IN THE MEDIA

LIVING AN INTEGRATED LIFE ➳ DR ANNA YOUNG-FERRIS ON VEDIC MEDITATION PART 2

WELL WOMAN, MARCH 2024

Tune into Well Woman podcast (available on Apple, Spotify, Amazon and iheart Radio) for the second of two episodes where Vedic meditatoon teacher Anna Young-Ferris and Well Woman host Sulin Sze discuss how we tend to focus on feeding our stomachs, and how Vedic meditation as a (twice) daily ritual is about feeding our soul. Anna gives her top tips for living an integrated life and fills us in on what it's like to attend a 4 day Vedic meditation course.

With training in herbalism, naturopathy, nutrition and chinese medicine, and extensive clinical experience, Sulin Sze is your trusted guide in the realm of womens health. Sulin is the host of Well Woman podcast and has been practicing Vedic meditation, since learning with Anna in 2022.

BATHING IN BLISS CHEMISTRY ➳ DR ANNA YOUNG-FERRIS ON VEDIC MEDITATION PART 1

WELL WOMAN, MARCH 2024

Tune into Well Woman podcast (available on Apple, Spotify, Amazon and iheart Radio) for the first of two episodes dealing with busyness, self-nourishing and Vedic meditation. Sulin Sze is joined by Vedic meditation teacher Dr Anna Young-Ferris and they talk about how Vedic meditation can help us move from doing to 'being', how the practice enables the bliss chemicals to flood the nervous system to make us feel well and happy, and provide supreme healing, plus much more.

WANT TO FEEL LESS REACTIVE AND MORE AT EASE

Supercharged Food, SEPTEMBER 2022

After practicing Vedic meditation for almost two years, my student Lee Holmes shares her experience of learning with me. She has been experiencing some deep and profound shifts that she wanted to get the lowdown on and if it is ‘normal’!! (to feel so calm and centred!).

In this interview with Anna, Lee shares with you to encourage/inspire you to prioritise your mental health and well-being too!

Lee Holmes, founder of Supercharged Food, Cookbook Author, Clinical Nutritionist, and Chef discusses how since learning and practicing Vedic meditation with Anna Young-Ferris over the past two years her life is getting better.

HOW VEDIC MEDITATION CHANGED MY LIFE

Supercharged Food, January 2021

One of the profound differences of this style of meditation is that you’re given a personal mantra which is gently repeated in your mind silently. What I love about Vedic meditation it is that you’re not trying to push your thoughts away or let go of anything or focus on your breathing, this kind of meditating is totally different.

Whether you’re consumed with thoughts about what you need to make for dinner, or you’re running through your to do list in your head or remembering something that has popped up from your past, the key to VM is to acknowledge the thoughts that you’re having and quietly return to the mantra.

Lee Holmes, founder of Supercharged Food, Cookbook Author, Clinical Nutritionist, and Chef discusses how learning and practicing Vedic meditation with Anna Young-Ferris has changed her life. This article also includes an interview with Anna.

UNIK MUSE : ANNA YOUNG-FERRIS

UNIK Space, October 2020

Dr Anna Young-Ferris is an inspiring woman all round. Pursuing her passions in sustainability and Vedic meditation and turning them into her careers. Seemingly very different, however upon closer inspection are not that diverse; both having a positive impact on society and the individual. We wanted to know more about Anna, so took the opportunity to ask her some questions about life, her passions and how she incorporates meditation into her daily life.

Thrilled to be the UNIK Space UNIK muse this month. If you would like to know what enjoying two amazing careers - Vedic meditation teacher and climate change/sustainability/responsible investment academic - whilst having three beautiful children looks like read this interview.

I LEARNED VEDIC MEDITATION AND THIS IS HOW IT CHANGED MY LIFE

Beauticate, October 2019

Having lived with anxiety pretty much all her life, Features Editor Tess Schlink had often been suggested meditation as a cure for its often debilitating symptoms. Sceptical that it would help but still curious, she dabbled with a few apps that promised calmness and clarity, only to be deterred by the fact that try as she might, she could never completely clear her mind from thoughts, and the resulting conclusion that she'd failed - a feeling doubtless shared by those who feel they “just can’t meditate” for this very same reason. So when Sigourney suggested Tess learn Vedic meditation, explaining it was a practice she’d begun years ago and that had improved her life endlessly, she was open to the idea.

This is the opening to an article by beauty features editor, Tess Schlink, about learning the life-changing technique, along with Beauticate founder Sigourney, and how the benefits unfolded in a very short space of time.

CLEAR STRESS FROM YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM WITH THE ULTIMATE IN SELFCARE

Ibu Ayurveda, September 2019

I have seriously tried many meditation techniques over the decades and also once held the misconception, like everyone, that meditation is about clearing the mind of thoughts. The issue is most meditation techniques have actually been designed for monks or nuns and the like that live in solitude with little to no possessions or distractions. When we transport these techniques to our busy modern ‘householder’ lives, it is easy to see why we feel like ‘failures’ and get frustrated because we can’t stop the thoughts. That is, until I found the technique of Vedic meditation which has been perfectly honed for householders - like you and I - we live in the modern world, we have jobs, possessions and families etc. We gently repeat a personal mantra inside our mind not stop the thoughts but to dive beyond them.

Read Anna’s interview with Ibu Ayurveda who are passionate about self care, and applying the principles of Ayurveda to daily life and all aspects of motherhood and programs that help parents adjust to family life.