Honoring the Menopause Journey
Somatic Therapy • Mindfulness • Plant Medicine • Expressive Arts • Community Building
with Shannon Knorr
A 6 week online course &
1 in-person gathering in Sebastopol
October 8 - November 15, 2025
This 6-week online course is designed to provide you with the support you need to navigate the transformative rite of passage that is menopause. Together we will honor the changes of death and rebirth, and cycles of regenerative grief that come with this stage of life. Participants will realign with their true selves, while connecting to our soul's purpose and vital essence.
Through the lens of somatic therapy, Hakomi, mindfulness, plant medicine, expressive arts, we will come together as community to honor the body and soul, and share in the journey of menopause together. We will be supported on this path by our tools of art, writing, movement, somatic and creative process, dream tending, shadow work and plant medicines.
Please sign up by October 1 to receive the herbal tinctures that will be mailed to you for this course.
We will work with a plant each week to engage with the spirit and energetics of the plant. In these six weeks we will explore together, Mugwort, Rose, Chamomile, Lemon Balm, Rosemary and Yarrow.
Exploring the transition and changes of the menopause experience through a Hakomi Somatic Therapy lens allows guided self study and exploration with a focus on somatic and embodied mindfulness. In Hakomi we learn more about parts of ourselves that we may have denied, so that we can become more integrated with who we truly who we are. We can begin to explore new neural pathways as we explore new experiences within ourselves.
Module 1 • Rosemary
October 8, 6-8pm pacific time via Zoom
Remembrance and Reclamation of our True Essence, Intuitive Body and Menopause as Spiral of Nature, Body as Soul Mate
Module 2 • Yarrow
October 15, 6-8pm pacific time via Zoom
Deconstructing and Dismantling Beliefs and Internalized Systems, Rewriting Our Own Mythic Journey, Entering into the Second Half of Life
Module 3 • Chamomile
October 22, 6-8pm pacific time via Zoom
Coming into Right Relationship with Body, Self and the Greater World, What is our Souls Calling?
Module 4 • Lemon Balm
October 29, 6-8pm pacific time via Zoom
Unraveling, Honoring Love, Grief, and Rage the un-woken Dreams, Connecting to Inner Child
Module 5 • Mugwort
November 5, 6-8pm pacific time via Zoom
Death, Rebirth and Renewal, The Necessary Darkness Before Birth, Uncertainty and Being in the Mysterious Void
Module 6 • Rose
November 12, 6-8pm pacific time via Zoom
The Sacred Portal of Transformation, Alchemizing the Wound, Our own Unique Medicine and Magic
Module 7
November 15, In-person Ceremony in Sebastopol, CA
Ritual, Rite of Passage, Honoring our Journeys into this second half of life
Sign up by October 1 for this six-week online course in the transformative journey of menopause led by Shannon Knorr. Registration fee includes six online sessions, as well as six 1-oz herbal tinctures that will be used throughout the course.
*Those who attend this six-week online class can receive a $25 discount on the in-person gathering. We will send you a discount code for the in-person gathering when you sign up for the online class.
This in-person gathering will take place on November 15 in Sebastopol, California. Together we will gather for ceremonial ritual, rites of passage, and honoring our journeys into this second half of life.
*Those who attend the six-week online class can receive a $25 discount on the in-person gathering. We will send you a discount code for the in-person gathering when you sign up for the online class.
About Shannon Knorr
Shannon has been a somatic educator, movement, wellness coach and facilitator for twenty years. After helping people with chronic pain while healing from injuries and illness, she realized that teaching about functional movement was helpful, but the pain and postures of the body were just the symptoms of the underlying causes of many times unaddressed trauma with emotional and spiritual roots that need tending to.
Following her own roots back as she recovered from her own spiritual and health crisis and her journey with cancer, Shannon began uncovering deep underlying core beliefs as she explored her own intergenerational and personal traumas and began to rewrite the stories that she inherited.
Shannon believes in the innate wisdom of the body and that the body ultimately longs and knows how to heal itself. Reclaiming ourselves, our bodies and our belonging is the first step to healing. Shannon believes in this place of sensation, memory and flesh, here we meet what lies beneath, the depths of our beings, so that we can begin to unravel our conditioning while returning and coming home to self. Remembrance of who we truly are allows us to express, connect and relate from this deeper place of knowing.
Shannon graduated in 2023 with MA in Somatic Psychotherapy. She is a Hakomi Level 2 Graduate, has a BA in Dance/Movement Therapy, and a Tamalpa LifeART Level 2 Graduate.
Connect with Shannon:
www.tendingourwildroots.com
www.bodyrootandsoul.com
Instagram: @bodyrootandsoul
@tendingourwildroots
Email: sknorr@axismunditherapy.org