Anna Marina Bensaud, RYT
Anna Marina Bensaud is a Somatic Exploration Practitioner who offers individual, couples and group sessions as well as intensive workshops that draw on a wealth of life experience as well as practical tools from an array of therapeutic as well as spiritual modalities. Her primary aim is always to co-create a safe space, honoring the individual’s innate ability to unlock blockages and access parts of themselves that often remain inaccessible, in an environment of permission and authenticity.
As a 450 hr RYT Yoga Instructor with a background in group therapy facilitating geared toward recovery from addiction, as well as a human being who has spent years on her own path to healing from trauma, she chooses a primarily somatic, intuitive, body-based approach to her process with clients, focusing on the whole person with an emphasis on exploring the infinite potentialities of the central nervous system through grounding, play, expression and integration.
Anna’s professional life began as an actor and she went on to study Theater in Russia as well as NYC before traveling extensively. While living in foreign countries off and on from 19 to 36, she encountered aspects of the healing arts such as Dynamic Meditation, EFT, Parts Work, Inner Child Retrieval, Shamanic Breathwork and Kundalini Yoga. All of these traditions inform her sessions as well as her life. She believes that a full range of human experience is our birthright and that the path emerges when we are witnessed in a compassionate container.
