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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, and other Scaravelli inspired teachers, who practised with Vanda for years, to enhance these teachings. After experiencing many different paths to the right-for-me manner of teaching, Ani has 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.

Every summer Ani attends workshops given by teachers who practice the Scaravelli ideas.

Ani was in France September 2010 and again in 2011 doing a workshop with Marc Woolford www.yogawithmarc.com and his Scaravelli interpretation. It was here in the Chateau Perroterrie that Ani held her 2011 retreat.

She is in La Manzanilla from November until the end of April.

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