At 18 Anna Rahe felt 80. She was trapped inside her young body unable to find answers from every elite professional she sought for help. She became hyper focused on finding answers to her own physical pain and complicated health issues. Anna was driven by the desire to feel young, healthy and vital in her body. This instigated her to buck the medical and fitness systems and go rogue.
Anna took a 25 year deep dive into the body’s most complex and holistic system and along the way created a revolutionary new science based solution to health and wellness, the ability to use motion for much more than fitness- to remodel, recover, and restore function, health and vitality for the human body.
Certified in Pilates, Fascial Fitness with additional extensive study in the fields of biomechanics, and physics, myriad movement methods (Yoga, Gyrotonics, Bartineiff, Laban, Applied Kinesiology, Tai Chi, Qigong) as well as manual body work techniques (Barral, Rolfing, Reiki, Rosen Method, dry needling). Anna created GST from the best of all her studies filling in the gaps from her own discoveries and research.
As the founder, CEO and educator of GST Body, Anna has spoken about holistic body care through fascia around the world, partnered with top athletes, surgeons, physicians, and celebrities, and been featured in various publications, from Shape to Elle, Net-a-Porter to The Wall Street Journal. Throughout her career Anna has had the pleasure of working with and helping over ten thousand people find lasting change by restoring their bodies and reclaiming an ageless vital life.
"There are constant innovations coming to market in almost every industry. Innovation improves our lives. I find it discouraging that there hasn't been a significant innovation in health and wellness arguably since Pilates in the turn of the century ( and it took almost 60 years to come to market). By innovation I mean something new that offers something entirely different, progressive, revolutionary that stands out as forward and expanding. Why does the health and wellness industry keep rebranding old for new: diets, workouts, new ways to spin old things to make you think we are doing something different. Fascia excites me because it can encourage my industry to finally think outside of the box and innovate - fascia will do for the health and wellness what Galileo did for the planet -to change our world from flat to round and every science this affects."
"It is good to move but not all movement is good for you. We constantly reevaluate our diets and scrutinize their value, benefits and viability but when it comes to motion we just contribute the lowest common denominator - just move. Did you get your steps in?"
"Drinking water is not the only way (and is not the best way) to hydrate. Thanks to the various functions of fascia, there are many ways the body uses water to hydrate. One not well known or capitalized on for deep hydration is what I call “fascia drip hydration”.
Show Causing The Effect, Ep 289 Movement Medicine with Anna Rahe - May 7, 2023
Discussion about what I do and how it is revolutionizing the health and wellness industry