Anna Barker
Subtle Energy Healer
A journey of awakening, healing and transformation
My relationship with energy healing has evolved over many years, shaped by spiritual exploration, yoga, meditation, study, practice and mentorship across Eastern and Western healing traditions.
Along the way, I came to a deeper understanding of ourselves as beings of energy and consciousness, and developed a profound love for working with the subtle energies that shape our experience.
Then, in the middle of that journey, life changed in ways I could never have anticipated.
My own health crisis took me into a much deeper experience of healing — and changed the way I understood energy, the body and what it means to heal.
My Story
When Everything Changed
In 2015, my life came to a crashing halt. A series of sudden losses and traumatic experiences triggered a profound collapse in my health, bringing with it ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia, POTS and nervous system collapse. It stopped me in my tracks and ultimately brought me back to my native New Zealand.
Despite years of experience in yoga and energy healing, nothing could have prepared me for the depth of disconnection and disruption I faced. I had to let go of much of what I thought I knew and begin again — slowly, gently and from a completely different place.
What followed was about far more than physical recovery. It became a profound exploration of the deeper layers of healing: clearing energetic patterns that had accumulated over time, releasing what had become stuck, and learning to listen to a quieter kind of intelligence than I had trusted before.
That experience changed the way I understood healing — and the way I work with others.
Today, I work with people navigating their own life-disrupting experiences: emotional overwhelm, burnout, chronic illness, traumatic injury, significant loss, separation and times when life has changed in ways they never expected.
I know what it feels like to lose energy, lose capacity and lose connection with the life you once knew. I also know that healing can create something new — not necessarily a return to who you were, but a deeper reconnection with who you are becoming.
My Approach
This work begins in the unseen.
I work with the subtle energy field — clearing what’s stuck, releasing energetic patterns and interference, and supporting the natural flow of the energy system.
When we work together, I tune into the subtle layers of your energy system, listening and sensing for where energy may feel blocked, stagnant or disrupted. I work with what presents itself rather than imposing a fixed direction, allowing each session to respond to where you are in that moment.
People often tell me they feel calmer in my presence, before we've even begun. Clients describe feeling safe and held in a stillness that allows them to let go of the story, the effort and some of the weight they've been carrying.
That quality of space isn't something I manufacture. It's simply how I show up, and it matters deeply to this work.
My approach is rooted in respect for the wisdom of your subtle energy system and the innate intelligence within you. I don't believe healing can be forced. It can be gently invited.
My role is to create the conditions for that process to unfold — holding a steady, clear and supportive space where patterns can shift, energy can move, and you can reconnect with your own inner resources.
In practice, this means:
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Working intuitively with your subtle energy field, chakras and energy channels
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Identifying and clearing energetic patterns, stagnation and interference
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Releasing energetic imprints associated with stress, trauma and accumulated experience
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Following what emerges rather than imposing a predetermined agenda
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Creating a grounded and supportive space for your experience to unfold
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Supporting deeper reconnection with yourself, your body and your own inner wisdom
Subtle energy healing is gentle by nature. Yet what it touches can be profound.
What I love most is that moment when something shifts — when I sense something lift, and a person feels a little lighter than when we began.
Training, Study & Continued Practice
My path into this work began in 2008 in the Pacific Northwest, when a deep immersion into yoga opened into a years-long exploration of Eastern and Western spiritual and healing traditions. Alongside this, seven years of personal mentorship laid an early foundation in energy healing and yogic philosophy.
My own healing crisis profoundly changed how I understood this work. What I had learned through study became something I had to experience for myself, deepening my understanding of healing from the inside out.
My training, both before and since that time, has continued to evolve across subtle energy healing, energy medicine, yogic philosophy, trauma-informed approaches and health coaching. This includes formal training in Reiki, Pranic Healing, Hatha and Classical Tantric Yoga, and Energy Medicine Yoga®.
I continue to learn through ongoing study, practice and mentorship with teachers whose work has significantly influenced me, including Cyndi Dale, Penny Kelly, Kara-Leah Grant, Lauren Walker, & Christopher Tompkins.
This is not a body of knowledge I consider complete. My practice continues to evolve through study, experience and an ongoing willingness to listen, question and learn.
Training & Areas of Study
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Subtle Energy, Quantum & Interdimensional Healing with Cyndi Dale
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Pranic Healing, Quantum Touch, Quantum Healing
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Reiki Levels 1–3
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Hatha (200hr) & Classical Tantric Yoga
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Energy Medicine Yoga® with Lauren Walker
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Trauma-informed methodologies & health coaching
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Certificate in Adult Education
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Bachelor of Arts
Sometimes the way forward is subtle.
Healing doesn't always shout. Sometimes it whispers.
Sometimes the most important shifts happen quietly, beneath the surface.
If you're ready to explore a different way, I'm here when you're ready.
Warmly,
Anna
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