annette knopp

​With 30 years of exploration, Annette Knopp is a seasoned guide in the realm of consciousness. She is a meditation teacher, somatic educator, and nature mystic who mentors clients from around the world in their unique journeys of awakening and transformation.
 

Annette's deep love for Spirit was nurtured early through her connection with the natural world. When depression struck in her early twenties, she sought healing in Eastern wisdom traditions and the practices of Yoga and Tai Chi. This began a lifelong journey that has woven together the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi, Indo-Tibetan meditation (Mahamudra, Dzogchen), Shamanic energy medicine, and modern Western approaches to psycho-spiritual integration.
 

She is a mesa carrier in a nature priest lineage of the Peruvian Andes, a certified DARe practitioner (attachment trauma repair), a Yoga teacher trained in various traditions, and an ordained Wisdom Keeper in the Order of Universal Interfaith (OUnI). Annette is especially grateful for the teachings of Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, the Q'ero and Global Paqo School, as well as the embodied wisdom of her somatic trauma resolution trainers Diane Poole Heller, PhD, Patti Elledge, SEP, and Maureen Gallagher, PhD (IRF/embodied parts work).
 

Originally from Germany, Annette worked as a simultaneous interpreter in Spain before answering the call to explore the essence of life more deeply. She lived for nine years across India, Japan, Australia, and the Netherlands, before moving to the US on a religious worker visa in 2005. In 2009, she and her husband Stephan opened the Blue Spirit retreat center in Nosara, Costa Rica. These days, she divides her life and work between North and Central America. In her free time, she loves hanging with her husband and friends, their dog Dante, horse Kareem... and can be found swimming, biking, hiking, writing, or pottering around in her kitchen.​​