i am her - she is me... hello

TLDR;

I'm Annalise & I'm in recovery. What kept me there? Shame, guilt, lack of sufficient resources and help. That. That was what kept me in the dark with this vicious cycle for so long. Having first hand, lived experience with being a target to the negative stigma + battling this disease alone, is what propels me to become a leader in creating a community where those struggling can find an affordable, holistic method to improving their mental health and recovery. 

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I didn’t arrive at yoga as a destination - I arrived through contrast. 

Early on, life felt like a series of disconnections between body, mind, 

and direction. I was searching for something I couldn’t quite name yet, something quieter than achievement and more honest than identity. Movement was always present, but it hadn’t yet become medicine. 

I didn’t know then that what I was really looking for was a way back to myself.

Yoga didn’t enter as a quick fix - it unfolded slowly, like something remembered rather than learned. What began as physical practice turned into a deeper unraveling: emotional layers, stored patterns, and the subtle places where I had learned to disconnect in order to survive. 

Over time, the mat became a place of translation; where experience 

could soften into awareness, and awareness could begin to heal. In that process, I stopped trying to “become” something and started listening 

to what was already here.

Now my work lives in that in-between space, where movement becomes a form of remembering and presence becomes a form of repair. I guide from the understanding that healing is not linear, and that many people are simply trying to find their way back into their bodies without judgment. 

I hold space for that return. For those who feel like misfits in their own lives, I offer practices that are less about fixing and more about reconnecting; slowly, honestly, and in their own timing.