Anja Thompson, M.A. – BHS Practitioner, Massage Therapist, and Kundalini Yoga Instructor

I am a Brennan Healing Science Practitioner, Licensed Massage Therapist, Reiki Master, and a certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor.

My inner voice told me early on that I am called to work in the healing profession. But, as for so many others, this path wasn’t direct. First I had to learn to listen to and trust my intuition before I really could engage my healership.

Dramatic life changes occurred after I started studying Kundalini Yoga in 1990 in Hamburg, Germany, while working on my Master’s Degree in Cultural Anthropology. I found a deeper purpose in life, expanded my awareness on a physical, emotional, and spiritual level, dropped unhealthy relationships and habits. I graduated from the 3HO Kundalini Yoga teachers training in 1994 (Level 1) and 1996 (Level 2). Through Yoga I met my husband, Dharam, a US citizen. I gave up my career as editor in Germany and moved to the USA in 1997, where I continued to teach Yoga and started working as a Hospice Volunteer.

In 2000 I began my training at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing. Besides my Kundalini Yoga training, my education as a Brennan Healing Science Practitioner was the best I’ve ever done for my Self. I engaged in six years of a challenging, self exploring, transformational process, that taught me to deeply trust myself, to be real, to live from core essence, and how to perceive and regulate my energy field and that of others. In 2004 I graduated from the Barbara Brennan School of Healing with a Diploma. Two years later I completed the Advanced Studies Training Program and two years of Brennan Integration Work, which focuses on psychodynamic work combined with spiritual awakening to deepen body-centered awareness and personal growth. My training covered leadership skills, supervision, and mental disorders.

I then enrolled in the Bhakti Academe for Intuitive Massage and Healing in Safety Harbor, Florida, to become licensed as a Massage Therapist in the states of Florida and Massachusetts. Here the focus of the training was again on self-awareness, intuition, and energy work. During this time I discovered my passion for Thai massage, which integrates elements of yoga, meditation, acupressure and assisted stretching.

My continued education in massage therapy eventually brought me to the Center for Neurosomatic Studies, in Clearwater, Florida. My goal had been to find a way to better support my clients who were suffering from chronic or acute pain on the physical level. This cutting-edge approach to Manual Therapy has allowed me to help patients address structural problems and to release chronic pain. I am registered as a Massage Therapist with NCBTMB (National Certification Board of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork).

Equipped with numerous healing techniques, a conscious awareness of the human energy field, the understanding that we are all wounded healers, my therapeutic massage skills, and yogic background, I feel fortunate to be able to support my clients and students on their healing journeys from different angles. I have helped people with as different ailments or diseases as anxiety disorder, back pain, bipolar disorder, burns, cancer, depression, emotional and mental blockages, headaches, chronic cough, hip replacements, infertility, Multiple Sclerosis, shoulder pain, or stiffness.