Beautiful that you’re here
Meet Shannon
Your Guide to Feeling Feminine
“I’ve channeled all of my energy into teaching hundreds of women my unique method, Glorious Woman Movement in classes, women’s circles and retreats. I have experienced the pure joy that arises in my clients as they reclaim their feminine energy. We laugh, cry, play and dance together knowing this is the true nature of the feminine.”
Shannon Alana Graf
Master Dance Teacher
Feminine Embodiment Leader
Contemporary Dance Artist & Choreographer
Founder of Glorious Woman Movement
Owner of Glorious Woman Vienna Studio (formerly Elfenbein Pole Dance) in Vienna, Austria since 2011
Artistic Coordinator of Kunst in der Natur (Art in Nature) in Lower Austria
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Dance & Dance Pedagogy
Teacher Trainings in Sheila Kelley’s S Factor® Los Angeles, Polebatics ® Pole Dance, Somatic Movement, Yoga and Personal Fitness Trainer.
Walking the Red Road medicine path in the Moondance Austria since 2018
I opened a pole dance studio in 2011, built up my team and ran a thriving business when it all came to a sudden halt…
My sensual journey
I was sitting on the floor at home, hoping to do some simple stretches for my body. I realised in that moment that I couldn't move. I couldn’t even get off the ground. I was so sore and numbed with pain that my body refused to do anything. My legs didn’t respond to take action to stand up. I felt completely helpless and scared for my future.
I was a 35 year old first - time mom who had just endured a c-section birth. My beautiful baby boy was sleeping and I wanted to take a moment to connect with myself. Instead I realised that the healthy woman I once was, was gone. I had gained so much weight and had no idea how to lose it. I had endured a traumatic birth and was only slowly finding a way back to my physical and mental health. It took over a year to feel even remotely like myself again. Even once I had superficially healed, I still didn’t recognise my body at all. I had zero sex drive. My love life consisted of giving because my body was too numb to receive. I felt frumpy and dumpy as a young mom.
Before my first pregnancy, my body felt like a Ferrari. She could do anything I asked of her. She radiated with strength and grace. After having my first child, she felt like an old station wagon. But I was not going to give up on myself.
I enrolled in a sensual dance course on a trip to Los Angeles, thinking I knew what to expect because I was already teaching pole dance at my own studio.
Oh was I in for a surprise! Even as a dancer, I had never experienced a dance class like this before. First of all the room was dark, with barely enough light to see the others. And there were no mirrors on the walls. There were poles, candles and a circle of women on mats on the floor.
The teacher sat in the middle and asked us to let our hair down and close our eyes. Sultry music played as her voice and body led us through a series of intuitive movement sequences that were challenging yet enticing. We were instructed to allow ourselves to feel any emotions that might arise. There was a sense of safety and I could let myself go in that class.
Afterwards I felt amazing. I was in a state of total body bliss that I hadn’t know before. Nothing I had ever experienced compared to the sense of health, beauty and empowerment that was flowing through my veins after that class. I had a huge smile on my face because I knew I had uncovered a piece of me that was always missing.
Afterwards, I experienced such an abandonment and fulfilment in my love life and soon my second child was on the way. I enjoyed every moment of that pregnancy, VBAC birth and postpartum as a long sensually infused lesson in divine feminine energy. I learned to love my body and her feminine expression. I loved being a mom even more.
It was became clear to me after going on my own sensual dance journey that it was my mission to teach other women how to embody their sensuality in this way.
What Glorious Woman Movement will do for you:
Give you a sense of coming home to your feminine body
Tone, strengthen and stretch your whole body
Awaken the playful desirable creativity residing in your womb space
Release the shame and disgust you’ve been conditioned to hold onto
Liberate your sensuality from other’s expectations to experience it solely for your own pleasure
Help you discover your unique feminine and erotic expression
Replace ego masks with real confidence and women’s empowerment
Make you magically magnetic for anything you desire - love, health or wealth