About Avyanna
Welcome everyone, my name is Avyanna. I’m in my late 40’s and have explored many avenues of health and wellness over the years, both personally and professionally. I am the co-founder of Primal Planitz, the annual Primal Planitz Conference and Blossom & Be Wellness Retreat. I am a mother, wife, farmer, teacher and mentor. I love learning about folk art and the history of people and place. Being surrounded by nature and spending time in quiet contemplation brings out the best in me. I flourish when conversations dive below the surface and get to the heart of things. My dream world is often vivid, rich with introspection and precognition that has guided me well throughout my life. I am highly attuned to my environment and blessed to have learned the art of scouting and tracking from a very early age. I absolutely love to dance and express myself through music but I’m still pretty terrible at partner dancing and remembering my left from my right.
In the past, I have worked as an outdoor educator, leading individual and group Nature Immersions, snowshoe treks and resort mountain hikes. I’ve worked primarily as a licensed Massage and Bodywork Therapist for the past 15 years, starting off in resort spas and transitioning to private practice in 2014. I specialize in deep Swedish myofacial bodywork that supports nervous system regulation and whole body integration. My roots are based in Lomi-Lomi, Esalen, Arvigo Therapy and Koreflow. I offer Palliative Massage as an End of Life Doula for in-home hospice care as well as volunteering my services for the elderly in Assisted Living.
As a certified Breathwork Facilitator, I hold the space for inner-knowing to emerge and assist integration through trauma-informed bodywork, emotional release and Process Art. In my Higher Alignment coaching, I help people discover their creative uniqueness, inner beauty and path toward purpose and uplifting relationships. As a Primal Planitz mentor, I offer my experience as a woman on the Primal Diet who has navigated a decade of life growing a terrain perspective on health and healing. As a farmer working to transition and rehabilitate livestock so they can thrive in a naturally reared model of health and raise their offspring in optimal ways. As a mother who conceived naturally at 39, was blessed with a remarkably healthy pregnancy and gave birth unassisted at 40 years old with ease. I have lived through the learning curves and social challenges of raising a continuum child on the Primal Diet and can speak to the resilience and autonomy this creates in one’s being. Our vibrancy, clarity and aliveness is undeniable and it beckons curiosity and awe amongst naysayers.
I had been following a Nourishing Traditions diet for years before discovering the Primal Diet at 34. I was introduced to it shortly after Aajonus died in 2013, while dating the man who became my best friend, husband, and father of my child. I was curious and adventurous but had a lot of questions around safety and sourcing. I had healed my dog from the symptoms of Lyme’s disease in 2008 with raw meat, fat, organs and tripe, so I knew it was powerful medicine but I didn’t know how it would work for me. Phoenix helped me navigate fears and led by example. I valued not being pressured to conform to principles that weren’t tested by my own lived experience. Dogma doesn’t sit well with me and the fanboy fever that I saw on social media back then wasn’t very appealing. Instead, I had the freedom to live into it, experiment, and find real results for myself. Phoenix beautifully honored my need for autonomy and this golden thread continues to weave itself through the fabric of our relationship to this day. Over the years, I have made my fair share of mistakes and have learned a lot about what works and what doesn’t.
With proper nourishment I continue to re-energize, restore and re-build my adrenal glands, endocrine system and nervous system. I have overcome my hypersensitivities while retaining highly attuned senses. I am no longer debilitated by environmental situations beyond my control or the pervasive fear of toxicity. Being on this diet has given me many opportunities to radically love myself, let go of vanity and ego attachments, release unhealthy relationships, and deeply nourish myself on a soul level. I see with clarity how addiction has been woven into my body throughout this lifetime and how the experiences I’ve lived through have shaped me. I am able to sit with this discomfort and observe the pain of those underpinnings. I know that when I crave things that are not good for me it is an emotional response to unmet needs. My experience on the Primal Diet has undeniably been a personal growth process.
I have continued to get stronger and more adaptable over time, especially through pregnancy, birth and postpartum, and now as I journey through peri-menopause. Being a highly sensitive human in this world has not been easy. Eliminating almost all fruit and significantly increasing the amount of butter I eat has been the largest influence in shifting anxiety, mood swings and depression. Butter makes everything better. Naps have been essential. Waking up at dawn with a planned schedule and settling down at dusk for a full night’s sleep has been a game changer. Increasing the amount of red meat and liver I consume while making sure to eat a full meat meal for breakfast, lunch and dinner has been essential for emotional regulation and consistent energy.
These days, I’m focusing my energy on the daily tasks of managing our farm, food production, homeschooling a vivacious learner, developing programming and experiential learning for our community, putting together an updated recipe book for publication, mastering time honored traditions and finding more people who enrich my life and inspire me. I look forward to building a brighter future and I am so grateful you all are here to lend a hand. Lets create a legacy worth living!
Avyanna mentors individuals and couples who are committed to growing themselves and their families
