I am Anaïs. I am a storyteller, an explorer and a seeker of change, growth and what it is to be alive. Our very path forward lays within the liminal space between safety and the unknown, and as a seeker, I have spent my entire life walking this space and enthralled with the experience life provides, both the heights and the deep shadows. I have been a scuba instructor, a sommelier and back country medic. I have produced a feature length documentary and piloted private jets for Silicon Valley’s elite. I now find myself on a larger quest of consciousness and humanity. All of who I am today, my curiosity, my courage but most of all my deep compassion for what it is to be human, has me deeply devoted to this path. These skills and unique perspective have enabled me to create an emerging methodology and language for our communities to understand this current reality, how to shake the illusion and move forward with clarity and power. It is not so different from traveling the world, navigating the sky or the back country mountains - except it requires us to go within. I welcome you to join me in this conversation, where we reclaim our reality and future by reclaiming the power we have to be the very designers, innovators and visionaries, we were born to be.
HOW DO YOU EMBRACE DIVERSITY AND/OR UNCONVENTIONALITY?
Rather than to go to University, I chose to travel for 5 years. I saw 25+ countries, worked in 6 (including Singapore which was unlawful at the time) and learned that I could create what I willed to be. I swam with whales, lived on boats and danced under the moon, each one signifying to me the passage of time. It has without a doubt paved the way for how I walk this earth.
HOW DO YOU EXPRESS YOURSELF CREATIVELY?
Movement, written word, clothing/costume, being with nature, prayer, my community offerings.
HOW DO YOU THINK YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE TO THE COMMUNITY? WHAT DO YOU FEEL YOU ARE AN EXPERT IN AND COULD GIVE ADVICE TO THE COMMUNITY ON?
My life experience and expertise is walking the unconventional path and as such, have many tools, resources and teaching to support women's empowerment and expression, including using microdosing (of life)/psychedelic education/integration, awareness / mindfulness, breath, intimacy/sovereignty, etc.
SHARE A VERY VALUABLE INSIGHT YOU DERIVE FROM YOUR PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE WITH THE WORLD: