Offerings
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Yoga
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Massage and Ayurvedic Bodywork
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Integrative Holistic Health Coaching
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Intersectional Environmentalism and Regenerative Farming & Gardening
“If you wish, you can shift consciousness itself more directly by directly increasing the apertures of your sensory gates, by opening the doors of perception themselves more widely. You can do this a number of ways, hallucinogens are one of them, meditation is another, habituation to constantly feeling the touch of the world upon you is another.”
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner, Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of Perception into the Dreaming of Earth
About Liz
Welcome. Thank you for being here. My name is Liz Collins and I am the founder of the healing ministry Anahata Healing Arts.
Anahata Healing Arts is a ministry that brings together traditional practices in food, farming, and the healing arts. It is a quickening force for our memory as ancient future beings that dream in harmony with the earth and the cosmos. Please come and step into these wisdom streams with me and remember your song and your medicine.
My first passion in the exploration of health, vitality, and consciousness, is the study of hatha yoga. I was certified through the Center for Yoga of Seattle to teach in the Iyengar tradition and studied with Iyengar and family in India and several of his senior teachers over the years. Since 2005 my drishti (gaze) has been held by the Shadow yoga tradition under the mentorship of teachers Scott Blossom and Matt Pesendian. It has been my joy and delight to practice and teach yoga for over 30 years.
My love of hands on adjustments and healing through touch in my yoga teaching led me to study bodywork and become an LMT. I have been practicing therapeutic bodywork professionally since 2004. I am a graduate of SBBTI and have studied extensively at Esalen Institute and beyond to bring the best of healing touch to my clients, family, and friends.
I hold a BA in South East Asian religions and Sanskrit from Evergreen state college. Before transferring to Evergreen I studied at Naropa University in Traditional Eastern Arts with a focus on yogic philosophy and history, Sanskrit, and Buddhist meditation in the tradition of Chogyam Trungpa. Prior to that I sat for several years with a sangha in the mindfulness tradition of the beloved Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh. Since 2000 I have been in deep devotional practice to the Divine Mother with my dear teacher Nita Rubio and sangha.
I am a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and an Ayurvedic Health Counselor who has studied at Mount Madonna Institute and through the clinical herbalist program at The East West School of Planetary Herbology with Leslie and Michael Tierra. I studied herbalism with Chumash medicine woman Cecilia Garcia over several years as well as many other herbal masters. My life and work have been profoundly influenced and guided by the physicist and ecofeminist Vandana Shiva and her activism in regenerative farming and seed saving, as well as the writings of herbalist and earth poet Stephen Harrod Buhner.
I have a deep devotion to the wisdom of the first peoples, the plants, and share that devotion through my healing ministry as well as at the Waldorf School of Santa Barbara as the head of the farm and garden program there for grades 1-8.
I am grateful that you find yourself here and look forward to the opportunity to walk the beauty path with you. May All Beings Everywhere be Happy and Free. Hare Om.
