Ana X Chakora

Yogic Life Coach
Sharing yoga as a life support system to help YOU navigate the murky waters of life Online 1 on 1 yoga teaching

23/10/2025

No tidy bow, no polished ending… just the raw truth of the in-between.

Lately, I am experiencing the subtle intensity of my existence like never before.

When we truly dare to look at ourselves — really look — with honesty and courage, it can be disarming. Uncomfortable. Confronting. The questions arise like waves crashing on the shore:
🌿 Who am I?
🌿 How did I arrive here, sharing the things I share?
🌿 Who am I to support others?
🌿 Is the way I’m living truly sustainable — for myself, for my community?

For someone who has experienced more than one burnout… the answer, it seems, is: not yet.

And so I pause. I let the mud stir. I let the water ripple. I allow the questions to be asked, not for answers, but for the sake of the asking itself.

🌀 What does it mean to be human, in this moment? To be in this world, this body, this breath?

I rest in the unknown.
I rest in the discomfort.
I rest in the quiet knowing that I am the earth, and the clarity will come.

There is no neat conclusion here — and perhaps that’s the point. Life is not a paragraph with a full stop.
It is a dance. A swirl. A song unfolding.

And so it is.

**rayoga

16/10/2025

“The Dance Begins when we stop trying to make it happen” (Steve Paxton)

Collective Consious jam with in Goa

📍 Heartflow Shala, , Pernem Road, Arambol
🗓️Every Saturday, 11 am - 1 pm
💰 Exchange: 500 INR

Open to all levels: though we recommend having at least three Contact Improvisation classes to feel comfortable with the basics.

What to expect:
We begin in an open circle, arriving together through a guided score. From there, the jam opens into free exploration - a space to listen, move, and meet through gravity, touch, and imagination. We’ll close the session together with a grounding practice.

In these jams, the focus rests on connecting to our hearts and harvesting the earth into shared imaginations. Inviting awareness and attunement towards listening, being your whole self, and cultivating curiosity. Each dance becomes an opportunity to deepen attention and discover new layers of connection.

This is a held container, so please respect time and presence.

💫 Facilitators💫

- Dancer, Bodywork Therapist & Somatic Enthusiast. Former Level 1 Gyrotonic®️ Teacher Trainer, Ryan now explores somatic relations in community, bridging Contact Improvisation with communication, deep listening, and extended care.

- Founder of The Intimacy Project, Ana supports the space through the lens of presence and care.

Come dance, connect, and fall into the poetry of being. 🌸

**raMeetsMovement

20/05/2025

🌑 New Moon Shakti Circle

Tuesday 27th May 2025 | Online | 90 minutes
A sacred space for womb holders to gather, ground, and reconnect.

As the moon disappears into darkness, we too are invited inward—into the mystery, the quiet, the fertile void. Under the potent energy of the Gemini New Moon, we meet in circle to explore the whispers of our inner world, guided by breath, sound, and womb wisdom.

Gemini’s energy brings air, curiosity, and communication. It invites us to soften the mind’s chatter and speak from the body, to write from the womb, to listen from the heart. This moon supports sacred expression, self-inquiry, and the courage to name what is ready to be felt.

In this 90-minute gathering, we will:
🌿 Share in circle and connect with one another
🌀 Drop into the heart and the womb through guided breath and sound
🖋 Write from the body, from sensation, from truth
🎶 Chant together to activate Shakti and open the voice
🌑 Honour the new moon as a portal of deep feminine rest and renewal

This is a space of softness, slowness, and sensitivity—open to all womb holders who feel the call to connect more intimately with their inner rhythms, emotional landscape, and feminine essence.

Come as you are.
Bring a journal, water, and something to support your comfort.
Let’s gather in the dark together—and remember our light from within.

✨ Booking now open, comment New Moon and I’ll send you the sign up link

**raForWomen

10/05/2025

We spend so much time asking why.

Why am I crying?
Why do I feel this way?
Why can’t I just move on?

But what if the asking is the very thing keeping us stuck?

From Osho:
“Accept the real, and then crying is also beautiful and there is no need to go into the inquiry of ‘Why?’ Because that inquiry distracts you from the factual.”

You don’t need to trace every emotion back to its root.
You don’t need to roll around in it or cling to it.

Let the tears fall without explanation.
Let the anger move through without guilt.
Let your joy radiate without fear.

We’ve been conditioned to constantly question our emotions.
To dissect. To understand. To control.

But true healing often begins when we stop trying to make sense of it all—
and simply feel.

Breathe and let be.
Feel without fear.
Express without justification.

And then move—unquestionably—into the next moment.
Not everything needs to be understood.
Some things just need to be felt.

📸

24/04/2025

when someone is alive and in your life, you’re rarely just connecting with them in the present moment.

You’re often meeting the whole history of that relationship.
Every past experience.
Every reaction.
Every wound or joy or misunderstanding still lingering in your system.

And even with the best intentions, the most open awareness,
it’s like there’s still a kind of interference—
a subtle noise—that filters the now.

But when someone dies… that noise dissolves.
When my dad passed,
something in that energetic field cleared.

All that remained was the essence—
pure love, clarity, and a deep impulse to keep living as me.

Since his death,
I still feel the same curiosity and passion to follow what I love.
But now, there’s something new.
A kind of freedom—
like the fear of judgement that was never really his, but mine—has finally let go.

And this has made me look more closely…

At how much past experience colors my present-moment interactions—
with friends, with lovers, with family.
How often I’m not just meeting them,
but meeting my memory of them.

There are exceptions.
Rare, beautiful connections built on raw, honest truth—
where everything can be laid bare and still be loved.
Where judgement truly doesn’t enter.

But for the rest…
it’s humbling to see how much history defines our relating.

And so this is my practice now.
My focus.
To really be here with people.

Not in the past version of them.
Not through the filter of old fear or assumption.
But in the present.

This, I believe, is one of the real siddhis of yoga, of ta**ra, of meditation—
to meet each moment and each person with fresh eyes.
To stay with your body,
your mind,
your heart—exactly as they are.

Even if the other person isn’t doing that.
Even if it’s hard.
Because the most important thing is that you be present.

That you be real.

That you be here.

22/04/2025

Problems vs. Purpose.

As humans, we need purpose.
It’s essential to our being.
To feel connected, meaningful, alive.

And when we don’t have it?
When our work isn’t aligned…
When our days are filled with tasks that help us survive but not thrive…
We grow bored. Dissatisfied. Restless.

So we start creating problems.

Tiny ones. Big ones. Emotional ones.
Endless loops of distraction.
Because the body-mind-spirit needs something to engage with.

Then—maybe—we stumble into a practice.
A teaching.
A teacher.
A thread of something that offers meaning.

But the problem-making habit is already running deep.

So what do we do?
We bring that habit with us.
We never quite go beneath the surface of the teaching.

Instead, we say things like:
“That didn’t resonate.”
“She looked at me strangely.”
“They didn’t say it right.”

We create problems—subtle, convincing ones—so we never let the teaching truly land in the soul.
So we never stay long enough for it to transform us.

And the ego?
It claps us on the back and says:
“Great job. You’ve mastered this. What’s next?”

Just like flicking to the next reel on Instagram—
Next teacher.
Next practice.
Next identity.

But what if the very thing we’re calling a problem
is actually the gateway to our purpose?

What if the discomfort… the tension… the resistance…
is exactly where we’re meant to stay?
To breathe.
To listen.
To let it change us.

Purpose isn’t something we scroll to.
It’s something we surrender to.

21/04/2025

Since my father’s diagnosis… and then his passing…
something inside me has become unmistakably clear.

We create our problems.
We feed them.
We cling to them—like lifelines, like distractions, like they give us something to do.

Because to live without a problem?
To sit in the stillness of no fixing, no figuring out?
That takes courage.
And presence.

Osho writes:

“A problem gives you an occupation. A problem gives you a busyness without any business.”

And I feel that.
I’ve seen how easily we let the mind stir and spin.
How we go on clinging to the rim of the wheel,
afraid to drop into the quiet, empty hub at the center of our being.

Since losing my dad, I’ve stopped entertaining so much of that noise.
I’ve found refuge in the tiniest things:
smelling a flower, switching my phone off, sitting quietly with my breath.

Daily practice isn’t just a routine anymore.
It’s how I come home.
It’s how I remember—that the problems are rarely the point.

When we dare to go within,
to look from the inside out,
the “big ones” we thought were so scary begin to shift.

Still there, maybe.
But no longer holding us hostage.

15/04/2025

As I sit and breathe,
I can feel the weight of my mind—
the strength of its will,
its ability to send sensations racing through my body,
trying to pull me away from my chosen point of focus.

So many times in life,
I flip from one thing to another…
sometimes multiple times a minute.

But through the conscious choice to come back—
to choose my breath,
to relax my body,
to allow myself to be in the honest moment…

to be with my breath
as if I’m breathing with a lover,
in stillness,
in silence…

something soothing and indescribable happens.

My whole being surrenders into itself.

28/03/2025

It is with great sadness to share the passing of my dear old pops and best friend. Peter Michel Eveleigh.

Died on 14th March in the early hours of the morning, in the company of his son, and his dearest companion, little nugget.

We will be holding a thanksgiving service at 2pm on 30th April at Holy Trinity Church, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire. followed by drinks at the Riverside. (Timbralls yard)

Please feel free to come and pay your respects to dear Peter and enjoy a pint of cider in his memory. All he wanted for his funeral was for it to be a good excuse to get together. So let’s all come together and celebrate the life and memories shared.

30/01/2025

🌸 Calling All Who Identify as Women 🌸

Join us for a raw and real journey into the deep complexities and wisdom of the feminine.

🗓️ Monday
⏰ 6PM - 7.30 PM
📍 *Heart Flow Shala @ RaKa Cafe, Pernem Road*
https://maps.app.goo.gl/WnNVYwGgeRmBxN6b9
💰 300 INR

This intimate session begins with connecting and discovering what’s alive in us, weaving into embodiment practices to serve our collective needs, followed by voice and womb exploration. We’ll close with deep sharing to honour what arises.

Through practices rooted in Womb Wisdom, Emotional Intelligence, Yoga, Ta**ra, and Ayurveda, we’ll co-create a space to support you and the collective in the present moment.

🌷 Connect to your truth. Embrace what is deeply moving within. 🌷

📲 Contact Ana on WhatsApp: +447940074913

✨ You are warmly invited into this sacred container of feminine connection and exploration. 💗

04/01/2025

When I stay in this ceromony on New Year’s Eve… little@did I know of the events to follow… a bike crash at 3.30am… and loosing my passport… 2 events that shook me to my core.

I had already decided ti take January off.. to rest and recalibrate after the madness of the last 3 months… opening a new venue.. 2 courses, farther diagnosed with cancer.. last minute trip home to the uk for Christmas..visa complications… I’m exhausted… so I was going tot late my self of to Sri Lanka to rest and pamper my self whilst my visa gets sorted. But instead… looks like I’m flying back to the uk to get a new passport. The grace of this, is that I will get to spend 3 more weeks with my dad. At home I can rest and recalibrate. And also help support mom in her care for dad. And thankfully, for once in my life, I can afford to take this action. My mantra has been I always have enough. Upgraded to … I always have more than enough! And this is@not just for money. This is for everything. I always have more than enough to love this Beautifull life. The self maybe contracted in the body, under the weight of maya.. but it is apart of everything. And when apart of something so large as the universe, how can you ever have anything less then is needed! The mantra for 2025, is go slow… take care… so with a new pace of being, I go slow into the events of making plans. I Keane deeper into my trust, discovering new corners of my practice, new corners of my relationships, of my existence. The saying.. when life gives you lemons.. make lemonade. So with these lemons gifted to me, u make lemonade. And I’ll be back in India ready for ht biggest intimacy project EVER in February. To hold and to share all that life is about, and support each and everyone is finding their one lemonade.

Happy new year everyone. May your year be filled with lemonade

**ra

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About Ana X Chakora

Ana’s passion shines so bright, and her down to earth, real life application makes anything seem possible. Her classes are intuitive, creative, joyful and create an experience for you to connect with your true self. She only has one rule. No one is allowed to say ‘I CAN'T’! Rather let's open the mindset to find a way that works for you. Thereby making the un achievable achievable.

Whether you being taught yoga, or receiving a numerology reading, or a Pellowah healing, Ana will always encourage you to explore, challenge and expand what you think is possible within your mind and body.

Over the past 3 years Ana has built a reputation on integrity, honesty, and treats all students as equals. Sharing her knowledge of the 8 limbs of yoga, not just asana. This teaching approach sees her students develop within all 8 limbs, and integrate this into their daily lives.

Ana’s Teaching training experiences have been off extremes. Her 200hr was with Dylan Werner in 2017 and her 300hr was in Rishikesh with the Himalayan Yoga Association. Two incredibly different experiences, that has sparked her life purpose. To teach teachers and prepare them for the real world, whilst exposing them to what it truly means to live the yogic lifestyle. Since dedicating her life to yoga, the world has opened up and she is super excited to be apart of the Living with Sages core team.