HOW ANKRA STARTED

From a very young age, I felt a deep desire to understand the meaning of life and a longing for true healing. I grew up with heightened sensitivity and experiences that marked me early on. This led me to ask questions that many seemed to avoid… and to search for answers in every possible place.

I studied and explored religious, spiritual, and therapeutic paths. I travelled, trained, loved, and immersed myself in transformative experiences. But no matter how far I went, nothing could fill the emptiness I felt inside. In my late twenties, I left behind the life I had built—my job, my loved ones, my country—and embarked on a journey with no map, but with one clear certainty: I needed to find something more real. My path began in Australia, and without knowing it, I was stepping into the very heart of my story.

It was then that I came into contact with Eastern practices and self-inquiry, which awakened in me a simple yet powerful truth I had long overlooked: everything I was searching for was within… but I didn’t know how to live from that place. I had been trained to survive, to fight, to achieve. Not to let go.

Life, however, has its own timing and ways of teaching us. Just as I was finishing my master’s degree, an unexpected injury to my back forced me to come to a full stop. I lost mobility, independence—and with that, many of the identities I had clung to throughout my life. In that state of deep vulnerability, I felt it might be time to begin meditating, not as an idealised practice, but as an act of emotional survival.

And it was in that silence, when everything had fallen apart, that one of my teachers appeared. With compassion and firmness, she challenged me to stay… right there: in the middle of the fear, the pain, and all the emotions I had spent years avoiding. That experience marked a turning point. It was the beginning of real healing—slow, deep, and in its purest form.

Since then, I’ve dedicated my life to integrating everything I’ve lived—and continue to live—into an approach that honours both the psychological and spiritual dimensions of the human experience. That’s how ANKRA was born (from the word “to anchor”): because I learned that healing is not possible without an inner anchor that holds us steady when everything begins to change.

ANKRA is just that: a space of accompaniment for those who feel the call to stop running, to look with honesty, and to root themselves authentically in their lives.

It’s not a promise of quick answers. It’s an invitation to pause, to breathe, and to hold yourself in the middle of the process—with clarity, presence, and truth.