She is also a moon dancer, a ceremonialist, shamanic energy practitioner and an interior spacial designer.  She believes in the sacredness of mother earth, the elements (water, fire, earth, air, spirit), the moon and the stars which have been guiding her through life.  Working with clay is one of the ways in which Anna connects to the earth.

Anna took her first ceramic art class her senior year in college and fell in love  At the time she was suffering with health issues, debilitating stomach aches that were coming from stress and past trauma.  The miracle of the earth-clay healed her.  She continued to work with clay because of how it made her feel, studying for several years with well know artists at the Greenwich House Pottery in NYC. She now produces and sells her work privately.

From a shamanic perspective, the entire process of creating a bowl or vessel, from the beginning to the end, is a transformative cycle.  First is the act of working with the soft clay, of kneading it, of forming it, of pressing and molding it into shape.  During this process, clay has the ability to pull heavy energy from the artist, pulling anything that is no longer serving as it goes into the clay.  The earth does this for us.  The next step is the burning, where the dry clay is put into the kiln for it’s first firing.  This is where the element of fire comes in to burn and release the heavy energy that is now held by the clay.  This is the alchemical process of burning away what is no longer serving, of giving it to the fire to be transformed.  The next step involves taking the bisqued or fired vessel and glazing it.  This is where the artist has the ability to create a new story.  The vessel is decorated, painted and glazed to the artist’s desires.  A new dream is being created.  And then, once again, the element of fire, the kiln, transforms this process and solidifies the paint into glaze.  Like all things in life, there is little control in this process.  The artist never knows what is going to come out of the kiln and if the piece will look as was intended.  This is where the artist gives it all up to spirit, “and so it is!”