SHANNON GALE has been named one of the Top 20 Inspiring Women to Watch Out for in 2025 by NY Weekly.
Gale is a professional dancer, holistic healer, forest school teacher, and award-winning author, but she spent decades suffering with a miserable, mysterious, invisible, chronic illness. Then in 2023, she made an astonishing discovery: the same flexibility that helped make her a beautiful ballet dancer was present not only in her joints but also in most of the other tissues in her body. It was responsible for seemingly unrelated symptoms in all of the systems in her body, and she soon found out that all of her flexible relatives and friends also shared some of these symptoms.
Gale set to work developing a protocol based on her holistic healing experience and backed up by the scientific literature. Within a handful of months, she had left her chronic illness behind. Her relatives and friends began experiencing improvements as well.
Gale is now active on Instagram and Facebook, raising awareness for hypermobility-related conditions and atheir treatment so that others do not have to suffer as long as she did and can begin their healing journeys right away.
Gale lives in Kentucky with her husband, son, and two dogs; she spends much of her time as a homemaker and homeschooling mom. She previously founded and directed the Vibrant Life holistic healing center, Gale Force Dance professional performance company, Frankfort School of Ballet dance studio for all genres of dance, Helpful Editor professional services, and Circle Play and Learn Academy forest school. When recording the audiobook for Hypermobile and Happy, she found that she enjoyed that work so much that she may delve into the profession of narration and voice over acting next.
Gale's hobbies include hiking and camping, cooking with local ingredients, picking fruit at local farms, reading both fiction and nonfiction, knitting and creating other kinds of crafts, playing the piano, and singing. She also has a love of silk clothes in the summer and cashmere in the winter. Her favorite pastime is playing board games with her family.
Gale has been published in numerous books, newspapers, and magazines. Hypermobile and Happy is her first standalone book, but she has many more planned.
Gale writes in honor of her late father, Steven H. Gale, a respected author of numerous titles and articles. She is currently editing a young adult novel her mother, Kathy Gale, has written about a girl with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome -- look for it to be released in 2025!
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