I’m Anja — an embodiment coach, a theoretical physicist who left academia, a Shaolin disciple, a Chan (Zen) meditator, and a mother of three. My work is for women who are highly capable on the outside — and quietly empty on the inside. Together, we reconnect with what’s gone quiet.
My background is both scientific and contemplative: science taught me precision; Zen and Shaolin training taught me how to meet discomfort with grace.
Embodiment coaching brought rational, analytical understanding into lived experience, and meditation off the cushion and into real life. It made the integration of intellectual understanding and contemplative practice more direct and effective, while also revealing forms of bypassing and blind spots that meditation and thinking alone had not exposed. Meditation, embodiment practice, and continuous learning are all part of how I show myself kindness and respect each day. They give me a more conscious choice in how I live my moments — as a lived practice, refined through experience and results.
Nature, family, and close friendships are also essential to my well-being. You will often find me playing outside with my children, walking in the forest, tending to our garden, or spending nourishing time with people I love. The way I choose to live day to day keeps me happy — and it keeps me firm where it matters, and caring throughout.
Teachers & Lineages
Embodiment coaching: Mark Walsh (Embodiment Unlimited) — learning since 2021
Shaolin & Chan (Zen): Shifu Shi Heng Dao — learning since 2008
Training & credentials
PhD in Theoretical Physics
NLP Life & Business Coaching Certification (2021)
Embodiment Coaching Certification (2023)
Masters of Embodiment Coaching — member since 2024
Embodiment Toolkit (2026)
Trauma-aware coaching — in training
The way I train myself lies at the heart of how I move through life and how I work. It has shaped in me a calm, non-judgmental presence, and a willingness to stay with discomfort rather than rush past it. It keeps teaching me to listen more carefully, to notice what is true here and now, and to meet activation — in myself and in others — with steadiness and compassion.
It has also taught me to trust practice more than insight alone. Again and again, I have found that change becomes real through small, lived repetitions — through the ways we return, notice, choose, and begin again. That is why commitment matters to me, both in my own life and in the women I work with. Over time, this kind of practice helps us lay down the layers we learned to carry — the ones that were never truly ours.
I have a mission to bring embodiment and honest self-contact into places where it’s most impactful — and most missing: leadership, responsibility, and relentless competence. I believe this doesn’t only change individual lives; it changes how people lead, relate, and make decisions. And when a calm, aligned, fully alive leader walks into a room, her presence ripples outward — shaping culture from the top down.
Imagine a world where more people took responsibility for their inner state — not by forcing positivity, but by learning steadiness, self-honesty, and repair. That’s a quieter kind of better world, and it starts one nervous system at a time.
Are you with me?
Whether you feel called to step into more aliveness and alignment in your own life, or you sense there may be a meaningful way for us to collaborate, I’d love to hear from you.