Antonia Anderson

Antonia brings a background in writing and teaching to her work at Simply Mindful. She designs and maintains the Simply Mindful website and booking system, manages technical troubleshooting, and develops systems and processes to keep everything running smoothly. She also occasionally answers your lovely emails and helps people find their way into the right program.

Antonia is a graduate of Chatham University and Naropa University. She first encountered mindfulness training at the Shambhala Centre in Boulder, Colorado, where she completed the Warrior Training program and volunteered as an aide. She went on to study and practise in Nepal, and eventually moved to Australia to start a family. She now lives in Canberra with her partner and two grubby children.

She was delighted to come across Simply Mindful in 2019, when she took the MBSR course for the first time. Since then she has enjoyed attending the silent retreats and taking other courses to deepen her mindfulness practice.

Antonia loves bringing order to chaos and making things run smoothly in the background. “Systemisation” and “automation” are two of her favourite concepts despite being very clunky boring-sounding words.

When she’s not solving a technical problem or helping someone register for a course, she enjoys long walks in the bush and reading anything from queer paranormal romances to software documentation to the back of the cereal box.

She also works for a global organisation as a teacher and trainer for postpartum care professionals, and is passionate about improving support for newborn mothers.