Breaking Patterns and Returning to the Heart
Alexis Hannagan joined the conversation from Chiang Mai, a mountain town in northern Thailand, where she is spending time immersed in Buddhist culture and preparing to sit with monks in meditation. This period of travel is deeply personal. After losing her mother, Alexis recognised the need to step back, grieve, and process while still honouring the work she does. She believes that to truly guide others, she must be living the practices herself rather than simply speaking about them.
Through The Sanctuary Australia, Alexis supports women and men in transforming their mind, body, and soul. Many people arrive carrying blocks such as anxiety, stress, fear, lack of confidence, or confusion around purpose. Her work focuses on guiding people back to their heart so they can reconnect with their truth and live from that place. This approach is grounded in lived experience rather than theory.
Her path did not begin in the wellness space. Alexis studied commerce and marketing and worked in corporate roles in London with international brands. From the outside, her career appeared successful, but internally she felt anxious, drained, and disconnected. At the time, she lacked the awareness to trust those feelings and believed something was wrong with her. Over time, she came to understand that her intuition was signalling that she did not belong in that environment.
Daily practice became the turning point. Kundalini yoga, breathwork, chanting, and meditation helped Alexis retrain her nervous system. Anxiety, low confidence, and PTSD linked to childhood experiences gradually eased. She explains that these practices work at the level of energy and the nervous system, not just the mind. Everyone brings a frequency into the world, whether it is stress or presence, and that frequency can be consciously trained.
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