Anna-Lena Toledo awakened in 2011 and has been actively mentoring for Trillium Awakening since 2016. She was a massage therapist for 20 years. She has a long background in a variety of teachings. She was raised as a Jew, spent a few years as a student and devotee of Paramahansa and has taken courses in Buddhism. She has been a long standing student of A Course in Miracles.