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
I have found depths within myself that I had never tapped into before, even after decades of personal growth.
– Maureen Matthes, singer, songwriter, & artistAmba 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
Other ways to dive in
Products
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The Embodiment Solution
Meghan’s proprietary root-cause process that helps women stop emotional eating for life.
Private Mentorship
In Person Events
Learn about our quarterly in-person events exclusively for TES Clients, Private Mentorship Clients an guests.
Learning
Our podcast, client interview, free guides & trainings,
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.