Samara Anderson

Founder & Executive Director

Samara Anderson is a small-town Minnesota farm girl, who has always wanted to spread her wings and explore the world, but she is happy to finally put roots down and call Vermont her home as she explores manifesting her dream of creating a wellness community farm. From a young age on the farm, she was intimately aware of the healing power of nature and animals, but it took a bit longer to stumble into powerfully insightful mindfulness practices.

Professionally, Samara is an Attorney licensed in both Vermont and New York, 200-hour Registered Yoga Medicine Teacher (currently completing her 500-hour Certified Yoga training), MBSR Instructor-In-Training, and a social entrepreneur teaching mindfulness to stressed professionals. Her long-term goal for many years has been to create a non-profit community wellness farm in Vermont, using therapeutic animals, nature and mindfulness to increase the well-being of all beings (because the health of humans is intimately connected to the well-being of the planet). She discovered yoga and meditation in 2003 when she graduated from Vermont Law School and was in a stressful and busy commercial litigation law firm based in Manhattan, New York. Her legal work has evolved from complex commercial litigation in New York to public servant with the State of Vermont in a technical compliance and process improvement role at the Department of Children and Families.

Now, her focus is on how to integrate mindfulness into stressed professions to provide them with the tools to regulate their nervous systems to a place of lower stress and increased happiness and calm.