Gather.
For an hour. An evening. A season of finding your way back to yourself.
Classes, circles, and gatherings at Buttercup Cottage, a somatic healing and intuitive art studio on a hill in Historic Ellicott City. Come here to connect, to heal, to rest deeply, to laugh with women who get it, and to meet the woman underneath everything you carry.
Every class and session is taught by Shannon Elizabeth, Clairvoyant Reiki Practitioner, certified meditation teacher, doctoral student of somatic psychology, and creator of the Limena Method. A published author and artist, she brings creativity, research, and lived experience into every offering, alongside a growing suite of nervous system technology: heart coherence biofeedback, vibroacoustic sound, and warmth you can sink into.
Rooted in science. Finished in magic. Held by a cottage built in 1890 on a hill in Ellicott City.
Trauma In My Bones: Somatic Book Circle - THE CIRCLE IS FULL - EVENT SOLD OUT
Trauma in My Bones:
A somatic reading & discovery circle, coming this fall
A six-week circle to learn how the body holds what we survive, map it, and gently reframe it — with grounding, good company, and a healthy dose of "what in the actual hell."
Art Night: Paint Your Dragon - Learn Your Power
Everyone has a protector who rises when they need her. Oct 16th - you meet yours, then paint her: scales, wings, storm, glowing eyes, whatever she turns out to be. Guided somatic visualization first, brushes second, zero art experience required and zero judgment issued. Leave with a portrait of the fiercest, most loyal part of you, just in time for the season when Ellicott City remembers its ghosts. All supplies, mocktails, snacks provided.
The Moon, She Cradles
The Moon, She Cradles changes her form every month, shaped by the moon she meets. For her first evening, she rises with the waxing Hunter's Moon, the old gathering moon, when women brought in what would carry them through winter. This month, she gathers you in. A candlelit evening of guided somatic rest in the cottage parlor, with one gentle harvest ritual: naming what you'll carry into the dark season, and what you're ready to leave in the field. You'll be held, warmed, and sent home softer.
Discover and Call on Your Goddess
Somewhere in the old stories is a woman who moves the way you secretly move: fierce, wise, sensual, unbothered. On the eve of the veil, we go looking for her. Somatic sensing and guided intuition lead you to what actually speaks to you; we map it to the ancient archetypes until you meet your goddess, then learn to call on her in daily life. Witchy meets somatic meets intuition. Leave with her name, her story, and an archetype art piece you make in the room.
SEEING ME — An Illuminated Art Reveal Night
SEEING ME — An Illuminated Art Reveal Night
Celebrating Body, Aura & Beyond
Seeing Me
This One Is After Dark On Purpose - a GLOWING Art Celebration of the Female Body
You've heard whispers about what's been happening in the studio. Come see it with your own eyes: the first-ever Illuminated Celebration of Body & Aura — a painting mapped from a real energetic field, lit from within by actual glowing light. The lights go down. The art comes on. We will start at Buttercup with a celebratory toast - champagne and mocktails and then head across the street to the Capitoline Center’s Black Box theater where the lights go down and Seeing Me glows herself to life. I will share the story of how this art form was born, and the first look at how a Celebration of your own begins. Come and let Seeing Me help you See You and envision your own Glowing Celebration Portraiture — RSVP required.
And…You will see her first before SEEING ME heads to Gallery.
SEEING ME is headed to Gallery - Her GLOW will be LIGHTING UP a VERY SPECIAL ART GALA this February where we will be showcasing Art by Women and giving back to FIGHT trafficking of Native American Women.
AFTER DARK: Her BODY · VOICE · MIND · BEYOND
AFTER DARK:
Her BODY · VOICE · MIND · BEYOND
Black-Tie Art Gala
Celebrate Women
See Art by Women
Procure Fine Art
STOMP OUT Trafficking of Native American Women
And Creative, Annapolis, MD
The Deepening · A luxury intimacy retreat for couples · October 22–25, 2027 · You don’t need fixing. You need deepening. A private castle. Intuitive Sensualism.
You don’t need fixing. You need deepening.
A private castle. A private chef. Three days on a mountaintop where the only thing on your agenda is each other.
The Deepening · A luxury intimacy retreat for couples · October 22–25, 2027 · Roundtop Estate, Pennsylvania
Take It Back — A Linguistic Reclamation Night Slut. Witch. Crazy. Too much. Difficult. Every woman carries a word that was used to make her smaller.
Slut. Witch. Crazy. Too much. Difficult. Your sexuality as an insult. Your race as a slur. Every woman carries a word that was used to make her smaller. Through breathwork, somatic grounding, ritual burning, and embodied reclamation, you'll strip a word of the power someone else gave it — and fill it with the power you choose. This is not gentle work. It's necessary work. You'll leave carrying a word that finally belongs to you. This is an evening of CONNECTION, CEREMONIAL CLEARING, RECLAIMING, AND MAKING SPACE - AND SOME OF THAT ‘TAKING BACK THE POWER’. 2 HOURS - Utilizing Somatic Practices to signal to your nervous system that you can take ownership of the words others have tried to villainize, use to make you small, use to push back in a shadow of shame.
Therapists, Women’s Health Providers, Integrative Practitioners — Somatic Wellness + The Deepening + Practitioners’ Night
An open evening for therapists, physicians, and holistic practitioners TO CONNECT at Once Upon a Connection, the somatic healing studio at Buttercup Cottage in Historic Ellicott City. Sept 16, 2026.
You Were Born With a Compass: A Four-Part Intuition Journey - Sunday Series July 12, 26, Aug 2, 16
Four-Part Intuition Journey - price includes all four classes.
You Were Born With a Compass: A Four-Part Intuition Journey - Wednesday Series July 1, 8, 22, 29
Four-Part Intuition Journey - price includes all four classes.
Roses & Romance - Spring Boutique, Rose’ Reception, Art Promenade
MARCH 21 - Roses & Romance Bridgerton-Inspired Spring Boutique, Cocktail Reception, Connection Table - Share Your Love Stories, Art Promenade at Savage Mill
This is it. Once Upon a Connection & Fire Creative OUAC hosted by Events Chick at Savage Mill in a collaborative event to celebrate love, friendship and connection.
SOFT OPENING - 3PM - Come browse early
RECEPTION STARTS at 4PM