About Amanda
About a year ago, I was walking through a river and asked, "what am I?"
I heard, "that which is constantly birthing," as I watched the river flow around my ankles.
While there's no way to tell you exactly who I am, I can tell you a story about how I find myself here, now, and what Mother Tree Somatic Healing means to me.
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My mother died unexpectedly when I was fifteen. As the oldest child of three, I was determined to offer my siblings as much "mother" as I could produce in her absence. It was for them, but it was also for me. Playing "mother" with my siblings helped me keep my own mama alive, soul-patterned into and propagated through me.
Eventually, I learned that the love and presence I gave out so freely was precisely what I was hungering for deep down inside. With mentorship, practice, and lots of patience, I learned how turn it in toward myself
to inhabit and attend to my own body and mind. I think of this as inner mothering.
I like to think of Mother Tree Somatic Healing as a collaboration with my sweet mama, sharing
and the love we all need.
Relevant Training
ALCHEMY SOMATICS HEALER TRAINING, Been Caught Healing with Stacy Matulis, 200 hours
CORE ENERGETICS PRACTITIONER PRIMER PROGRAM, Institute of Core Energetics, 32 hours
HAKOMI MINDFUL SOMATIC PSYCHOTHERAPY WORKSHOP, Hakomi Institute, 14 hours
In addition to these formal training programs, I have taken topical courses in areas like trauma and neuroscience, and receive ongoing mentorship from teachers specializing in trauma healing, meditation, movement, dance, bodywork, and relational practices.
Also, friends, I really do live and love this stuff. I can't tell you how much time I've spent exploring the nature of mind and body outside of traditionally-structured learning environments. I hope I never stop.
— E.M., 1:1 Client
"As the tight places in my body soften, my sense of freedom to engage with the world as it is—unmediated by past wounds—grows and grows."