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Anne Dinsmore
Lead Facilitator · 500-hr E-RYT · Life Coach
Anne is a former firefighter whose path into healing work was forged on the front lines. After witnessing firsthand the physical and emotional crises people face in moments of emergency, she felt called not only to respond to suffering — but to help prevent it and support profound recovery when life breaks us open. Her work is devoted to inspiring wholeness, resilience, and embodied health — both as a foundation for a thriving life and as a pathway back to integration after breakdown. With a background in Critical Incident Stress Management and health and wellness education, Anne brings grounded, trauma-aware presence into every space she holds. She is a 500-hour E-RYT and has spent over 12 years teaching and assisting with yoga teacher trainings at Yandara Yoga Institute in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Her approach blends depth, safety, and authenticity, supporting students in reconnecting to their bodies and inner wisdom. Anne is also a certified life coach and Yin Yoga teacher — a practice that holds a special place in her heart. Her deepest devotion lies in meditation, particularly Vipassana, along with inner child work and personal alchemy. The principles of Tantra subtly weave through everything she shares, honoring life as sacred, relational, and transformational. She has spent multiple summers studying at the ashram of Swami Nardanand, immersing herself in the exploration of the inner world and the nature of consciousness. This dedicated time in traditional ashram life deepened her commitment to self-inquiry, discipline, and spiritual maturation. Anne is devoted to the ongoing evolvement of consciousness — within herself and in service to the awakening of humanity. A deep love for nature lives at the core of Anne's work. She experiences the natural world as our greatest teacher — a mirror of rhythm, resilience, stillness, and renewal. Time spent in wild landscapes, by the ocean, in the desert, and under open skies continues to shape her understanding of healing as something organic and cyclical. Reverence for nature is woven into every retreat, practice, and ceremony she facilitates. Plant medicines — especially ayahuasca and psilocybin — have also been profound teachers on her path, expanding her reverence for consciousness, healing, and the intelligence of the heart. Anne’s work bridges structure and surrender, discipline and devotion. Whether through yoga, meditation, retreat leadership, or transformational mentorship, she guides others back to their innate capacity for clarity, compassion, and deep inner freedom.
Jeannine von Ballmoos
400-hr Certified Yoga Teacher · Life Coach
Jeannine is a 400-hour certified yoga teacher, certified Yoga Nidra instructor, and life coach from Switzerland whose life has been shaped by movement, service, and a deep devotion to inner truth. Having traveled to 108 countries and lived across many cultures, she has immersed herself in diverse spiritual traditions, learning from teachers, communities, and lived experience around the world. Fluent in multiple languages, she moves fluidly between cultures, carrying a deep respect for the many ways humans seek meaning, healing, and connection. Her path has taken her into humanitarian and missionary work with vulnerable communities — including survivors of sex trafficking, people experiencing homelessness, prison populations, and children in orphanages — as well as into careers in IT and telecommunications. Across these vastly different worlds, one truth became clear: beneath every story is a nervous system longing for safety. Jeannine’s work is deeply personal. Having moved through her own seasons of profound pain, dissociation, and disconnection, she understands what it means to feel untethered from the body. Her healing journey led her back — slowly, gently — through breath, stillness, embodiment, and presence. What she now offers is not theory, but lived integration. A lover of intensity and the outdoors — from mountaineering and climbing to firefighting and athletic pursuits — she knows both high activation and deep stillness. Her approach bridges the two. She creates grounded, intuitive, heart-centered spaces where people feel safe enough to soften, regulate, and return to themselves. At the heart of the Nervous System Reset Retreat is a simple invitation: to come home to your body, to your breath, and to the quiet strength that has always been there.
Craig Perkins
Co-Director, Yandara · 45+ Years Teaching
Craig is a registered teacher with Yoga Alliance with over 45 years of experience and more than 15,000 hours of yoga teaching and yoga teacher training. His formal yoga journey began in 1968 in Vancouver, Canada, where he trained under Yogi Ananda Bhavanani, a disciple of Swami Sivananda, and became a certified Sivananda-style yoga instructor. During this same period, Craig began a 30-year study of meditation with Sant Kirpal Singh and later with his successor, Sant Darshan Singh. He was also initiated into Tibetan Buddhism and deepened his Hatha Yoga studies with Yogi Shyam Acharia. After several years of teaching in Vancouver, Craig founded his own studio, The Yoga Center. In 1972, he established a residential "live-in" yoga school in Miami, Florida. Two years later, he and his family moved to the Sawan Kirpal Meditation Center in Virginia, where they lived for 20 years. In 1980, Craig and his family also spent a year living at a Sivananda Yoga Center in Washington, D.C. Craig has made numerous study trips to India throughout his life. For five years, he also studied Chinese yoga, T'ai Chi, and Qi Gong with a master in the lineage of Robert Smith, broadening his understanding of energy cultivation practices. Over the decades, Craig has studied and taught Sivananda, Ashtanga, Iyengar, Vinyasa, Yin, Restorative, and Yoga Flow styles. He is the author of the booklet An Introduction to Yoga Life, based on 30 years of dedicated practice and teaching, and co-author (with Aimee Hughes) of A Philosophy and Guide for the Intuitive Yoga Teacher. For many summers, Craig spent extended time at the ashram of Swami Nardanand, immersing himself in deep spiritual practice and the exploration of consciousness. These summers were devoted to inner inquiry, disciplined study, and the lived experience of yogic philosophy, further shaping his lifelong commitment to the evolution of consciousness — both personally and in service to humanity. Craig has been a lead teacher trainer at Yandara for more than 20 years and currently serves as Co-Director of the Yandara Yoga Institute.
