Tanner Star-Tree holds a myriad of integrative tools and modalities that are often personalized and specialized for unique individuals, groups, and spaces. He has lived among Himalayan yogis and swamis of India, working with Kundalini Shavaism and Egyptian Alchemy meditations and numerous breathwork modalities for over 12 years. He then spent 4 years living, volunteering, working and studying under numerous medicine men and women in Peru and Ecuador. Through the traditional portals of the 4, 7, and 9 day vision quests and sacred Sun dances he has been initiated as a firekeeper, water pourer, and guide through the Sacred Fire. He is adopted by the Rosebud branch of the Lakota Sioux as a federally recognized Native American medicine man. He works with the Q’ero Peruvian cosmology, chakana medicine wheel and mesa bundle as a foundation for his own and collective work as passed down to him through the lineage of his teachers and soul family in the Bouquet of Light.
Tanner sees his time at Anahata as a profound opportunity to assist in the anchoring of plasma light codes into the New Earth. Here, some of the services he offers are: private individual energy sessions and channelings; group Q’ero Mesa building classes; luminous body work group workshops; sweat lodge, cacao, water, and fire ceremonies; cacao intiatory dietas and classes; gentle vision quests (without psychedelics); altar, permaculture, and intentional landscape design; shamanic journeying in group transmissions and workshops; first nations’ sacred dances; among other tools, services and modalities uniquely interwoven in each authentic moment.
Tanner’s Reiki/Energywork Sessions are $120 for 90 minutes. Other services/sessions can be arranged through meeting with Tanner.
Hello! I am a Licensed Massage Therapist practicing nervous system-oriented bodywork that is ideal for those experiencing chronic pain or anxiety, or anyone who seeks a deeply attuned session with a thorough, sensitive therapist. I draw from multiple modalities in my work; I can deliver any level of pressure from deep to light, and incorporate stretching and assisted movement exercises as well.
I offer two types of massage sessions . . .
Nervous System Oriented Massage—my “standard” massage offering, great for those looking to relieve muscle tension, relax, and find relief from chronic pain. Includes optional heat pads and aromatherapy for no extra charge!
Somatic Bodywork—Drawing from Cranial Sacral Therapy and Somatic Experiencing, this light touch bodywork is for people looking to quiet their nervous system and work on emotional regulation.
REIKI – I recently became Reiki certified, and will soon be offering 60 minute Reiki sessions as well.
Hands-on bodywork sessions at Anahata are $90/60 min and $120/90To book a session, please contact me directly. My phone number is 540 449 9690.
More information about my practice can be found on my website:
Dr Perry discovered her capacity to address the issues of the body in her first career as a massage therapist. Her degrees in clinical nutrition also inform her practice. She then underwent further intensive training in traditional medicine and Osteopathic Neuromusculoskeletal manipulation, and as an Osteopathic physician, she now offers hands-on treatment as well as concierge primary care. Osteopathic medicine respects the ability of each body to heal itself. In addition to being used to treat musculoskeletal issues, osteopathic hands-on medicine can be helpful in a number of metabolic or organ dysfunctions. Osteopathic hands-on treatment can help relieve headaches and other pains, improve lymphatic flow, organ function and promote overall health. Dr Perry can also diagnose and prescribe as needed, and works with each client to tailor a custom regime. Her complementary approach tailors a full-spectrum wellness program to address any health challenges. Dr. Perry earned a Bachelor of Science degree in nutrition from Life University in Marietta, Ga., where she was the valedictorian, and a Master of Science degree in clinical nutrition from the New York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury, N.Y. She received her D.O. degree from Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine in Blacksburg, Va. and completed the Riverside Family Medicine Residency in Newport News, Va.
Full Spectrum Wellness Care Osteopathic Care Package – $600
Osteopathic medicine is the practice of partnering between doctor and patient to achieve optimal health. It teaches that we are a unity of body mind and spirit and that each body is capable of self-healing. Structure and function are interrelated which is why hands-on techniques are used to normalize range of motion, improve the flow of fluids and stimulate each body’s innate powers of repair and rejuvenation. This package includes a 1-hour initial visit and a 1/2 hour follow up visit with Dr. Perry. Discussion, evaluation, education and medical management are included. From back pain and headaches to gallbladder or thyroid issues, any function of the body may benefit from improving bony alignment and removing fascial restrictions. Dr. Perry takes the time to listen and respects each person’s right to make their own informed healthcare decisions.
“She was able to clear up all the residual pain and immobility and taught me some simple exercises that have since cured some joint problems that I thought were from age and arthritis. Dr. Perry has a gift of healing in addition to her education in Osteopathic Medicine. I highly recommend her services.” – Paul Wingren
“Angelica Perry has done wonders to help me understand my body and promote better alignment and balance in my body while promoting healing. A great osteopath and teacher!” – Tara Daystar
Edgar Cayce
Edgar Cayce Day Spa Package – 5 hours $390
Edgar Cayce was a deeply religious man with a special gift. He spent his life giving psychic readings while in trance. This package combines several therapeutic activities that were frequently recommended in the Edgar Cayce readings. Begin the day with a mug of hot tea and practice a sequence of gentle exercises. Encourage elimination and relaxation with a steam bath, castor oil pack and full body massage(60 min). Nourish yourself with a tasty organic lunch. Enjoy a discussion about the recommendations found in the readings while immersing yourself in the serenity of nature. The castor oil pack is yours to take home and reuse. To learn more about Edgar Cayce, visit: https://www.edgarcayce.org/edgar-cayce/his-life/
Edgar Cayce Weekend Retreat Package – $1200
Incorporate multiple therapies recommended in the Edgar Cayce readings into your personalized weekend retreat at Anahata. This package incorporates Cayce style exercises in the mornings and group healing prayer at noontimes. Castor oil packs will be given daily for a total of 3 applications. Also included: steam bath, full body massage (60min), foot reflexology (30min) and a discussion about the material found in the readings while enjoying the serenity of nature. The castor oil pack is yours to take home and reuse. Purchase the weekend retreat with the Osteopathic Care Package and the Edgar Cayce Weekend Retreat Package and receive a complimentary assortment of Edgar Cayce home remedies!
For details, write nina be at centeringnow.life@gmail.com
About nina be
Yoga Therapist + Transpersonal Visionary
MA, M.ED, E-RYT-500, NCC (#87024), C-IAYT
nina be is the founder of MindBody Centering Yoga, one of the first trauma-sensitive yoga techniques.
nina be (MA., MED., E-RYT-500, DY-800, NCC #87024, C-IAYT) has facilitated psychosomatic yoga therapy internationally for over 45 years. She is a certified yoga therapist, dance-theatre artist, author, and consultant with an MA in Performing Arts and an M.Ed. in Counseling. She is also the Director of Wellness at Burts Bees. In addition, with over 30,000 hours of study, she has facilitated mindbody meditation groups in the Plum Village lineage, enjoyed founding non-profit LiveGlobally and been Director of MindBody Centering Yoga RYT 200/300/500 trainings specializing in trauma-sensitive yoga techniques since 2009.
nina be & her team have published two books; The Mastery of the Self, a MindBody Centering Yoga Manual, and The 10 Promises; a Path to Inner Peace (a journal of expressive arts). nina and her team are currently finalizing publications on a series of workbook journals for transforming trauma.
In 2022 nina be and her team @centering.life are launching three online courses/training programs for transforming trauma through movement, the visual and verbal arts.
In order to satisfy her passionate curiosity, nina has traveled to 38 states and 19 countries.
Fun Fact :: nina won one of the country’s top 100 restaurants awards from Forbes magazine in 1994 for her restaurants in New Orleans.
MindBody Centering Yoga
MindBody Centering Yoga was developed in 1979 by nina be as experienced guidance into a process of Self-Mastery. It was created using researched techniques in creative movement, ballet, Hatha/raja yoga, neuroscience, alexander technique, music, chakra study, somatics, trauma resolution, psychology, ritual, and applied mindfulness as taught by Thich Nhat Hanh.
Today MBCY lives at centering.life, because that is what it does.
MindBody Centering Yoga is a unique and trauma-informed approach to living yoga, accumulating over 45 years of personal research, education, inspiration, and international experience.
MBCY is infused with decades of dedication and devoted practice & research from the arts & sciences of psychology, anatomy, neurology, creative movement, ballet, Hatha Raja Yoga, Ashtanga, somatics, meditation, and Buddhist study.
MBCY is a mindbody modality, with programs curated for Burt’s Bees, the Boys and Girls Club, the Episcopal Church, Job Start for the NC prison system, and was researched at Duke University.
MBCY awakens wisdom, stability, and peace in any individual who gets to experience their innate resources and resourcing in classes, workshops, trainings, retreats, groups, private mentoring, or corporate programs.
nina be began her love of movement, music, and imagination as a child, wishing to escape hunger and violence. She danced through the studios of Ballet Russe teacher Perry Brunson and Gene Hammett, Maggie Black, Bobby Blankshine, the NC School of the Arts, Joffrey Ballet, and as assistant to Lee Theodore at the American DanceMachine in NYC and Tokyo.
In 2011, nina saved enough resources for her dream & a life-changing experience to study directly with her teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh. It is from the profundity of this experience at Plum Village that she can teach from the Truth of her direct experience with clarity, wisdom, humor, and love.
With the support of the MBCY community non-profit, LiveGlobally, MBCY offers Wisdom Circles, trainings, and retreats for under-served populations such as the LGBTQ communities, prisons, and children and their families in slighted urban and rural environments, for transforming trauma around the world.
nina be has published two books; The Mastery of the Self; a MindBody Centering Yoga Manual and The 10 Promises; a Path to Inner Peace (a journal of expressive arts). nina and her team are currently finalizing publications on a series of workbook journals for transforming trauma.
In 2022 nina be and her team are launching three online courses/training programs for transforming trauma through the movement, visual and verbal arts.
She is deeply grateful for her work with 3000 clients and students worldwide.
nina be thanks her daughters, Amelia and Aude, for being her greatest teachers.
At the Living Juicy Women’s Retreat we be exploring the real medicine of Tantra and tuning into ourselves and each other on the subtle realm. This is not about sex practices, although there may be some juicy discussions, the real Tantra is about finding the simple and subtle pleasures in all of life, and using the energy of pleasure and satisfaction to manifest our dreams.
Tune in to Nature • Tune in to Desire • Tune in to Spirit
Using practices such as yoga, mudra, mantra, mandala and more, will take us into the stillness of the heart where we will call forth and activate our dharma – or truest heart’s longing. From this place we will find our powerful intention or sankalpa and utilizing the practice of yoga nidra, we will imprint it on our subconscious. Participants will be given the tools to make lasting change and the work we do in the retreat will help immensely towards the fulfillment of life purpose and deep longings.
Living Juicy is learning to love ourselves, our family, and this earth so that we can live the juiciest, most fulfilling life possible.
TANTRA
The word Tantra: is Sanskrit and literally means, “a continuum, or unbroken stream [of energy].”
The term Tantra refers first (1) to the continuum of vital energy that sustains all existence, and second (2) to the class of knowledge and practices that harnesses that vital energy, thereby transforming the practitioner.
AYURVEDA
Ayurveda is one of the world’s oldest holistic healing systems. It was developed more than 3,000 years ago in India. The literal Sanskrit translation is the ‘science of life’.
It’s based on the belief that health and wellness depend on a delicate balance between the mind, body, and spirit.
YOGA
In Sanskrit Yoga means ‘to yoke’ or to find union with your higher self. It is more than just stretching, yoga is a spiritual practice that incorporates many tools, all with the intent to help quiet the mind and prepare the body to connect deeply to the source.
MANTRA
A mantra is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words in Sanskrit that has psychological and/or spiritual powers. Mantra, whether chanted, whispered, or silently recited, is a powerful meditation and therapy tool.
MUDRA
A mudra (/muˈdrɑː/ Sanskrit: मुद्रा, IAST: mudrā, “seal”, “mark”, or “gesture”; is a symbolic or ritual gesture performed by the hands, often used in practicing Hinduism and Buddhism; it is a spiritual gesture that acts as an “energetic seal of authenticity”. Mudras act to stimulate different parts of the body involved with breathing and to affect the flow of energy in the body and even one’s mood.
MANDALA
Mandala (Sanskrit: मण्डल Maṇḍala, ‘circle’) is a spiritual and ritual symbol representing the Universe. The basic form of most mandalas is a square with four gates containing a circle with a center point.
Yantra (यन्त्र) (Sanskrit) (literally “machine, contraption”[1]) is a mystical diagram, an instrument for restraining or fastening, a prop, support or barrier, etymologically from the root yam “to sustain, support” and the -tra suffix expressing instruments.
ANAHATA EDUCATION CENTER in FLOYD VIRGINIA
The retreat will be held here at Anahata Education Center and includes meals, lodging and the hot tub! Early bird pricing at below the cost of a hotel room for two nights, makes this an amazing opportunity to connect with women, practice heart centering techniques and immerse in nature. ($50 off Commuter and Camping discounts available at checkout.)
Early Bird Pricing:
(shared room)
June Price : $275 July 1-14 : $300 July 15 – Aug 1 : $325 Aug 1 -20 : $333
Camping is available and encouraged – to connect more deeply with nature. Anahata has a beautiful riverfront camp with a camp kitchen and outhouses. Most of the facilitators will be camping.
47 acres of nature on the Little river.
Hot tub on the deck for star gazing.
Private rooms available.
Women Unite in Sisterhood
Retreat Facilitators
Wryn Magdalyn
Wryn’s deepest heart’s longing is to be of service to the divine in all beings by cultivating vibrant health and sharing her most sacred gifts: healing touch, devotional song, self-care practices and the teachings of yoga.
She has been a student of yoga for 20 years with teachers such as Jeff Tiebout and Mary Brown and has received her 200-hr yoga teacher training at In Balance with Nicole Boyle and Noelle Whittington. Wryn is a certified massage therapist through the Blue Ridge School of Massage and Yoga and is also trained in Reflexology, Craniosacral Therapy, Focusing, Thai Yoga Massage, Shiatsu, Myofacial Release, Trigger Point Therapy and Reiki. She is certified as an Ayurvedic Wellness Coach and is honored to be the recipient of this 5000 year old oral tradition with teachers such as Katie Silcox, Indu Aurora and Mary Thompson.
Katie Wells is a movement teacher, dance artist, mother, spiritual activist and perpetual student. Her conscious performances are an offering to express what others can’t or won’t. Her classes are an array of practices that can open realms of connection with one’s self and beyond as well as expand the expressive toolbox for creative purposes. She is fascinated with designing movement curriculums and weaves many tools and topics that continue to aid her in her own personal growth and hopefully others.
She offers seasonal Goddess Retreats here at Anahata and personal one-on-one sessions using somatic embodiment therapies in addition to her many ongoing classes and workshops.
With a degree in Dance and Choreography from Hollins University, and a teaching certificate in Hatha Yoga, Leia’s personal practice is rooted in the unification of yoga and dance. Through this combination she brings mindfulness to movement inspiring us to quiet the mind, come deep into the body, and connect to our joyful-spirit.
Winter Hart
Winter is an herbalist, priestess, and creator of amazing ceremonies, medicines and experiences. She has harnessed the power of her Divine Feminine to create and heal the deep wounds of our time. Through her unique gifts and her loving heart she is a bringing of change and a seer of truth.
Kyra Aulani
Kyra is a multi-talent artist, musician and yoga teacher. Her art reflects all of the many facets of her being – sometimes loose and painterly, sometimes tight and concise, but always stunning. She can also be found drumming or teaching dance alongside her partner Casey and their little boy Anu. Kyra can often be found in her studio in downtown Floyd, Threefold Arts.
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Ashera Rose
Ashera seeks to cultivate connection and beauty through the awakening of the heart, creative expression, and intergenerational community celebration. She is an interfaith minister, mentor teacher of the Dances of Universal Peace, author and teacher of art of peace curriculums, Reiki-Sound healing practitioner, Connection Practice Coach, and lifelong songstress and dancer.
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Eden Woolwine
Eden is a delight and it reflects in her food. Her unique combinations of flavors and ingredients always amaze. She holds a degree in nutrition and is a license massage therapist and a yoga teacher. When she is not preparing food for someone she cares about, she is practicing massage or creating artwork out of something she has crafted, collected or finds fascinating. She will be creating the food for the weekend and we are honored to have her as part of the team.
Mahadevi
Mahadevi has been practicing yogic exercise and studying yogic philosophy for over 20 years. Her explorations have taken her through ashrams at home and abroad, studyiny, serving, and teaching in the US, India, and Thailand. She enjoys sharing the devotional practices of bhakti yoga, and is interested in the vibrational power of Sanskrit and chanting as a direct path to personal transformation. She now lives in Floyd VA, where she teaches regular asana classes, and offers Thai massage.
Wryn’s deepest heart’s longing is to be of service to the divine in all beings by cultivating vibrant health and sharing her most sacred gifts: healing touch, devotional song, self-care practices and the teachings of yoga.
She has been a student of yoga for 20 years with teachers such as Jeff Tiebout and Mary Brown and has received her 200-hr yoga teacher training at In Balance with Nicole Boyle and Noelle Whittington. Wryn is a certified massage therapist through the Blue Ridge School of Massage and Yoga and is alsotrained in Reflexology, Craniosacral Therapy, Focusing, Thai Yoga Massage, Shiatsu, Myofacial Release, Trigger Point Therapy and Reiki. She is certified as an Ayurvedic Wellness Coach and is honored to be the recipient of this 5000 year old oral tradition with teachers such as Katie Silcox, Indu Aurora and Mary Thompson.
She is most proud of her two amazing children River and Summit; and the businesses she helped create: Dogtown Pizza, Venture Out Creative Agency, Fat Bean Farm & Food Co. and the multitude of brands she midwifed for others. What is most alive in her at this time is Bhakti Yoga, devotion through song, mantra, and stillness. You may find her down by the river on her harmonium singing to Ganesh or writing a new song on her ukulele. She is currently available for wellness sessions, kirtan, and yoga classes at Anahata Education Center. Contact Wryn at wryn108@gmail.com.