About Anarion MacIntosh

Anarion MacIntosh is a clinical therapist and self-development consultant who has worked in the areas of holistic health, healing and self-development since 1995. He is a qualified Clinical Hypnotherapist; Brief Strategic (Cognitive) Therapist; NLP Practitioner; Reiki master-degree Practitioner; certified meditation teacher; and was a registered teacher/trainer for 'Flower of Life Research LLC' between 1996 - 2007.

Since 1995, Anarion has taught various workshops and classes on personal development, including such subjects as meditation, developing intuition and inner guidance, mental and emotional balancing, healing, self-defence, accurate communication, creativity, self-expression and self-confidence. As a clinical therapist Anarion offers private consultations within a variety of self-development needs, such as overcoming phobias, fears, addictions, anxieties, stress, trauma, anger and depression. Anarion currently presents his classes and consultations within Europe, South East Asia and North America.

Through both his collective experience and clinical training, Anarion has a grounded approach to personal development, and yet also possesses a wealth of knowledge and background experience in the spiritual and metaphysical. Over the years, Anarion has studied a wide range of internal methods of growth and development. He draws from a variety of systems and is equally comfortable seeing clients in an array of situations and settings, including clinical based settings, and more alternative practices. Anarion firmly believes in facilitating self-development in individuals through the holistic framework of balancing and nurturing the emotional, mental, physical and spiritual aspects of being, and believes that true health and happiness come from experiencing a balanced and unified heart, mind, body and spirit/soul.

With a relaxed and calm teaching style, Anarion often discusses how to accelerate learning by looking within to find the 'natural way' of being and doing anything. He believes that patience and encouragement are the best resources any teacher can possess, and he displays this both within his workshops and his approachable manner. As a client, you get a real sense of his wide range of knowledge, professional demeanour infused with good humour and a sincere, caring nature.

Anarion encourages individuals to develop their own abilities to heal and evolve. He believes in empowering the client in this way, and passionately affirms that if we have the courage to look inside, we find that we each possess the innate ability and resources to heal and overcome our own life issues, challenges, conditions and self-limiting beliefs that together often hold us back and restrain us in life. He also believes that by reflecting and looking within ourselves, we can also tap into and release our true inner potential, hidden talents and life purpose.

As a natural intuitive, Anarion's interest in the metaphysical, spiritual, paranormal and psychological aspects of life began early on in his childhood, and have continued to be his main interests throughout his life. Forever looking within, being fascinated with the nature of intuition, as well as the big questions in life, Anarion's personal quest for knowledge persisted and developed during early adulthood. This led him to travel around the world, researching various phenomena, histories, cultures, as well as spiritual and psychological techniques, and ways of life. He has a strong belief in both the scientific and the spiritual, and comes from the perspective that the two are connected, like two sides of a coin, or two different languages discussing the same points. Anarion sees himself as an open-minded skeptic, open to all possibilities, whilst also having a need to find truth and answers through grounded research and direct experience whenever possible. In seeking truth over all things, Anarion often cuts through to the heart of any matter. Whilst very open to the spiritual, Anarion challenges all pretense, including illusion, deception, and what he refers to as ‘the spiritual ego'.

Anarion's career background was originally in Art & Design, where he worked within many areas of the Art and Design industries as a creative artist, illustrator, designer, as well as Adobe Photoshop / Apple Macintosh specialist and trainer. After moving to Hong Kong in 1993, and being inspired by various metaphysical teachers and mentors, Anarion discovered his own talents and passion for teaching. Leaving a full-time career as a graphic artist in Hong Kong during early 1995, Anarion began to pursue a career in self-development, sharing his knowledge and passion for the spiritual, metaphysical, and psychological through educational workshops he had designed. By late 1996, Anarion had become a certified teacher of meditation, metaphysics and sacred geometry. Over the following years he worked as an alternative therapist, spiritual/metaphysical counselor and teacher, successfully teaching seminars and assisting individual clients from all walks of life and with a variety of issues and subjects within private consultations. During this time, Anarion continued his studies of the therapeutic benefits of mind-over-matter through the power of belief, as well as healing effects through trance states of altered awareness within various meditation-based systems such as eastern martial arts and meditation, energy healing practices (healing though the Human Energy Field, Reiki-Ryoho, Chi, Ki, Pranayama) and various ancient shamanic practices of indigenous tribal cultures. In 2000, Anarion began to study modern academic and scientific therapeutic approaches to mental and emotional healing through the science of Clinical Hypnosis and Cognitive therapy, finding in many ways, similarities between modern academic approaches and ancient systems of mental, emotional and physical healing.

Anarion has a strong interest in ancient history, including ancient cultures and indigenous tribal society. Within his own art projects, Anarion often blends his knowledge and understanding of ancient history, sacred geometry, shamanism and the metaphysical within his designs, to create spiritually symbolic graphic illustrations and art forms.