Meet Dr. Anjali

How Anjali works with clients and what types of issues I can help with: 

• Anjali specializes in working with WOMEN & there is a highly intuitive component to her work.

• She has worked with most issues in her life including: life transitions/changes, relationship issues, addictive patterning, empty nesters, motherhood, self worth, trauma, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, spirituality, life purpose, LGBTQ+, 

• The focus will be on healing, but not getting stuck in, the past so that you can move forward.  Once you have an awareness of your conditioned patterns (the one's that serve you and the one's that don't) change happens more quickly.  Change also happens more quickly in an environment of acceptance and support which is why a big part of our work together will focus on self love. 

• We will look at  all layers of the body in our work together: MENTAL, EMOTIONAL, PHYSICAL, ENERGETIC, SPIRITUAL - your strengths and challenges in these areas.

• She takes a holistic approach and pull in tools that are appropriate for the client I am working with (I do not use a "one size fits all" approach)

• She may speak with you about: polyvagal theory & the nervous system and how that is impacting you; attachment style; internalized family systems & spirituality/religion if that is something that you align with. I will  share tools of mindfulness, meditation, breathwork, grounding, self awareness, communication, astrology, gratitude, self love and self compassion.

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A little about me personally:

• A mom to two adult boys - my greatest joy

• Always loved sports, working out and yoga - now loving walking & lifting weights

• Meditation and Breath Work are my two main tools for stabilizing my nervous system

• Have been working on personal growth/healing for the last 35 years - we are always growing! 

• As she approaches 60 she is focused more on personal relationships (vs career - She is a recovering workaholic) 

• She Loves Reading & her mini poodle

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Read on if you want to hear more....

Anjali has always been one to follow her Dharma, which to her means following your heart and living from your truth. She did this even before she knew what Dharma meant, and before she had her spiritual awakening at age 27. At that time she had just completed her doctorate in psychology and was working as a legal secretary to make ends meet.  A friend introduced her to meditation and she experienced divine love for the first time. It was such a high and she wanted more. But life took over and she abandoned the spiritual path when she moved to Sacramento for her dream job of working at a college counseling center.

 

But there was a big hole in her life; she missed having a spiritual connection and community. She dove into her work, seeing many clients at Sacramento State and in her private practice. In her free time she "filled space" with rowing, running, and triathlons. She got married, had two kids, and told herself she was satisfied. But deep down she knew something was missing.

 

At age 40, soon after her divorce, she stepped into her first power vinyasa yoga class. She loved the dynamic movement and when the teacher started playing Krishna Das at the end of class, she was hooked-she had found her spiritual home. She immediately signed up for teacher training and began teaching in 2009. She continued to take additional training and opened a studio in 2012. She still didn't understand how yoga was different from self-help; she was craving answers and in 2014 they came when she landed in Rishikesh India.

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It was on her trips to India where she learned meditation, breathwork, and kriya practices that changed her life. She had been working on healing her trauma for years, but when she began these practices her healing "skyrocketed". She learned how to work with energy and how to find ease in the "now". Over the last 15 years she has shared these practices in classes, workshops, training, and retreats. During Covid, she learned an additional tool that she now incorporates in her work -Vedic Astrology. 

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She tells her students that "you can't teach what you haven't experienced" - which is why how she works with people has dramatically changed over the last 30 years. She not only does traditional talk therapy (which she feels is very useful) - but she also adds in other modalities: somatic work, meditation, breathwork, mantra, astrology, coaching, sound healing, and yoga.  

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But what she feels truly heals is AWARENESS, COMPASSION, AND CONNECTION. And the COURAGE to be honest with yourself and make the changes you know deep down in your heart you need to make. It may be scary to move outside of your comfort zone, but when you do life opens up in MAGICAL ways.  Anjali experienced that first hand last year when she quit a high paying job and made the move from Northern to Southern California - it's never too late and you are never too old to make a change.