Holistic Behavioral Health Practitioner
C-IAYT, E-RYT 500
Amanda began professional work as a facilitator, teacher and guide in 1995. She became interested in life-long, experiential, environment-based learning teaching in public schools, facilitating social service programs and by guiding the Montessori method.
Amanda is passionate in her dedication to share the Therapeutic Yoga perspective as modality toward a more connected, embodied life experience. She is certified by the International Association of Yoga Therapists, the Optimal State Yoga Therapy Training School and Yoga Alliance to guide: Yoga and Mental Health, Yoga and Physical Health, Yoga and Ayurveda and Yoga Nidra practices in the traditions of T. Krishnamacharya, T.K.V. Desikachar and Dr. Amy Wheeler.
Amanda is the proprietor of Grateful Desert Apothecary ~ Joshua Tree’s primary Health and Wellness shop. She is also the founder of the JTSP: Breath Lab ~ where she works with Yoga Therapy students.
From 2006, Amanda has lived and worked in Joshua Tree, California alongside a menagerie of cats, dogs, birds, lizards, snakes, humans, bunnies, insects and flora of all kinds.
