Hakuna MaPrana

Suspension at the Root. 🌳🦋
A wellness technique that puts your body's energy back in the right place. 💗

Suspension à la Racine. 🌳🦋
Une technique de bien être qui remet l’énergie de votre corps à la bonne place. 💗

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Come focus with a body core season. Annik will help develop a technique that will relieve your back pains. Self-healing is a tool of Love.
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Venez vous recentrer avec une saision body core. Annik à développer une technique qui vous soulagera de vos mal de dos. L’auto guérison est un outil d’Amour.

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Hello everyone!

While I continue to develop my yoga practice, I have decided to launch a combination of my two passions: Communications & Philanthropy!

If you work in or are considering to launch a nonprofit organization, follow my page, I will be publishing advice, tools and great reads!

Namaste.

As long as I can remember, I have been fighting for some cause or another. Be it for animal rights, the environment, social justice or healthy food systems, I was always defending a belief in a better world.

However, the constant fighting for and defending of causes left me drained, heavily anxious and feeling isolated. I put all of my energy into trying to "save" the world, neglecting the most important thing in it: myself.

You cannot just throw yourself into bringing about change to the external world if you do not start with the inner world. The same goes for philanthropic organizations, how can we bring about change if we ourselves are not changing?

Through my many years of experience working in the philanthropic sector, I have developed a holistic, three-pronged approach to guide organizations in reaching their goals. For change and growth to happen we must enact change on three levels:

1 - As individuals
2 - As a team through our interpersonal relationships
3 - As an organization through large-scale impact

Are you ready to bring about change?

I've been away for a while...

This winter has been a great opportunity for me to hunker down and refocus on what is really important: self-care and self-love. 💆

This is a picture from one of my last outdoor photoshoots before we shut down the gym and I lost my motivation to work on Hakuna MaPrana at all. The fresh air, the hike up the mountain.. it felt so good to connect with it all.

Near the end, I got caught up in doing yoga more for my business and for social media more than for my own wellbeing. I started neglecting my own practice and in the end... myself.

Has this ever happened to you, getting lost in the business of something you love?

👇Let me know I'd love to hear your stories!

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty" - Winston Churchill

The -19 pandemic has drastically altered our current reality and has impacted so many dimensions of our lives.

At first, I was lost. I lost one of my jobs, and didn't know if I would be able to continue paying the bills. I missed my friends, my routine, my stability. Why did it all have to change?

Once I stopped seeing the pandemic as a difficulty and more as an opportunity, everything changed. I turned my gaze away from the incessant flow of anxiety-laced media and shifted it inwards instead.

How could I transform this into a blessing, into a gift?

Amongst many other things, this self-reflection process brought me to the decision to become a certified yoga instructor and help other people connect with themselves as well as with their kids!

Hakuna MaPrana was born, inspired of course by the infamous song:

🎶 It means no worries for the rest of your days,
It's our problem-free philosophy,
Hakuna Matata! 🎶

All the answers are within you, you just need to go find them!

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty" - Winston Churchill

This past winter was a challenging time for everyone. The world shut down, seeming to fold in on itself. The streets were empty, businesses shut their doors, and held our breath as a collective.

My initial reaction was one of shock. I lost one of my two jobs, causing some initial panic. I then found myself homebound like everyone else. The social butterfly, workaholic that I am begged for any form of interaction that did not involve a screen.

I cried. I screamed.
I was anxious. I was angry.
I was scared. I was worried.

Then I realized I had an incredible opportunity in front of me. For the first time in years, I had free time. FREE TIME. I could actually do the things I kept on putting off. I finally had the time to work on myself, something too many people neglect to do.

I wiped away the tears, pulled on my big girl pants and took control of myself.

I started exercising every day.
I took my yoga practice more seriously.
I took a more active role in my stepson's education and began home schooling him.
I researched ways to be self-sufficient, both emotionally and financially.

This is how Hakuna MaPrana came to be.

Whenever we are faced with difficult situations, we always have the choice of how we want to face them: as roadblocks, or as opportunities.

Your smile will shine brightest after a moment of sadness 😊

So, what do you choose, Pessimist or Optimist?

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." ― George Bernard Shaw

The prestigious Unicorn Pose is a great way to strengthen your glutes, quads and your sense of humor 😂