About Anasuya

Anasuya Basil Batliner, NC, Dipl. ABT, CST, helps people with chronic musculo-skeletal pain, depression, and hormonal imbalances reduce aches, eliminate mood swings, and ease discomforts of PMS and menopause. To assist each person on their unique pathway to a better relationship with their body, Anasuya uses holistic nutrition and therapeutic bodywork. She finds that clients make significant progress in their health when they learn to give their body what it needs. She is a compassionate practitioner, seeking to connect with the essential goodness of each person, and committed to enhancing the body’s innate healing power.

Anasuya shares her wisdom culled from decades of exploring health and personal development. She studied holistic nutrition at Bauman College’s 750-hour training program and earned her California State certification as a Nutrition Consultant. Her clinical research focused on key nutrients for chronic pain. Anasuya completed the 1,000-hour program at the Acupressure Institute in Berkeley, California. She is a Diplomate in Asian Bodywork Therapy, certified by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM) and she uses Tui Na, Shiatsu and Acupressure in her practice. Over the past eleven years she trained in CranioSacral Therapy with the Upledger Institute which greatly developed her intuition, subtle palpation skills and a profound respect for the power of the body-mind connection. Anasuya studied herbal medicine with Susan Weed at the Wise Woman Center in Woodstock, New York for several years before deciding to explore a career in holistic health. For her own personal development and self-understanding, Anasuya spent a decade living in meditation ashrams and spiritual retreat sites in Boston, New York and India.

Anasuya teaches advanced classes at the Acupressure Institute in Berkeley: Women’s Health Issues, Acupressure for Menopause, and Nutrition for Pain and Depression. She served for 5 years as a CranioSacral Therapist in the Wellness Center at the Cerebral Palsy Center in Oakland.  Anasuya has maintained a private practice in Berkeley for 12 years.

pic_aboutShe enjoys gardening and hiking at Red Dirt Farm, her retreat home near Butte Creek Canyon outside of Chico. She is a long-time believer and admirer of ecological living, and is putting Permaculture principles in action and studying nature awareness in the beautiful Sierra Foothills.

Professional Training and Affiliations

•  1,000 certified hours, Acupressure Therapy
The Acupressure Institute, Berkeley, CA 1995-1999

•  Diplomate in Asian Bodywork Therapy, National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM). 2002

•  750 certified hours, Nutrition Consultant
Bauman College, Penngrove, CA 1998-2001

•  Craniosacral I and II, Somato-Emotional Release I and II, Advanced CST I and II, Pediatrics, The Immune Response, The Brain Speaks, Certified Staff Teaching Assistant. Certified at the Techniques level. The Upledger Institute, Florida. 1998-2007

•  Prenatal Massage Certification, Carole Osborne-Sheets
Body Therapy Associates, San Diego, CA 2001

•  Herbal medicine training with Susun Weed, The Wise Woman Center, Woodstock, New York. 1990-1994

•  Member of the Association of Bodywork Therapies of Asia

•  Member of the National Association of Nutrition Professionals

•  Member of the American CranioSacral Therapy Association

Additional Training

Certified Permaculture Designer, 2004. The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center.

BS: Mass Communication/Film. Emerson College, Boston, 1981.