Shannon Louise Dailey

Shannon Louise Dailey was born March 31, 1966 and transitioned December 7, 2023. Born in Portland, Oregon, her family moved to Fiji when she was four where she lived and attended the public and international schools until her senior year in high school. She always considered the multi-cultural and tropical island her home. The youngest of five siblings, she solely moved with her parents to Hawaii before attending Reed College in Portland. There she focused on theater and met her former husband Gordon Dahlquist, a playwright and author. The two moved to New York City after college where they shared a full life with friends, many connected to the arts. She herself studied and performed in Shakespearean theater which was a passion. Her interests turned toward healing and development, and she become a massage therapist. She then attended and graduated The Swedish Institute of Health Sciences where she later taught Shiatsu, Craniosacral Therapy and Professional Development. She established a successful massage practice in NYC, but her world changed and opened significantly upon studying Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy in 1999. Her focus and intentions reset. She established a thriving cranial practice in New York City lasting over twenty years. Always expanding her therapeutic skills and perceptual awareness, she studied with and assisted some of the preeminent teachers in the field of alternative somatic therapies. Clara Favale, Christina Morrow and she under the tutelage of Franklyn Sills , who referred to Shannon as a natural teacher, established a biodynamic school in New York City, where she became a beloved and inspirational teacher. In 2005 her husband Gordon and she parted. She partnered with Tom Bertels, who shared her contemporary interests. Also a somatic therapist, they shared a life of 18 years of learning in the fields of birth and early childhood developmental therapy, Somatic Experiencing trauma healing and Realization Process, an embodiment meditational practice and therapy. Accepting and valuing all religious traditions and insights they studied with teachers from different traditions and went on pilgrimage to both India and Tibet. They lived many years in Brooklyn and had a home in Hudson for twelve, where they fully resided for the last three. She was an avid reader and philatelist since childhood. She loved the classics as well as modern literature. Dickens, Austin, Melville, Tolstoy were her intimates and were almost as close to her as her beloved cats Lacey and Lilly. She is predeceased by her father William K. Dailey and survived by her family with whom she travelled and celebrated: her husband Tom Bertels, her mother Joan K Dailey, her maternal Uncle Bill and Aunt Bonnie, her siblings Will, John, Kathleen and Theresa, their spouses (Kristin, Rosemary, Joffray, and Paul), nephews (Stephen, Sean, Jack, Joe, Mark, Alex and Paul) and nieces (Allison and Catherine) and five grand nieces and nephews. Visitation hours at the Bates & Anderson-Redmond & Keeler Funeral Home are Wednesday December 13, from 4:00-8:00pm and Thursday December 14 from 10:30am-1:30pm. Following visitation hours, A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Thursday at 2:00pm from Holy Trinity St. Mary's Parish, East Allen St. in Hudson, NY. Donations in her name may be given to the Stephanie Abrasion Fund to support People of the Global Majority who are students and practitioners learning BCST and sharing work in their communities. https://bcta.memberclicks.net/contribution-abramson-fund Or To environmental causes which were also at the forefront of her concerns https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/12/2/20976180/climate- change-best-charities-effective-philanthropy Or To the charity of your choice

Shannon Louise Dailey

March 31, 1966 - December 7, 2023

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March 31, 1966 - December 7, 2023

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