Hi, I’m Amanda…

meaning “beloved.”

For more than a decade I’ve been building my business step by step with seamless iterations flowing from one to the next.  I’ve studied massage therapy, Ayurveda, tantra, trauma-informed Somatic Sex Education, NeuroAffective Touch, Heart Circling and Vajryana Buddhism.  But most importantly, I’ve actively integrated all of these elements into my life through daily practice personally and professionally.

I have facilitated group programs for women and mixed genders.  I have also co-facilitated couples’ work and transformational retreats with other experts, including my beloved, Thomas.

My clients say that I effortlessly provide one of the safest, most supportive containers they’ve ever experienced, so much so they feel they can share what they haven’t ever been able to say before.  They also claim that because of working with me, their life shifted dramatically towards what they never imagined was possible for them – unexpected career opportunities, healed relationships and finding the Love of their life.

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I have always questioned everything.  My first existential experience of this was when I was in grammar school, walking down the huge hallway to the lavatory. As I opened the door, I remember wondering if we were all just dolls in a dollhouse being moved by some invisible force. 

After that, nothing looked quite the same.  I was nine. 

I started asking the minister questions at church.  People thought this was cute, my mom thought I would become a nun, and I was completely serious. 

I wanted to know God.

In sophomore year of high school, my best friend moved to Hawaii and sent me a package with a book by Ken Carey.  It was a channeled message, from a voice that instructed him to write. 

After that, I spent a lot of time with my bedroom window open, even in the dead of winter, looking out into the night sky and opening myself to all that limitlessness.  I knew that I too could listen.

I started to experience synchronicities, always being in the right place at the right time.  And I just kept trusting.  I call this grace.

Fast forward, and trust has held me through it all – after the death of my fiancé in college, traveling through Asia, giving birth to three daughters (two of them at home), a divorce at age 30, being a single mom, buying a house, running my business and most recently, becoming a grandmother.

But it was somewhere after my divorce that I started to realize: I was always looking for love, but making the same painful mistakes over and over and over. 

I felt stuck most of the time.  Why couldn’t I create the intimate partnership I wanted?   

I knew something needed to shift on a fundamental level.   I knew I needed more than just grace.

I began to expand my abilities to transform emotion into insight through somatic practice and a great amount of self - compassion. 

Layer by layer, I felt into parts of myself that were unconsciously running the show - the rejected, the victim; how they grasped for love and then blamed others for not getting it. 

Yet, it wasn’t til much later, that I suddenly saw how I kept choosing partners out of these patterns, not listening to the voice inside that said “not quite right.”

It was then and there that I took a vow of self-responsibility.

To only choose who and what was truly in alignment with me.  I felt free. 

I finally saw my true worth.  I stopped looking for love, but felt the eternal embrace of Love all around me.

Two weeks later I met my beloved, Thomas.  Eyes wide open and connected to my truth.  There are no coincidences, only conscious choices.