Anna Penenberg, MA, is a healer by nature and training, and the mother of two daughters. She holds a BA in dance and psychology and a master’s degree in Dance Therapy from UCLA and a California license in psychotherapy. After her children were born, she trained as a Kundalini Yoga teacher and a somatic therapist in craniosacral therapy, Body-Mind Centering®, and Infant Developmental Movement Education. She has worked over the last 35 years with adults, children and infants, focusing on facilitating integration --- brain and body, psyche and spirit. She continues her healing practice in Topanga, CA and in her free time she enjoys reading, yoga, hiking and working on her next memoir.

Books by Anna Penenberg

Dancing in the Narrows: A Mother-Daughter Odyssey Through Chronic Illness

by Anna Penenberg - Memoir, Nonfiction

A mother’s love and persistence are put to the test when her teen daughter is stricken with a mysterious, debilitating illness. As time goes on, Dana’s condition drives everyone away --- everyone, that is, except for her mother, Anna. Finally, desperate to improve Dana’s health, the two hit the road in search of a cure. Dana’s chronic symptoms require endless supplements, pharmaceuticals and dietary restrictions, evoking a heroine’s journey. Full of humor, blind hope and alternative medicine, DANCING IN THE NARROWS is a poignant chronicle of Anna and Dana’s multiyear odyssey toward healing from trauma.