Rachel Ariel Andersen

Rachel Ariel Andersen is a high-energy, visionary and magnetic leader with extensive experience in directing youth programs, creating community, and developing and manifesting creative projects of all kinds. She envisioned and founded Ananda’s Living with Spirit summer program that has run continuously since 2008 on three separate continents. She was the Assistant Program Director at the educational nonprofit Polestar Gardens on the Big Island of Hawaii. She then worked for five years as an Active Travel guide, touring Italy and the US, and learning the nuances of how to work with people. Today she is a Property Consultant in Umbria, Italy and attends to the needs of hundreds of international clients. She continues to share her love for authentic connection through comedy, theatre, art and most notably music, singing for both small and large groups of people as well as finishing her first CD. Rachel spends her free time adventuring in nature, swimming, sailing, cycling, hiking, climbing, doing yoga, and loves working with passionate, inspired people of all ages and walks of life.