S o l e a A n a n i

My people are the red-skinned Tainos whose lands are enveloped by the Caribbean Sea. Quisqueya — Mother of All Lands— is the honoring name given by the Tainos to my homeland of the Dominican Republic. My ancestors also include the voyagers of western Spain, the rice field tenders of China, and the rhythm keepers of West Africa.

My path of devotion is guided by Animism, which is a way of approaching life that emphasizes relationships. I perceive the world as full of persons, both human and other-than-human, and prioritize living in conscious and respectful ways with others. These others include animals, plants, mountains, metals, fire, bodies of water, spirits of wind and weather, deities, ancestors, star people, nature spirits, and many others.

My attunement approach and foundational practices stem from these pathways. The first is my personal 20-year study and application of Evolutionary Astrology. For over two decades, I have attuned to this living lineage of star-wisdom that reveals the soul’s journey across lifetimes. My approach illuminates the karmic imprints we carry, the evolutionary intentions shaping our present incarnation, and the possibilities for conscious participation in our becoming. I interweave this with Jungian psychology — archetypes, the imaginal realm, and the unconscious — which helps us listen to the symbolic dimension of the psyche, where myth and soul speak in images. Through this lens, astrology becomes not only a map of the heavens but also a mirror of the inner world, guiding us to integrate shadow and light, anima and animus, fate and freedom.

The second is over a decade of immersion in Dharma Ocean, a community of meditators guided by the practicing lineage of Vajrayana and Mahayana Buddhism. Dharma Ocean’s teachings invite many into a somatic meditation path that places the body as the ground of awakening — where non-dual awareness is felt, known, and expressed through embodied presence rather than conceptual thought. It is a lineage that teaches us to fully inhabit our life and our world as sacred, and offers a direct, accessible map for realizing the radiant wisdom already coursing through every cell of our being. Through this work, I am learning the art of letting go and allowing the body to reveal my true life, learning slowly what it means to rest in the open, radiant aliveness that is neither separate from the world nor detached from the self. The practices emphasize clarity, immediacy, and integration — not as abstract ideals, but as lived, moment-by-moment ways of returning to the natural state, even amidst the ordinary cycles and currents of daily life.

The third is my long apprenticeship as a student of Martín Prechtel, founder of Bolad’s Kitchen — a school rooted in village-style teachings and the survival of the Indigenous Soul. There, I am initiated into a way of inquiry and living that honors the deep, often hidden wisdom in disremembered cultures, ecological life-ways, and ritual relationship with the natural world. Prechtel’s teaching invited me to learn the language of the earth, grief, and love—not as abstract ideals, but as ongoing conversations with the living world, where every gesture, story, and seed plants a future.

The fourth is informed by my studies at the Academy of Inner Science with Thomas Hübl. I completed the two-year Timeless Wisdom Training, a rigorous and deeply embodied container of work that explores individual, ancestral, and collective trauma, mediated through contemplative and relational practices. The Timeless Wisdom Training cultivates capacities for inner transformation, shadow integration, somatic awareness, and group coherence, offering tools to become more present, resilient, and attuned to deeper layers of belonging and interdependence. I also completed the Collective Trauma Facilitator Training through the Academy of Inner Science. In this training, we focused on learning to hold and guide collective healing processes. This training deepened my skill in working within the relational and somatic field where ancestral pain, cultural memory, and human possibility meet — learning how to accompany what has been silenced, and to hold the weight of history with care, clarity, and creative responsibility.

The fifth current in my path is informed by my studies at The Matrix Leadership Institute — a framework that shifts leadership from command to relational alchemy, transforming isolated hierarchies into living networks of trust, emergence, and shared intelligence. Through Matrix Leadership I have been apprenticed in the art of cultivating interconnectedness, learning how feedback can become a generative force, how differences are not obstacles but doorways, and how leadership can arise from the collective body rather than a single center. This work deepened my capacity to sense into the unseen relational field, to steward conversations and transformations that move through group and community spaces, and to accompany emergent forms of belonging that ask us to let go of separation and to re-weave ourselves into the living whole.

The sixth pathway is informed by the gentle power of Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy — a somatic, experiential method that honors how early attachment and developmental wounds are stored in the body, and invites us into transformation through attuned presence and mindful exploration. Hakomi taught me how healing happens from sensing, not simply thinking — how the body itself becomes a doorway to “core material,” formative memories, and the beliefs that silently organize our lives. In this field, I learned to witness the somatic gestures and held tensions of inner parts with curiosity and compassion; to offer experiments that bring early learning into consciousness; and to hold missing experiences — those small yet vital relational shifts that the nervous system never received in childhood — as portals to rewiring old patterns and reclaiming wholeness. Hakomi deepened my capacity to work across internal landscapes—to accompany what has been disowned, forgotten, or held, and to support the gentle re-emergence of belonging, trust, and inner coherence as living forces within the body.

The seventh pathway is the practice of Reiki. As a Reiki Master, certified through the Omega Institute of Integrated Studies, I have cultivated a sensitivity to subtle energy and the capacity to support others in reconnecting with the innate healing intelligence of their own body and spirit. Reiki has taught me to listen beyond words, to place my hands in service of restoring balance, and to honor the quiet movements of energy that remind us of our wholeness.

The eighth path of my journey has unfolded through traveling the world, where each land has been a teacher and each culture a living text of soul. In the Dominican Republic, I was immersed in rhythms of music and spirit that pulse through everyday life. In Italy, I encountered the beauty of art, devotion, and deep-rooted tradition. Turkey revealed layers of ancient meeting grounds between East and West, where mysticism and history weave together. Costa Rica offered the wild intelligence of rainforest and sea, a land that teaches simplicity and reverence for the living earth. In Guatemala, I was drawn into the living presence of Mayan cosmology, where mountains, markets, and ceremonial traditions reveal the enduring strength of indigenous spirit. Greece carried the resonance of myth and the eternal dialogue between gods and humans. Mexico welcomed me into a culture steeped in ritual, earth-honoring practices, and ancestral remembrance. Each place enriched my path with its own cultural soul, shaping me through its flavors, languages, and ways of belonging to land and cosmos. These journeys have deepened my sense that we are all woven into a greater fabric of human and more-than-human kinship, and that the world itself is a sanctuary of learning.

At my core, I am a ritualist, deeply guided by practices of prayer, ancestral honoring, and offerings. I experience ritual as a sustaining rhythm that nurtures the dynamic relationship between the seen and unseen realms.

I liberate my humanity by making beauty, swimming with the currents of the river spirits, and singing by cooking fires. In so doing and with sincerity, I aim to become an ancestor worth descending from. My belonging deepens as I grow alongside my 17-year-old twin sons, Zohar and Enok, and our dog Leila, the bright spirit of our home. We make our dwelling in beautiful Paonia, Colorado—ancestral lands of the Ute and Tabeguache peoples—at the base of Mount Lamborn, among the presence of wise elders: Sagebrush, Juniper, and Aspens.