This is me
Some facts about me:
I have practiced yoga since my teenage days and taught yoga and meditation classes for more than 10 years.
I have attended more than 1000 hours of continuous yoga teacher trainings in traditional hatha yoga, anusara and iyengar inspired yoga, vinyasa, embodied yin yoga, meditation and breath work. I draw from all of them in my yoga offerings.
I find peace in mantra and meditation.
I have a B.Sc. in Natural Resource Management and a M.Sc. in Rural Development Studies from the University of Copenhagen and I’m trained in conflict sensitivity and facilitation of multi-stakeholder dialogue processes.
For most of my adult life I was moving. The Philippines, Nepal, Kenya, Malawi, France, Berlin — each place a chapter, each project a reason to believe that change was possible. I loved that life. I still believe in the work.
But somewhere along the way I started noticing a quiet pull in a different direction. Not away from meaning, but toward something more rooted. Toward a place where I could see the results of my own hands’ work. Where the pace was set by seasons rather than project cycles.
Ærø had, unknowingly, been in the background of my life since childhood just across the water, small and unhurried. When I started listening to that pull, it was the place that started calling.
In 2020 I stopped waiting and started building. I bought a farmhouse from 1868. Built three guest rooms. A yoga shala with a view across the fields to the Baltic Sea. And 1.5 hectares of land that we are slowly, patiently turning into something living: a market garden grown on regenerative principles bringing life back into the soil and growing healthy vegetables.
It's not finished. It probably never will be, and I've made peace with that.
What I've found here is something I have been looking for myself for many years: a place where people arrive carrying the weight of full lives and leave feeling like they can breathe again. That gives me joy. It also keeps me going.
I still do consultancy work in international development — land rights, natural resource governance, sustainable land management — because that knowledge doesn't disappear and the problems haven't either. But Atma is where I live, in every sense of that word.
If you're longing for a deep breath, you're welcome here. Come as you are.
— Anna