Love
and be loved —
no matter what.
I see you, beautiful human.
Deep connection in your relationships brings meaning to your world. You long to fully see others—and be fully seen yourself.
Your radiant heart was made to love—and be loved.
And there’s a missing when, even surrounded by some pretty good relationships (and some pretty great people), you sense that something deeper—more fulfilling, maybe even healing, remains out of reach. Like you’re only skimming the surface of what life and love could truly be.
This longing isn’t a problem,
— it’s a portal.
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I’m Amanda
— an intimacy guide, educator, and space holder.
Life is absolutely precious. So why wouldn’t we want more from the relationships that quite literally weave the fabric of our lives?
Right here, right now we are each living our own precious life. With our people. So how tender, how deeply connected and how real do we dare let it be?
I dared. I chose to want more — not just more pleasure, but more presence. And now, there are moments where I pause, feeling my partner’s love just by the way he looks at me or my grandchild melting into my arms, and I wonder: How did I get so lucky? But the truth is, it isn’t luck.
It’s intention.
More About Amanda
I’m a certified Somatic Sex Educator who centers the aliveness and meaning that becomes possible when we show up as more fully present and embodied lovers — to the world, ourselves, and the people we hold dear.
As a mama, grandmother, and devoted partner, I know that feeling of distance from yourself or someone you deeply care for. I also know the quiet power of a sacred interruption — the willingness to slow down with a full breath, to meet the moment, and let something more honest emerge.
This practice is a way of living.
I’ve spent nearly two decades exploring sacred intimacy, body-based healing modalities, and intentional group spaces — not to perfect a method, but to deepen my capacity for being human, with other humans.
And what I’ve found is this: what most of us long for isn’t performance, it’s to be real - about what we’re most afraid to be real about.
We want to be met in the fullness of our experience, held in love even when we fear we’re too much. We want to speak the desires we’ve tucked away, to name our needs — especially the ones that speak to our insecurities. We want the kind of sex that blows us open and makes us weep, like a healing balm for our tired bodies.
In my 1:1 and group containers, I share an emergent process — so elemental anyone can learn it — that invites you into the depth, safety, and truth our relationships are hungry for. To create moments that are medicinal. Meaningful.
Moments that change everything.
At the heart of my work is a grounded space to practice embodied ways of connection — with tenderness and devotion — as you live into the love you were made for.
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My Philosophy:
The intimacy we long for doesn’t just happen.
We create it.
I know we’re tired, it’s rough out there right now. I get how much it takes in a world of screens, speed and stress to really be with our beloved ones. And maybe it’s not just our own fulfillment we long for, but the thriving of the generations to come.
Intimacy is an art, yes, but also a set of skills—a way of listening, sensing, and relating that lives in the body and flows from the heart. That’s what I teach.
Drawing from my certification in Somatic Sex Education, as well as bodywork and somatic meditation, I guide people into the direct experience of fully felt connection through simple, embodied practices that help us remember how to be with ourselves and each other more fully.
My Invitations to you.
This work isn’t about fixing what’s broken—it’s about remembering what’s already within you. Whether you’re seeking spacious, immersive support or a gentle guided beginning, I offer a few deeply curated ways to walk this path together. Each invitation is an opening—a return.
The Alchemy of Intimacy:
Turning Threads Into Gold
for everyone
A free audio & written guide to deepen any relationship – even the one with yourself.
The Alchemy of Intimacy is a living, five-part process I created and practice every day. It develops essential relational qualities—authenticity, presence, clarity, embodiment, sensitivity, and imagination–that support you not just as a lover or partner, but as a whole human.
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This offering is a gentle doorway in. A guided 5-part experience to help you begin weaving those qualities into your everyday life—whether you're navigating a conversation, making love, or simply washing the dishes while staying present to what’s real.
You’ll receive a guided audio practice to support you in the moment, plus a printable “at-a-glance” PDF to return to.
This is a beginning. A remembering. A way to invite more meaning, connection, and depth into the relationships that matter most.
Practice Makes Pleasure
for everyone
A 21-day self-paced guided journey into embodied pleasure.
This online course is an invitation to come home to your body. Over 21 days, you’ll receive daily guided practices designed to help you explore pleasure as something that can be cultivated—not earned, performed, or perfected.
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This offering is a gentle doorway in. A guided 5-part experience to help you begin weaving those qualities into your everyday life—whether you're navigating a conversation, making love, or simply washing the dishes while staying present to what’s real.
You’ll receive a guided audio practice to support you in the moment, plus a printable “at-a-glance” PDF to return to.
This is a beginning. A remembering. A way to invite more meaning, connection, and depth into the relationships that matter most.
She Who Returns Retreat
for femmes and queer kindred
This is your invitation back to the throne of your own life.
A sacred reclamation of self, sensuality, and sovereignty—woven for the ones who know there is more. In this private, in-person immersion—4 hours to 2.5 days—we meet in the place between who you’ve been and who you are becoming. We will honor the truth of where you stand, then open the doors to what’s possible in life, love, and intimacy.
This is not performance. This is not pretence. This is a return—fierce, tender, and entirely yours.
If you feel that “yes” in your body, answer it. Fill out the short application, and let’s begin.
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It is entirely possible to create what you desire.
Read that again.
It is entirely possible to create what you desire.
If you want an embodied knowing of yourself beyond the limitations of your mind, culture, and conditioning, this space is for you.
Through slow and careful attunement, I co-create this immersion with you—not for you—empowering your choice and voice in all areas of life.
Through agreements clearly stated and lovingly tended to, your limits (and mine) are honored, so you can drop into a solid, sensitive, relational container that can hold all of you.
Through clarifying desires for your life, we explore how you wish to infuse those intentions with tenderness, greater awareness, and pleasure.*
Through somatic practices—breath, movement, sound, and grounding touch (using The Wheel of Consent)—we nurture you as the creator of your desires, even if they’ve felt out of reach.
Through integration, you’ll gather practical ways to move forward with what matters most in your daily life.
*While we all experience pleasure in our own unique way, I also honor the limitations and apprehensions that may arise. These are not problems to fix, but intelligence to listen to—worthy of care, curiosity, and reverence.
Not sure where to start?
— Cheryl
I wasn’t sure what to expect but somewhere inside of me was a pull to meet with Amanda. Right away I knew that she was someone I could trust. Her voice and presence are both soothing and grounding. Meeting her felt like connecting to a wise friend. It’s been a few days now since the intensive and I still feel joy permeating my body. There was so much permission to be whatever and however I am.
Intellectually I knew about the importance of self acceptance but it’s a whole other feeling to experience it in the body. I feel more alive than I have in years and I keep getting new insights. The practice has even positively impacted my work. Amanda was particularly skilled at weaving in what I was talking about and wanting into what we did. She is deeply intuitive and connected to life. I am so grateful to her and the work she does. I highly recommend doing an intensive with Amanda, your life will never be the same.
— CJ
I cannot express enough gratitude for Amanda, who has been instrumental in my journey through grief after the heartbreaking loss of my wife to cancer. When I was numb and disconnected from my body, Amanda’s expert use of somatic work helped me to reconnect and rediscover the capacity within myself to hold and process my grief. Her empathetic approach allowed her to witness my sorrow and pain in a truly seen way.
I highly recommend Amanda to anyone needing a compassionate and skilled human during challenging times. From our first appointment, she created an environment of safety and respect. Until seeing her, I was closed off and held my grief within myself, never allowing anyone to see.
I owe a debt of gratitude to Amanda and her work. It was one of the most significant investments into my well-being I have ever made, and I’m not being hyperbolic; working with Amanda was the fork in the road that set me down the path of fulfillment and alignment with my purpose in life. I have genuinely come to care for her as a human who has held and witnessed my deepest pain with love and tenderness.
— M.C.
If you are ready, really ready to do this work….you have found your way to the right practitioner, healer, guide.
Working with Amanda has shifted the life-long search, outside of myself, for self-love, security and a sense of home and redirected my focus so that I could begin to reclaim the lost connection with my body.
I could write pages about our work together but somehow, I feel that this is just enough to say for those who know that this work is next on their path of deep healing.
– P.H.
Hi everyone, I am so happy that I contacted Amanda. She has had a wonderful and valued impact on my life. I contacted Amanda not knowing how to navigate an awakening that had caught me off guard. It was overwhelming me. Amanda understood situations in my life and how they were impacting my energy. I have gained tools and insights that have already begun to bring healing and communication to my marriage.
Amanda is peaceful and caring. I felt it the moment that I met her. I am so grateful to her for showing me the way during this pivotal point in my life.
- S.S.
Rochester, NY
I’ve always been one to overthink, overanalyze, and over-judge. Amanda’s work really served to move me out of my mind and more into my body, allowing me to be more present, both emotionally and physically. It was hard for me to open up initially, but Amanda was so patient, kind, and accepting. She created a safe space for me to share my emotions and work through the things holding me back. I’m so extremely grateful for our time.
- D.B.
Rochester, NY
I learned to move forward, to naturally ask for what I need and desire in my relationship. I am more comfortable in my mind and body and have become more at peace with my natural sexual self. I thank you for that 🙂 I did have some moments where I thought about giving up, but your passion, patience, empathy and love brought me back. I really couldn’t have done this program with anyone else and have it turn out so successfully.
No matter how we work together, let’s start with an agreement.
Agreements are foundational to my work—and to how I live. They create the container we step into together, a space many have described as one of the safest they’ve ever known.
But safety is just the beginning. Clear, loving agreements also invite us to expand—into deeper truth, greater connection, and new possibilities for how we live and love.
Here are three core agreements. I make with everyone who enters one of my containers—what you can expect from me, and what I ask of you in return:
Holding
what’s shared.
Everything you share with me
is held in confidence.
Whether it’s spoken in a session, written in an email, or exchanged through a course or offering—it remains sacred and protected. If you ever ask me to collaborate with a medical or mental health provider, I’ll only do so with your written permission.
Speaking
what’s true.
We agree to be honest—even
when it’s tender.
This could be a desire, a hesitation, a fear, a compliment, or simply naming what’s alive in the moment. We practice sharing instead of shrinking, revealing instead of withholding. Because often, the thing we’re most afraid to say is the very thing that opens the door to deeper intimacy. Truth creates resonance. Aliveness. Connection.
Trusting
what unfolds.
We meet this work with
openness and care.
Like true beginners—curious, receptive, and willing to let the process move at its own pace.
We don’t rush.
We don’t force.
We trust.
Life is precious.
These hearts, these bodies, these people. This is it.
And while the world may expect us to settle for disconnection, I believe in something more. I believe in the kind of intimacy that makes us grateful to be alive. The kind that’s real, raw and deeply human.