Welcome to anam samsara!

Welcome! My name is Tanis!

By now, perhaps, you’ve taken a look around this website and wondered who the person behind these offerings is and why I am offering them! I was born and raised in a small town in the Canadian Rockies. In middle school I moved to Vancouver Island where I graduated high school and university.

I was diagnosed with PCOS at the age of 16 after a bitter row with acne, excessive facial hair growth and the absence of a period. My doctor prescribed birth control without an explanation as to what this mysterious condition was and what could be done to heal it. “You will probably have a hard time getting pregnant- if you’re fertile at all,” he casually mentioned as I left his office. Google searches produced articles about infertility, increased risks of ovarian cancer, beard growth and a life with an incurable disordered body to deal with. I was 16 and devastated. I took the birth control pill for 8 years and had a hormonal IUD implanted for 5 years; my acne never improved and my facial hair growth worsened. In these years I tried electrolysis to burn away my facial hair, suffered a blood clot as a side effect of the pill, dealt with recurrent vaginal/pelvic infections and endured years of severe mental health struggle(which I was medicated for on several occasions). I never thought twice about hormonal birth control or how it may be contributing to the symptoms I was experiencing.   

Eventually, I made the decision to listen to my intuitive body and I stopped outsourcing my personal power to the long and exhaustive chorus of voices telling me what I “should” and “shouldn’t” do if I wanted healing.

My own journey navigating fertility, PCOS management, and matrescence has led me here. Along the way, I have drawn from many lineages and ways of knowing—Western medicine, Ayurveda, Traditional Thai practices, and Western herbalism—spiralling ever deeper into my womb space and healing on physical, emotional, and spiritual levels.

This is a living, ongoing journey. The more knowledge I gather and the deeper I go into my own healing, the more clearly I understand one of our most foundational needs: to be held and witnessed. It is from this understanding that Anam Samsara was born.

I consider it a profound and intimate privilege to witness you and to walk alongside you. My prayer is that the knowledge I share, the touch I offer, and the presence I hold support you as you journey your own spiral path—descending gently into the sacred ground of your womb space.

Life moves in cycles, and no one is meant to walk them alone. I am here to hold loving space as you move through what is ending, and what is waiting to be born.