Loving Connections Trainings

Amara has been studying healing since 1978, was a licensed masseuse in Oregon, having studied Swedish, Esalen and deep bodywork, Polarity and pressure point release. She was trained in psychic reading, healing and meditation, and taught Re-evaluation Co-counseling, an international method of peer counseling, for over five years, and has been studying and practicing it since 1983. She has been a professional counselor for over 30 years. Amara also developed Heartbeat Nurturing Therapy, a method of healing the inner infant-self using cradling, hypnotic induction and suckling to address emotional issues stemming from lack of breast feeding & loving closeness as an infant. She is the author of "Heartbeat Nurturing Therapy- Healing Our Hearts Together". In 1994 she began developing her own approach to peer counseling, called Wholistic Peer Support, integrating many ideas from RC with spiritual meditation practices, psychic healing and body centered techniques. She taught it to hundreds of people in Eugene, and then in Hawaii. This approach has been renamed Holistic Peer Counseling and has spread through the Northwest through several of Amara's students. It is constantly being expanded and re-created. It is actively being taught in Hawaii, Eugene, Portland and Seattle. She began studying Tantra and Sacred Spot work, a method of sexual healing, on Maui in 2003, and has since studied 6 different methods of pelvic bodywork. She has taught Sacred Sexual Healing Work for men and women, and led Tantra Pujas since 2007. She has been involved with Network for New Culture for many years and is the Director of the New Culture Hawaii Winter Camp. She lives in Oregon and on the Big Island of Hawaii in the New Culture community called La’akea Permaculture Community. Amara is a main organizer of the Oregon Tantra Festival, and the Cascadia Tantra Festival, both events that offer a variety of classes on sacred relationship and sexuality as a spiritual path. She also organizes for International School of Temple Arts, for their Level One and two week long trainings in sacred sexual healing through Karuna Retreats, in Hawaii, Oregon and Washington.