Meet Amanda
I am a leader, teacher, Priestess and mother in service to women and their families. My number one core value is COMMUNITY and I have dedicated my life to cultivating it. In essence, I am a sacred space holder, witnessing others with full presence and attention.
I’ve embraced many identities in this lifetime. My career began in personal training where, for twenty years, I mastered the art of listening attentively, asking poignant questions, and creating a safe container for people to share intimate details of their lives. During this time, I also became a champion boxer. As a young woman who had been bullied as a child, boxing became my vehicle for standing up for myself and connecting with my power.
After winning the New York Golden Gloves, a trip to India awoke my love for yoga, prompting me to trade my gloves for a mat. I traveled to Thailand to complete my training, apprenticed for several years and began teaching over a decade ago. My beloved and I began leading art, yoga, and adventure retreats, weaving our passions to create once in a lifetime experiences.
Journey to Women's Work
Fascinated with birth since childhood, my birth work journey began when a dear friend asked me to support her birth. Since then, I have attended over 50 births and have had three powerful homebirths myself, the last one being unassisted and truly sovereign. I am devoted to walking with women from preconception through postpartum who want a richer, more potent experience for themselves and their babies. Weaving sacred ceremony and grounded knowledge into how I serve, I guide women to remember their inherent power, wisdom, and wildness.
My ceremonial work expands beyond birth as I also have been holding women’s circles since 2015. What started in my small NYC backyard has now grown to the Red Rose Temple, where I facilitate bi-monthly ceremonies on a wide range of topics, from the earth based holidays to the various archetypes of the Goddess. It is a place where the Sacred Feminine, beauty and sisterhood is centered and celebrated, where we heal the sister wound and come together to create magic.
Through the various chapters of my life, my vision is clear. I am here to support, uplift and elevate women through movement, birth, ceremony and sisterhood.
Education & Experience
- Masters in Exercise Physiology, Columbia University
- Bachelor of Arts in Education, Pace University
- PreNatal Yoga Teacher, PreNatal Yoga Center
- DONA® Certified Doula
- RIE Foundations Course, Deborah Carlisle Solomon
- The Complete Guide to Freebirth, Free Birth Society
- Portal: The Blissful Birth Code, Yolande Norris-Clark
- Temple Guide Training, Priestess Presence Temple
- Physiologic Baby Care, Rachelle Garcia Seliga
- Postpartum Core + Restore, The Devoted Mamas
- Yoga Alliance Certified Instructor, Yoga Thailand
- 2008 New York Golden Gloves Boxing Champion
- NASM Certified Personal Trainer
- CPR | AED Certified
- B School, Marie Forleo
- Yoga Intensives, Maty Ezraty
- Assistant and Student, Marco Rojas
- Ishta Yoga Bridge Program, Alan Finger
- Anatomy Studies for Yoga Teachers, Jason Ray Brown
- Body of Knowledge Anatomy Training, Laurel Beversdorf
