Freedom in body, peace of mind, heart-centered joy
Story by Terry Check
Today, Ms. Harshbarger, commonly known as Anne-Tyler (AT), creates harmony and loving awareness in the world as she shares the ancient wisdom of yoga and spiritual mediation. Sharing her thoughts, the ecstatic living guide believes “Yoga calms the nervous system and brings about whole mind-body-soul connection and wellness. It also opens the heart into increased feelings of compassion, gratitude, forgiveness, peace, and love, leading to one’s fullest dharma (cosmic design) and unique path of service and purpose.”
Anne-Tyler’s life is an amazing journey. As a youngster she always enjoyed movement and soon began ballet lessons. With undying passion and focus for dance, the teenager became a professional dancer with the Houston Ballet and then the Atlanta Ballet as the principal ballerina performing around the world before retiring at the peak of her dance career.
As her love of music broadened from classical to electronic dance, she became a DJ for club scenes in Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Houston. During the summer, she was the resident DJ at Spain’s Ibiza’s mega-club Amnesia, known as the best dance club in the world, with 4,000 partygoers dancing from sunset to sunrise as Anne Tyler mixed the music.
After becoming one of the most sought-after lady DJs in the club scene, she decided to move to Los Angeles to pursue her passion. Making a living partly by dancing and partly as a DJ and actress, Anne Tyler evolved using her life experiences as her guide. From many wisdom sharers she studied yoga to become known as the spiritual name, “Nataraja”, the cosmic dancer, sharing “freedom in body, peace of mind, heart-centered joy”as an experienced registered yoga teacher (E-RYT 500) by the Yoga Alliance,
The former ballerina mentioned, “This unique career (as a dancer) instilled in me a highly developed fluency in the language of movement and soulful expression of the human experience. I gained body awareness and an inner ability to live with grace, in the midst of challenge, and it revealed to me the latent power of infinite potential that exists within us all. I experienced ecstatic, transcendental states while enraptured in flow states of dance, which led me into a lifelong enchantment with spirituality, consciousness, and metaphysics. Also, a world-wide professional DJ for the past 16 years, I believe music (all art, really), is the universal language and is essential to shifting the energetic vibrational frequency of our collective consciousness.”
Breathe
“The breath is the guru. Whether through movement or stillness, breath opens consciousness to the vast unexplored universe within. When we breathe consciously, the whole world (both inner and outer) begins to change, bringing solutions to life’s challenges. Now is a great time to enjoy three deep breaths… Pause and savor it!”
Bloom
“When we spend time in nature, we discover our deep interconnection with the universe. You are nature. You are the infinite cosmos. Blossom Body Awareness was created to guide you into your actualization of this truth. The Buddha reminds us that if we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. Why? Because the spiraling sacred geometry of the flower of life is how Spirit emerges into matter. A flower is a divine portal from the invisible to the tangible, from the infinite to the finite form.”
Bliss
“Beloved, lasting happiness doesn’t arise from something outside of us. It arises and endures when we cultivate inner joy. Everything we do, every action we take is ultimately in the pursuit of our well-being, yet we are usually looking ‘out there’ for fulfillment. External pleasantness comes and goes – the world may not cooperate – inner pleasantness is eternal …are you willing to cooperate with your own inner well-being?
Yoga practices give us the mindfulness superpowers to welcome the fullness of the human experience and to feel it all with grace. Ecstasy is not the reason to practice the science of yoga, though it is often a manifested result. I’m excited to share my experience with you and guide you into your joyful creation of bliss!”
Anne-Tyler mentioned, “When we breathe with awareness, live in harmony with nature, and find unshakable inner joy, we liberate ourselves from the illusion of separateness and experience yoga (union). I’m passionate to share these offerings I’ve created out of love, which apply ancient wisdom philosophies and practices to this now moment. NOW is the time to access your ecstatic life! Let’s go!” For enlightening yoga practices for ecstatic living, contact Anne-Tyler at www.https://www.bloss-om.com for monthly offerings, community sangha and private sessions.
Masquerade Magazine wants to thank Anne-Tyler for sharing her life’s journey of yoga and spiritual meditation, the photographers for allowing their work to be published, and Terry Check for working with Anne-Tyler on this cover story along with previous magazine articles.
