I am Chanel Vanzant Garrand
I am a multidisciplinary creative with specialization in Yoga and the healing arts. I am a teacher, writer, and ceremonialist. My artistic style is devotional, intuitive, and free in form.
I dedicate everything I do to my family, God, and my daughter in heaven. I am especially drawn to supporting women and uplifting humans with an open heart and desire for intrinsic excavation.
My home base is a small forest in Dover, Florida where I am currently building the life of my dreams with my beloved husband and two radiant sons.
Hello & Namaste
My name is Chanel and I am a 30-something, Hawaii-born, mixed-raced Yogi, wife, and mother initially raised in a northeast Christian school who left to seek more and now practices Shamanism and talks to nature, meditates daily using the Buddhist method of Vipassana, studies Hinduism and chants Sanskrit, honors the Divine Feminine through cross-cultural Goddess work, and prays the Rosary as unwavering devotion to Mother Mary and her Son.
I started my personal yoga practice in 2012 due to the lingering presence of unhealed hardship from my youth and the mental health challenges that developed in early adulthood as a result.
Since then, yoga has become the longest standing practice in my spiritual toolbox.
Yoga is also where I met husband - the love of all my lives.
Yoga has not only confronted me, it has helped heal me. Whatever healing remains, my husband and God has supported me through.
I have been a yoga teacher throughout Tampa since 2016.
This practice has led me down a rich and cross-cultural path where I feel blessed to blend my affection for Source with esoteric mysteries and Gnostic teachings across many faiths and ancestral lineages.
My inspiration is continuously drawn from the integration of my personal, professional and spiritual experiences; inspiring me to create a supportive and integrative teaching model that assists others on their own path of Divine reclamation.
for the sake of formality
With over 800 hours of certified yoga training and more than 10,000 hours of live instruction, I blend my certified specialization in Meditation, Yin Yoga, Trauma Informed Yoga, Pre- and Post-Natal Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Yoga for Beginners, and Vinyasa to create a nurturing practice for your specific needs.
My offerings also incorporate an array of live instruments across multiple cultures, ritual, ceremony, breath work, guided visualization, and somatic therapeutic techniques to unveil what may be repressed, lost, or passed through you generationally.
My professional and personal interest lie in the dormant aspects of our Soul experience as human. I am especially drawn to grief and birth work. I am a ceremonial officiant and have performed several marriages and end of like journeys for my clients. My latest offerings infuse the acknowledgment of sorrow and beauty in all of our lives; this truth connects us all.
I use the teachings of Yoga, the natural world, the unseen realms, lost feminine wisdom, Divinity, shamanism, and other spiritual guidance to inform and support my work with Self and others.
My most rigorous training has been and continues to be my work as a mother to many children and a devoted wife to my husband in law enforcement.
I have authored and been featured in many wellness and yoga related trainings and created and led successful mentorships. It is through these experience that I have found an authentic home to blend my affection for God with a Masters of Education degree in Curriculum and Design.
I began teaching Yoga in 2016 and have created and served as hostess for over a dozen Yoga and mindfulness related retreats since 2022. I have owned my own business in this work since 2019. In 2024, my husband and I have birthed our own retreat business on our land of nearly 10-acres in Dover, Florida.
I am also a certified Journal Therapist where I exercise my adoration of therapeutic writing for liberation and self understanding. I believe writing is a powerful and holy ground to meet your innermost Self and have sold hundreds of hand-crafted journals for the last 6 years.
1:1 with me
Private sessions for yoga, meditation, Dharma exploration, and spiritual expansion.
Let’s work together.
what makes me human
prayer & journaling
my favorite tools
Emerald
favorite stone
savasana & SPINAL TWISTS
favorite yoga pose
my faith
couldn’t live without
MARRIAGE TO MY HUSBAND
greatest accomplishment
my TWO sonS and daughter
obsessed about
About Nanihoku
Our private offerings take place at our family residence and home studio space of 10 acres in Dover, FL.
Nanihoku is the spirit of aloha that lives in all beings when we feel secure, respected, loved, and free. Established in 2025, Nanihoku has now become a house of sacred moments for others to know and feel. We are honored to welcome you home in such a natural way.
There is so much heaven to focus upon within you.
I teach weekly at Bella Prana Yoga and Wellness Collective in South Tampa on Saturday’s at 9am and Sunday’s at 4:30pm.
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