Shawn Radcliffe

About

I’m a trauma-trained somatic practitioner, yoga teacher, and writer, with over 15 years of experience. Originally from New Hampshire—where I spent much of my childhood and adolescence wandering in the mountains—I now call Canada my home.

My somatic journey has taken me from guiding outdoor yoga classes on the top of a hill in Portland, Oregon, to leading yoga sessions and mindfulness hikes in rural southwestern Ontario, Canada, to using somatic work to help people live more fully, whatever that means for them. This is the same type of somatic work that enabled me to heal from decades of anxiety and depression, and later, panic attacks.

About Shawn

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When I signed up for somatic practitioner training, after doing my own somatic therapy for over a year, I told my classmates that I was doing this work so I could become more human. I wanted to feel everything more deeply—whether it is joy, grief, anger, or awe—without shutting down or getting swept away. And I wanted to shift the unconscious patterns that kept me stuck for so long.

As a somatic practitioner, I want to support you to do the same, by guiding you to access the wisdom of your own body. At your own pace. This work isn’t about feeling calm all the time or trying to push away overwhelm. It is about building greater awareness and capacity to hold what comes up, and having a flexible nervous system that allows you to ride the waves of life with ease.

My mission

Access Your Body's Wisdom

Somatic work uses the mind-body connection to address tension, stress, and trauma. Body-based techniques like breathwork, mindfulness, and various movements help release emotional and physical blockages in the body. My approach is influenced by yoga philosophy, with a generous dose of soul-inspiration from nature.

I take a mind, body, and soul approach to transformation, one that is grounded in the science of somatic work, nervous system regulation, and psychology. This work is done gently and slowly, rather than by pushing through the overwhelm or aiming for large, cathartic responses.