Founders of Amanaia
A Luxury Transformational Custom Retreat in Sedona.
Denny Cohen Ashkenazi
Denny Cohen Ashkenazi is a master NLP coach, hypnotherapist, conscious living guide, and founder of N.O.W. NLP Academy in Los Angeles. A native Israeli and mother of three, Denny’s life journey profoundly shaped her life’s work.
Becoming a mother at a young age — and raising her oldest son Roy, who was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy at birth — became the catalyst for her deepest awakening. What began as fear of an uncertain future transformed into a powerful path of growth, acceptance, and love. Through this journey, Denny discovered a way of being rooted in peaceful presence, radical acceptance, and the ability to find beauty in every moment — even in pain.
In 2005, she graduated as a Master NLP Coach and Hypnotherapist and founded N.O.W., beginning her work with private clients and leading transformational weekend seminars. Witnessing the profound evolution in her students, she established an NLP certification school in 2007 in Los Angeles. Since then, she has coached countless individuals one-on-one and certified NLP practitioners throughout LA and beyond.
As a conscious living guide, Denny supports individuals in releasing limiting beliefs and negative emotional patterns, setting clear intentions, and consciously manifesting their desires. Her work bridges the conscious and unconscious mind, integrating heart and intellect into one harmonious system. Through practical tools and deep inner work, she teaches people how to use the power of the mind to cultivate health, empowerment, clarity, and joy.
Denny is also the owner and land steward of Amanaia Conscious Living in Sedona — a sacred sanctuary set on powerful land where she hosts intimate, all-inclusive immersive retreats. These retreats are her most treasured offering, providing a deeply transformational experience that shifts not only how participants think — but how they live.
For Denny, this is not simply a profession — it is her life mission. In these times of global change and awakening, she is devoted to guiding others back to wholeness. Her work is grounded in compassion, unity, and love, empowering individuals to become conscious participants in their own extraordinary lives.
Chana Zilberberg
Chana Zilberberg is a Conscious Living and NLP Coach who uses music and dance as medicine for transformation.
Her work is rooted in the understanding that true change does not begin in the mind alone but manifested through the body.
Through rhythm, movement, and guided somatic activation, Chana helps individuals release stored emotion, break subconscious patterns, and reconnect to their innate power. Music becomes regulation. Dance becomes liberation. The body becomes the doorway to expansion.
Blending subconscious repatterning with embodied expression, she creates high-impact, transformational experiences where identity shifts are not just learned — they are lived.
On the dance floor, breakthroughs happen.
Through rhythm, clarity returns.
Through movement, power is reclaimed.
Chana’s spaces are immersive, activating, and deeply transformative — inviting each person to rise not by force, but through embodied alignment.
