A Place For Embodiment & Creativity

 
 

Small Beyond is a relationships-led organisation. We facilitate practices, spaces and stories that encourage people to build embodied and creative relationships with themselves, their community and their environment.

We host retreats, courses, workshops and conversations that offer creative and embodied resources such as meditation, mindfulness, art therapy, poetry, yin yoga, dance and restorative movement. Each of our core members is mental health aware, trauma informed and guided by lived experience. 

 
 
 

Founder and co-director of Small Beyond, Shannon (pronouns: she/they), is a published author, artist and somatic therapist of Irish and French settler descent who currently lives and works on sovereign Kulin nation lands (Melbourne, Australia). They believe embodiment is a human right and their practice is person-centred and grounded in creativity, care and liberation. 

Shannon has trained in dance, creative writing, yoga, massage and somatic therapy and has been teaching for the past 10 years. Alongside their art practice, Shannon also works for a non-profit, trauma informed organisation called Collective Being whose aim is to provide free wellbeing practices to communities who don’t have access to mainstream resources and services. 

Shannon is interested in how creative and embodied practices can support our values and actions becoming aligned, building our ability to live from a place of empathy, purpose, joy and resilience.

 
 

Shannon has hosted creative and meditative workshops at galleries such as The National Gallery of Victoria as well as the MIECAT institution for theraputic arts.

They have been artists in residence at the VARDA houseboat residency in California, the Poccopocco residency in Oaxaca, Mexico and more recently at Desa Potato Head where they hosted workshops in 2022, 2023 and 2024 for the Merasa festival, curated by Erykah Badu.