Ani began yoga while in graduate school to help relieve stress and found it amazingly effective. Always the teacher and wanting others to have this tool she attended the teacher training at Kripalu Centre for Yoga.

Ani has been influenced by the teachings of Vanda Scaravelli and her ideas of breath awareness in which, "you become intelligent and at the same time you are happy." Scaravell’s book Awakening the Spine (Harper San Francisco, 1995) has become a classic.

While living in Costa Rica Ani trained and completed the certification for Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy thus deepening her yoga practice.

Her journey took her back to Mexico where she met and studied for 5 years with Irene Beer. Irene had formed Namaste International to certify teachers in Scaravell's ideas emphasizing the ground, breath and spine.

Ani is studying with Diane Long, who practised with Vanda for 25 years, to enhance these teachings. After experiencing many different paths to the right-for-me manner of teaching, Ani had found her venue in order to teach safe and challenging classes. Any student can work at a deep level with the breath, spine and ground ideas.

Because of this way of working Ani emphasizes effortlessness in her teaching and the concept of working with the body's tendencies in order to unravel them, rather than against them.

In 2010 Ani will attend workshops with Diane Long and Louise Simmons www.louiseyoga.com -another long time student of Diane's.

Ani will be in France, September 2010 doing a workshop with Marc Woolford www.yogawithmarc.com and his Scaravelli interpretation. After the workshop she will be researching intriguing local sites for her September 2011 retreat. She will return to La Manzanilla in November for another fun filled season at Casa Milpa Palapa/Studio.

Ani has been teaching for many years in Mexico and Canada and now leads retreats worldwide.