ANYA ANANDA
Connecting the unconscious with eroticism and creativity and so make it conscious is a big part of Anya's mission. The work is to claim more space for the Dark Feminine in our conscious minds and in society, as well as rediscovering the power of trust to our bodies as a vessel for our souls. She is a performance artist, director, poet, facilitator and entertainer. Her work focuses on strengthening the subtle body - the energetic vessel between psyche and matter - through body work, shadow work, creativity and performative arts.
Anya has discovered her power as a dancer in the stripclub and from there, she went into a process of reclaiming its sovereignty within the systems of patriarchy. Having wandered through the Mexican jungle in the winter of 2020, Anya brought her process from disempowerment to empowerment in her own sexual radiance to Mother Nature and became a poet. 'Soulstriptease' and 'The Voice of Mother Earth' and many more poems were born. Before that journey started, Anya studied Theater, Media and Economics, completed a creative director apprenticeship and studied and worked in Belgium and Lebanon.
In the past 4 years, Anya wandered through the underworld, finding creative tools to deal with all the chaos and pain, she faced there. With the help of mysticism, Jungian psychology, ancient teachings of the feminine, creative tools and life, she has investigated old but new methods to approach the self. Anya is also a hedonist and if inner work isn’t also fun, it isn’t tempting. Therefore, she has developed The Conscious Stripclub, which embraces both: fun and inner work and evolutionary development. Anya is also offering 1:1 to help others find their path through their own underworld and ascend back to light with their most precious treasure: their own power.
TARA
Tara has been dancing and performing since childhood, with her journey of performative dance evolving into a healing modality of embodiment over the years. Since the birth of Animagika, Tara has been busy weaving the tapestry of her creativity, from visual design and social media development to empowered embodiment, erotic dance, poetry and trauma-informed somatic practices.
As an advocate for empowerment through erotic expression, Tara is currently undergoing a facilitator training as a trauma-informed Sensual Somatic™ facilitator. When Tara becomes a certified sensual somatic facilitator she aims to open one on one and group containers in which she offers support and modalities to enable people to dive into stored trauma in the body and lighten the load of stored trauma through uniques and tailored somatic practices.
She is passionately dedicated to supporting women as they navigate the transition from Maiden to Mother, helping them arrive in their new bodies and psyches in this new chapter of womanhood.
Her "Mother to Mother" workshop is a space for women to connect, heal, and thrive as they embrace the sacred journey of motherhood.The focus of her offerings are to reclaim and re-ground into the body and its sensual expression, which can be a complex journey, especially after giving birth. This experience can be booked as a one-on-one session or as a group workshop.
LINDA KAARINA
Linda is an advocate for free movement, dance, and somatic body work. She is a trauma informed tantrika and has a holistic understanding of the way trauma affects the mind, body, and soul. She believes that each human has the strength and resiliency to heal and live a peaceful life when given the right tools. In the recent years Linda has found deeper purpose and immense contentment of being part of a performance collective that promotes embodiment, movement and dance as from a holistic point of view concentrating on soul and soma.
Linda’s background consists of working in the field of Social Work for nearly a decade. The internal disagreements with the structures of the Patriarchal society pushed her eventually to find her own way and after exploring her own edges and the world she found a base in liberal capital city of Berlin. Since exploring different healing modalities in the field of somatic body work, tantra and conscious sexuality for nearly a decade, it is Linda’s mission to support and assist others in their processes as a service to the world. Her various studies concentrated on diverse somatic and trauma informed techniques through Tantra, De-Armouring, Craniosacral Therapy (CST®), Myofascial massage, Acupressure points, Bioenergetics, Trauma Release Exercise (TRE®) and Reiki. Currently Linda is offering Tantra massage sessions and coachings in one on one container for anyone who wants to experience a deeper connection to their essence through loving touch. She is also teaching conscious relating and somatic body work.
DENISE AGUA
As a certified holistic health coach Denise provides nutrition coaching session that support in learning how to make conscious decissions on a healthy diet and lifestyle choices. The work with food is a big part of her life and carries the meaning of a ritual. As a plant based chef she conjures healthy and nutritious meals to unique pieces of art of the plates of retreats and events. She guides sensual blindfolded food experiences for groups of people to make them stimulate their taste buds without the sense of sight, for deeper exploration and connection to oneself. Her deepest belief is that our diet plays one of the most important roles in our lifes and she advocates about caring of our temple, to keep it clean and healthy. To support this path of healing, she offers guided liver cleanses, that support the detoxification of the body on a mental and physical level.
She works as a massage therapist and is on a journey of constantly evolving her knowledge and techniques in order to provide bodywork that helps the body, mind and spirit to realign. She offers a combination of swedish massage with an influence of Lomi Lomi and Shiatsu. Through Tantra Denise connects with loving and worshiping touch to the source of love within herself and carries it outside. She sees it as a fusion of the elements, that can be as moving and energising or grounding and nurturing as each individual and situaion needs it. Being trained in traditional swedish massage, she combines her tantra massage into a combination with influence of Lomi Lomi, Shiatsu and deep tissue.
Through performance Denise blossoms into her unique way of self expression. Her wild woman loves to be in the spotlight and create flair in the moment. As an extension of performative arts she has been exploring the art of pole dance in different places around the globe and experienced its healing potential by viewing the erotic as something sacred. The work as a stripper or so called exotic dancer for her doesnt mean to be just a part of entertainment industry, but insteads she wants to create empowerment on the healing potential this work can have on the people who choose to seek it.
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