About Anahata Giri
I am passionate about helping others to connect with their own soul river; to know their belonging within this precious web of life and to share their exquisitely unique gifts with the world.
I am a soul guide, circle weaver and facilitator. I offer circles, one to one mentoring and retreats, all permeated with heart and soul.
I weave and synthesise an experiential blend of soul-craft, embodied practice, nature immersion, heart alchemy, creative expression and sacred activism.
In 2021, on a solo quest fasting in nature, I had a powerful soul encounter that revealed a mythic expression of my soul-self. This has apprenticed me to revolutionary love and fired my committment to serve this precious web of life. May we each rise up and share our soul gifts and co-create the more wise and loving world that is emerging.
Following the Soul River…
More than 30 years ago, when I was 19 years old, I began intensive healing work, yoga, and protecting wild places as an environmental activist with the Melbourne Rainforest Action Group. This was the beginning of a life-long path exploring personal, spiritual and social change. I gained qualifications in Community Development, Somatic Psychotherapy and Yoga Therapy, worked as a community development worker and counsellor in the domestic violence field, and for 20 years as a yoga teacher and retreat leader.
Twenty years ago, I followed whispers of soul and stepped into my new name, Anahata, and a heart-based way of living. I became a certified Purpose Guide with the Purpose Guides Institute - and I now work to help people connect with their deepest soul-self as the path to finding deep purpose. I continue to immerse in soul-based practice and receive mentoring from the Animas Valley Institute. I also run yoga and meditation retreats.
I live in Melbourne with my beloveds: partner, son and our dog. I love reading, writing, singing, dancing, being in nature, following birdsong…
♡ Anahata
Some of the soul purpose resources that I love..
Animas Valley offers nature-based soul-centred immersions, based in the U.S. with some online courses
Bill Plotkin founder of Animas Valley and author of key books: Soulcraft, Journey of Soul Initiation & more
Clarissa Pinkola Estes a potent and wise teacher, author of the incredible soul guide Women Who Run with the Wolves
Deep Ecology workshops in Australia with John Seed and others
Emergence Magazine exploring cultural, ecological and spiritual emergence in times of global turmoil
The Emerald Podcast astonishingly creative podcast exploring myth, animism, imagination, spirituality for a contemporary world
Francis Weller teacher of soul and grief practices & author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow
Living Myth Podcast and books by Michael Meade: myths, stories, soul nourishment
Purpose Guides Institute for purpose discovery & training to be a Purpose Guide
The Work That Reconnects founded by Joanna Macy - deep ecology practices to nourish our connection to the web of life
