Ani Anderson

Ani Anderson began her working life as an occupational therapist and moved steadily into holistic practice, qualifying along the way in massage, energy medicine, craniosacral work, qigong and tai chi, and leading a meditation sangha in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh. With her partner Brian Trzaskos she built two wellness centres and a training institute for rehabilitation therapists, and the two now run the Somatic Coaching Academy, where she is chief executive and heads the coaching and business programmes. She is a certified professional coach and also reads Human Design charts.

Her own method, set out in her book Find Your Soul's Agenda, asks people to trace the emotional patterns that keep recurring in their lives and distil their purpose into a single word, which then serves as a guide for choices and relationships. With Brian she wrote Manifestation For Dummies, which approaches manifestation through what they call the natural laws and through close attention to sensation in the body, and together they created Sensation-Based Motivation Coaching. She works mostly online with business owners and leaders, in one-day private deep dives and a year-long group mastermind, and occasionally in person at Kripalu. She lives in a log cabin near Lake Champlain in upstate New York.