About Your Trainer

Bent Hansen is the director of Ananda Seminars and provides stress management training and leadership coaching to corporations and a variety of groups and individuals.

Bent attended the University of Manitoba and has worked as department manager at retail businesses, including at a music store and building supply center. He also has work experience with the Government of Manitoba in their Building Construction department.

Bent has been offering classes and seminars in stress management for over twenty-six years, throughout the United States, as well as in Canada and Europe. He has practiced meditation for thirty-two years while being involved in various businesses, including managing meditation retreat facilities in California and Italy.

Bent has also developed meditation teaching centers in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Austin and Dallas, TX and Winnipeg, Canada. Bent has offered various classes and workshops in settings such as University California San Francisco Medical College, University of Manitoba, University of Portland, Shari’s Restaurant corporate offices ( Portland, OR), House of Affirmations (a behavior treatment center) in Montara, CA, California Department of Revenue Recovery, California Tax Franchise Board, and Legacy Hospital Caregivers Program in Portland, OR. He has also directed Yoga Teacher Training courses in California.