's somatic healing and art studio, and it is built to welcome every woman, explicitly including trans women and every LGBTQI+ person who seeks this work. Our public materials state that we support all women regardless of their womanhood origin story, and that is practiced, not just posted. My 1:1 somatic healing, energy work, classes, and retreats are open and affirming to LGBTQI+ clients, and my couples offerings welcome all couples. Client work here centers bodily autonomy, consent, and removing shame, which makes affirming care a foundation of the practice rather than an add-on. I am also producing a formal art gala this winter, "After Dark: Her BODY, VOICE, MIND, BEYOND," which is explicitly trans-inclusive and celebrates the female form in all its expressions, with proceeds going to women's causes. Acceptance and human rights advocacy are written operating principles of this business.
1:1 SOMATIC HEALING & RESTORATIVE CONNECTION WORK
Somatic Healing for Nervous System Regulation, Trauma Processing & Embodied Restoration
The heart of this studio. Private, unhurried work where you learn what activation actually feels like in your body — where it begins, what it protects, what it needs — and build your way back to regulated, connected, peaceful. Every session held on all sides: a check-in before, complete presence during, and my signature written reflection after. Multi-session packages available.
This service may be eligible for HSA/FSA reimbursement.
Meet Shannon
Risk consultant by trade. Artist by soul. Connection worker by calling. Clairvoyant — and done whispering about it. I built this studio for the woman finding her way home, because I walked that road myself, and I know exactly what's waiting on the other side of the door.
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