What is Shadow Work?

Shadow work is the process of meeting the parts of you that you have avoided, rejected, or buried.

The parts shaped by shame, conditioning, and past experience. The patterns that sit in the unconscious and quietly run your life in the background.

The fears you cannot explain.

The reactions that feel bigger than the moment.

The blocks you keep hitting no matter how much “work” you do.

This is the shadow.

Until you meet these parts, they lead. They shape your relationships, your decisions, your capacity to hold what you say you want.

Shadow work brings those patterns into awareness.

It gives you clarity. It gives you choice.

You stop reacting from old programming and start responding from who you are now.

This is where alignment begins.

Not as an idea. Not as a concept.

As a lived experience.

MEET YOUR MENTOR

SHANNON VALLANCE

I didn’t arrive here through one path.

I built this through decades of being in the room with people. In business. In leadership. In the quiet, messy, unspoken places most people avoid.

For close to 20 years I worked in senior management, leading teams, working with people at every level. And no matter the role, I always ended up in the same place.

In the shadows.

The real conversations. The breakdowns behind closed doors. The patterns no one wanted to name.

That wasn’t training.

That was instinct.

What came next was training.

WE ARE HERE TO BUILD NEW WAYS

Across your personal life, your work, your relationships. Because the way you show up anywhere comes from the same place.

Between sessions, the container stays open.

You have access to me on WhatsApp as needed, so you are supported in real time.

This space is radically inclusive. All genders. LGBTQIA+. Neurodivergent humans.

All cultural and spiritual backgrounds.

You do not need to fit into anything to be met here. This is client led. Personalised.

Responsive to what is real for you. We move between unconscious work, energetic clearing, grounded integration, and direct truth.

I work online, so you come as you are. No fluff. No bypassing.

You leave with clarity. Movement. A deeper understanding of who you are and how you want to live. And the capacity to hold it.

SHADOW AND FIRE

She is not the villain. She is the life force.


This is the first space where you get structured, reliable, weekly access to me. Not here and there. Not only when I have the bandwidth.

For years people have been asking for more regular support. Shadow and Fire is the answer to all of that

1:1 Mentoring

These aren’t holidays. They’re initiations.
Seven-day sacred containers where shadow work meets cultural reverence. Held in powerful locations across the world, each retreat blends ceremony, deep inner work, and cultural immersion—honoring the land, its ancestors, and your truth. Rest. Rise. Remember who you are.

Therapy Sessions


A Shadow Work Session is an initiation into the hidden self. Across each session we move through layers of talk therapy and energetic work to access the parts of you that have been buried or denied.

Wednesdays 10am-1pm-7pm

Thursdays 8am-11am 5pm, Friday 8am-11am 5pm

RETREATS

Global Locations


You’ll walk alongside the dark goddesses and the Ancient Mother as we move through shadow, ceremony, and celebration of the land.

shadow work

SHADOW AND FIRE

1:1 Mentoring

RETREATS

She is not the villain. She is the life force.

This is the first space where you get structured, reliable, weekly access to me. Not here and there. Not only when I have the bandwidth.

For years people have been asking for more regular support. Shadow and Fire is the answer to all of that

Mentor Sessions

A Shadow Work Session is an invite into the hidden self. Across each session we move through layers of talk therapy and energetic work to access the parts of you that have been buried or denied.

Global Locations

You’ll walk alongside the dark goddesses and the Ancient Mother as we move through shadow, ceremony, and celebration of the land.

TESTIMONIALS