Category: Yoga

JOIN ME AT RANCHO LA PUERTA

Join me at Rancho La Puerta October 23 – November 6 for Fundamentals of Yoga, Restorative Yoga, Hiking, Meditation, Inner Journey Guided Meditation, The Sound Journey and Labyrinth Walks.

Rancho La Puerta was just named Travel+Leisure’s #1 Spa and Resort in the world again.

Rancho La Puerta’s 4,000 acres include 40 miles of hiking trails, 32 acres of beautifully landscaped gardens, an organic farm, and La Cocina Que Canta cooking school.

There are four health and beauty centers where you will enjoy balanced mind/body/spirit experiences for the week, each staffed by skilled estheticians and therapists.

The Ranch activities will challenge your body in fitness classes. You will trek majestic mountain trails. You will learn the latest in health, psychology, science, culture and cuisine.

You will dwell in beauty and privacy in one of The Ranch’s 86 casitas tucked away in luxuriant grounds. Each casita has a distinct personality and architectural flair.

Please visit rancholapuerta.com to learn more and book your stay.

JOIN ME AT RANCHO LA PUERTA

RANCHO LA PUERTA

#1 International Destination Spa in Travel + Leisure’s World’s Best Awards many years in a row.

I will be a Guest Teacher September 4-17

I will be teaching a variety of drop-in classes including Yoga, Breath work, Meditation, Deep Relaxation, Chanting, Sound Healing and other Health and Wellness practices as well as leading hikes in the sacred mountains.

Please visit www.rancholapuerta.com to book your stay.

JOIN ME AT THE ESALEN INSTITUTE

THE ESALEN INSTITUTE

Every month since 2010 I have taught at The Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA.

Upcoming dates: I will be a Teacher In Residence during May, June and August 2021.

The dates I will be teaching are:

May 3-6 / May 10-14 / May 17-20 / May 24-27 /

June 4-6 /June 11-13 / June 18-20 / June 25-27

July 30 – August 1

August 18, 20-22, 25

I will be teaching Yoga, Breathwork , Meditation, Deep Relaxation and other Health and Wellness practices incorporating Life Coaching as part of the classes open to everyone at Esalen.

Please visit www.esalen.org to book A Time To Reflect, The Rituals of Esalen or a workshop.

VIBRATION TRANSFORMATION

Join me for Vibration Transformation

If you feel you need to jump start or take a deep dive into the heart of Self Love, which is the Source of loving, leading and serving others, I invite you to join me for this powerful and life changing 8 week course.

It starts March 3 and will happen live on Zoom every Wednesday from 5-6pm PST until March 28.

In Vibration Transformation you will cultivate the daily Self Love, Self Care and Self Worth Practices of Nutrition, Movement, Breath work, Meditation, Physical Cleansing, Mental+Emotional Management, Affirmations+Prayers and Rest+Relaxation+Sleeping and learn the lifelong skills of positively transforming the vibration of your Body, Mind, Heart, Soul and Spirit.

You have to transform yourself to truly help others transform.

Visit here to learn all about it.

THE CLEANSE

THE CLEANSE

A CLEANSE for your body, mind, heart, Soul and Spirit

Sunday, March 29 – Sunday, April 5

SPECIAL EQUINOX EARLY BIRD PRICE extended until Sunday, March 29 to support everyone who is going through financial challenges right now – $125 REGISTER HERE

After March 29 – $150 REGISTER HERE

Please contact me directly if you are interested in being privately guided one on one on THE CLEANSE via live ZOOM video sessions.

HEALTH IS YOUR GREATEST WEALTH

Now more than ever, your health, wellness and immunity physically, mentally, emotionally, as a Soul and Spirit and in your relationships with people, places and things is vitally important.

When your overall immunity is strong, you will stay healthy.

Health and Wellness is the most important part of your life because without it your baseline is not stable and any and all expansion is not healthy and sustainable.

Now is the ideal time to focus on your baseline health and wellness with a deep CLEANSE.

During this transformational week you will clear and cleanse physical, mental and emotional stress, tension, toxins and impurities and jump start and stabilize your foundational self-love and self-care lifestyle program so that you can experience on-going sustainable health, wellness and a strong immune system in all ways.

I have been facilitating THE CLEANSE for hundreds of students and clients for the past 10+ years and it is my honor to love and support you

THE CLEANSE is for you if:

*You feel or know that your immune system is weak

*You feel fear about getting sick

*You feel stress, tension and heavy energy physically, mentally and emotionally

*You are overly indulging in or are addicted to sugar/wheat/meat/dairy/alcohol/caffeine and are using these foods and drinks to “deal” with stress

*You are overweight

*You are out of shape

*You are feeling toxic

*You feel sick, tired and depleted

*You are holding onto emotional grudges, hurts, sadness and resentments

*You are thinking/feeling/speaking/acting negatively

*You are feeling physical/mental/emotional stress and tension

THE CLEANSE is for you if:

*You want to feel more Alive, Awake and glowing with Life Force Energy

*You want to feel more Youthful, Healthy and greater wellness

*You want to feel more Energized and Revitalized

*You want to feel more Calm, Confident and Present

*You want to feel more Loving, Compassionate and Connected

*You want to feel more Clean, Clear and Radiant

*You want to feel more Energized, Centered and Focused

*You want to feel Renewed, Refreshed and Revitalized

*You want to feel Inspired, Enthusiastic and Uplifted

*You want to feel more connected to yourself as a Soul and Spirit

*You want to feel more connected to Source/God/Great Spirit/Creator of your personal understanding

THE CLEANSE includes:

*An introductory email including the 40 minute Vibration Transformation Daily Practice Video for you to practice daily and clear instructions and guidelines for how to prepare for THE CLEANSE

*A 40 minute Vibration Transformation Daily Practice Video including: Guided Meditation, Breath Work, Emotional Cleansing, Yin and Flow Yoga and Deep Relaxation for you to practice every day during THE CLEANSE

*Live Stream class on ZOOM Sunday, March 29 from 10am-11pm PST to help you prepare for THE CLEANSE

*Live Stream Q+A on ZOOM Wednesday, April 1 from 10am-11pm PST – You will email me your questions 24 hours before the call and I will answer all of them

*45 minute videos sent to your inbox daily with in depth information and practices about THE CLEANSE daily health and wellness foundations including:

– Nutrition

– Movement

– Breath Work

– Meditation

– Emotional Cleansing

– Physical Cleansing

– Rest, Relaxation and Sleeping

*Membership to THE CLEANSE private group on FaceBook to stay connected with all of the beautiful people joining us for THE CLEANSE who share your commitment to living life rooted in self-love and self-care.

*Additional one hour one on one private coaching sessions during THE CLEANSE at 15% off the normal rate

*I will give you several nutrition paths to follow for your individual needs.

*No food, juice or other supplies are provided.
In this way you will get into the groove of choosing the specific foods and juices that are best for you and prepare it yourself so that it is infused with your own mojo & LOVE.
By eating locally grown foods (if possible) you will be eating foods imbued with the super good vibes of the place you live. And, when possible, you will build positive community relationships with the salt of the Earth folks who graciously grow the food that you are eating & drinking & know exactly where your food came from, how it was grown & whose energy cultivated it.
Or…you can explore and build relationships with the health establishments in your town/city whose mission is to provide you with high vibration nutrition & support them in their mission as they support you on your cleanse.

By the end of this powerful week you will have created a personal foundational self-love and self-care lifestyle plan that you can practice daily continuously and return to forever whenever you feel off track.

This transformational week will give you sustainable roots of support from which you can grow and cultivate your healthiest and highest potential.

I love Health+Wellness and radiant living.
I have over 30 years years and over 35,000 hours experience as a Health+Wellness Teacher+Practitioner, Life+Lifestyle Coach+Consultant.

I am devoted to supporting you in creating a lifestyle based in radical self-love and self-care.

Testimonials:

Before THE CLEANSE I was feeling very toxic in my body due to poor food choices, too much sugar and alcohol. I had some major life changes the months leading up to THE CLEANSE so for me it was time for a reboot. After THE CLEANSE, I feel amazing! I have lost 6 pounds and am eating a yummy plant based diet. I am feeling more clarity and a lightness in my body and Spirit. I am so grateful to have met Anne and her amount of knowledge, support and guidance is unparalleled as a Life Coach and teacher. So happy for this time together in THE CLEANSE! ~BD, Santa Barbara

Before THE CLEANSE I was feeling very scattered. After THE CLEANSE I am feeling peaceful, grounded and connected to my higher self. I am grateful for sharing this time with Anne. I appreciate her wisdom and presence. She embodies all that she teachers. She walks her talk and talks her walk. I appreciate her beautiful heart, her wisdom and her integrity. ~Heather, Santa Barbara

Before THE CLEANSE, I was feeling heaviness and overall negativity. After THE CLEANSE, I feel lighter and more loving. I am grateful for Anne and her insight, knowledge and delivery of the most fundamentally basic info that we were all born with but have forgotten that we know. ~Amy, Santa Barbara

I love this particular cleanse because Anne empowers us to listen to our own inner guidance system and emphasizes that one way is not the best way for all. She creates a nurturing and safe space for us to come more into alignment with our own most radiant selves. ~Lisa Beck, Santa Barbara

Life is challenging. Sometimes I can become so overwhelmed with responsibilities, stress and environmental stimulants that I become frozen, dull and stagnant. THE CLEANSE is a key to detoxifying all the yuck and allowing myself to open up to all the beauty and creativity that lives inside myself. It’s like filling up the gas tank so I can go the extra mile. ~Kathy Kelley, Santa Barbara

My week long cleanse with Anne was delightful from start to finish. I love working in a group setting supported by people on this journey to shed and shift and live in a net and healthier way. Having Anne’s thorough knowledge filled with humor and loving support is just what I needed. Thank you Anne. I love you. ~Nicola Ghersen, Santa Barbara

Anne is a very gifted and knowledgeable teacher who embodies living authentically by tuning into and getting clear about how to create small shifts that lead to big changes. Se is able to effectively communicate and share her powerful tools for living high vibrational lifestyle in all areas of your life. I will definitely continue to apply these gifts with myself and with my students and clients. ~Melanee Cooper, Owner of Healthy Zen in Santa Barbara

Life is an amazing journey of being tapped in, alive, present and forever learning and growing. Anne’s week and her Lifestyle program and cleansing way of life awakens people to their highest potential. It opens us up to receive messages which relate in a harmonious walk on our Planet Earth. Having a space and class that downloads meditation, yoga, nutritional, emotional and spiritual guidance is an amazing gift to anyone who has the pleasure to be a part of Anne’s trainings, retreats of cleanses. Feeling grateful! ~Luisa Hyatt, Santa Barbara

I wish everyone would take the opportunity to spend at least a week learning from Anne. This week truly has been emotionally, physically, and mentally transformational for me. I feel so fortunate, so alive, and, especially, so grateful. ~Gabriela, Santa Barbara

THE REASON Interview with Susan Nichols

I am SO excited to share my latest interview for THE REASON, my collection of interviews with big hearted visionaries, leaders, teachers and healers about THE REASONS why they feel how they feel, love like they love and serve how they serve.

Susan Nichols is one of my dearest friends and greatest inspirations on the planet.
I love and appreciate her with my whole heart.
She shows us all how to vision a dream and create it with inspired devotion.
If you practice Yoga then you have probably used one of her inventions.
She is the inventor and creator of the Skidless Towel, the microfibre towel with silicon nubs that you place over your Yoga mat so that you don’t slip while you practice Yoga.
Her first company was the Yoga brand Yogi Toes which she sold 2 years ago.
If it were not for her clear Vision, her crystalline Mission and Purpose and her core Values, she might have let some of life’s challenges stop her from creating her Vision.
But she stayed in alignment with her highest potential and has manifested some incredible creations that the world deeply needs.
Her new creation is called New Hippie, a living brand that is raising the consciousness of the planet and it is so exciting and uplifting to watch her gifts continuously unfold.
It was my great honor and pleasure to interview her about living in alignment with your Purpose+Values+Message+Vision.
Check out the interview HERE
Follow her @newhippieliving
My vision for you is that this interview helps you get clear about THE REASONS that motivate you in your life and that it supports you in conjuring up greater COURAGE to openly and vulnerably share THE REASONS that inspire you to live in alignment with your Purpose, Values, Message and Vision with those you love and serve.
If you like it, then like it, love it, comment on it share it with those you love and serve and take some time to ask yourself these powerful questions about THE REASON why you do what you do and feel how you feel.
REMEMBER, THE REASON REVEALS THE WAY.

TRUE YOGA

This perfectly describes how after teaching Yoga for 15,000 hours over the course of 19 years to thousands of people it became crystal clear to me that Yoga is not a practice that you simply do on a mat for 90 minutes a day.

True Yoga is a way of life where your intention is to live every moment in alignment with your purpose, values and big vision.
True Yoga is the path of incredibly conscious choices with your thoughts, words and deeds and in your relationships with all people, places and things so that as much as possible everything that you are choosing to be involved with is a resonant match for who you are and why you are here.
True Yoga is a practice that truly enhances your existence and assists you in becoming and embodying your highest potential.

It is this realization that inspired me to create Vibration Transformation, a lifestyle program for Heart centered Visionaries, Leaders and Teachers so that there is a clear multi-dimensional Yogic based path that helps you raise your vibration on all levels, planes and dimensions of your life so that everything matches your mission, message and vision.

Countless blessings to us all on our magical journeys of LOVELIGHTBLISS.

Yogi Lizard

One of the highlights of my day was finding this lil guy while on a bike ride.

He was about 2 feet long and soul gazed with me for a few minutes.

Most lizards are masters of Chatarunga, the Yoga pose that looks like a push up.

But as you can see, this lizard Yogi is doing a different pose called Reverse Namaste with his front legs.

Have you ever seen a lizard do such a thing?
I have met many a lizard in my day and this was a first.

The full pose is bringing both of your hands completely together behind your back.

It’s a very advanced pose for a lot of people because it requires major flexibility.

This guy is still working on it like many Yogis are.

I was impressed to meet a lizard who had the courage to try something new and felt extra honored that he he was flowing the Spirit of Namaste to me…in his own special Yogi lizard kind of way.

And now that I really feel into him and his message for me, it was:

Send Namaste blessings to the past and everything that is behind me.

I sure am happy that he took a break from his countless push-ups to send me this age old timeless lesson that I continue to practice daily.

Some people stop and smell the roses to remember the important things in life.

Today I remembered what is truly important by stopping and soul gazing with the Lizard Yogi.

Diamond Tribe

you are a rare diamond
beautiful like a goddess and pure like an angel
trust yourself and
surround yourself with the goodness

we manifest with love
we breathe in the power of magical dreams
we create to inspire
we always love the mother

messages from the label on my yoga pants made in california from recycled plastic bottles

Divine Beloved

Thank you Great Spirit for manifesting Beloved LOVE everywhere I am and everywhere I go.
Thank you for showing me over and over again that my original blueprint, my deepest Soul’s desire and my true destiny is Beloved LOVE.
I am so grateful to be continually blessed by the high frequency of LOVE and I am deeply devoted to continuously clear the blocks to Love within me so that I can continually receive the great power of LOVE in my life.

On the plane to NYC yesterday I sat across the aisle from an amazing man who I had the most profound connection with.
He is a world renowned stage designer for plays, musicals and operas.
One of his best friends is one of my life long favorite musicians.

I was reading THE CHARGE by Brendon Burchard and he asked, “What’s that book about?” and I told him that it is about Activating the 10 Human Drives that make you feel alive.
He asked, “What inspired him to write that book?”
I told him that Brendon was in a terrible car crash and that as he stood bleeding atop the crumpled hood of his wrecked car he asked himself:
Did I live full on?
Did I love with my whole Heart?
Did I matter?
He realized that the core reason that we exist is to live a fully charged life, to give Love with the entirety of our Hearts and to truly making a positive contribution to the planet and that this is all that truly matters.

At this point my new friend said that he had something very intimate to share with me.
He told me that his wife of 30 years was dying and that soon she would dead.
He said that this was his last trip before she makes her transition.
He told me that he always thought that he would be the first to go.
He told me that he never realized how deeply he loved her until he realized that she was going to die.
He told me how deeply he is going to miss her.
With tears in his eyes he said that he had never been so vulnerable with another human being than he was being with me.
He said that it is very challenging as a man to be this vulnerable with a woman because men are so conditioned to be strong and not show their weakness and show how deeply they love and feel.
He thanked me and told me how much lighter his Heart felt.
And I told him that my Heart deeply needed to hear everything that he was telling me.

It turns out that we both lived on Jane Street in the West Village of New York City at the same time.
I lived at 43 Jane Street and he lived at 101 Jane Street.
He also told me that the sweet Lovers John Lennon and Yoko Ono lived on Jane Street right across the street from us years before we had both lived there.

When the steward came to tell me and my Soul sister Susan that the Captain was treating us to anything we wanted, we ordered champagne just for kicks and giggles.
My new friend said to the steward, “Could you just pretend that I am a very beautiful woman too and that the Captain is sending me complimentary champagne too?”
His wish was granted and we 3 toasted to living a fully charged life, giving our Love full on and making a positive contribution to the planet.
And we also toasted to his beautiful wife and their incredible Love.

And then, just to make sure that I know in the core of my being that I am on the right path…that I am fully aligned with the most powerful force in The Universe…Divine Love…life bestowed more magic and wonder upon us.

We made our way from Times Square down to the Flatiron District for dinner at ABC Kitchen where our taste buds became whirling dervishes in love with every sensual bite of the love infused food.

As we walked into the restaurant there was a window display of the divine Lovers Shiva, his wife Parvati and their son Ganesha, the remover of obstacles.

The woman who took us to our table was named “Nandi”.
Nandi is the gate keeper for Shiva and Parvati.
You cannot access the high vibrational Divine Love between Shiva and Parvati without Nandi’s assistance.

Apparently, we were granted access to the realm of Supreme Divine Love.

As we sat down…

On one side we were sitting next to a couple who recently got engaged on Kauai and we all talked about Love and marriage and weddings.

On our other side we were sitting next to a couple who were passionately making out in between bites during their entire meal. It was hot.

And then, just to make sure that I was getting the mega message of Divine Love, my long time friends and teachers and long time husband/wife/loves/Yogi Yogini dream team who I have not seen forever Ty and Sarah Powers synchronistically walked into the restaurant to visit their beautiful daughter Imani who I have known since she was a child.
Imani works at the restaurant and told us about her great Beloved.

And this morning I discovered that 2 of my dearest dear hearts Peter and Peiter whose marriage I officiated on Kauai and are 2 of the greatest fearless radical Lovers that I know are here in NYC too staying right down the street from us in Times Square.

So life…thank you!

Thank you for sending me all of these amazing reflections of the Divine Love that I am.

I will continue to choose the highest vibrational frequency of Divine Beloved Love over and over and over again because it is the only way to fly.

Love is the greatest evolutionary force available to us and I am so grateful that I am an open and clear conduit for Beloved Love to flow through me and take over my everything.

Great Beloved Love…I belong to you.

Great Beloved Love…I am your faithful servant.

Great Beloved Love…Please work through me.

Great Beloved Love…Please clear me and cleanse me and uplift me and inspire me.

Great Beloved Love…Please continue to lead me and guide me and direct me and protect me in my thoughts, words and deeds on all levels, planes and dimensions of reality.

May we all surrender into the Great Beloved Love that we all truly are.

Countless blessings of LOVELIGHTBLISS to us all <3

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

AND SO IT IS.