About Anna

My work grew from lived experience — of inhabiting a sensitive, adaptive body, navigating rupture and repair, and learning how much the body holds long before the mind has language.

Over time, I trained in somatic bodywork, trauma-informed yoga, nervous system education, energy work, and ritual-based practice. What mattered most wasn’t learning more techniques — it was learning how to listen.

I don’t approach the body as something to fix.
I approach it as something to be in relationship with.

How I Understand the Body

Rather than working with isolated symptoms or parts, I work with the whole system — physical, emotional, energetic, and relational.

A foundational aspect of my work is guided interoception: supporting people in sensing their internal landscape so they can develop trust in their body’s signals, timing, and capacity.

Sometimes this looks like movement.
Sometimes stillness.
Sometimes touch, ritual, breath, or quiet presence.

The form may change, but the listening stays the same.

Education & Clinical Foundations

My background includes trauma-informed bodywork, somatic movement and yoga, nervous system education, energy work, and ritual facilitation. I am currently grounding my twenty-year legacy in the healing arts within the rigorous standards of Clinical Nursing. This allows me to bridge the gap between ancient somatic wisdom and modern medical science.

Somatic & Nervous System Studies

  • Unergi Body-Psychotherapy: 1-year intensive apprenticeship with Ute Arnold; 2012-2013.

  • The Trauma-Conscious Yoga Method℠: Certified through the Trauma-Conscious Yoga Institute; 2020.

  • TraumaWise Yoga (200-hr): Trained by Stephanie Pappas in the lineage of Ravi Shankar and Dr. Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing); 2019-2020.

  • Specialized Trauma Training: Transcending Trauma through Yoga with Zabie Yamasaki, and Yoga for Trauma with Dr. Nathalie Edmond; 2019.

  • Psoas Foundations: Advanced studies in the "Muscle of the Soul" with Liz Koch; 2020.

Clinical Bodywork & Holistic Massage (Est. 2006)

  • 710-hr Holistic Massage Therapy Certificate: Health Choices Holistic Institute; 2005-2006.

  • Specialized Clinical Touch: Trained in Massage for the Medically Frail & Hospice (Sage Education; 2012) and Infant Massage (Infant Massage USA); 2014.

  • Technique Mastery: Ohashiatsu, Zen Shiatsu, Polarity Therapy, Trager Approach, Neuromuscular Therapy, Prenatal, and Reflexology.

Energy Medicine & Ritual Facilitation

  • Usui Reiki Level 1, 2, Master/Teacher: Initiated by Murielle Wesch; 2010-2012.

  • Shamballa Multidimensional Healing Practitioner: Initiated by LeeAnne Englert, LPC; 2013

  • Shamanic Healing Practitioner: Three years of intensive study through the Church of Earth Healing; 2019-2022.

  • Indigenous Perspectives: Walking In Balance with the Visioning B.E.A.R. Circle Intertribal Coalition; 2021.