Anna Ananda Embodiment and Holistic Health

11/06/2025

When you have an 8m2 tipi to host a Cacao ceremony for 6 people and you get creative with the space ☺️ Thank you for a lovely Sunday full of wonderful women plus you 😄

11/06/2025

A short Gong Bath at the friends’ retreat we did in start May. Tight space, but I think many enjoyed the intimacy. Nice break between circling and contact improvisation. .witch

03/06/2025

This month I am doing the final step of my mindfulness facilitator training with the UK based organisation called Breathworks. It’s founded by Vidyamala Burch, who I find deeply inspiring in how best to approach my illness overall and symptoms specifically (Chronic Fatique Syndrome in my case).

One of her key points is to stop seeking miraculous healing of illness and instead work on healing ones attitude, for example through mindfulness.

This resonates with me. I have been stuck in seeking cures for 5+ years, resulting in thought patterns like “I have tried everything and nothing works”, rather than looking at how lots of the things I did actually improved my symptoms a little bit, while not providing a cure. But because my expectation was unrealistic, I didn’t appreciate the little improvements. And I think realistically, most big improvements, if they theoretically were to occur, would be comprised of many small improvements happening consistently over time. Unrealistic expectations were in the way of this consistency, cause they led to emotional tantrums of “it’s all useless anyway” and then falling into holes of depression, or just continue over-doing to distract myself from being with things as they are, thereby making symptoms worse. I still see aspects of these patterns, but I also really got far when it comes to consistency.
This is why I never wanna be part of the healing industry that over-promise on miraculous results. Cause this type of marketing fuels the above described mechanisms, that in my experience are often counter-productive.

However, it’s a fine balance to walk on the edge of realistic hope. Cause on the other side, you don’t wanna loose hope to an extend that keeps you from doing all the things that have positive effects on your health.

To those of you out there who live with chronic illness - how do you walk this balance between hope and realism?

03/06/2025

This month I am doing the final step of my mindfulness facilitator training with the UK based organisation called Breathworks (nothing to do with the more intense Breathwork practices where you manipulate the breath). It’s founded by Vidyamala Burch, who I find deeply inspiring in how best to approach my illness overall and symptoms specifically (Chronic Fatique Syndrome in my case).

In this Short she explains how she stopped seeking miraculous healing of her illness and instead work on healing her attitude through mindfulness.

It resonates so deeply how I have been stuck in seeking cures for 10+ years, resulting in thought patterns like “I have tried everything and nothing works”, rather than looking at how lots of the things I did actually improved my symptoms a little bit, while not providing a cure. But because my expectation was unrealistic, I didn’t appreciate the little improvements. And I think realistically, most big improvements, if they theoretically were to occur, would be comprised of many small improvements happening consistently over time. Unrealistic expectations were in the way of this consistency, cause they led to emotional tantrums of “it’s all useless anyway” and then falling into holes of depression.

That is why I never wanna be part of the healing industry that over-promise on miraculous results. Cause this type of marketing fuels the above described mechanisms, that in my experience are often counter-productive.

However, it’s a fine balance to walk on the edge of realistic hope. Cause on the other side, you don’t wanna loose hope to an extend that keeps you from doing all the things that have positive effects on your health.

To those of you out there who live with chronic illness - how do you walk this balance between hope and realism?

Vidyamala Prue Burch shares a profound distinction between healing and curing.She elaborates that while we might not have the power to cure our illnesses or ...

29/05/2025

Boutique Hjerterum! 🤗

Now next time you come to Hjerterum, you can get chocolates gently made from ceremonial kakao, with methods that retain all of its nutritional properties while refining the taste and mouth feel.

Members of hjerterum get 30% off my regular price, and on top of that, 20% of the income goes to hjerterum. So for me, this is really more about supporting hjerterum (and indirectly advertising for my chocolate ceremonies 😊) than it is about making money (my earnings on this are symbolic).

The chocolates are full of superfoods and dietary fibres, while free from conventional sugar. I use organic erythritol, organic innulin (dietary fibre for the good gut bacteria) from chicorie and agave, as well as a small amount of stevia (no bad aftertaste here, as these health neutral or health positive sweeterners balance each other out). The filled chocolates in the fridge have about 5% coconut sugar, otherwise the rest are keto / low carb and diabetic friendly.

The cacao is from Honduras and Peru. A ceremonial dose (45-50g kakao) of the bars is about 70-80g as they are 66-72% kakao.

These are first steps - an unambitious version of boutique hjerterum with handwriting and the good old shelf (I also just made that name up as I make this post - it might change ☺️).

It will run for a test period and then I will hopefully upgrade with organic and bu****it free skin and hair care oils (which I am developing now) in August 🤗

25/05/2025

This was me yesterday morning, ready for the chocolate ceremony! It went so well - one person said the body scan meditation was the best she ever experienced, many had profound experiences with the Wim Hof-inspired breathwork, and even more with the gong bath and the Tibetan bowls. 4 hours of deep introspection and relaxation ♥️

02/03/2024

Yin yoga in the mangrove forests of Sri Lanka 🥰

02/03/2024

Yin Yoga in the Mangrove forests of Sri Lanka 🧘‍♀️

29/02/2024

6:30 this morning, Bentota River in Sri Lanka. 10 meters from my room 🥹