Meet Shannon
Shannon Piker is the founder of The Connection Co+Op. A light worker, facilitator + teacher devoted to helping others remember the healer that lives within. Her work bridges body + spirit through yoga, astrology, reiki, sound + ceremony, blending ancient practices with embodied presence.
Shannon has never been one for titles, but the journey has gathered a few. She’s an E-RYT 500+ with over 1000 hours of training + over 1200 hours teaching in the classroom. She is a YACEP-certified yoga teacher trainer, breathwork + meditation teacher, certified Rising Woman Astrologer, Women’s Guidance Facilitator, Community Healing Facilitator Trainer, Reiki Level II Practitioner, Sound Healer, lover of Tarot, + intuitive guide. Each certification marks another chapter in her devotion to learning how we heal, connect + come home to ourselves.
The Darkness That Became the Teacher
Shannon’s work was forged through her own traumatic life experiences. Inside the instability, addiction, violence + loss.
She grew up in an environment that no child should ever experience. She found herself without a home, moving often, living out of boxes + sleeping in borrowed rooms.
She watched her mother’s drug addiction go up in flames. She became a witness to unfathomable domestic violence + experienced abandonment by both parents. She witnessed so much hurt as a child + learned too early that love also meant danger. She lost her innocence + her childhood to neglect, abuse + addiction.
As the chaos + instability continued, the pain became too much. Food became a means of control; starvation became survival. By her teens, addiction took hold…she became a mirror of what she’d seen. Drugs given to her by the same hands that once held her as a baby.
Then came her abusive relationships, eating disorders + addiction/alcoholism that repeated the same patterns she witnessed growing up.
Through self recovery, she found herself rebuilding her life piece by piece + learning ways to reconnect to her trauma drenched body that she felt so distant from.
Transmutation through the Body
Healing began with breath.
Through yoga, meditation, EMDR, psychedelic therapy + the slow work of trauma repair, Shannon began to rebuild her inner foundation.
Yoga became her anchor.
Breathwork became her voice.
Astrology became her language for understanding cycles, patterns, + purpose.
What began as survival evolved into service.
Each modality she studied became a way to hold space for others walking the same bridge between fragmentation + wholeness.
From Fragmentation to Belonging
The Connection Co+Op was born in the wake of global + personal disconnection.
After relocating from Minnesota to Colorado during the pandemic, Shannon found herself unable to teach yoga + isolated from her community.
She was also being pulled between two vastly different worlds…raising two children while holding a demanding corporate leadership role in healthcare that left little room for her own spiritual connection.
The duality became too heavy. One life devoted to structure + survival, the other whispering for meaning.
Out of that tension, a vision emerged - a space to rebuild what had been lost, both within + around her.
The Connection Co+Op became that space. A community built where everyone belongs. Where talking deep is more important than the weather. Where embodiment, vulnerability + connection could become medicine for a world that is so isolated, attached to screens, + still learning how to heal as a collective.
Alchemizing the Soul
Shannon’s teaching approach integrates trauma-informed somatic practices with esoteric spiritual practices.
She weaves yoga, astrology, reiki, breathwork, sound + ceremony into offerings that help people feel safe in their bodies again. Her goal is to teach people how to feel safe in their bodies again + reawaken the connection to something larger than themselves
She doesn’t heal others; she teaches them their own power.
Through presence, breath + community, she mirrors the way back until each person remembers the language of their own soul.
The Healer Has Always Been Within
True healing is not found in transcendence or bypassing but presence. By witnessing your experience + riding the flow of the ups + downs of life’s journey.
Every wound carries a map, every scar a story, every silence a doorway back to self.
The Connection Co+Op is both a sacred space + a movement. It’s a call to rebuild connection within ourselves + between one another. A framework where you can rely on community for support.
Through the body, we remember.
Through breath, we return.
Through re+connection, we rise.