About Anya
Integrative Therapist · Presence Guide
An exploration of life, through the body and beyond the mind.
About Anya
2012
Working with the body, mind and awareness
I am an Integrative Therapist and Presence Guide, bringing together over a decade of hands-on bodywork, transpersonal psychology, therapeutic counselling, conscious movement, breath, sound and stillness.
Approach
Since 2012, I have accompanied people in exploring the connection between body, mind and awareness. My approach integrates fascia-focused touch, somatic inquiry, mindful movement and hands-off subtle awareness practices, creating space to recognize patterns, release unnecessary holding and reconnect with the body from within.
Foundation
My professional foundation includes a three-year training in Transpersonal Psychology and Therapeutic Counselling at Clearmind Institute, bodywork studies and advanced Teacher of Presence training with Eckhart Tolle.
The beginning
Looking back, I can see how life has been preparing me, in ways I could never have imagined, to accompany others through the depths of being human.
My journey began long before it became my profession.
A life in moments
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At six years old, I was introduced to meditation.
From an early age, I felt naturally drawn to nature, movement, silence and the quiet space beneath thought. I was curious about life, consciousness and what remains when everything around us changes.
At fourteen, life brought an experience that would profoundly shape my understanding of the human condition.
I was diagnosed with a brain tumour that affected my vision, resulting in the loss of sight in my right eye.
At an age when most of us are beginning to discover the world, I was also learning about loss, grief, uncertainty and the vulnerability of the human body.
Without knowing it, I was beginning a lifelong education in surrender, acceptance and letting go.
I came to know stress, anxiety and periods of depression not simply as psychological concepts, but as experiences arising within life itself.
And through these experiences, I gradually discovered something else: the possibility of remaining present with what life brings, without needing to resist or become defined by it.
Acceptance was not resignation. Surrender was not giving up.
They became doorways into a different relationship with life.
In 2012, I began working professionally with the body through massage and hands-on therapeutic practices.
What began as an exploration of physical tension gradually opened into a deeper understanding of the relationship between the body, emotions, thoughts and the ways we experience ourselves.
Over the years, my work has evolved through fascia-focused bodywork, transpersonal psychology, therapeutic counselling, meditation, conscious movement, breath, sound and somatic awareness.
Each discipline offered a different doorway into understanding the human experience.
Yet some of my deepest learning has come through working directly with people, listening to their bodies, witnessing their transformations and remaining open to what each encounter reveals.
Training · 3 years
Transpersonal Psychology & Therapeutic Counselling
Clearmind Institute, with studies in bodywork and intuitive development
The work evolved through
My professional training has given me knowledge, structure and practical understanding.
Life itself has given me the opportunity to experience much of what I had come to study.
2012 onward
↑ Back to momentsThroughout my life, I have felt a natural calling toward the spiral.
It began through figure skating, where movement, rotation and balance became a physical exploration of finding my center.
Over time, this curiosity led me to the teachings of Gurdjieff, the whirling traditions of the dervishes, and the study of the mind and the recurring patterns and cycles of life.
I later studied contemporary whirling with a teacher from Turkey and travelled to South Africa to immerse myself in days of silence and conscious movement.
Through these experiences, the spiral became much more than a movement of the body.
It became a living exploration of our human experience: how we move through familiar patterns, how easily we become identified with them, and how awareness allows us to recognize the still center within movement.
Again and again, I discovered that balance is not the absence of movement, but the capacity to remain centered within it.
Each experience brought me closer to understanding my purpose, not simply as an idea of the mind, but as a deeper inner knowing.
In 2017, a near-death experience profoundly changed my relationship with life.
What I experienced brought a deep recognition of stillness, peace and awareness beyond the familiar sense of personal identity. It was an experience of freedom beyond the physical body.
The recovery that followed became its own exploration of vulnerability, acceptance, surrender, patience, rhythm, movement, understanding and the remarkable adaptability of the human body.
This experience did not replace my professional training. It deepened the way I approach it.
I became increasingly interested not only in what we experience, but in the awareness through which all experience is known.
Through my experiences and my connection to Source, I have come to understand our human existence as an expression of pure consciousness knowing itself through life.
The body, with all its sensations, emotions, challenges and possibilities, becomes a remarkable opportunity for the soul to learn, grow and evolve.
Our human experience is constantly changing. The soul evolves through what it encounters. Yet pure consciousness, the essence of Being, remains unchanged.
This understanding is not simply a philosophy I have studied. It is the foundation from which I continue to explore, live and accompany others.
My life has been my curriculum.
My connection to Source, my anchor.
And what once appeared as separate experiences has gradually revealed itself as a preparation for something greater than my individual journey: an opportunity to contribute, in my own way, to the awakening and evolution of humanity.
I completed advanced Teacher of Presence training with Eckhart Tolle.
Advanced training · 2024
Teacher of Presence
With Eckhart Tolle
Today
Today, my work brings together years of hands-on and hands-off experience, psychological understanding, therapeutic guidance and the ongoing exploration of living from Presence.
I work through
Sometimes the exploration begins with movement. Sometimes with a breath, a sensation, a familiar emotional pattern or the simple experience of being quietly present.
There is no single doorway that fits every person.
My approach is attentive, individualized and grounded in the understanding that the body is not separate from our inner life.
Rather than trying to fix or change someone, I offer a space where they can become more aware of their own experience, discover new possibilities and develop a more conscious relationship with themselves.
Over the years, I have witnessed remarkable and sometimes unexpected transformations emerge from this place of awareness, openness and inner discovery.
Presence
The Psychologist of the Soul grew from a lifelong inquiry into what it means to be human.
Our thoughts change. Our emotions change. Our bodies and circumstances move through different seasons.
Yet within these changing experiences, we can discover the stillness of awareness itself.
For me, this is the heart of Presence.
The essence of spirituality is Presence. The essence of Presence is to be present.
Not an escape from being human, but an invitation to experience life more fully.
Through private experiences, immersive explorations and community gatherings, I invite people to discover this for themselves.
Come as you are.
There is nothing you need to become before we begin.
Anya Moreno
Integrative Therapist · Presence Guide
