Alison Anandi Francis
Internal Stability Expert · Creator of Sleepology by Anandi® · Author
I know this pattern from the inside. By twenty-seven I was running my own beauty and training company, and from the outside it looked like success. Inside, I wasn’t sleeping. I was exhausted, alert at the wrong hours, and functioning on effort rather than reserve.
Nothing I was offered addressed the cause. Sleep was the symptom everyone could see. The system beneath it was the problem no one was looking at.
Where the work came from
That question set the course of thirty-five years in wellbeing, the last twenty-three of them in yoga, breath and Ayurveda. What I learned became Sleepology by Anandi®, and later the diagnostic method I work with today.
The core hasn’t changed. Sleep can’t be forced. It emerges when the system that governs it is stable: breath, nervous system, rhythm, digestion, load. When that system holds, sleep follows. When it doesn’t, no technique is enough.
Sleep can’t be forced. It emerges when the system that governs it is stable.
How I work now
My work is diagnostic, not prescriptive.
I don’t start with a programme. I start by understanding your system: what it is carrying, where it has adapted, and what it needs in order to recover. Measurable markers sit alongside what you tell me, such as night waking, HRV trends and daytime clarity, so we work from evidence rather than guesswork.
Everything begins with the Inner Stability Diagnostic. For many people it is the whole of the work. For others it becomes the first phase of the Inner Stability Method, which includes five days at Casa Anandi, my private residence in Le Marche, designed around what the diagnostic finds.
I take fifteen retreat guests a year, across three retreats, and work with six private immersion clients wherever they are in the world. I lead all of it personally. The work is not scaled beyond what I can hold properly.
What this work is not
- It is not sleep coaching. You cannot coach a nervous system into regulation.
- It is not a programme. Programmes are generic, and this work is individual.
- It is not a quick fix. It is structural, which is why it holds.
Training and lineage
My teacher, Dr Yogrishi Vishvketu, gave me the name Anandi. My thinking has also been shaped by Dr David Frawley, Georg Feuerstein, Dr Deepak Chopra and Dr David Simon.
- Ayurveda Wellness Consultant, approved by the International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine
- Master Breathwork Facilitator
- Registered Senior Akhanda Yoga Teacher and Teacher Trainer (Yoga Alliance)
- Chopra-certified Primordial Sound Meditation Instructor
- Qualified NLP instructor and hypnotherapist
- 800 hours of yoga philosophy as a mentee of the late Georg Feuerstein
Books, press and service
I’m the author of Breathe Better, Sleep Better and Teaching Breathwork, the creator of the Inner Stability Index, and I have led residential retreats since 2008.
My work has featured in The Guardian, The Telegraph, Vogue India, Harper’s Bazaar, Stylist and Psychologies. Past clients include Captify, Perkbox and One&Only Reethi Rah.
Helping Hands for India was founded by my teacher, Yogrishi Vishvketu. Its school, Sansar Gyaan Pathshala, meaning “world knowledge lessons”, sits near the village of Pritamgarh, two hours from Rishikesh, and gives children from the surrounding villages an education. I am the charity’s President.
Stability starts early. For these children, it starts with a school.