Awakened Warrior
Retreats, coaching, and teaching as Ananda
My training beyond Zen includes a non-violent-communication and zen-coaching certification under Kåre Langfald, plus years of hands-on work in martial arts, tantra, and energy healing. I still coach the way I started: gift-based, mostly over email, working with whatever resistance or potential actually shows up — a spiritual friend to keep you honest about your own path, not a franchise of mine. If you're asking about your own practice, expect clues and questions back, not a lecture.
Services
Retreats
Immersive gatherings for deepening your own practice — meditation, breathwork, and group ceremony, drawing on the Shambala Vision training I developed and taught in Portugal.
Personal Healing Coaching
One-to-one coaching around spiritual development and intuitive healing. We work with whatever resistance or potential shows up in the moment — a spiritual friend to keep you focused on your own path, not someone else's system.
Massage & Bodywork
Hands-on healing touch sessions, part of the same intuitive energy work I bring to coaching and ceremony — the body as another entry point into the practice.
Books
The Awakened Warrior
Creating an enlightened society: a guide to personal awakening and social change. My own story, from childhood awakening and Zen to activism and shamanic practice, with tools for empathic communication, meditation, ceremony and community organizing. Released 2024.
Paperback on Amazon ($16) · e-book ($4.80) · signed copy from Sweden.
Listening with Compassion
Communication book, part 1: deep coaching. How to support a friend, partner or client by listening for feelings and needs, letting them find their own answers, and helping resolve conflict. About 11,700 words.
Speaking with an Open Heart
Communication book, part 2: peaceful communication. How to express yourself with empathy and honesty, look for the needs behind the words, and find ways to meet everyone's needs. About 10,000 words.
Easy Kid, Easy Life
A father's practical guide to calm, confident parenting. 17 chapters drawn from raising my own kids and stepkids. Released 2026.
Teachings & Articles
Shambala — Substack
Where I write as Ananda now, for anyone following the path from a distance.