About
Anastasia India
Meet Byron Bay Lifestyle's Founder & Owner and learn more about
her background.
Meet
Anastasia India
Even from a young age as a child, I always felt very deeply impacted by the space around me. I may not have had the words to articulate how I was feeling, or the emotional intelligence at age 5 to describe it fully, yet I knew how I felt. It doesn’t matter if you are 5 years old or 95 years old, you feel what you feel, there’s no escaping it. I would walk into a space + know immediately if that space made me feel good, or not so good.
One of my earliest, childhood memories, was when I lived with my family in a small coastal holiday town in Victoria, Australia. We lived in the main street of the town, with my parents’ business attached to the house where we lived. My parents were very entrepreneurial + when the elderly man who had lived in the house next door, passed away, my parents decided to purchase the house + restore it.
On our inspection of that property, I had my first ever visceral response. Or what I now know to be a visceral response. At the time I didn’t understand that terminology + hadn’t heard those words spoken before.
I walked into the dark, damp living room with not much natural light and all his old furniture, which to a young child felt like a decrepit space, where I would imagine squatters had lived in squalor. Again, I wouldn’t have known what squatters were back in those days, yet I just remember feeling very yucky, being in that space. I didn’t really feel that safe, even though I was surrounded by my family, so I knew logically, that nothing bad would happen to me physically. I think I was feeling emotionally unsafe without really being aware of what that even was.
There was a very old sofa, from what was probably an Art Deco era, upholstered in thick brocade floral fabric. It looked dirty, and I distinctly remember my Mum, who was + still is a clean freak, telling me in a panicked sounding voice - not to touch the sofa, as it probably had so, many germs on it. The whole place smelt like there was a dead animal somewhere in the corner. It was dark, it was dreary + it smelt very very bad. Not a place that anyone, would intentionally gravitate towards + definitely not a place for young children to play in.
As much as I didn’t feel good in the space, I also remember an enormous wave of curiosity take over, like I wanted to explore every inch of this house, to see what treasures lay within. It was difficult to do, as my Mum was insistent I stay close by her side. She didn’t want me rubbing up against anything unsavoury, step on anything dangerous, like old nails, broken window panes or timber, that may splinter me.
This memory, was one of my earliest childhood memories + possibly, the first time, that I understood how my surroundings impacted me. Profoundly, impacted me. This moment, this exact moment, was the start of a lifetime journey. Because it was in that exact moment, I realised, the correlation between the space around me + the way that I felt. It was a real aha moment. A moment where I thought oh gosh, does that mean that I can determine how I feel, by surrounding myself with certain things + by placing myself into certain environments? Does that mean that I have the power to change the way I feel?
It was such a deeply profound moment. Almost like I’d unlocked a magic code or won the keys to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, as I was probably around 5 years old at the time. This was big moment in my life. I was stunned. I thought to myself, do other people know this? Or are they unaware. Are people actually aware or unaware, of the direct link, between their environment + the impact on them? This was my initial path into the work I now do, initially though interior spaces, then more deeply, into space + energetics, much of which is based on science.
I have worked with clients over many years + seen some of the most incredible transformations through this work. I am deeply committed to helping people understand the impact of the space around them, so they can live better in their home + work better in their workspace. It brings me the greatest joy + truly lights me up like nothing else can, as I have the opportunity to give my clients the lifestyle they’ve always dreamt of living, in their current house!
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