ABOUT AMALA

Crashing Waves of Change...

The crashing waves of change caused a lot of havoc in my life- until I learned to surf them. After a tumultuous childhood which often felt unsafe, miraculous circumstances made it possible for me to leave my mother and her partner's home at age 14. I was relocated to live with a family on the other side of the world, in New Zealand. This new environment introduced more safety, love and care into my life. Nonetheless, in my late twenties, I experienced a complete system breakdown. The various incapacitating symptoms that came with it included the loss of my voice. The condition was diagnosed as incurable and left me with no choice but to abruptly leave my corporate job

as business development manager- a blessing in disguise. It was time for the healing to begin.

This is when I consciously opened to the guidance from within, and my heart became my guide. I embarked on my own journey of healing and allowed myself to reconnect with the intuitive seeing and knowing that had been with me since childhood. It felt so natural back then that it was surprising to realise that, although this is available to everyone, it can appear to be hidden. Over time I had learned to shut it down - not to stand out too much. This was as it needed to be, for this gave it the chance to be purified and refined over the years. My healing journey led me to many countries (Mexico, Colombia, India, Peru, Panama, Jamaica, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nigeria, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia... ) and exposed me to various healing modalities, tools and practices. These include Tibetan Buddhist meditation, Vipassana with Goenkaji, The Work of Byron Katie, Hatha Yoga, Cranio-Sacral Therapy, Chi Nei Tsang, Traditional indigenous healing arts, Pranic Healing, Parts work and Inner Child Work. I also learned what it means to surrender to the sheer power of Mother Nature when I found myself on the path of a Category Four hurricane on the coast of Mexico. As entire uprooted palm trees, parts of houses and debris were flying past the window, I was left with no choice but to surrender, finding peace in the eye of the hurricane, knowing that the other half of the storm was still to come with no way of knowing if we would see another day.

In 2012, I met my spiritual father Moojibaba. This is when my outer searching stopped, and the looking turned inwards. I was blessed to live for many years at his Centre for Self-Realisation in Portugal, where, I had the privilege of supporting, and counselling individuals, couples, groups and teams.

All of this brought about in me a profound inner attunement and is the foundation for our sessions. Today, I am devoted to nurturing the sacredness that is the Essence of us all. It is with pure joy that I support you in identifying and transforming what now appear to be the obstacles in your life. Our work together will instead, reveal the beautiful opportunity these "obstacles" offer for you to reclaim the joy, peace and happiness of your own heart.

This has always been your birthright!

I am happy to meet you!

Love & Gratitude

love and gratitude...

Boundless gratitude, timeless love and deep respect to my

spiritual father, Moojibaba. Thank you for breaking the

spell - for reminding me of who I am, for introducing me

to true life, real peace, unconditional love, uncaused

happiness - and for tirelessly guiding me back to myself.

…to both my earthly parents - Lawrence and Peggy.

Lawrence, although I did not have the chance to spend much time with you in this life, I am grateful for your love and kindness, for your existence, and your unique contribution to this crazy thing called life on Earth.

Peggy left her body in August 2024. I had the privilege of being with her in the later stages of her life - to accompany her and care for her in the final stages of cancer. We got to experience a closeness and unity we had not known before in this life - a love beyond the bonds of mother and daughter. Her illness took away her body but in the process, gave her back herself. She began to open up and I witnessed a stunning beauty emerge, rapidly unfolding. We spent many hours together facing and clearing her old traumas. Our past together was healed and reconciled, with all sense of pain and separation washed away and transformed into spiritual gold. Although she was experiencing strong physical pain, she overflowed with love and care, sending messages of encouragement to family and friends. In her final days she could not speak much anymore; her veil thinning, she was moving between the physical and the spiritual worlds. Yet at times, she would spontaneously speak something out of nowhere. At one point she sat up in bed with urgency, looked at me with otherworldly command and presence, and said:

"OM

IAM
AMEN

It's all the same"

Peggy left at peace with herself, with God, and the world.

Thank you to Moojibaba, who accompanied her in her last days, sending love-filled messages of encouragement, reminders of her true self- her true position in this final stage of "dropping the body". I celebrate her life and am deeply grateful for her existence - her courage and strength to keep going with full-hearted determination, even in the most challenging circumstances throughout her life to ultimately come to discover the heart's unwavering resolve, to let go of everything and be free.

Veneration to all the masters of the past, present and future - with special mention of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, who through his book: I AM THAT, shifted something profoundly, compelled me to go deeper and led me to find Moojibaba in search of the source from which his words originate. And to Byron Katie who first showed me, through the application of The Work, that I am instantly free of suffering when I don't believe my thoughts.

There must be love

in the relation between the person who says ‘I am’

and the observer of the ‘I am’.

As long as the observer, the inner self; the ‘higher’ self

considers himself apart from the observed,

the ‘lower’ self, despises it and condemns it,

the situation is hopeless.

It is only when the observer (‘vyakta’)

accepts the person (‘vyakti’) as a projection or manifestation of himself,

and so to say, takes the self into the Self,

the duality of ‘I’ and ‘this’ goes

and the identity of the outer and the inner,

the Supreme Reality manifests itself.

-Sri Nisardadatta Maharaj