About Tori Anito

Each of us is both the book and the student. My path has taught me that healing is not about forcing or fixing, but about enlisting our wholeness to hold our humanness.
I believe yoga is not just movement or something we “do”, but a way of being and sound is not simply vibration, but sanctuary. My work weaves these practices together as one, creating spaces where the body softens, the mind quiets, and the human expression has an opportunity to feel nestled and held in love.
What began as movement for the body became medicine for the soul, and over time, a calling to share what I discovered. My offerings are never about performance, but about presence; granting permission to arrive exactly as you are.
Rooted in reverence, I hold space that honors all walks of life and belief systems. I trust in the permeating Presence, higher than our own understanding, that wears many names around the world. Whether you know this presence as God, Divine Consciousness, Spirit, or another truth close to your heart, it always calls us back to the same foundation: unconditional love and compassion.

“The best thing you can do for yourself is master the chaos inside of you. for you are not thrown into the fire, you are the fire.” -Mama Indigo

“To enlist our inherent acknowledgement of grace and wholeness, to hold our humanness.”
Early in my yoga journey, I walked into a class and heard the phrase: “Leave it at the door.” At that moment, I knew exactly how I wanted to shape my own offerings in complete opposition to that idea because this type of compassionate setting was something I needed, something I craved for myself and the world.
In every class, workshop, retreat, or training I guide, my invitation is the same: Leave nothing at the door. Bring all of who you are into the space.
This doesn’t mean allowing the mind to spiral in distraction, replaying the past or anticipating the future. It means anchoring yourself in presence with the raw, gritty, authentic human experience that arises in the moment. My approach is about noticing what surfaces, meeting it with compassion, and remembering that the light of truth exists only in the now.
Rather than striving to force, fix, or hide, my classes encourage students to honor the beauty and courage of being exactly who they are. To take up space, not fit into a perfection-based mold. To enlist our inherent acknowledgement of grace and wholeness to hold our humanness with tenderness, no matter what emotions we are experiencing.
At the heart of my work is this simple truth: we were made to take up space.
My work has been trusted by leading institutions, publications, and communities who share a devotion to wellness and transformation. Over the years, I’ve had the honor of teaching, guiding, and facilitating for diverse circles - from global teacher trainings to local communities, from hospitals to schools.
Highlights of my path include:
- 500RYT · E-RYT200 · YACEP
- Faculty at Moksha Yoga Amazonica, teaching Yoga Philosophy for international teacher trainings
- Featured in Memphis Health + Fitness Magazine
- Featured in Memphis Voyager Magazine
- Featured Guest on the Like Really Creative podcast
- Facilitator for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital — Advanced Practitioner Week and patient sound healing programs
- Faculty for Memphis Compass City Schools Wellness Program
- Facilitator for Shelby County Government Wellness Program
- Teacher at award-winning Memphis yoga studios, including Dose Hot Pilates & Yoga and Mind Body Haus, both recognized as leading wellness hubs in the city
- 6+ conscious retreats, 30+ specialty workshops, and thousands of students served
I was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee…the city of rhythm and blues, where music, creativity, and soul have always been and will always be home, no matter where I find myself in the world. I didn’t grow up as an athlete or someone who thought of themselves as “strong” or “fit.” My identity lived in the arts - music, poetry, writing, and songwriting. Expression was my safe place, my first language.
When I unrolled a yoga mat for the first time in 2017, I carried with me all the stories I had told myself: I’m not flexible enough. I’m not athletic enough. I don’t belong here. Yoga became the invitation to step outside of that box, the one I had built around myself, and dare to see who I could become without it.
It wasn’t easy. Vulnerability never is. But class by class, breath by breath, I began to feel the courage of being fully human…raw, imperfect, and full of steady Grace for myself and my body. What began as movement for the body became medicine for the soul, and over time, the path of yoga and the path of music wove themselves together. That weaving became the foundation of my work as a sound healer, yoga teacher, and musician.
Since then, my journey has carried me from Memphis to the banks of the Ganges in India, to the lush jungles of Peru, and always back home in the heart, to the community that raised me. Every circle I guide whether in a studio, retreat, or sound sanctuary, is shaped by this relic of experience and rooted in the truth truth that our wholeness is not something to earn, but something to remember and live into.