"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 more rich, the deeper you go."
- Anandi SanoAnandi Sano works privately with a small number of people interested in significant change and the further development of who they are.
You may come because something has remained: an old injury, post-surgical contraction, pain, anxiety, a long-held response, a body that has become less available, or changes in your clarity and capacity as you grow older.
You may already perform at an exceptional level and depend upon your body, perception and mind for what you do. You may want to explore physical availability, proprioception, spatial awareness, responsiveness, perception and the capacity to remain clear under pressure.
Or you may have spent a lifetime going deep. You know meditation, silence or profound states of consciousness, yet quietly sense there is still more available than what has stabilised within you.
Anandi works with what is restricting the person who arrives, while exploring what that person has not yet become.
The whole person comes into the room
Anandi works across the physical, emotional, intellectual, energetic and Core layers of self, together with the spatial field, perception, consciousness and stillness.
She may work directly with the body, through subtle touch, energetically and non-contact, spatially, through perception or within deep stillness. What begins in one place can lead somewhere entirely different because the part of us expressing a limitation is not necessarily the whole of what is occurring.
For one person, this may mean working with the contraction that remains after surgery while also exploring proprioception, the energetic organisation around the area and the body's relationship with its surrounding space.
For an athlete, it might include an old injury alongside contraction, perception, spatial awareness and how the whole person changes under pressure.
For a founder, executive or high-performing professional, it may begin with anxiety, mental fatigue or a sense that thinking is becoming less available with age, and extend into the body, energy, perception, stillness and the capacity to hold greater complexity.
For an artist or performer, the enquiry might involve the body, creative availability, perception, emotional and energetic range, and the ability to remain open while performing at an extraordinary level.
For someone already deeply established in spiritual practice, the question may be simpler:
How much deeper does stillness go?
Anandi's presence is always part of the work
Not everything that occurs around Anandi can be neatly separated into something she consciously does.
The following accounts are included because they offer a glimpse into this less easily explained aspect of direct contact with her.
My father was in his mid-seventies when he met Anandi Sano. He had been living with chronic pain for some time. It had become difficult to walk. Sitting and lying down had become unbearable.
On the day he met Anandi for the first time, they sat together for a few hours. She did not touch him. There was no treatment or session, just conversation about business and everyday life. During that time, his swollen hands and joints changed. The skin on his hands, feet and ankles went from dark, almost purplish, to a normal colour. By the end of the visit, he stood up from the chair by himself and walked.
In the week that followed, he was walking with greater ease than he had in a long time. What changed that afternoon altered the remainder of his life. He went on to travel, ride motorbikes, race cars and learn to fly.
- Written account · Daughter of a private contact
"You've been here for about three hours. How does the knee feel now?"
"It's reduced in swelling to the point where I stood up and barely noticed it. I walked to the bathroom and back just now and it feels normal."
"And when you say I've worked on you, have I touched you at all?"
"No."
"Moved my hands around you in any way?"
"No. It's just been you sitting with me. Talking. Eating chocolate."
"Eating chocolate. And it feels good?"
"Very good, actually."
The man with a severely swollen knee - hard to the touch, significantly limiting his ability to walk, stand, or bend the joint. Anandi did not touch him or 'do' anything during the three hours they were together.
These accounts describe physical changes because physical change can be seen and described relatively easily. Private work with Anandi can also move through less visible territory: perception, internal quietness, emotional response, clarity, spatial experience, consciousness and the depth of stillness available to a person.
Working with Anandi
Anandi is most interested in an ongoing relationship rather than a succession of isolated appointments.
This may include spending four or five days with her privately in Perth, Western Australia, followed by online mentoring, personal practice and further periods of in-person work. At times, Anandi may travel to work with selected individuals, private groups, teams or retreats.
The rhythm is individual. Anandi may work directly with someone for fifteen minutes and then give their body several hours to rest, process and adapt before continuing. Time allows her to observe what has changed and work with what becomes available next.
Some people will also learn aspects of peiec® so that they can participate more fully in their own development between periods together.
Who Anandi wants to work with
You might have a body that has never completely recovered its freedom following injury or surgery.
You might be an athlete or performer interested in what could become possible beyond your present physical and perceptual capacity.
You might have built an extraordinary career while privately carrying anxiety, contraction or increasing mental and physical demands.
You might be entering the second half of life and want to know what can continue to develop rather than simply preserving what you already have.
You might have undertaken years of personal or spiritual work and reached something that has stopped changing.
Or your life may already be very good, and your question is simply larger:
What else could become available in me?
Anandi is drawn to people with curiosity, openness and a willingness to remain teachable. People prepared to participate in their own development and interested in the less obvious aspects of being human as well as the visible ones.
The enquiry underneath the work is both restorative and developmental:
Can we restore what has become restricted while developing what has not yet become available?
Can the body become more available? Can perception become finer? Can spatial awareness develop? Can our capacity increase? Can stillness deepen?
Can we continue creating and recreating in ways that give rise to more than has been, perhaps even more than we have previously known?
Occasional Private Session Days
From time to time, Anandi opens a day in Perth for a small number of individual private sessions.
These days have no regular schedule. They are announced when Anandi chooses to make them available and offer an opportunity to bring something specific, receive directly from her, or experience the work before considering whether a longer relationship is appropriate.
Expression of Interest
Anandi works privately with very few people.
If you are interested in an ongoing relationship with her, tell her where you are now, what brings you, what you have already explored, and what you are interested in discovering.
This work asks for complete seriousness, in time, in resources, in commitment to depth. Those who sense that in themselves are welcome to write.
If you don't hear back within five working days, this is not the right moment.