ABOUT HANDS ON LIFE TEAM & COMMUNITY
We offer creative, diverse and transformative retreats / classes / events / workshops hosted by experience inspiring teachers, artists and therapists.
Meet Our Team
Insightful professionals who have spent years investing their time, energy and money exploring different physical, mental and spiritual practices. Their aim is to help bring you, the community, and themselves a sense of purpose, focus, along with more physical fitness and mental strength.
“What we become as our lives evolve depends on the quality of our experiences here and now”― Sir Ken Robinson
Leonie Nanassy (Creator of Hands on Life)
Esalen® based Massage Bodywork Therapist
Leonie is the founder of Hands On Life & Qualified Esalen® Massage bodywork therapist specialist.
Leonie is a highly intuitive bodywork specialist with 30 years experience, learning and working with inspiring & master teachers. Using a somatic approach, which means incorporating a persons mind, body, and emotions. Leonie has accumulated wisdom, & experience in a variety of areas within the healing arts. Combining touch, breath work and meditative practices to regulate the nervous system.
She believes cultivating a creative & spiritual practice that includes regular exercise, any form of meditation (that gets you out of your mind), humour, kindness, good books, gratitude and healthy eating, makes us more ‘at ease’ with ourselves and those around us. The most meaningful investment you will ever make.
Her motto: “Where you tend a rose, a thistle cannot grow”.
Our Community
People we work and connect with.
Amanda | Wild & Free Adventures
Yoga Teacher and Retreat Host
Amanda from ‘Wild & Free Adventures’ runs surf and yoga and retreats in Cornwall and Devon, as well as abroad in places like Morocco, Portugal and Sri Lanka. When not on retreats Amanda teaches locally at our venue The Old Rectory, Chulmleigh, North Devon.
Amanda offers classes for ‘all levels’ and teaches Hatha, Vinyasa Flow, Restorative, Yin Yoga classes, as well as , Somatic Movement and Yoga Nidra, In Person and Online (via zoom).
These classes are both dynamic and restorative, as Amanda combines the feeling of being on a retreat, escaping the busyness of life (to ‘get out of your head’) The classes are designed to to re-connect to your body, alowing you to unwind, relax and focus on moving the body intuitively with the breath and create balance. The classes are both relaxing and revitalising and Amanda works with you to builds strength and confidence in your practice. ergised, relaxed and restored after your practice.
Amanda loves working 1 to 1, enjoying introducing people to yoga for the first time and her passion is her retreats involving the ocean or water in some way, becuase it calms and restore balance in our bodies.
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Anya Hawkes
Yoga teacher and wellness expert
Anya is a dedicated life, mind and body explorer and passionate yoga instructor.
After many years of delving into the many facets of the wellness world Anya has discovered the most effective tools for transformation which she shares with love, wisdom and a great sense of humour.
Consciousness warrior, life-lover and global teacher with her feet firmly planted on the earth but with her head full of fun and dreams, Anya’s core message is one of positive self-centering.
When she is not on the mat, on the move or being mum to teenage boys, Anya loves to cook, create, travel and dance and dream big!
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Vixon Harrogan
Sound Therapist, Story Teller & Creator
Vic ‘s primary focus in life is conscious Evolution. She sees and encourages in others the opportunity to fulfil their highest potential, for the benefit of all.
She uses compassionate discussion, meditation and the use of sound to create a high vibrational space to explore profound concepts and meaning.
Vic offers Mala beads making as a tool to find focus and intention through discovering a personal San Kalpa. She demonstrates how this can then be used in a meditational ritual as a powerful practice for daily life.
Special Guest Teachers
We have some very special guest teachers coming from time to time.
Ellen Watson
Esalen® Institute moving meditation
Ellen Watson is celebrating her 30th year on faculty & staff at Esalen® Institute, California, where she practices, and teaches various modalities of moving meditation practice. Ellen is a senior trainer of Esalen® Massage & Bodywork, Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms™, Holotropic™ Breathwork, and creator of SpiritDanceSoulSong, The Art of Essential Touch, and Your Body is a Musical Instrument. From 1984 through 2003, Ellen developed and administered the Movement Arts Program at Esalen®. In 1996, she founded MovingVentures™ International Healing Arts, a 501c3, whose mission is personal development and vocational education in the somatic arts, focusing on women and men in developing countries, and the southern USA. MovingVentures™ faculty offer workshops, retreats, and trainings at Esalen®, in Bali, and at other inspiring locations around the globe.
www.movingventures.org/tasteofesalencroatia-280700.html
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If you’re a Yoga Teacher, Dance or Pilates Instructor, Therapist, Body Work Specialist, Artist and would like to find out more about our space and offerings wed love to hear from you.
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