Our Story
Anahata: A heart-centered space for practice
अनाहत
Anahata
Anahata: Un-struck sound. The 4th of the mystical energy centres of the body.
The Heart Chakra.
We named our center after the Heart-Chakra because we can awaken to the greatest lessons of life and health when we turn towards the heart and listen.
A Message from Anahata’s Founder
Hello, my name is Victoria.
I am so grateful to share with you and welcome you to this healing space. Yoga has awakened so many hearts, and changed so many lives, including my own of course. I have so much to share, and I know you do, too.
My prayer is that Anahata offers an inspired and sacred space for your practice, your holistic health and wellbeing. May Anahata provide a cherished and essential service for our vibrant community ever-rising here in the mountains of Santa Cruz.
I thank you for supporting this project, with so much love and gratitude,
Victoria
Our Mission
Come visit us and take a moment to care for body, mind, and soul.
Welcome to Anahata, a holistic yoga and wellness centre in Felton, California. We offer heated vinyasa flow classes, workshops, retreats, and wellness services. Our goal is to co-create a sacred and inspired space for your daily practice and support for one’s journey towards greater wellness, love, awareness, connection, purpose, and joy.
A heart-based approach
Our Values
In Sanskrit, Anahata is an energy centre located at the heart that governs love, compassion, and acceptance. When in balance, the Anahata energy centre connects us to the deepest understanding of our true selves and all of nature.
When we turn within, the heart space acts as a guide and helps us along our path towards greater fulfillment, peace and joy, in our relationship to self, in our thoughts, words, actions, and in our co-creation with others.
At Anahata, we are committed to approaching ourselves, our members, our practice, all life with understanding, kindness, and the friendly wisdom of the heart.
Holistic and Integrative.
We provide a framework for regular and consistent yoga classes, programs and services that support clients in their holistic journey.
Yoga means “union”, and our classes are designed to facilitate greater awareness of the unified and connected nature of mind, body, energy, spirit, and all life.
We provide private sessions to help individuals with both their holistic or targeted wellness goals. We use complementary methods to yoga, such as
supported detox and fasting practice
breath & body-work
sound medicine, crystal therapy, and reiki energy healing
astrology-based self-inquiry and coaching
Embracing Clean Modalities
Our yoga and wellness studio fosters learning and practices that return us to balance with nature and nature’s laws. We promote natural health modalities, such as yoga, energy healing, clean, organic, and ecological nourishment and consumption, detoxification, and lifecycle practices. We promote products that are ecological and we care-take our space with bio-friendly materials. We nurture awareness and alignment with natural law and life-affirming cycles such as that of the sacred system of the human body, the day, the moons, the seasons.
Nature is medicine
A fun creative, learning, environment.
We foster a fun, friendly and creative environment for continuous learning and self-education in yoga, natural healing, holistic health.
We provide a space for the evolution of teachers and facilitation techniques. We hold topic specific workshops for advanced studies, and yoga teacher training courses. We understand the thirst for learning and the thirst to share.
We embrace the natural cycle of birth and death in the learning and unlearning process; we do this with compassion, humility, fearlessness, and an en-joy-ment for growth, illumination, and expansion.
We realize that at the end of the day, we each hold innate wisdom. Each of us have the inner light of awareness and it is simply a matter of awakening, acknowledging, and cultivating this light, this connection to Truth, Love, and Compassion.
Fire and Flow.
Bring on the heat, but go with the flow…
In the Yoga Sutras, one of the limbs of yoga practice is all about the burning effort and discipline required in the practice: tapas. Fire, drive, efforting. Effort is part of the practice, and it provides the integrity for the opposing or complimentary element, the flow, the ease, the grace, the receiving. At Anahata, we practice attuning and refining awareness towards both aspects, the divine masculine fire and divine feminine flow. At Anahata, we encourage both the vigor and the reception. With both aspects in balance, one is more likely to receive the results, experiences, and equilibrium we are seeking in our practice, in our whole Self, and in our lives.
Our Space
Spacious with Natural Light. Redwood beams, Cerusian Oak floors, many perfect imperfections, and lots of love.
We made the space, but you make it home. <3
Come practice with us.
Thank you to you, our community
Thank you for being a part of the co-creation.
This is a journey of magical co-creation. We are so grateful to all the amazing people who have helped us birth Anahata Yoga and Wellness into existence. Thank you for your divine light and support.
To our partners, teachers, and our dear members, thank you for co-creating, sustaining, and evolving this space in alignment with its highest good and sacred potential as a healing force.
Many thanks to Anahata’s Founding Members. We thank you for helping us establish Anahata in Felton.
So much love and gratitude! <3