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About Amba

A practice and methodology to break patterns at the somatic level, achieve inner freedom, and nourish yourself from the inside-out.

What is Amba?

The word Amba means “mother” in reference to the warm, nurturing relationship that we are all growing within ourselves in this space.

Amba is embodied path of inner alchemy and embodiment that combines movement, breath, mind training, emotional digestion, mental discipline, and somatic receptivity. As you train in the Amba Method, you’ll learn to shift your state from within, rather than relying on external circumstances. Amba teaches that you are not powerless over how you feel. You have much more power than you realize.

Amba is an extensive body of somatic practices that open up three distinct realms or states of being—SOMA (deep peace, feeling God’s love as a felt, in-body experience), LUMA (inner union, merging your physical and light bodies through movement), VITA (dynamic aliveness, unlocking the vitality elixir within your biological blueprint).

Together, SOMA, LUMA and VITA pave the way into the gifts of embodied womanhood: Radiant confidence, joy that’s independent of circumstance, soft receptivity, and feeling at home in your own skin.

Amba is not just practice, but a way of living.

Amba is an invitation to experience your body with delight and reverence rather than criticism and shame.

Your body is…

so much more than a meat suit
a cosmic ocean wrapped in skin
the most brilliant technology on earth

a portal to God’s love as a direct experience
your best friend and most loyal life partner 
patiently waiting for you to come home

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    The Amba Method has helped me feel the magic and power of being an intuitive woman. I am now deeply connected to myself, grounded and whole. I am able to feel emotions in my body move through me and I am able to clear my energetic self this way. When I am a clean slate, the inspirations and ideas come pouring in- this is one of my favorite parts of being a woman in my human body! It helps me feel comfortable and empowered in myself.

    Sam Rea Womb Wellness Practitioner + Embodiment Guide
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    Working with Meghan has been one of the best experiences of my life. I met her when I was in a very dark period and I am so thankful I did. She is a light being who becomes a catalyst of change for everyone who she comes in contact with… Because of Amba practice and community, I have learned to be more present, to appreciate every moment, to align with nature, and most of all to stay rooted within myself when life gets shaky. I can easily say she saved me from my shadow self… I would highly recommend working with Meghan to anyone I know. Getting to learn from her is truly an honor and a blessing.

    Jasmine Ghlijkhani Amba Alumna
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    After just one class, Amba has completely changed my life. I don’t move the same. I don’t walk the same. I don’t feel the same.

    Veronica Daniels Amba Alumna
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    Through the practice of Amba, I learned that my body is waiting for me, all the time. Like the earth, she is there, steady and waiting for you to come back to her. Amba is about coming back home to your body in a pure and genuine way in ANY MOMENT you choose to put your presence there. And there is joy and pure aliveness.

    Jessica Kelton Amba Alumna
  • Testimonial Tatiana

    Meghan is an incredible light and facilitator. The container she holds is deeply receptive, kind and nourishing on a cellular level. Working with her is like receiving medicine straight from the earth herself and she helps you connect with that medicine directly inside. My entire body and spirit have been so upgraded working with this wonderful woman!

    Tatiana Fontalvo Amba Alumna
  • I feel blessed to be on the receiving end of Meghan’s heartfelt service. Her offerings are so simple and so deep. Her deep listening, open heart, and love for Mother Earth are felt on a cellular level, and I feel changed by her guidance. In all my time with Meghan I have only been reminded of the beauty, gentleness and divinity in me. I am soul grateful.

    Diana Brisca Designer, nanny, artist
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    Meghan has been my teacher for over 15 years. Her embodiment work of Amba was the foundation for all the healing work I’ve done in those 15+ years. She was the first person who was able to lead me back into my own body after a lifetime of being disconnected and disassociated from myself and my body. I can now hold myself and all my feelings and experiences and it has helped me do the same for my son and made me a better mother. I will forever recommend working with her if you have the opportunity.

    Kymberli Zakrzewski Personal Coach
  • I have learned to slow down… how to reassess my relationship with time. Dropping down into connection with the earth has allowed me to be here — *just* here, not here and also in tomorrow or yesterday too. Nothing comes too quickly, or too slow. My experience of life now is that everything comes to me in perfect timing; in this new perspective, my life has been transforming. Even though I used to push for it to transform before, it never did. And it didn’t feel good to push for it anyway. I have learned to cultivate peace here and now, and the absolute hilariousness and deliciousness of that is that now everything that I had previously dreamed of IS happening/already was happening, without me realizing it.

    Ali King
  • Meghan uses the wisdom of Nature and weaves it into practice which is accessible for the human form (especially female forms). In moving with her, I was able to create relationships with Earth and body-wisdom, that even years later, allow me to drop quickly out of time/space/materialism and source from a place of abundance/ life force/ spirit. I am so grateful to have met her and so grateful she shares with us, in our time of forgetting, we need people who help us remember. She does this.

    Heather Kelly
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I have found depths within myself that I had never tapped into before, even after decades of personal growth.

– Maureen Matthes, singer, songwriter, & artist

Amba Method Essentials

Breath

Breath supports us in metabolizing stress and emotions, and nourishes us from within. In Amba it’s not about deep breathing; it’s about feeling our breath and receiving our breath.

Movement

Movement is not about burning calories. It’s about releasing the stress you’ve been holding and finding joy, play, and aliveness in your body.

Posture

More than just the way you position your body, your physical posture, mind posture, and heart posture dramatically shift your perspective, emotions, and thus – your reality.

Inner Leader

The strong and caring voice within that guides you with care and wisdom, helping you to lead yourself and your life with clarity, confidence, and compassion.

Receptivity Training

Train in the art of receiving, or softening, to allow life to nourish you deeply.

The Keys to Inner Alchemy

These 5 Essentials are the keys to Inner Alchemy, or the creational and empowering process of learning to shift your internal state, rather than letting it rule over you.

Meet Meghan

Meghan Makena is the founder of The Amba Method and The Embodiment Solution.  A catalyst for growth, somatic embodiment guide, and emotional eating expert, she’s been walking alongside women in bridging the disconnect between body and spirit for 20 years.

She has degrees in Exercise Science and Psychology from UC Davis. Since beginning her healing journey in her teens, Meghan has trained with master teachers and guides, and been a lifelong student of movement, somatic breathing, holistic healing, and embodiment.

Meghan lives what she teaches, is unwaveringly dedicated and passionate about this work,  and brings a unique quality of grounded practicality and oceanic expansiveness to the way that she guides women to unlock their potential and shed old versions of themselves that are in the way of living the life they came here for. 

She has devoted her life to studying both personally and professionally how to:

  • get the body out of protection mode, and into feeling like a safe home, no matter what you went through in the past
  • healing mother and father wounds from a somatic approach
  • cultivate a strong inner leader presence to guide you and break mental loops of criticism, doubt, and self-sabotage
  • break down step-by-step the somatic mechanics of self love, so it’s not just a concept but a lived experience 
  • support women in breaking patterns of emotional eating for good with a proprietary root cause approach
  • experience the body’s brilliance the way it was intended and designed by God.

The Amba Method will:

  • Connect you to the earth and the elements of Nature
  • Deepen your connection to your body, and simultaneously the universe
  • Increase your embodied confidence
  • Bring you home to the truth that the greatest pleasures come from within, bringing your awareness to the inner space of your body and heart
  • Offer practices for getting deeply nourished and fulfilled from within
  • Help you learn how to best nurture and mother yourself as you nurture those around you.
  • Support you in restoring your natural joy and love of life

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Products

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The Embodiment Solution

Meghan’s proprietary root-cause process that helps women stop emotional eating for life.

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Private Mentorship

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In Person Events

Learn about our quarterly in-person events exclusively for TES Clients, Private Mentorship Clients an guests.

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Learning

Our podcast, client interview, free guides & trainings,

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Client Stories

Listen to stories of women just like you, who’ve transformed their relationship with their bodies, broken free from patterns, and learned to access peace within.

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