Heart and Hara Studio

When asked this summer by a friend, "What is my soul's song?", I had no immediate answer. It took a few months of soul searching before I had my answer. My soul's song is gratitude. Gratitude is love, it is thoughtfulness, it is abundance and joy, and all that my life vibrates when I am singing my soul's song. I express my deepest gratitude for all that I am blessed to have in my work life- my trainings and teachers, my cherished companions, and the Studio in which to deepen into my life's work. I did not arrive where I am today alone, nor am I here for only myself. I am honored to be so blessed.

About Me- Amber began her journey into the healing arts while studying art and music in her college education. For many of her research papers and personal interests she studied in depth the therapeutic properties of art and music, for all ages. Amber knew before the end of her college experience that she was headed in the direction of an eccentric and expressive education that would give her the tools to bring into fullness her dedication to exploring and deepening into the ancient wisdom everyone embodies and seeks at some point in their life journey and how she would help them remember and reanimate that wisdom into their daily lives. 

Following the completion of her AA degree, Amber began her training as a massage therapist through Lake Superior Community College. She graduated in 2000 with 600 hours of training. Since then she as taken an additional 500 hours in complimentary therapies including reflexology, aromatherapy, Thai Yoga Massage, Hawaiian Lomi-Lomi  and Hot Stone massage. She has also completed two shamanic apprenticeship programs with Jeanne Troge in  Core and Celtic Shamanism. She has been offering shamanic healing and mentoring sessions since 2005. Amber is also a Master Teacher in Usui, Karuna and Light of Life Reiki. She has developed her own Reiki mentorship program called Light of Life and will begin offering it early winter 2010. 

In addition to energy and massage modalities, Amber has a deep and dynamic passion for yoga and has been studying and living yoga since the wonderful age of 18, or the emergence into her adulthood. She has gained certified training in both the Hatha and Kundalini traditions and holds weekly classes and monthly Kundalini Sadhanas as well as occasional specialty workshops.

And to bring all the healing arts modalities together, Amber became a Certified Holistic Life Coach 2009 after completing a 15-month program and created Luminous Living Mentoring, offering guided steps to self-healing by using aspects from all of her trainings, to give the client a personal and effective approach to healing and living luminously. 

 Amber's Yoga teaching began in 2002 when she started offering classes to massage clientele. She pursued teaching certification in 2003 through Sun Moon Yoga Studios. She completed their 200-hour certified yoga instructor program. In 2009 she added another 200-hour program to her training base in Integration Yoga with a focus on Kundalini Yoga through the Center for Happiness. She offers weekly classes and specialty workshops. In 2009, Amber took a Level I Thai Yoga Massage training as a way to more fully the benefits of body work and yoga, a massage modality that she understood and easily integrated into her work, quickly becoming her favorite massage modality. Amber's yoga never ceases to bring her great joy and she always feels abundantly blessed after every class by the generous support and presence of the students and the goodness that is inherent in Amber's yoga teachings and yogic wisdom in general. 

Information about all of Amber's offerings can be found at the links above.