About | Anna Elise Yoga

The ego is who we think we are

I came to yoga in 2016. There's no big story there; I was just a friendly tag-along to one of my older sister's Power Yoga classes in Charleston. I didn't know much about yoga, just a few basic poses. I had such a skewed perception about yoga...I thought it was all stretching and chill. When the teacher started to cue the class into breath, I started giggling because it seemed so silly. Throughout that class, as I followed my sister's lead, I started to find my own movement with my breath. I left that class wanting more, and boy, have I certainly gotten what I asked for...

Year by year, I found that the more I went through hard stuff in life, the more I could use yoga to let it all go. Yoga was therapy for me. I'd been through a LOT of hard stuff throughout those next few years, and the only place I felt safe was inside the yoga studio. The more I leaned into yoga, the more I felt like I could heal myself. The inspiration and wisdom that the teachers shared that helped me heal only made me want to share my wisdom with others to help them on their journey.

Through journaling, practicing yoga, and traveling, more and more pieces of me were healing. It took years and so many mini-quarter-life-crises, but I finally made it into a teacher training in 2022, and that was the awakening of it all. I learned more about myself than I could have ever imagined, and I finally felt safe again. Through that training, I gained more than just teaching skills for inside the studio.

I gained knowledge about myself. I gained community. I gained pure and unconditional love for myself.

And this is just the beginning of being totally IN my journey.

Through my journey, I have uncovered such a passion that I didn't know was buried so deep within me.

I am here for you. I am here to help you through your journey.

So, we begin our moment of here and now, together.