Before a moth can fly to the light, it must be willing to be transformed in the dark.

Ani Djirdjirian (she/they) is a trauma-informed Somatic Practitioner, Breathwork Facilitator, and Artist whose work lives at the intersection of emotional expression, the body, and the voice.

A Native New Yorker and child of immigrants, Ani grew up navigating the tension between heritage and assimilation, learning early how silence can become a form of survival. That lived experience shaped a lifelong inquiry into identity, belonging, and what it means to come home to oneself.

As a classically trained singer and actor for nearly two decades, she discovered that voice, movement, and music are not only forms of artistic expression, but direct pathways into regulation, release, and truth. Over time, her work deepened beyond performance into a personal unraveling, where unprocessed grief, suppressed rage, and inherited silence began to surface in the body, relationships, and creative expression.

Through tending to her own nervous system and exploring the landscapes of shadow, she began to reconnect with the beauty of intuition, ancestry, and the intelligence of the body as a guide.

Today, Ani guides others through somatic, vocal, and breath-based practices that support emotional release, voice reclamation, and nervous system awareness. Her spaces are known for being grounded, intuitive, and deeply human, where science and spirituality meet, and nothing within the self is exiled.

She holds a dual Bachelor’s degree in Music Performance and Social Work from Adelphi University, a Master’s in Social Work from Fordham University, and is a Certified 200-hour Somatic Breathwork Practitioner through ReWild Breathwork (IPHM accredited). She has also completed Advanced Trauma-Informed Somatic Healing training through The Embody Lab with Dr. Scott Lyons, Dr. Arielle Schwartz, and Nkem Ndefo.

Awaken With Ani is rooted in the belief that healing is not about becoming someone new, but remembering our voice, our body, our capacity to feel, and our ability to be in relationship with life’s fullness.

Ani is devoted to guiding people through the unseen thresholds of transformation, where what has been silenced can finally move: where the body speaks, the voice returns, and darkness becomes not something to escape, but something that teaches us how to see.