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Ansley is formally certified as an Integrative Holistic Health Coach (IIN HCTP) and Certified Clutter Coach (Linn Method for Clutter Clearing™). She graduated from the University of Arizona with a Bachelors of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Design. She is an experienced practitioner in the fields of yoga, meditation, breathwork, and Feng Shui. She consistently continues to expand and deepen her practices— as she believes this work is a lifelong journey.

Ansley's most extensive training is from her life experiences. Her own inner & outer journeys, difficulties, travels, experimentations, explorations, healing, and transformations have deeply inspired and informed her coaching practice. You can learn more about Ansley's personal journey below.

My Journey Through Inner & Outer Space

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For as long as I can remember I have been fascinated by and passionate about the spaces around me. As a kid, my room was my sanctuary, my place of refuge and a kind of laboratory in which I experimented with the way space changed my experience. My room was my kingdom that I ruled and expressed myself through. To this day my relationship to my environment continues to be a foundation in my life and my urge to experiment with the home environment has only grown. It now encompasses a passion for working with other people’s spaces which I will say more about soon…

In my childhood and adolescent years life became very tumultuous for me. In a general sense my home was safe and I was always provided for. I have two loving, supportive parents and a very sweet brother. Still I experienced a growing discomfort. Along with financial difficulties and my parents separating, I suffered from insomnia, intermittent panic attacks, intense anxiety, frequent illness, and haunting perfectionism. These troubles culminated for me when, after I had invested my whole being in the dream of attending a particular art school in New York City, I discovered that I wouldn’t be able to enroll for lack of financial resources. Looking back, I can see clearly now how all of these difficulties were actually spurring the beginning of my spiritual transformation— though at the time I just felt terrible. My soul was beginning to take root more fully in my being and all of the ideas and roles that I had been trying to embody had to dissolve somehow.

After experiencing this kind of suffering for several years, I began looking for relief, seeking deeper truths about existence. I read, watched, and listened to everything I could get my hands on related to spirituality. I explored all kinds of practices and methods. Ram Dass, Eckhart Tolle, Alan Watts, and Don Miguel Ruiz were some of the early catalysts for my paradigm shifts. I also began to feel a call to all kinds of embodied practice. I was already into dance as a kid so yoga was a natural next step. Soon my local yoga studio became my second home and I met a wonderful teacher named Barb there who was kind of my first spiritual second-mother. I had begun a deep journey- both inwards and outwards by the age of 18.

As soon as I could travel independently, I began to seek beyond the desert of Arizona where I grew up. The East was calling and I wanted to immerse myself in her sacred lands and traditions. I traveled to Bhutan, a Buddhist kingdom nestled in the Himalayas. I was blown away by that experience. The people there were living the truths that I had read about in the books that I poured over back home. Their spiritual lives seemed so integrated in their everyday lives. And with the spaces they inhabited! This was a revelation. I also explored the temples of Thailand and traveled through the islands of Indonesia. In the spring of 2019 I came to Hawaii for the first time for a retreat with Ram Dass having no idea what an impact that meeting would have. Little did I know I would soon be calling Maui home.

In retrospect, I can see that all of the places that I was most drawn to, including the ones which I have yet to visit, share a common thread: the belief in sacred space. I was so moved to see first-hand these cultures where there is a natural understanding of the relationship between the material world and the energetic and spiritual realms— an understanding that they are completely intertwined— along with beautiful reverence for the ancestors. While experiencing these places of deep peace and potent energy, I found myself connecting to an innate place of clarity within me and soon a burning urge grew in me to share this perspective and knowledge with other people— to serve others through my natural gifts and interests. I wanted to empower people to transform their life through working with their inner and outer space— their inner being, body, and home.

Similar to temples, our homes are a crossing point in space and time where we can interface with the universe. Just as yoga and dance help us to embody our spiritual essence more in everyday life, conscious design and space clearing can help us to live more aligned with our essence within our homes, work environments, gathering spaces and beyond.

Over time I began to integrate my lifelong relationship with space with the understandings I gleaned from my travels and with the help of some amazing teachers whom I was blessed to encounter. I began experimenting and shifting my home with a new kind of conscious intention to create a space that best supports me and the specific goals and intentions that I was trying to actualize in my life. The results shocked me. Truly. It was the kind of alchemy I had only dreamed was possible before. I would make a change and a ceremony to accompany that change and BOOM things would change in my life. Opportunities would show up, money would appear, my phone would ring, a new insight would come through… So naturally I was encouraged to deepen the practice and understand it more fully. I explored philosophies such as Feng Shui, Vaastu, and ancient practices of energetic space cleansing. Through this exploration I came across Denise Linn who became a major influence and with whom I eventually trained and was certified as a clutter clearing coach with a decided spiritual bent.

I took these new insights first to my own laboratory of course, just as I had always done since I was a kid. Through clearing clutter and cleansing subtle energies, I created space for more clarity, abundance, creativity, joy, purpose and growth. The more my home flowed, the more my life flowed.

Remarkably when the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns appeared I was in the midst of forming the beginnings of my current business endeavor, helping other people to create a sense of sanctuary. I was amazed by the way in which I had been called to this work just as it seemed to be more important to me and everyone else than ever before. At the time, I was also finishing up my Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Design where I was integrating these principles of design with my passion for space. I was literally in the midst of transforming my apartment into a sanctuary for my thesis project when the first lockdown began in Arizona. I saw so clearly then that if we were going to be stuck in our little bubbles they had better be beautiful, cozy and nurturing bubbles!

Along with this outer space exploration, I also continued to dive into my own inner self-development, shadow work, and embodiment practices with the support of teachers and coaches. I dropped deeper and deeper into my heart-space. My life truly became my PHD. Full of experimentation and filtering teachings through my own experience, my own being, my own truth…

I now understand how our homes truly reflects ourselves. Our homes mirror our passions, beliefs, and dreams, but also our fears, blocks, and areas of stagnation. I realize how physical transformations in my space both anchor and spark my inner transformations. When I pair inner work with outer shifts, I experience even more powerful releases of my own limiting beliefs, patterns, and emotions. And those outer shifts help me integrate and embody the inner transformations.

I took interest in learning about how to work directly with other people, how I could better communicate my vision, and ultimately help other people transform their lives. I found myself called to train at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition where they managed to develop an amazing holistic coaching program where it was thoroughly understood just how individual individuals can be! I learned so much from this program experimenting with my own life, diet, exercise and health as well as coaching people formally in a structured way. When I'm on a call with a client I light up inside. I just love supporting people to live a more full and expansive version of their lives. Nothing feels better to me. 

I brought all the pieces together into my own integrative understanding and offerings. It has been so exciting to see how the, at first seemingly disparate, areas of interest and genius in my life all fit into one beautiful tapestry. A tapestry of understanding and approaches to self-development formed into a cohesive and clear modality that I can use to help other people with their journeys.

I feel so blessed to have this opportunity to work with such beautiful, radiant beings! My heart truly sings. Are you ready to live your fullest, most expansive life?

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