In this episode, Anne Koller and I engage in a dialogue on what it means to be free to feel. As an artist, creator, and feeler herself, Anne shares the importance of honoring every emotion and seeing them as a gateway towards Truth, desire, inner peace, and embodiment. The more that we are able to embrace every facet of our emotional experience, the more that we are able to be connected within. Anne continues to share on the podcast how it's okay to not be okay and it's okay to feel angry, sad, and shame. She discusses more in detail how to be in devotion towards emotions, how to become more intimate with them, tracking them in the body, and expressing them through creativity. Emotions are not the enemy. They are just visitors waiting to be listened to and befriended.
I hope you enjoy this podcast as much as I enjoyed it. Anne also has a beautiful book called "Free to Feel" which is a collection of poetry where she invites you into her own personal world of her own commitment to diving deeply into some of her painful experiences and creating art from them. You can find Anne Koller at annerkoller.com, on instagram at @annekoller, and @annekolleart on Facebook. You can check out more about her below.
Anne Koller is an artist, author, and Chief Emotion Officer who believes that diving into the spectrum of human emotions is the only way to live free. Anne’s sudden loss of her father in 2011 spurred her to explore the intersection of emotion and the creative arts, resulting in art projects such as The Ashes Project, TAPIN, Follow the Water, and her book of raw and unedited prose, Free to Feel. She draws on a decade of experience at global organizations such as Google and the World Economic Forum combined with expanded disciplines in Kundalini Yoga, meditation, spoken word, community building, and interactive art to craft experiences designed to unleash the power of emotions.
Anne guides corporations, communities and individuals to pursue emotional wellness through art, meditation, movement, writing, and other tools. With a Master’s from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, experience working and living in four countries, and fluency in four languages, Anne seamlessly translates her unique approach for audiences around the world. Her voice has been featured in various media outlets, from Huffington Post and the Today Show to GOOD Magazine and New York’s Village Voice.
Anne is certified in Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan, Art & Yoga, and Fluid Presence and uses water as a healing mechanism to help youth and women connect with themselves.
Anne was born and raised in inner-city Milwaukee and has returned to the city that raised her after twenty years of living and working in Japan, Brazil, Argentina, New York and California to dedicate herself to promoting peace, reconnecting youth with the water and serving her Midtown and Milwaukee community.
