Anna began practicing yoga in 1998, at the age of 15. She is known for teaching a strong, accessible practice and empowers her students through her message. Her 1st teacher training was in 2001, the same year Bodhi Yoga opened. She has trained with many top yoga teachers but her favorite teacher and mentor is Baron Baptiste. Her first Baptiste Yoga training was in 2005.

 

The biggest impact on Anna's life has been seeing what yoga does for people.  Additionally, it has not only transformed her life but she has seen first-hand how this practice transforms the lives of her students. She initially started her yoga practice to lose weight, but she quickly discovered that yoga was much more than getting the aesthetics right and more about getting the inside right. The mental, physical, energetic and emotional benefits of yoga are what she finds so magical. Anna discovered that when she got healthy on the inside, health on her outside magically appeared.

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Baptiste Yoga has always spoken to Anna's heart, and it's what she shares in her teaching, and also what she shares in her life off the mat. It has changed how she chooses to show up in the world each day, and it also provides her the tools that help her forge and strengthen relationships with others. 

 

This practice helps her come from a less reactive, and much more intelligent place. Anna knows that Baptiste Yoga helps to provide her with the perspective that when she stays in the present moment, she will not get wrapped up in the past or the future. It is an opportunity for her to get out of her head, and instead get into her physical body.

 

This new perspective becomes available just by turning upside down, inside out, and twisting out "the trash". Taking out the trash is vital, and rinsing out her entire being provides her an opportunity to completely detox herself - from the inside out.  

 

Baptiste Yoga has taught her perseverance, acceptance, dedication, and also determination. It has provided her the tools for her to drop old limited belief patterns, and instead open up to a whole new world of possibility. There is something about this practice that when the heat is turned up, and the fire becomes hot, things of intrinsic value are shaped, molded and transformed.

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No matter what is going on her life, or what kind of day she has had, she knows that she can come to her mat, do the work, and walk out with new vision; clear vision. Through Baptiste Yoga, she has learned that peace is not dependent on challenging yoga poses, people, circumstances or situations True peace is a choice, and it radiates from the inside out. 

 

The impact that Baptiste Yoga has had on Anna’s health is a blessing, as it provides her the tools to move through stuck emotional energy, and leaves her feeling restored and renewed. She also knows and belives that Baptiste Yoga continues to add many healthy years to her life. 

 

Anna loves sharing the health and wellness of Baptiste Yoga with others, including kids, and her entire family as well.

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This practice has also brought her deeper into her faith and walk with God, and Anna believes the Baptiste Methodology to be immeasurable.

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Anna is a Certified Baptiste Instructor