About Dr Anny

For thirty years I’ve been working in wellness.

It began at seventeen with shiatsu and meditation. Two practices that changed the course of my life. In the late nineties I was a partner in Melbourne's first vegan macrobiotic café, Wild Rice, where food as medicine was not yet widely recognised.

I spent fifteen years living and working in Istanbul, deepening my practice in shiatsu, qigong and somatic work. Time in New York brought nutrition, coaching and the rich threads of Chinese medicine and Taoist philosophy into the weave.

The work has never stopped growing.

And in recent years something has shifted in me and in the women I see.

My own perimenopause and menopause brought a clarity I did not expect. After decades of deep personal healing, this past chapter has been the most profound.

Now in my late 50’s a deepening acknowledgement that our health is not separate from our lives or our histories.

The compounded stress, the roles we carry, the grief we have not processed, the self we have quietly set aside to fit in, to prove ourselves, to matter.

It all lives in our body. There is no doubt about that now.

Something is moving in the collective. Women are finding their voices in their homes, their workplaces, their relationships and their own inner lives.

It is not always comfortable. But it is undeniable.

Families have become pressure cookers of hormonal and emotional intensity. Teenagers navigating identity, academic pressure and a world reshaped by technology that is unpredictable and fast. Parents running on empty, holding the household nervous system together while managing their own perimenopause, burnout and the grief of a world that keeps changing faster than we can integrate.

Everyone is full. Everyone is adjusting. And the uncertainty is not going away.

What I am witnessing in clinic is that the ancient practices of qigong, Chinese medicine, somatic awareness and breath are more relevant now than they have ever been.

Not as alternatives to modern life but as anchors within it.

What these practices cultivate above everything else is adaptability.

The capacity to be with uncertainty. The nervous system that can move through difficulty rather than brace against it.

When that shifts, the symptoms that seemed fixed begin to move.

This is not about perfection or performance. It is about developing a relationship with our body that is honest enough to acknowledge when things are not okay.

And trusting enough to do something about it.