A different way to work with the body and its energy.
peiec® is an educational and developmental system that works energetically and on the body: gentle touch, work off the body, and work in the spatial field. It is for healing yourself and learning to help others. You learn it online, and from the start you can apply it to yourself and to other people. As you do, your perception, touch and stillness develop.
It is more than 200 original techniques, and the work keeps growing. It was developed by Anandi Sano, an internationally bestselling author, and it came through her own experience.
Does this sound like you?
- You function well, and underneath there is still stress or anxiety that never quite leaves.
- Your body is holding more than it should: stiffness, restriction, pain you have learned to live around.
- You wonder what your body and your life will feel like in ten or twenty years.
- You already do yoga, stretching, the gym, meditation. They help, and you still feel stuck, as if you have hit a wall.
- You want to look after yourself and the people close to you, and you suspect it starts with you.
- You work with clients or patients, or you want to, and you sense something is missing: why things don’t hold, or why people aren’t getting the results you hoped for.
- You’re exploring a different way of working, and you suspect it starts with how you perceive and how you touch.
- You’re curious about energy, what you can learn to feel, and whether there’s more to the body than you’ve been taught to recognise.
If some of this feels familiar, peiec® may offer a different place to begin.
The person doing the perceiving can change.
And as that person changes, so can what becomes available.
The work came through Anandi Sano.
Anandi has sensed, felt and seen energy since she was young. Across thirty years she worked as a paramedic, a senior inspector with a government health and safety regulator and a national health and safety leader. For years she also worked in clinic, and it was there that techniques first began to arrive.
She began teaching in 2017 and more seriously in 2018, and the work was given while she taught, live, in front of her students. Nothing was ever prepared. It still happens that way. More than 200 original techniques have come this way.
Energy work and body work. On yourself and on others, and always gentle.
Nothing in peiec® is forced. Every technique can be done on yourself or on another person, sitting, standing or lying down.
The body
Slow, considered, gentle touch, and techniques that release tension and restriction, including how the body and the face can structurally collapse.
Energy
Working with the energy of the body, on the body and off it. Energetic work at a distance is still touch.
The spatial field
What becomes apparent as distance, positioning and orientation change.
Perception and stillness
Learning to observe before interpreting. Stillness isn’t relaxation. It’s a quiet that stays while you work, and it changes what you can perceive and how you touch.
Health and vitality
Food, vitality and the wider health of the whole system.
Capacity over time
The possibility of more movement, wellness and stillness in the years ahead.
Each part affects the whole. As one area releases, others begin to open too. It is a gentle unfolding, and it is part of the pathway.
You will still look after your body, with the massage, the movement and the care you already give it. This works alongside that, and it is there for you as you open, expand and change. It is simply about how to live deeply, and how to live well.
“Just because you haven’t been touched does not mean you haven’t been touched.”
Anandi Sano
Touch isn’t only your hands.
In peiec® touch is an area of refinement in its own right. A hand may make clear contact, rest lightly, barely touch, hover, or move through the space around a person. And touch begins well before contact: by the time a hand arrives, the person receiving it may already have responded to the approach, the speed and the closeness.
It isn’t only the hands. Whatever is happening in the person doing the work becomes part of the touch. That is why you can watch someone with years of development and see the hand move, but not the conversation that came before it.
“I could teach touch every day for a year, and I’m not exaggerating.”
Anandi Sano
For yourself, and for the people you work with.
From the first weeks you apply what you learn to yourself and to other people. Tools for your life and your work, and development for the person doing it.
For yourself and the people close to you
Many people come to look after themselves, or to help their families. You don’t need to want to practise professionally, and you don’t need to certify.
If you already work with people
Massage therapists, counsellors, psychotherapists, nurses, doctors, coaches and others bring peiec® into their own work. You gain techniques and sequences you can use where they suit your profession, and you develop as a practitioner: how you see, touch and respond. Your training and scope stay your own. peiec® works alongside them.
Development underneath everything
Many people come to help someone else and find, early, that the work is also about them. Your touch, your perception and your stillness develop as you learn, and that goes with you into everything you do.
Taught by its founder. Learned online, in the order it came through.
For years we taught peiec® in person, in intensive blocks, and we kept seeing the same thing. People forgot a great deal, and a placement or part of a sequence was remembered slightly wrong. Over time the technique became something else.
So peiec® is taught by its founder and filmed. Anandi teaches every technique and sequence, demonstrating on Krystle, and it reaches every student as it was given. You can return to it as often as you need. How a technique is done matters, so the aim is faithful, consistent application, on yourself and with others.
Filming isn’t enough on its own. People still see what they expect to see, so there is a live session every week, practice with other students, and immersions where you are seen in person. It is also taught in the order it came through, and each stage prepares the next, because the work is also about the person doing it.
Good practitioners aren’t only found. They can be developed.
One pathway. As far as you want to go.
Everyone learns the same teaching. Some people stay for their own development. Others go on to certify and work with clients. Level 1 doesn’t lead automatically to certification: further levels and certification are separate choices you make along the way.
Level 1
Your first eight months are an exploration of peiec®. You learn to work with yourself, your body and your energy, and from the start you apply what you learn with other people. Eight months gives you time to become familiar with the work, practise it, revisit it and notice what begins to change. Anandi teaches every technique and sequence. A live session every week, practice with other students and a private community support you as you explore. About 3 to 5 hours a week, with no weekly homework. You don’t need to know how far you want to go, and you don’t need to want to certify. This is simply where you begin.
Further levels
Continue as far as you want to go. Each level adds more techniques and more refinement of your touch, perception and stillness. Some students have been with the work for eight years, because there kept being more. And more is still coming.
Certification
For people who want to work with others to a consistent standard. It isn’t a test you pass or a certificate for attending. It recognises development that has been seen over years: your understanding of the techniques, your touch, your perception and your stillness, with guidance from people further along. At least one immersion is part of it.
Immersions in Western Australia
Immersions are for students who already know the work and are ready to deepen it. You arrive with the knowledge, so no time goes on the basics. Students from different levels are in the room together: newer students learn from people further along, and longer-standing students see how far they’ve come and apply the techniques, their touch and their stillness in person. Details are covered in your consultation.
“If you think there is stillness, there is more stillness. If you think you have depth, there is more depth. The beauty of the moment gets richer, the deeper you go.”
Anandi Sano
To those who stayed long enough for the pathway to reveal itself.
“It’s not abstract concepts or airy-fairy. It’s so grounded.”
Suzanne · three and a half years with peiec®
“I have found myself saying that phrase ‘I never knew it was possible to experience life like this.’ often on this path of development. And that phrase barely touches the sides of what it is to be perceiving more of life without continually losing myself in it. The acceptance I have for self grows every day and so too does my curiosity for unmet potentials. What you offer through peiec is not a short course learning; it’s lifelong, the unfolding and deepening never ends.”
Liz S · Australia
“I am such an immensely different person to who arrived on the first day. Why do I stay? For so long? Because life continues, therefore I want this expansive experience to always be a part of my life. It’s like I carry a rainbow with me everywhere I go. I feel and see much more than I ever have, but that is also a softer experience nowadays. I move with life instead of battling it.”
Jen C · Australia
In a study of twenty women who have worked with peiec® for between two and five or more years, most of them in their forties and fifties, every one reported improvement overall. These are their own retrospective reports, with no control group, and not a guarantee of what anyone else will experience.
With gratitude to the students whose years of participation have helped us understand what this work can become. Everyone’s experience is different, and no particular result is promised.
What began more than a decade ago has become something far greater than we imagined.
A body of work, a pathway of development, and a community of people who have helped us understand what is possible.
This is a little of what we’ve been exploring along the way.
Anandi & Krystle
How far can we continue to develop?
Most development stops at what we know and what we have experienced. What else might still be capable of developing?
- Could perception become more refined?
- Could the body become more available?
- Could stillness deepen?
- Could the way we experience ourselves, other people and ordinary life continue to change?
- Could more open up as the years go on, not less?
- Could the years ahead hold more capacity, movement, wellness and stillness?
Anandi has observed these possibilities through her own development and through students who have continued with peiec® for many years.
peiec® was developed by Anandi Sano and is taught by Anandi. No person, group or organisation outside peiec® International is authorised to teach it, certify anyone in it or represent it.
peiec® isn’t religious or political, and it isn’t tied to any belief system, tradition or other organisation. It is an educational and developmental system, and we aim to keep the environment respectful, safe and grounded for the people learning it.
Before you begin.
Where do I start?
With a consultation. You request one, and if it looks like a good fit, Krystle will be in touch. There is no pressure and nothing to pay.
Is this only for people who want to certify?
No. Many people come to look after themselves, or to help their families and the people close to them. Others already work with clients and apply it within their own practice. You don’t need a new career. If you want to certify later, it’s a separate step on the same pathway.
What will I actually be able to do?
From the start you’ll be applying techniques to yourself and with other people, and as you do, your touch, perception and stillness develop. You won’t have learned everything in eight months, which is why the work continues beyond it.
I already work with clients. How does this fit?
Both things happen. You gain techniques and sequences you can use in your own practice where they suit your profession, and you develop as a practitioner: how you see, touch and respond. Your training and scope stay your own.
Is this a course?
It’s more than a conventional course. Anandi teaches each technique and sequence, and there is structure and progression, but it is also learned on yourself and practised with other students. There is a live session every week, and immersions where you are seen in person. People tend to see what they expect to see, so having others look at your work matters.
Do I have to travel to Australia?
No. All the teaching is online. Immersions are for students who already have the knowledge and want to deepen it, and at least one is part of certification.
What if I can’t feel anything yet?
Then you begin where you are. You don’t need to feel anything yet. Perception grows with practice, and that is part of what the early months develop. Please don’t compare your beginning with what you might see others doing after years of development.
Does it work alongside medical care?
Yes. peiec® is an educational and developmental system. It works alongside medical and other care, and doesn’t replace diagnosis, treatment or advice from a qualified health professional.
Do I have to believe anything?
No. peiec® isn’t tied to any religion, belief system or tradition, and it doesn’t ask you to believe anything. It is simply about how to live deeply and live well. You work with your own direct experience: you practise, notice and question.
How much time does it take, and how much support will I have?
Level 1 asks for around 3 to 5 hours a week for practice and the live sessions, with no weekly homework. You have a live session every week, a private community of students, and Krystle. You’re learning online, but you aren’t learning alone.
Do I need to be good with computers?
You need to be comfortable using a computer. The live sessions run on Zoom, with a private community app kept away from social media.
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