Annika Autumn Williams R.Y.T.Vinyasa Flow with Anusara Inspiration
Annika Autumn Williams was introduced to Yoga while studying English Literature and Dance at the University of Oregon. Her spiritual journey brought this Singer, Song-writer, Poet, Dancer, and Artist of the Performing and Visual Arts, to find in Yoga a beautiful union of it all, and a path to spiritual and physical harmony.
Annika teaches Vinyasa Flow, & Shakti Flow Yoga. The alignment that Annika teaches and practices is directly inspired by the Anusara Universal Principles of Alignment. Annika passionately studies Anusara Yoga, and has mentored closely under luminary Anusara Instructor, Samantha Shakti Brown for over 3 years. From her study of Anusara, and her Dynamic Hatha, Iyengar, and Dance roots, a biomechanically healing, creatively sequenced, and spiritually inspiring practice unfolds in her teaching. Her classes are a choreography of strategic sequencing to open the body, heart, and spirit, building gracefully into an invigorating crescendo of fun, flowing Sun Salutation variations, moving to the rhythm of the breath. Her eloquent instructions make the postures more accessible, and her intuitive sequencing and knowledge of anatomy and biomechanics opens, strengthens, and repatterns the body, leading us to safely experience new depths and physical freedoms, as seamless transitions inspire the bliss of graceful movement.
Her attention to mindfulness and alignment offers a safe and liberating practice, guiding her students to the healing, therapeutic freedom in the poses, so that we learn to soar in the lightness of finding our centers while bringing our bodies into balance.
Annika offers a compassionate & empowering space for us to connect with our highest Selves. Her classes provide an opportunity for expansion, to go beyond the physical practice and tap into a deeper healing and harmony with ourselves and the world, awakening to our own inner power at the heart of everyone's being.
Annika is known for her skill in eloquently instructing all levels of Yoga students, from extremely advanced to very beginning students, and for her work with therapeutic Yoga, utilizing biomechanically repatterning alignment to help clients heal and recover from injuries, post surgery, and from illnness.
Annika works with Pacific Therx, a leading physical therapy clinic is Portola Valley & Los Altos, as their Yoga physical therapist, using the healing, & profoundly anatomically harmonizing Universal Principles of Alignment to help clients heal & rehabilitate from injuries, surgeries, & illness.
Annika is a graduate of the Avalon Yoga Teacher Training and Certification Program in Palo Alto, California, where she apprenticed with Senior B.K.S. Iyengar Certified Instructor, Ben Thomas. Annika has mentored woth Samantha Shakti Brown for 3 years, and is journeying toward Anusara Cetification. Currently she is beginning an additonal mentorship with Anusara Certified Instructor, Kenny Graham. She also studied closely with luminary and inspirational instructors Anirudh Shastri, and John Berg.
