Crystal Dougherty
GPBA Certified Breathwork Facilitator, Reiki and Bodywork Therapist
Nosara, Costa Rica and Global Virtual Sessions
Crystal Dougherty Anderson blends Breathwork, bodywork, Reiki, and trauma-informed healing practices to support deep embodiment, nervous system restoration, and soulful transformation through touch, breath, and presence.
Areas of Focus
• Conscious Connected Breathwork
• Reiki & Restorative Breathwork
• Breath Alchemy Practices
• Nervous System Regulation
• Trauma-Informed Healing
• Somatic & Energetic Bodywork
• Emotional Release & Embodiment
• Reiki Energy Healing
• 1:1 Sessions & Group Facilitation
• Retreats, Workshops & Immersions
• Bilingual Facilitation (English & Spanish)
• Restorative & Integrative Healing Experiences
About Crystal
Crystal Dougherty Anderson is a deeply intuitive and seasoned bodyworker who has devoted more than two decades to the healing arts. With over 23 years of experience, her work bridges technical anatomical knowledge, soft tissue release, energetic awareness, Breathwork, and trauma-informed care to support healing on multiple levels of being.
Her approach is integrative, soul-attuned, and grounded in the belief that true healing involves the body, mind, spirit, and nervous system working in harmony. Through touch, breath, energy work, and compassionate presence, Crystal creates safe and supportive spaces where people are invited to soften, reconnect with themselves, and access their own inner wisdom and capacity for transformation.
Crystal has lived in Nosara, Costa Rica for the past 18 years with her family and is a dual citizen of Costa Rica and the United States. Fluent in both English and Spanish, she offers sessions, classes, retreats, and immersive healing experiences that blend Conscious Connected Breathwork, Reiki, restorative practices, and embodiment work.
Her offerings range from deeply calming Reiki & Restorative Breathwork sessions designed to soothe the nervous system and cultivate grounding, to more activating Breath Alchemy experiences that support emotional release, energetic transformation, vitality, and inner awakening.
Connect With Crystal
BreathTide
Kelly Berkley receiving her Body of Breath certificate.
"My breathwork mentor has been the kind of mentor and teacher I’ve always wanted but didn’t think existed. The kind I always imagined a real mentor was: someone that you really work alongside like an apprenticeship. Someone that knows you well and where your challenge areas are from the close contact and oversight that they have of you. Someone that cares about you and your growth. Someone that supports you when you need to be nudged or met where you’re at. Someone that really shows you the ropes in a way that you can’t get from a text book or lecture. You know, how mentorship’s and apprenticeships must have looked like in the old days and in tribes 🙂."
Marianna hildago
"In my search for eternal truth, she was the first to hold me with quiet power. In every session, her hands feel woven from threads of another dimension — light like breath, steady like earth. There is no fear in journeying through the breath with Ashley, because her presence invokes a deep-rooted safety, the kind that cannot be taught — only embodied."
Nosara, Costa Rica
Owner of Crown Hall
Sarah Clark
"My relationship to myself has shifted through my work with Ashley and that in turn has shifted other relationships in my life. I see things through a different lens. I'm able to not be so reactionary and if I am, I can sit and observe myself later. I've been able to access more forgiveness for myself and for others in that process. It's helped me move stagnant and unserving energy in my body that I might not have found the tools to deal with otherwise. The work gave me the tools to access these points, realizations, emotions, physical forms that I have built up externally and emotional walls that I have built internally that were keeping me from my highest potential. She taught me to teach myself through movement, breath, silence, reflection, slowing down......It's been life changing."
