Light Body Yoga || Biography for Shannon Port, Yoga Teacher and Writer.

The work of Light Body Yoga™ and Light Body Dance™ is a celebration. It is a celebration of our magnificent nature. We are beautiful, powerful, beings. We are here to discover how loving and creative and capable we are. We are here to awaken to a new level of love and understanding of ourselves and of one another. We are here to discover our personal power and responsibility. This is an amazing journey we have embarked on. We are all peacemakers when we breathe consciously and listen to the voice within our Heart. I thank my husband Michael and my son Jacob and the many awakened teachers and friends on my path for showing me that I am capable of so much. You teach me that I am love.

I have been a student of yoga and metaphysics and the performing arts including theatre and dance, for most of my life. From the time I was a very small child I was drawn to the mystical. As a little girl I wanted to know everything there was to know about God and power, war and peace, and hunger and love. I especially felt drawn to uncover the mystery of my own body and Soul. I always felt there was a link to the unseen world and Heaven through my body. I enjoyed singing and dancing and finding prayer in my body and voice. I enjoyed whispering loving thoughts into the hearts of strangers walking by. I somehow knew that they heard me. After many years of studying the body, through acting training, dance and yoga, I realized that we have access to our higher consciousness and power through our physical being. I realized that we have been given the gift of a body to uncover the mysteries of our Soul. Our body, breath and voice is totally creative. We can train our bodies with love and conscious intention to connect to our inner guidance as well as the higher realms of consciousness.

Today I teach people how to be present in mind, body, breath and voice to receive their Soul’s full light; to honor the fact that we are beautiful spiritual beings having a magical human experience. It is truly the work of a lifetime!

Love from friends and students.

"This work allows you to feel your divinity. Shannon holds the space for her students to go deep within and discover their truest identity. She sees your individual light and holds it up to you like a beautiful flame."

~Jenee Halstead, Recording Artist, Singer, Songwriter/ Boston

"Shannon's Light Body Yoga draws on the power of your soul. She helps me tap into exactly what I am here to do with a fearless sense of adventure and unwavering confidence."

~Sylvie Souchon, Singer/ Paris, France

"Her way is so limitless and pure. If there is something you are wanting/seeking out of life and are open to finding it in a physical mental and spiritual way, you must work with her. Shannon will guide you to this powerful discovery. I feel more alive than ever through this work."

~Clare Mooney, Artist, Potter/ NYC

"Honestly, this work translates to how I work, live and move through my life. When I need a lift or veer away from my path, I return to focus on the work I have done with Shannon Port and it helps me find my way back. The physical work unleashes an innate power and helps make manifest everything I am here to do...in a very big way."

~Alex Dawson, Actress/ LA

"Shannon is truly a gifted woman with a finely tuned power of intuition and a clear vision of beauty and light in the world. She has inspired me to have a sense of spiritual integrity, and to step into my own light. She shines in her example, with compassion, truthfulness, support, and love. Oh, and that amazing sense of humor and contagious laugh is so fun to be around!"

~Stefanie Johnson, Actress/ NYC

"Shannon Port is a special light that has come down to this earth to teach us some very special things. Shannon has a unique way of combining her talents and passions with her delicate intuition to create a space for the creative force to anchor in and work with her and her students to unleash their unlimited potential. When you are in her presence, you will know that the magic is all around her."

~Leila Astarabadi, Friend and Mystical Ally/ NYC

“In the time I have been studying with Shannon Port I have experienced a profound physical and spiritual transformation. Shannon is a truly gifted teacher who inspires her students on many levels.”

~Ivan Shaw, Photo Director, Vogue/ NYC

"Shannon is the only Yoga teacher I know who so powerfully and gracefully integrates ALL the spiritual and physical sides of Yoga. She will take your breath away when she walks into class, but you will quickly catch it back as you start your fabulous journey with her."

~Amy Drabek, School Teacher/ NYC

“Shannon Port is a classic beauty on the inside as well as the out, with style, grace and SOUL, wrapped in a rockin' twenty-first century body. I leave her Light Body Yoga class inspired to the Heavens.”

~Laurie Sanderson, Actress/Writer, Dottie Hope/ New York

“Shannon is not only drop dead gorgeous, she is an inspiring, motivating and a truly gifted yoga teacher. I met Shannon in class in NYC almost 7 years ago. Her students in NYC are still singing her praises.”

~Lauren Gott, Makeup Artist/ NYC

"I love Shannon's Light Body Yoga class because it comes right from her wonderfully warm heart. She gives great attention to the real details of yoga so often forgotten in other yoga classes."

~Anne-Sophie Rodriguez, Professional Ballet Dancer, Boston Ballet and Ballet NY

“Shannon Port is a talented, dynamic, passionate, and outrageously fun woman. Her energy radiates and so powerfully infuses her teaching to inspire us all!”

~Jodi B Komitor, founder Next Generation Yoga/ NYC

"Vivacious, charismatic, beautiful and gracious, like a gazelle, Shannon Port rejuvenates your soul & body like no one ever will!!!”

~Dana Moyal Kolevzon, Producer and Mom, Nepa~Laya Productions/ NYC-Israel

“Shannon Port is an amazing teacher who guides a powerful physical yoga practice while inviting students to experience their mind and soul dimensions through yoga. Her voice and presence helps create the intention and atmosphere of class, and I can’t count how many times she has articulated refinements to my physical, mental and spiritual alignment that other teachers were unable to communicate to me so effectively.”

~Allison Bush, Wall Street Headhunter turned Fiber Artist/ Connecticut

"Shannon Port has taught me so much more than yoga. Her attitude and her acceptance of others, the way they are, is both inspiring and humbling. The work I've done with her is fulfilling, and has given me a whole new openness and flexibility in my mind and body. Being in Shannon's presence is a complete joy."

~Kathy Green, Literary Agent, Kathryn Green Literary Agency/ NYC