Shift in with aanch

Hi, it's aanch.

Take a few moments to shift in with me.

You're getting this because you've either been in a room with me through a Reframe workshop, a yoga class, or simply told me you wanted to stay in the loop. You may also be someone I love who I wanted to bring along for this! If that's not quite right for you, no hard feelings at all, there's an unsubscribe at the bottom. And if there's someone else who belongs in this space, I'd love for you to forward this along or share the sign-up below.

So... what is this?

This is a space to shift inwards. Take a few moments for yourself as you steer through life's torrential waves. This is a community for high-achieving women navigating transition, identity shifts, and the accumulated pressure of holding it all together. It will contain tools for reconnecting with your body, resetting your mindset, and realigning so you can move forward with integrity and an actionable plan. All with the honest, in-progress version of being a multi-faceted, complicated, nuanced modern-day woman. This won't be a highlight reel; this is to go deep and connect with yourself and like-minded folks.

Many of you have been asking for a space like this, so here it is. Thank you for asking.

And... who am I?

For those I haven't met yet: I'm a film and TV producer based in Los Angeles. I've built my career over fourteen years in this wild industry, growing filmmaker-driven production companies and developing and producing commercially viable projects with underrepresented creators. I'm also a movement and mindfulness facilitator, a certified yoga teacher, and the creator of Reframe: a somatic approach to working with stress, gaining clarity and momentum, and charting a path forward with ease and confidence. I built this because I needed it myself after losing my job, getting a divorce, and feeling completely lost and unstable for the first time in my adult life.

I continue to battle bridging these two worlds, but I don't think of these as two separate lives. Producing stories and understanding the nervous system come from the same place for me. They're both about paying close attention to what's true underneath the surface. This newsletter is where those two things live together.

Reframe, my first workshop

Before anything else, I want to say thank you. Late last year, a small group of you showed up for the first-ever Reframe workshop. We did three hours of movement, breathwork & meditation, and journaling in a room full of women willing to be honest with each other. It was a pilot work-in-progress in the truest sense, as I didn't know exactly what it would become, and you helped me find out.

A few of the things you shared afterward have stayed with me:

If you were in that room, thank you again. You gave me the proof of concept and the confidence to keep building this.

Now what?

I'll be honest, I planned to run the next Reframe workshop back in April, but life had other plans. Instead, I spent the spring helping launch a somatic-driven book and producing a South Asian indie feature in New Jersey. Both pulled me deep into production and left very little room for anything else.

The workshop got pushed. But the work never stopped.

So here's what's coming up the rest of the year.

Reframe: an online workshop - September 17th, 6:30PM PST

A shorter, online version of Reframe for anyone who wants a lighter entry point. We will touch on the Reframe framework, move through some somatic work, and journal together. This will not be recorded.

Sign up here.

Reframe, 3-hour workshop - October 11th, Los Angeles

The next in-person Reframe workshop is happening in October, right here in LA. This is the full experience with movement, the Reframe framework, journaling, and community. While we will cover a similar outline as the pilot workshop, this will be slightly adjusted with additional exercises and tools.

More information and sign-up here.

A one-day retreat — Saturday, November 7th, Topanga

I'm co-hosting a one-day retreat in Topanga with my dear friend Camille Bernier-Green, founder of Work Trip. This will be a day rooted in both personal and professional growth, with yoga and somatic movement, workshops, and a lot of women in one room being real with each other about what it means to keep expanding who you are.

More details and the sign-up link coming very soon.

Before I go...

This is the first newsletter, and there was a lot to cover! Thank you if you stuck with me all the way to the end.

I hope you'll stick around as this space grows and changes, because it's going to be a real, unfiltered look at the growing pains of wanting more, taking up space, while still learning to accept yourself fully and holistically.

If someone in your life needs a space like this too, forward this along or send them here to sign up.

With gratitude,
Aanch

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