Ana Steele

Gentling Way Practitioner

Ana Steele

Formal Qualifications

  • BHSc Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture
  • Dip. Qigong and Tai Qi

Gentling Way Practitioner Training

  • Healing After C Section
  • Living Ligaments 1
  • Painless Pregnancy Easy Birthing + Beyond

with Heather Bruce

  • Traditional Maori Miri Miri + Romi Romi – Level II

with Te Maurea

I have also studied Ayurvedic Life Style Management and have trained in Zero Balancing.

Life Experiences

I was introduced to meditation when I was about 16 years old. I began to learn about chakras and my internal world in relationship with the external universal connection. I practiced so much I began to feel the energy field my body was producing like some kind of magical, unseen magnetic sensations.

I was hooked into the Mystical from this point on.

For most of my life I was involved in arts and fashion. I liked to do stylist work for magazines and was involved in costume design for plays and other artistic collaborations.

I ran my own fashion label for 7 seasons.

After a while it did not suit me and I felt like I needed to offer something else to society.

It was in this time that my dear mother passed away, so I went through a lot of changes in this grieving process.

When I decided to end my fashion designer life, I quickly discovered Ayurvedic medicine. I moved to the bush, and distanced myself from unhealthy relationships. I returned to chanting, and learned a wide range of body therapies and nutritional science. I began my journey into Self Healing.

During this time of study, I had my first experience with acupuncture. I was so amazed to feel the energy shifting inside my body with only four tiny needles. I changed my study into the degree of Traditional Chinese Medicine and acupuncture.

While practicing Tai Qi and Qigong inside my TCM degree, I discovered the feeling of frequency and vibrational laws of life in relation to people and healing.
In my first Vipassana silent meditation retreat I learned how to unwind my whole body with persistent micro movements until I had a complete free flow. Any pain I had had left. I was able to feel my internal organs and how they were connected.
I learned in those 10 days that I could heal my own body through concentration and awareness of sensation.
I noticed as the physical sensation began to change, a memory would usually arise.
A great gift to experience that so much physical pain can be attributed to unreleased emotional reactions that are previously stored inside the body.

After my degree was complete, I travelled for 10 months around the world.

In China I observed TCM doctors in the hospital environment and joined my teachers in the World Medical Qigong Conference.

I experienced Crystal Sound Healing in Glastonbury and attended with shamans and doctors at the First Annual Ayahuasca Medical Conference.

In the jungle of Peru I was blessed to live with an amazing doctor of Naturopathy and TCM named Miryam Hacker.

She introduced me to her Bio Resonance machines and how profoundly simple it was to make dynamic changes in the human health on all levels using frequency emitting machines.

I remember after my first use on the BRS machine, she asked me ‘How do you feel darling?’

Before I could really speak, I burst out crying. A release of so much old stored emotion.

It was in her Peruvian home clinic, the study into frequency in relationship with Being deepened as I rested, read, chanted, meditated and worked with plant medicine.​

I returned to New Zealand.

I meditated a Lot and I gardened – a lot.

For 8 months I lived in a caravan on my friends’ land, connecting back into Me.

I worked for one year and a half with a physiotherapy clinic as the acupuncturist working with pain relief before opening my own home practice in Kawai Purapura Retreat Centre, New Zealand.​

My practice has evolved into a unique amalgamation of these learned life experiences.

It involves electro-magnetic frequency machines, sound healing, TCM, hands on body work following the traditional cultures Wise Wisdoms and mental/ sensorial focus techniques to literally see and feel your areas of complaint shift within you.

Why I follow the Gentling Way

I have learned so much from Heather in a short time frame.

Pulling out the cold stored in the body was one of the first things she taught me. I could not believe I did not learn this in my degree. It made me realize why I felt so inadequate when I first began work as an acupuncturist.

Her Gentling Way teaching has guided my practice into the logical, smart, effective and safe Wise Woman’s Ways of ‘Let’s Look At How Nature Does It’ and get back to that!

A true Holistic perspective on helping humans Be.

My passion

My passion is to empower people to become their own physician. To encourage people to make a study of themselves. To learn about how they got their issues and then how to resolve them naturally. I like to call it ‘Reverse Engineering of the Self.’

My personal interests are to trip around New Zealand and the world meeting interesting people in the pursuit of expanding and exchanging knowledge in our healing arts.

​All is brought back to integrate into this work I am cultivating and share the learning.

My business is to help You become Whole as fast or as slow as required.