The Team

Anna is a counselling psychologist with a background in child development and a lifelong passion for horses. After university, she started her career as a singer/songwriter and toured internationally, but after training in South Africa with a horse whisperer she decided to retrain as a psychologist and utilise horses to help people.

Anna operates with JC from The Place London practice and sees clients for both traditional and equine therapy. She is known for her down to earth, collaborative way of working and has a nurturing and gentle approach, while being committed to pushing clients towards real and lasting change. Equine sessions with Anna are relaxed and unstructured, allowing her clients to experience unique insights and the opportunity for rapid transformation that horses offer. She and Jean-Claude have intuitively complementary ways of working that allow them to work seamlessly together with couples and groups.

Anna is Chartered by The British Association of Psychologists. She is a published academic researcher in the field of child development and has also co-authored a book on weaning and fussy eating.

Andy is an experienced clinician of Chinese Medicine, in practice now for over 12 years.  After his formal education and training, Andy’s passion for traditional medicine and Eastern culture led him to Taiwan for further study in medicine, language, and cha dao, ‘the way of tea’.

His clinical practice combines various branches of Chinese Medicine, from the refined art and skill of meridian therapy acupuncture and bonesetting, to the diagnostic complexities of Chinese medical theory and internal medicine.  Throughout his career, Andy has been blessed to study in lineage based classical medicine traditions with his teachers in Taipei, Tokyo, and Beijing.  Through his practice of Japanese acupuncture and moxibustion therapy, Chinese osteopathy, and Classical Han Dynasty Imperial Chinese Herbal Medicine, Andy guides the body to navigate itself back to feel and function as the best version of itself.  His work specializes in the treatment of orthopedic conditions, digestive disorders, and acute and chronic fatigue syndromes.

Massage Therapist

Stefanie studied in Austria and gained her Massage Therapy degree in 2003. Focusing on Deep Tissue Massage, Acupuncture Massage, Trigger Point Massage, Sports Massage, Reflexology, Manual Lymphatic Massage, Aromatherapy and Arddam.

After finishing her training , she moved to Bali and studied ancient Balinese massage techniques and exchanged knowledge with therapists from all over the world. Stefanie’s intuitive Bodywork is known globally.  She worked alongside internationally renowned healers such as Elisa Senese, Mary Maun, Ibu Jero ,  Lexempress  among others.

She is a regular visiting practitioner at the Shaktihealingcircle in Hong Kong and travels to Europe and America for private retreats.

Most of the stress we feel comes from our brain, unbalancing the functions of the body and natural energy flow. This compromises us both emotionally and physiologically.

Stefanie’s intuitive massage therapy works to bring both mind and body into a harmonious balance, using various techniques to draw out tension and induce a state of calm.

​Stefanie also works to target the toxins our bodies absorb from unhealthy diet, repeated strenuous movement and environmental pollutions. She works deeply over the meridiens where energy is depleted or flooded with toxins, unlocking the spine, balancing the chakras, opening blocked channels and purifying tissues.

​Stefanie then orchestrates the whole body-mind-spirit system into a harmonious balance.

Her clients are left feeling limber, mentally cleansed and deeply relaxed.

Nutrition, biology, wellbeing and how the mind functions, all play a fundamental role in our lives.
Valeria understood the importance of food when she began to understand its impact on feeling healthy, energetic and in harmony with oneself.
She studied Nutrition and Dietetics, where she found her passion for the link between what we eat and health and a vocation in helping others.

She has always believed that diseases and medical conditions, as well as our general wellbeing, stem from the 5 following elements: personal, social, physical, emotional and dietary.
Emotions, habits of life, our environment and the relationship with our surroundings, are what directly influence our food intake and wellbeing.

Her unique holistic approach is to promote health and integral wellbeing, through natural, energetic, clean, one’s conscious and nutritious food. This complements her vision of the human being as a whole: a physical, emotional and spiritual being.

Originally from Chile, Valeria has been living in Bali for 2 years and has been working with clients from all over the world, guiding them in wellness, nutrition and mindful eating. She currently lives between Europe, Australia and Asia and provides online nutritional consultations for our residential guests.

Spanish born Marta is an inspiring and charismatic yoga teacher.

She specialises in Kundalini Yoga for addictions, stress and anxiety. She is also qualified in a diversity of yoga styles and healing modalities from the meditative Yin Yoga to the dynamic Flyhigh, Hot Yoga and Hot Pilates. She is a Gong Player, Reiki Healing practitioner and she thrives on her continuous self-development.

Coming from a corporate background, she brings a modern approach to Yoga – empowering students to embrace “real life” challenges, to manage their emotions and to create a shift in their life.

She is fascinated about the mind and her goal as teacher is to empower students to develop their full potential without the self-imposed limitations of the mind.

She currently resides in London but she has spread her passion for yoga all over the word teaching workshops in US, Australia, The Philippines and Indonesia.

She has taught at the prestigious OM Yoga Show and at the Great British Kundalini Yoga Festival, being part of the Festival Directors Committee in 2017

Her classes are dynamic and her energy and enthusiasm is highly contagious.

Personal Fitness Instructor

Dedy is an award-winning natural body builder, martial artist and personal fitness instructor. He is also an author and public speaker.

Originally from Timor, Dedy has lived much of his life in Perth Australia and the tropical island of Bali where he has worked as a Personal Trainer, Body Combat, Bootcamp, Boxing, Body Pump and Body Balance instructor.

Dedy takes mental, emotional and physical wellbeing into account when designing a personalised fitness program.