To step into alignment with myself
Amy is an incredible resource of knowledge around meditation, Kundalini yoga, energy healing and more. Now, she’s starting up her own coaching business to share her knowledge with women who find themselves looking for more out of life. She was kind enough to share her thoughts with us
Who am I
My background is in energy healing, energy work, Kundalini and Tantric studies, and I’ve got a long history of meditation. Now I’m in the process of launching my own mentoring business for women, to empower them by connecting back to the principle of the sacrdd feminine, which is rooted in Hindu Tantra philosophies and a lot of others.
Working with women one-to-one, and help them to embody the principles of the Divine Feminine, and will in turn make us feel more empowered and connected. It’s very healing on an individual level, but almost for the evolution of humanity.
Within my own self work, I started to shift old beliefs and old values, and realise they weren’t mine. They’ve been put on me, they’re conditioning. When you start to break free from them, you rediscover your authenticity, your true nature, and that’s an empowering place to be. That led me to want to deliver that to women, really. I see my path as to work with women, because being a woman, there are things I relate to personally with that I can help them.
Discovering meditation
I discovered meditation about 7 or 8 years ago now. I was in a bit of a funny place, probably partying quite a lot, but had a bit of a realisation that I was hanging around with the wrong people, it was a bit soulless, and there wasn’t much depth to my life. So I decided to make some changes, but didn’t have anything to put in place. I still had this feeling of discontentment and unease, because there was this emptiness where I’d removed a lot of things from my life, and there was nothing really to fill those gaps.
It wasn’t really cool to do the self-help thing back then, or to have problems, or be down on yourself. I literally started Googling ‘How To Find Inner Peace’ and of course meditation came up. So then I Google’d ‘How To Meditate’, and there was nothing like you get now. It was like ‘stare at a candle’, ‘count backwards’, which are actually really good techniques, but I didn’t know what I was doing, or looking for back then. I used to stare intently at candles expecting to pop into this dimension of bliss, wondering why nothing is happening.
As it happened, I changed jobs, and ended up sitting up next to someone in the office who volunteered at the Buddhist centre, and they have a course on Thursdays called What Meditation Really Is. I went to the Pentonville/Calendonian Road, and I went there for a few years. I did 4 modules with them, and it really gave me my own meditation practice and grounded me in.
When I meditate, I can go and have conversations with the Source – or God, people don’t like that word – but it’s true. I get those insights.
I slip in and out. It’s almost like when life is going well you don’t need to be using the tools.
For me, the benefits are so vast, they’ve become like my connection to Source. When I meditate, I can go and have conversations with the Source – or God, people don’t like that word – but it’s true. I get those insights.
Then my mum passed away. And my internal structures crumbled. Something was just yanked away from me. When that happens, it brings up a lot of stuff, stuff that you didn’t even forsee. It gets very complicated, and that’s when I needed meditation more than ever.
I went to Egypt for 3 weeks – it was really non-spiritual – and came back and decided I need to get back to that connection. So I did – I went to India for 5 months, I did meditation teacher training, and prior to that I was doing my own practice everyday.
I never planned to become a yoga teacher, but one thing led to another and I found myself at this Kundalini Tantric yoga school, and it was one of the most powerful experiences I’ve ever had. It unlocked part of me, my meditation got deeper.
It’s transformative – it can actually start to awaken parts of you, your body, your mind, experience.
My experience with floating
I’m also a sound healer, and I use crystal singing bowls. Everything is interconnected. Getting your mind, brain, energy body into a different state of consciousness, where a lot of the things that we think matter…
On the bigger scale, when you get into that higher state of consciousness, you get messages, you’re aligned energetically with the universe, asnd life just starts to flow through you. Things come to you and you can manifest easily.
All these tools are about getting into alignment. Because of the Kundalini work, I’ve seen how strong our energy bodies are. Some people don’t even believe that we have them, but with Kundalini, you can see your body physically move in ways you’re not controlling, and feel jolts of energy inside you.
There’s so much more that’s available to us that’s beyond thought. If all we’re concentrating on is our thoughts, we’re really missing the expansiveness of life.
A float takes me into this state of consciousness where the monkey mind has quietened down, and the true nature of the clear mind, your true being is present. You’re able to have a conversation, ask questions I need answers to. I just start having this clarity where I really know what I need to do.
In floats and sound healing as well, you go into a dreamlike state – the alpha brainwave state of deep relaxation but you’re not asleep – and everything in you relaxes. We hold emotions and memories in our body, and if you start to relax that body, you can remove them through Kundalini, or sound healing, or floating. Those emotions and memories can start to physically come out of the body. Sometimes they’ll manifest in strange dream or a memory.
It’s almost like I’m not in control, buit I’m awake. And I just take it as whatever’s coming up needs to come up.
Thoughts can be really powerful, but when they’re too powerful they can take control of things in a negative way. There’s so much more that’s available to us that’s beyond thought. If all we’re concentrating on is our thoughts, we’re really missing the expansiveness of life.