Starting life out with some fortuitous foreshadowing, Anna Ariel was born at Good Samaritan Hospital on Lovejoy Street in the City of Roses (Portland, Oregon) to a loving family.

Identified as talented and gifted at an early age, she was always curious, drawn to the esoteric and psychic arts as much as she was to leadership and service. In high school she trained as a lifeguard, swam competitively, served on the journalism and speaking teams, and organized large youth conventions—booking speakers, coordinating travel, and managing hundreds of participants before most of her peers had even applied for jobs.

After graduating with honors, Anna was named among the top 2% of Portland’s high school seniors and landed on the cover of The Oregonian’s Business Section. That recognition brought her a summer position at a top Portland law firm—a taste of the corporate world that would become her last 9-to-5 job. She soon moved south to study at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Two years later, the open-minded energy of UCSC and the call of adventure pulled her in another direction: following the Grateful Dead on tour, traveling the world, and learning through direct experience. Those years taught her resilience, courage, and how to live aligned with her own truth.

It was during this season of exploration that Anna met Jean Liedloff, author of The Continuum Concept—a book that had deeply influenced her. She became Jean’s personal assistant and apprenticed with her for a year, ultimately becoming the only person in the world formally trained to carry forward Jean’s work with parents. Today, Anna remains the sole living link to Liedloff’s teachings, guiding families through her signature coaching framework, The Toddler Code™.

Her path of inquiry never stopped. A lifelong student of consciousness and healing, Anna explored Behavioral Kinesiology (Muscle Testing) and found breakthroughs in polarity balancing that made results consistent and reliable. This led to her own practice, Intuitive Answers with Anna Ariel, where she helps others bypass the mind to uncover their deepest truths.

Her studies expanded further into subconscious work, including NLP, EFT, hypnotherapy, and manifestation. That synthesis of tools—science, intuition, and lived wisdom—has become the foundation of her work today.