“I never knew it was possible to experience life like this.”
peiec® is an original body of work developed through Anandi Sano, exploring the body, energy, perception, stillness and consciousness – and what may continue to become possible as we grow older.
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THE ORIGIN
Nobody set out to create peiec®.
For more than a decade, this body of work has continued to unfold through Anandi Sano. Much of it came live while she was teaching, often with little idea what she was going to teach next. A technique would come, Anandi would teach it, the people in the room would experience it and begin applying it to themselves, and then something else would follow.
Over time, what emerged became more than 200 ways of working with the physical body, energy, touch, the five layers of self, space, perception and stillness. Some of the work is physical, some extraordinarily subtle; some involves touch, while some takes place without physical contact at all. Together, it became the body of work now known as peiec®.
We cannot tell you why it came through Anandi, or why it has continued to unfold. What we can tell you is what happened when she kept applying it to herself.
Now in her late fifties, Anandi describes feeling more alive, more well and deeply still. Her body has continued to change, her perception has become increasingly refined, her awareness of energy and space has developed, and the stillness she once understood as deep has repeatedly revealed further depths within it.
Then the people around her began changing too.
Students who stayed with the work began describing changes that extended well beyond learning the techniques themselves. Some have now continued for two, three, five, even eight years, as each stage of their development has revealed something further to explore.
And gradually, a much larger question emerged from the work:
How much can a human being continue to develop over a lifetime?
Perhaps we know far less about that than we think.
peiec® is a way to explore the question for yourself.
What might still be possible?
A point in life arrives when the question can become less about who we are trying to become and more about how much of ourselves we have actually discovered.
We may care more than ever about our health and how well we age, while also becoming interested in something harder to define: the quality of the person who will live those years. How available is the body? How much internal activity are we carrying without recognising it? How clearly do we perceive? How deeply can we become still? How much of life are we actually able to experience?
For someone who has already lived, learned and changed, these are different questions from those we may have asked when we were younger. They are less concerned with acquiring something new and more interested in discovering what may still be available within the person who is already here.
[Misha’s second-half-of-life quote]
This is where peiec® becomes practical. Rather than leaving these questions at the level of philosophy, the work gives you ways to explore them directly through your own body, energy, layers, perception, spatial awareness and stillness.
What happens when people keep going?
Anandi’s experience raised the question. Her students made it harder to dismiss.
The people who remained with peiec® over years began describing changes across different parts of themselves: physically, emotionally and intellectually, in their experience of energy and space, in what they could perceive and in the depth of stillness available to them. What mattered was the pattern over time. The work seemed to continue revealing something further as the person doing it changed.
“I certainly have noticed the change in myself over the last couple of years and how I see the future. I am taking more care of myself, calmer, and whilst still every now and then I react, but not like I used to, and it very quickly subsides, and I am calm again, thanks to the practices. I have more wonder of the beauty in the world around me. When I look back on how I was before finding you to now, I feel like a totally different person on so many levels. I can’t believe I am in my mid-60s and feel the best I have for such a long time.” Karen
Eventually, that led to another question: could any of these changes be measured?
The first study of peiec® students was created to begin examining that question more systematically. Twenty participants were assessed, allowing some of the changes students had been describing to be considered beyond individual accounts. Its importance lies in giving us another way to examine a question that has been emerging through the work for years.
“The possibilities you talk about were never even on my radar for what I thought life is or could be. The difference over the years has changed so much about how I function. Like the change in dyslexia, and how the change in me also changed my son. The list would be immense.” Jen C
You begin with yourself
The foundation of peiec® is simple: you first learn to apply the work to yourself.
Through the pathway, you begin exploring the physical body, energy, touch, the five layers of self, space, perception and stillness through direct experience. You also work with and receive from other people, because another human being can sometimes make something available that is difficult to recognise entirely from within your own existing experience.
Some people remain with peiec® for years because the work continues to meet them differently as they change. What they discover later may have been impossible to recognise when they began.
The techniques develop, but so does the person learning them.
“I never knew it was possible to experience life like this.” So deeply true for me. Within all the ‘things’ I’ve done before, nothing has permanently shifted the baseline of where my system meets life from in this way. The stillness, capacity and depth just continues to unfold over time, gently, without force. Extraordinary really” Michelle J-M
Anandi Sano
The founder and continuing teacher of peiec®, Anandi’s experience has remained inseparable from the work’s development. What began as something she applied to herself has continued to shape how she understands the body, perception, stillness, consciousness and the possibilities of development across a lifetime.
“I never knew it was possible to experience life like this.”
“If I read that through the eyes of who I was before I met you, I know I would be in awe and amazement, wondering if it was really possible for me. Well, it is! Nothing transformed me so quickly after learning peiec and committing to using it within my life consistently. I feel so different – more gentle, aware, connected, more at ease (chill), more capable etc etc. I stay to deepen. I am so grateful to be here.” Heidi R
How far would you like to go?
You do not need to know the answer before you begin.
Some people come to peiec® primarily for themselves. Others already work with people and may eventually choose to bring the work into their professional practice. Some are drawn by the body, others by energy, stillness or consciousness, while some simply carry a persistent sense that there may be more available within them than they currently experience.
Everyone begins in the same place.
The First Gate is the eight-month online entry into peiec® – a place to begin learning the work, applying it to yourself and discovering through experience where it may lead.
You begin with yourself, and discover from there.
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