Private Sessions with Shannon

Support Your Self-Healing Journey

Whether you're a beginner or an experienced practitioner, private yoga offers a transformative path to improved physical, mental, and spiritual well-being.

Focused Private Session Options:
(All Privates can be booked as either in-person or remote sessions on Zoom.)

• Yoga One-on-One: Build Body Wisdom!

• Mental Health Management: Regulate with Nervous System Hacks

• Pelvic Floor and Inner Core

• Yoga Balls for Pain Relief

• Embodied Resilience: Yoga for Trauma, Grief, and Recovery

• Chakra Journey: Oracle Guided Exploration

Option Descriptions

Yoga One-on-One: Build Body Wisdom!
Shannon is a trauma-informed yoga teacher with over 11 years of teaching experience. Integrating a variety of traditions she teaches many different types of practices, she can support you in learning how to live functionally and joyfully with your body.
This is the basic yoga private option and the one to consider if you don’t exactly know what you want or need.

Mental Health Management: Regulate with Nervous System Hacks!
If you have been feeling extra high levels of stress lately, as many people are, Shannon can coach you through specific techniques that use body movements and yoga, breathing, and other practices to help calm the fight and flight responses in your nervous system and improve resilience. Most of us struggle to regulate our emotions, and these skills support us in developing this ability. She has dedicated years to learning these techniques, and she is skilled at communicating them to others

Pelvic Floor and Inner Core:
If you have core weakness or are struggling with increased urinary leakage after a nasty winter of coughing and viruses, Shannon has some great practical tips to help strengthen and support your pelvic floor. She teaches an original 1-hour pelvic floor class every week at OWY, using yoga and other fun exercises that help to improve pelvic floor health.

Yoga Balls for Pain Relief:
If you are having a lot of pain/stiffness in your back, neck, legs, feet, shoulders, or even your abdomen, often releasing your facial tissues can help. There are anatomically informed ways to do this type of release on yourself at home, and Shannon can help you get started with this. We can all benefit from having skills to relieve structural pain.

Embodied Resilience: Yoga for Trauma, Grief, and Recovery
There are somatic tools that can be used to support your nervous system and mental health as you navigate life’s most difficult terrain. Shannon can guide you through supportive somatic practices that can help you move through and release the painful emotional retentions that accompany trauma and grief, no matter how long you’ve been carrying it. These skills are so valuable if you are navigating a recovery journey.

Chakra Journey: Oracle-Guided Exploration
A unique private experience that blends the ancient wisdom of the body’s energy centers with intuitive oracle guidance, offering a deeply personalized approach to self-discovery, growth, and energetic alignment. This is a series of 3 private sessions, each focusing on a specific group of chakras.

Click here for more information on chakra readings.

About Shannon L. Thomas

Shannon is a post-lineage trauma-informed yoga teacher with 11 years of teaching experience and 22 years of practice. She teachs regular classes and has developed comprehensive programming for: The SORS Program at the Ohio Veterans Home, The Recovery Institute of Ohio, The City of Sandusky, Sandusky City Schools, Huron City Schools Athletic Programs as well as in-house programing at OWY, including yoga teacher trainings (trauma-informed and anti-racist modules), workshops, and community out-reach programming. She is also a Peer Recovery Supporter (certification pending) has used her skills to support the navigation of her own recovery and mental health journeys. She understands the value of having someone who has faced similar challenges standing along side. Full bio on our teachers page:

More on the Benefits of Private Yoga

Private yoga sessions offer a tailored approach to wellness that group classes simply cannot match. As a very experienced instructor, Shannon provides customized practice designed specifically for your body, fitness level, and goals.
Private sessions:
- Target goal achievement (flexibility, strength, stress reduction)
- Personalize mental and emotional support
- Offer adaptable instruction for all skill levels
- Support development of a more profound mind-body connection
- Help you progress faster than in group settings
- Support the creation of a sustainable, personalized yoga practice