we're all capable

Hi, I'm Anie - also known as "Anie Body".

I'm a Movement Facilitator, Reiki Therapist, and Qigong Student dedicated to energy cultivation as a path of recovery, regulation and reclamation.

Movement has always been a big part of my life, despite living with scoliosis from a young age. I grew up in martial arts and later spent more than a decade as professional athletic pole-dancer, and competed in national-level bikini fitness. My body was once a place of performance, discipline and intensity.

After becoming a mom, I stepped away from training at that level. Around that time I discovered Ecstatic Dance_and something shifted. After years of performing and striving for perfection, I found a space where perfection came from imperfection. Where movement could be raw, intuitive and unapologetic. Ecstatic Dance became a practice of liberation rather than performance.

I began facilitating in 2019 and have since held and produced over 100 dances. And what draws me most is creating containers where people can move without being watched, judged or corrected - where authenticity is the practice.

Reiki entered my life at a young age, but after difficult experiences with a former spiritual teacher I stepped away from it. Years later - during a period of deep introspection and upheaval during the pandemic, I experienced a kind of remembering and I returned to reiki in humility. I'm now devoted to sharing the practice and attuned to level 3, not as a 'master', but as a conduit. 

in 2023, after being diagnosed with fibromyalgia, I began searching for practices that emphasized regulation over force. That led me to Qigong_and what began as a personal healing practice is now a formal study as I continue deepening my training with my teacher Nick Loffree.

Having lived through nervous system overwhelm, spiritual rupture and chronic illness in my own body, I don't teach just from theory, I teach from lived experience. Today, my work weaves together Ecstatic Dance, Reiki and Qigong to support myself and those navigating recovery and chronic pain.

I create inclusive spaces - where you don't have to perform wellness, where you're invited to move, feel and reconnect in your own way. 

We're not broken. We're reconstructing. And if I can can do it, so can you!

-Certified Ecstatic Dance Facilitator, since 2019

-Current Qigong Teacher Trainee