Our Approach

Finding Inspiration in Every Turn

Blending East and West

At AnnapurnaBlue, our team is at the heart of our mission to promote holistic well-being. Our founders and staff are trained in both Western and Eastern medicine, as well as spiritual traditions, bringing together a wealth of knowledge and experience. Collectively, our team has over 30 years of experience in Western medicine and over 20 years in Eastern healing and wellness modalities. This unique blend allows us to offer a comprehensive approach to mind, body, and spirit healing and well-being.

We are dedicated to functional well-being, providing tools for students of all ages, both men and women, to manage negativities, maintain emotional balance, mental clarity, and sustain resilience. Our approach is centered on acknowledging and releasing negative emotions, being mindful of our bodies' needs, and nurturing the environment we live in daily.

Taking the time to learn, implement, and nurture your mind, body, and spirit will greatly enhance your ability to develop wellness, internal strength, and resilience, helping you avoid illnesses caused by stress and environmental factors.

Our workshops and retreats are uniquely structured, combining Western and Tibetan healing and wellness techniques. This fusion gives our students profound knowledge and resources to achieve functional well-being, peace, calm, and harmony within their daily lives.

Our Story

AnnapurnaBlue's founders, Deborah and Bo, met during a healing retreat years ago. Both had extensive studies in healing with Eastern culture and Western modalities. They delved deeply into the healing and meditation practices of an 18,000-year-old Tibetan spiritual tradition, Yungdrung Bon, gaining profound insights from Bon Geshes and monks.

Motivated by their shared vision, they decided to create a health and wellness center to be of service to others. Their research journey took them to Nepal, where they sought guidance from Tibetan Geshes on the practices of healing.

During this trip to Nepal, they felt a strong sense of facing fears and healing through overcoming their fears. They took the trip to Annapurna Base Camp. For Deborah, with all her many adventures, she never felt such a peaceful and humbling experience. She knew then Annapurna would be her paradigm for accepting and overcoming challenges in life.

Bo also felt a strong healing energy and felt drawn to Annapurna and what it represents. He also believes Annapurna combined with the healing color of Blue represents both the western and eastern cultures of healing.

Thus, AnnapurnaBlue Health and Wellness was created, to bring the healing wisdom from both cultures. To help people all around the world realize they can make changes in their lives, face and remove obstacles, live a more balanced life, and thereby find peace, harmony and a balanced wellbeing.

Meet The Team

Dr. Deborah M

Co-Founder, Therapist, Educator

Deborah Peteler has worked in the healing and transformative arts for over 30 years. Once a practicing Registered Nurse for 15 years, Deborah studied to become an MD at UCLA Medical School, but family obligations dictated she could not finish her MD degree. Years later, as she had minored in Psychology, she continued her studies in Psychology to earn a Psychotherapist degree, as well as becoming a certified health, family and executive coach, family and child trauma therapist. Deborah’s work focuses on stress management, pain management, family and work environment.

For the past 20 plus years, Deborah has studied healing and spiritual practices of Yungdrung Bon, an 18,000 year old Tibetan healing practice. She studied under Latri i Nyima Dakpa Rinpoche and various Tibetan Geshe masters from sMenri Monastery in India and Tritin Norbutse Monastery in Nepal.

Since 2012, Deborah has been the director of Yeru Bon Center, a Tibetan spiritual center focused on healing and our environment. She enjoys her connections with people around the world who want to develop skills to be more resilient, healthy and nurturing life.

During these years of studying with Rinpoche, she has become one of a handful of female practitioners who is able to fuse the wisdom and spiritual practices of Yungdrung Bon with Western culture.

She co-founded Annapurna Blue Health and Wellness to help people deal with the accelerating pace of life and work, and navigate through the fog with clarity and insight.

Deborah believes that when one part of your life is in trouble, all parts of your life will be in trouble. Through her understanding of this interconnectedness, she gives people the tools to pause, reflect on their personal and business lives, and make the adjustments needs to improve all aspects of their lives.

Deborah believes life is meant to be lived filled with love and compassion.

Bo Blichfeldt

Co-Founder, Director of Body Movement Energy Healing

Bo Blichfeld will say “I am just a simple architect” This is true, one of the most creative architects in Denmark.

Bo’s love for Danish architecture encouraged him to study with famous architects and their projects. More important he focused his designing with a vision of nourishment for healing through structures of art. Simply living to support and build the awareness of light, harmony and balance.

Bo brings the essence of Feng Shui and Qi Gong practice into his design. All of Bo's designs show elements of balance and harmony.

When you look at his designs, you will see the simplicity of his design is powerful and designed with his extensive knowledge of Feng Shui and QiGong.

Bo has been studying and holds certificates in the art of energy healing, Feng Shui and QiGong for well over 20 plus years. He traveled to China and studied the art of QiGong and continues to study with QiGong masters. He studied extensively the art of Feng Shui, opening the space for healing.

Here at AnnapurnaBlue, we believe Bo is an architect of healing. Through the practice of QiGong and Feng Shui Bo holds a key to energy healing. His students will leave his courses with the knowledge and tools of Qigong and Feng Shui to make changes in their daily lives.

Bo’s years of collective knowledge of “Living in the light of Dao ” brings to AnnapurnaBlue a refinement in balance, energy and harmony.

As co-founder of AnnapurnaBlue, Bo, strives to bring quality teachings and programs to AnnapurnaBlue. Through Bo’s teachings and events, students will be able to tap into their innate ability to heal, to be in balance with their daily life. He will help students to create new energy into their home, help you to dissolve negative energy in your life, help you to restore your health, vitality and energy. You will learn to be in harmony with your surroundings. Change the energy of your space, heighten your spiritual connections and activate your creativity!