Bali · Bondi

Anima

Anima exists for those who dare to look.

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The Work

Three ways in

The body keeps its own record — and it is always taking notes. This work listens beneath thought, where what you carry is actually held, and lets it release.

Kundalini Activation

A facilitated journey working with the body's life force energy through movement, breathwork and activation. Held in a safe, contained space, it allows what has been stored to move. Group and private sessions in Bali and Bondi.

Ritual

A modern sauna ceremony in community — six themed rounds of heat, breath and contrast, timed to the lunar cycle. Tradition and collective presence woven into a deliberate reset, alongside others moving through the same.

Retreats

Deeper immersions for those ready to go further — a full day in Sydney, a two-night retreat interstate, or five days in Bali. The same work, with the time and space to truly land: extended activations, ceremony, rest and integration.

The Name

Why Anima

In Latin, anima is soul. Breath. The animating force — what separates a living thing from one that merely functions.

Carl Jung gave the word a second life. For him, the anima was the hidden interior: the part of you the world never trained, never rewarded, never asked to perform. The self beneath the self you assembled to survive.

It does not strive. It does not manage. It waits — patient, exact — for the moment you are finally willing to turn toward it.

Anima is the work of meeting it. Not to repair who you are, but to return to who you have always been beneath it.

We named ourselves Into Anima — for the movement toward the soul, not away from it. The turning inward that begins the moment you are willing.

The power to live as the most authentic version of you.

Anima's Story

The quiet unravelling of what always was

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
— Carl Jung

There is a version of you that functions very well. That delivers, performs, holds it together — built around a career, a goal, an identity, often through a quiet kind of suppression.

That version is not false. But it is not complete.

Most people spend years inside it before something interrupts the architecture. A loss. An ending. A silence that won't fill. This is not failure. It is arrival.

I know, because I lived it.

The way back is through the body — not around what we carry, but through it. This energy, this practice, can move what talk cannot.

What follows is not resolution. It is alignment — a slow, sometimes confronting reckoning with what no longer belongs. The energy does that. It is not gentle. But it is precise. It moves toward what is real and away from what is performed.

Anima exists for anyone standing where I once stood. Not to repair, not to return to who they were, but because something truer is trying to emerge.

This work does not ask you to force. It asks you to be courageous enough to look.

And to stop running from what you find.

More about Gigi

In their words

"Gigi explained the work from both a scientific and a spiritual point of view, and both really resonated with me. It's crystal clear she practices what she preaches."
"Gigi has a grounded, genuine energy that made me feel at ease immediately. With her facilitating, I felt held — and free to release whatever came up."
"One of the things I appreciate most is Gigi's ability to meet you exactly where you're at. Whether I'm overwhelmed, stuck or simply needing a reset, I always leave with more clarity, connection and trust in myself."
"The work has supported me through significant personal growth, and I'm grateful to have someone I trust holding space for that process."
"Gigi has a real gift for this work. She brings intuition, presence and care to every session, and makes you feel completely supported while letting your own process unfold. Warm, genuine, and deeply committed to the people she supports."
"If you're curious about Kundalini Activation, I highly recommend working with Gigi. Her integrity, skill, and ability to hold such a safe and empowering space make every session a truly valuable experience."

Offerings

Into Anima
The becoming

Bondi, Sydney ·
By invitation and waitlist

By invitation & waitlist · cohorts kept deliberately small · the list is notified first

Flagship

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Kundalini
Activation

A facilitated practice working with life force energy. You lie still, and something moves — clearing, releasing, reorganising what has been held. Not something you do, but something you allow, within a safe, held space. Group and private sessions, in Bali and Bondi.

$80 per person

Max 10 · Private 1:1 & online on enquiry

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The Ritual

A modern sauna ceremony and guided steam ritual — six themed rounds of heat and breath, with cold-contrast therapy between, timed to the lunar cycle. Tradition, contrast and shared presence, woven into a complete reset. A journey inward, not a spa.

$95 per person

Max 4 · Timed to the lunar cycle

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Private &
Corporate

Kundalini Activation and somatic ritual brought to your group — private 1:1 work, a closed session for friends marking a threshold together, or a considered experience for teams and founders in place of the usual offsite. Held at the Bondi studio or a private space of your choosing in Sydney.

Price on application

Private 1:1 · Groups · Teams

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Gift Vouchers

Give someone the way in. Vouchers are available for any single offering or as an open value, presented digitally and redeemable against a session or ceremony when the recipient is ready. A quiet, generous gesture for someone standing at their own threshold.

Any value

Digital · Valid for 3 years

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Retreats

Go deeper

Domestic · Bali ·
Applications open

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Sydney · Interstate

Domestic Immersion

Full day in Sydney · or 2 nights interstate · 6–8 guests

A premium immersion built around four intensive Kundalini Activations and a shared lunch, held in one deliberately sequenced day in Sydney — or extended to a two-night retreat interstate. Ritual and Ayurvedic food to ground. The depth of Bali, closer to home, for those who want to go inward without going far.

Price on application

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Flagship

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Uluwatu, Bali

The Threshold

5 nights · 6–8 guests · Full immersion

Five days in Bali. A complete immersion in Kundalini Activation, ritual, ceremony and somatic practice. Not a yoga retreat. Not a holiday. A container for the kind of change that does not reverse when you come home. Held at a private retreat space in Uluwatu. Numbers strictly limited. Applications reviewed personally.

Price on application

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The Process

How you enter

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Join the waitlist

Anima is currently open by invitation and waitlist. Add your name and what you're drawn to. You'll hear from Anima directly.

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Intake & conversation

Before any session, a short intake form. Some offerings require a brief conversation first. This is not bureaucracy. It is care.

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The session

Private studio, Bondi. Small numbers. Unhurried. A journey to self.

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Integration

The work continues after the session. Integration guidance is provided. Follow-up is available. The process does not end when you leave the room.

Questions

Things people ask

A facilitated practice that works with the body's own life force energy — distinct from yoga, meditation, or breathwork. You lie still while the facilitator holds a safe, contained space. We don't transmit anything to you; we create the conditions for what the body has been holding to move — clearing, releasing, settling. What arises varies and is different for everyone: physical movement, emotional release, profound stillness, deep rest. There is nothing to do, and nothing to force.
Group and private sessions are held in a private studio in Bondi, Sydney. Retreats and immersions are held at private properties in Bali (Uluwatu) and interstate, with full-day immersions in Sydney. Exact locations are shared with confirmed bookings only.
Anyone standing at a threshold. A significant ending, the beginning of something unknown, grief, loss, or the slow accumulation of a life that no longer fits the person living it. No prior experience with spiritual practice is required. Genuine willingness is.
Because the part of you that feels it isn't the part that built the life. You can meet every external marker of a life working — and still sense something held, braced, unavailable. This isn't a failure of will or gratitude. The body keeps its own record, and the patterns that once protected you — the holding, the over-functioning, the quiet vigilance — were intelligent adaptations to what you lived through. They don't dissolve because circumstances improved; they wait in the nervous system until conditions are safe enough to let them move. Kundalini Activation and somatic breathwork work beneath the level of analysis, where those patterns are actually held — not to explain what you carry, but to let the body finish what it began.
Yes. Somatic breathwork and Kundalini Activation work directly with what the body holds: unprocessed grief, loss, and the kind of self-inquiry that follows significant life change. Many people arrive at Anima in the aftermath of bereavement, separation, or a long-held sense of outgrowing their life. The work does not ask you to analyse or explain what you are carrying. It creates the conditions for it to move.
Yes — and we hold the soul language and the science together, without collapsing one into the other. The somatic field this work draws on is well established: Bessel van der Kolk's research on how trauma is held in the body, Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing, and Stephen Porges' polyvagal theory of how the nervous system moves between threat and safety. The breath is studied too — a 2023 Stanford randomised controlled trial (Balban et al., Cell Reports Medicine) found that short daily breathwork improved mood and lowered physiological arousal more than mindfulness meditation. Even putting words to what you carry has evidence behind it, through James Pennebaker's research on expressive writing. None of this replaces the felt experience. It grounds it.
Kundalini Activation is gentle, but it is not suitable for everyone. Please do not attend if you are pregnant, have epilepsy, a serious heart or vascular condition (including an aneurysm), or a history of psychosis, schizophrenia, mania or bipolar disorder. It is also not appropriate during an acute mental health crisis, in the period following major surgery, or while under the influence of alcohol or drugs. If you are carrying severe or unresolved trauma, please come with professional support in place. The intake process exists to assess suitability honestly and with care — if you are unsure, reach out before joining the waitlist.
The Ritual is a modern sauna ceremony and guided steam ritual — combining tradition, contrast and collective presence into a complete reset. For up to four in Bondi, timed to the lunar cycle. Across six fifteen-minute rounds, each with its own theme, Anima leads you through heat, breath, sound and intention, with cold-contrast therapy between rounds. It is structured and intentional, not passive heat: the interplay of warmth and cold eases the body, supports recovery and settles the nervous system. A threshold experience, not a spa.
Retreats are immersive multi-day experiences: new locations, extended time, smaller groups. They are coming in 2026. Register your interest in the retreats section above and you will be the first to receive details on dates, locations and pricing when they are confirmed.
Anima is currently invitation-only and waitlist-based. Add your name and details below and Anima will be in touch when a suitable date opens. There is no obligation at the waitlist stage.

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