Meet the Founder
Anayah Roots.
Founder of the Earthly Life Breath Institute and Earthly Life School. An old dancer with twenty-two years on the dance floor. Trauma-informed breathwork facilitator, certified IKYTA member, yoga teacher across Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin and Kundalini, and international performing artist who weaves breath into song.
The path
Movement was Anayah's first language — twenty-two years on the dance floor taught her that every gesture lives or dies with the breath. A Tai Chi master opened the energy body; Hatha yoga in her early twenties laid the groundwork for decades of somatic practice.
Her knowledge runs deeper than certificates. ME and hearing loss became teachers, not walls. She coaches from a life lived cleanly — online and in person, always with safety first. People arrive with trauma, cancer, other conditions; she meets them with lived wisdom.
Breathwork and pranayama have grown deepest through the years. She teaches weekly classes for hundreds, leads Transformation Breath trainings, and holds space at Hagabadet in Gothenburg — one of Sweden's most respected wellness institutions. Earthly Life Breath is the institute she wished had existed when she began.
Where she works
The studio on Oskarsgatan
Anayah holds a private space on Oskarsgatan in Gothenburg where she receives one-to-one clients for trauma work and stress-related sessions — a quiet, contained room built for nervous-system repair.
Yoga in four lineages
Alongside breathwork she teaches Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin and Kundalini yoga — each tradition shaping a different doorway into the same conscious breath.
On-site for companies
On request she travels to workplaces across Sweden with office yoga, breathwork sessions and stress-management programmes tailored to teams and leaders.
Coaching programs
When she can, Anayah takes on a small number of dedicated clients for deep 1-, 3-, 6- and 12-month journeys — always by request. Training, breath, lifestyle and whatever the body asks for that day. A lived, natural way back to yourself.
Training future facilitators
She trains the next generation of breathwork facilitators through her own certification path — small cohorts, deep mentorship, trauma-informed from day one.
Founder of Earthly Life School
Earthly Life School is the umbrella she founded — a growing network of teachers, practitioners and students who believe in a natural way of living. The Breath Institute is one chamber inside that wider school.
Training & Certifications
- 01
Trauma-Informed Breathwork Facilitator
One-year professional training in trauma-sensitive breath facilitation and safe holding.
- 02
Breathwork Safety Course
Dedicated certification in contraindications, scope of practice and ethical facilitation.
- 03
Certified IKYTA Member
International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association — breath, mantra and nervous-system lineage.
- 04
Yoga Teacher — Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin & Kundalini
Four lineages held side by side; each opens a different door into the same breath.
- 05
Dru Yoga
Breath-led in the Dru tradition.
- 06
Tai Chi Lineage
Energy-body work and breathing through pain under a dedicated master.
- 07
Breathmasters
Certified breathwork training in conscious connected breathing and facilitation.
- 08
Woman Holistic Health
Training in holistic female health, cycles and embodied well-being.
- 09
Twenty-Two Years of Dance
Where the breath first became the teacher.
Her journey
- The Beginning
Twenty-two years on the dance floor
Movement was her first language. Every gesture lived or died with the breath — the inhale before the leap, the exhale that let the body land.
The BeginningTwenty-two years on the dance floor
Movement was her first language. Every gesture lived or died with the breath — the inhale before the leap, the exhale that let the body land.
The BeginningTwenty-two years on the dance floor
Movement was her first language. Every gesture lived or died with the breath — the inhale before the leap, the exhale that let the body land.
- The Opening
Tai Chi & the energy body
A Tai Chi master taught her to breathe through sensation rather than around it. The energy body woke up, and breath became medicine.
The OpeningTai Chi & the energy body
A Tai Chi master taught her to breathe through sensation rather than around it. The energy body woke up, and breath became medicine.
The OpeningTai Chi & the energy body
A Tai Chi master taught her to breathe through sensation rather than around it. The energy body woke up, and breath became medicine.
- The Foundation
Hatha yoga in her early twenties
Hatha laid the groundwork for decades of somatic practice. Breath, sound and energy work began weaving together into one path.
The FoundationHatha yoga in her early twenties
Hatha laid the groundwork for decades of somatic practice. Breath, sound and energy work began weaving together into one path.
The FoundationHatha yoga in her early twenties
Hatha laid the groundwork for decades of somatic practice. Breath, sound and energy work began weaving together into one path.
- The Trial
ME & hearing impairment
Against all odds she met her own body in crisis. ME and hearing loss became teachers, not walls — a lived wisdom she would later hold for others.
The TrialME & hearing impairment
Against all odds she met her own body in crisis. ME and hearing loss became teachers, not walls — a lived wisdom she would later hold for others.
The TrialME & hearing impairment
Against all odds she met her own body in crisis. ME and hearing loss became teachers, not walls — a lived wisdom she would later hold for others.
- The Training
Certifications across lineages
IKYTA. Transformation Breath. Trauma-informed facilitation. Breathmasters. Dru Yoga. Woman Holistic Health. Each certificate a doorway, not a destination.
The TrainingCertifications across lineages
IKYTA. Transformation Breath. Trauma-informed facilitation. Breathmasters. Dru Yoga. Woman Holistic Health. Each certificate a doorway, not a destination.
The TrainingCertifications across lineages
IKYTA. Transformation Breath. Trauma-informed facilitation. Breathmasters. Dru Yoga. Woman Holistic Health. Each certificate a doorway, not a destination.
- The Work
Online & in-person, safety first
People arrive with trauma, cancer, other illnesses. She coaches from a life lived cleanly — online and on-site, always with the natural and the simple.
The WorkOnline & in-person, safety first
People arrive with trauma, cancer, other illnesses. She coaches from a life lived cleanly — online and on-site, always with the natural and the simple.
The WorkOnline & in-person, safety first
People arrive with trauma, cancer, other illnesses. She coaches from a life lived cleanly — online and on-site, always with the natural and the simple.
- The Art
Urbica Studio & exhibitions worldwide
Paintings, murals, creation for its own sake. A parallel thread of visual expression that feeds the same breath.
The ArtUrbica Studio & exhibitions worldwide
Paintings, murals, creation for its own sake. A parallel thread of visual expression that feeds the same breath.
The ArtUrbica Studio & exhibitions worldwide
Paintings, murals, creation for its own sake. A parallel thread of visual expression that feeds the same breath.
- The Community
Earthly Life Club
Charity work and remarkable souls gave birth to a community of events built on the longing for a more natural life. One of the visions she carried from the start.
The CommunityEarthly Life Club
Charity work and remarkable souls gave birth to a community of events built on the longing for a more natural life. One of the visions she carried from the start.
The CommunityEarthly Life Club
Charity work and remarkable souls gave birth to a community of events built on the longing for a more natural life. One of the visions she carried from the start.
- Today
Hagabadet, Gothenburg & beyond
Weekly classes for three to six hundred participants. Transformation Breath trainings. Professional facilitator at one of Sweden’s most respected wellness institutions — and still travelling wherever the call arrives.
TodayHagabadet, Gothenburg & beyond
Weekly classes for three to six hundred participants. Transformation Breath trainings. Professional facilitator at one of Sweden’s most respected wellness institutions — and still travelling wherever the call arrives.
TodayHagabadet, Gothenburg & beyond
Weekly classes for three to six hundred participants. Transformation Breath trainings. Professional facilitator at one of Sweden’s most respected wellness institutions — and still travelling wherever the call arrives.