For the one who has always been strong.
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Capable. Dependable. The one who keeps everything moving forward.​ You keep the peace. You make sure everyone is okay.
You're the glue holding everything together.
And, some of that holding could be emotional weight from the responsibilities of it all.
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Which makes total sense.
You care, so you carry.
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Somewhere along the way, your body starts to feel the weight of it all.​ Maybe that feeling is tight, heavy, or overwhelmed.
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What if nothing is wrong, and instead your body is just asking you to slow down?
GROUND ZERO
BEGINS HERE
"Shaped by life's beauty and its thorns the body remembers"
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Have you ever not been able to stop thinking about everything? Where your mind races with thoughts for your to-do's, launching you into the future & even reminding you of past experiences that leave you feeling wonky?
Learning how to use my breath in this different way has LIFTED a weight unseen that I could only feel. It's given me a new way of viewing my bodies NEED for more oxygen & love for movement in moments when things in my mind feel too fast.
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This is where your body begins to remember what home feels like.
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The urgency in your mind softens.
The tension in your jaw, neck & hips start to release. And the weight on your shoulders begins to lift, literally.
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With your breath, body, and movement, we find a rhythm that's yours. Not a perfectly practiced dance where you know every move. It's your own way of moving with the experience here and now...with a little more ease, and a lot more room to explore loving yourself in this different kind of way.
I feel that we are three bodies within one body.
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Mental Body | Physical Body | Emotional Body
And they are designed to work in harmony together FOR us.
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Our mental bodies intelligence helps us gain and retain knowledge while holding memory.
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​ Our physical bodies intelligence is discovered through feeling - hunger pains, thirst, exercise, while also holding memory.
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Our emotional bodies intelligence is our expression of BOTH of these combine.
Our personality, our way of expressing ourselves through joy, tears, excitement & overwhelm or heartache - this bodies dial typically gets turned down a bit as life progresses.
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Breathwork & Movement give us the opportunity to tap into our bodies intelligence on a energetic level.
I feel that I learned how to be strong at a young age. And I'm so grateful for those parts of my life. I have such an incredible family & friends support system that has guided me through so many different chapters. I've learned how capable I am to do new things, and I love that my dependability has taught me how to be responsible. Honestly, a lot of my motto has been "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" I love that too! It's like embracing that life can be tough and beautiful at times and I believe it shapes us into how we feel about life, how we love our life, and how we love ourselves throughout our life. I met myself at a point where I realized strength without softness for myself became survival - survival in the days agenda, responsibilities, and let's be real life is always in motion, and that sometimes added to the overwhelm that lived quietly underneath all the doing... that seemed to always come with a list haha (can you relate?) For a long time, I treated my body as something I needed to manage. I noticed how I felt in my own skin, in my clothes, and comparison can be birthed from this place, and it was... in sneaky ways. I thought if I could just get it right by looking "right" I would feel right, and perform better at life. What I didn't realize was that I was treating my body like something that needed fixing. My body had learned how to stay in a constant state of holding & going from treating it that way. ​​​Ultimately, I knew how to support everyone else on a physical, emotional and spiritual level. ​​​I just didn't know how to support myself in that same compassionate way... you know, without the "you can do better" attitude. ​​​And when I became full, the overwhelm would rise. Sometimes it came out as tension. Other times I turned inward and carried it quietly inside myself. Neither felt good. And over time, that added up. ​​I didn't know how to truly rest. I knew how to hold everything together on the outside. But inside, I felt disconnected from myself.​ ​​​​The urgency, the overthinking, the moments of overwhelm... I knew I didn't have to keep managing the feeling of living inside them. ​​My healing didn't begin with becoming someone new. ​​It started when I began working with my breath. ​​Breath became ground zero for me. The simplest place to quiet the noise. And what I found there was that slowing down wasn't weakness- It was the thing I'd been missing all along. I began meeting myself honestly. Without pushing. Without performing. And slowly, something I hadn't felt in a long time resurfaced. ​​A sense of home inside my own body that was noticeably more peaceful, learning how to allow my body to express things I didn't have to make any meaning of... which in my experience is a practice, the not making meaning. How easy it was for me to attach a story of meaning to everything I felt, and how quickly it could overwhelm me. I also noticed how my husband and kiddos could relate to this same uncomfortable feeling of overwhelm. Recognizing this was more than a me thing, this is something that I found a lot of others suffered from... and having my own family be apart of that, it uncovered a loud passion for what I do now with this work and what I feel my purpose here is. For me, faith has always been the foundation underneath everything- even when I've wrestled with it. Even when I didn't know how to trust my own life. Looking back, I can see I was being guided long before I understood where I was being led by God. Whatever that source looks like for you- God, universe, spirit, higher energy or something you don't have a name for... I've found that going inward tends to lead us back to that. As that foundation grew more steady, movement has found me in a new way as well. I'm not a professionally trained dancer. But I remembered what it felt like to move without needing to be perfect. Without performing for anyone. The way I felt moving as a little kid - no cares, just FUN. Dance became another way home- not a class, not a routine, but a reminder that healing isn't only deep, quiet work. It's also joy. Rhythm. Freedom and Aliveness. I know what it feels like to live in constant survival. And I know what it feels like when the body finally exhales. This work isn't about becoming someone new. It's about remembering who you are beneath the noise. I'm not here to heal you. I don't believe that's mine to do. I'm here to walk beside you while you remember how to come back to yourself, through these crazy cool modalities that have added a new layer of passion to my life. "Healing" looks and feels different for everyone, a unique experience that has always been yours to explore. These are the practices I return to, everyday. That have helped me to reclaim who I am to my core and sharing them with others... Women, men, teens & children - my family and friends - it's truly a gift to share what's continued to change my family and my life for the better! From one strong, beautifully flawed human to another- ​​You are safe to slow down. You are allowed to rest. You are already enough, and don't have to earn your worth through all the doing. ​​​~Amanda Rose​​
Body check-
As I've shared, I'm curious...were there any moments you felt you could relate?
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Chances are if you made it this far, your body has been speaking to you in ways that you can feel are relatable, perhaps the story, perhaps just the meaning of certain words that you can relate to from your life.
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This is the 3 bodies in one concept working together.
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why this works
Your body isn't broken.
​It's responding exactly as it was designed to.
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We're taught to trust the mind by thinking things through, staying strong, and to keep
moving forward with the new knowledge gained.
(And while that's powerful...it's NOT the whole picture)
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Have you ever felt like you were doing all the things to the best of your ability with your time... For both your mental & physical body and still felt like something more was needed?
The body has a different kind of way of
"making sense" of the stories & how they are told.
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It remembers how things felt, not just what happened.
​So even when your mind has made sense of things, and you've checked the boxes on how to care for your body...
you can still be holding the emotional weight from them.
This shows up through many things, a few are​
Tension.
Inflammation.
Stiffness.
Overwhelm.
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This is where that gets to shift.
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When your body is given space to release
what it's been holding, with your breath
to make more room inside your body...
The weight you've been carrying
without even realizing it begins lifting.
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Not by forcing it...
but by finally giving it room to move
with your breath and movement.
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From there,
everything begins to feel a little more like you again.
Your emotional body is no longer being ignored, instead it's being given space in your time to be felt and expressed.
breathwork
Your breath is one of the fastest ways to calm your nervous system. So, anxiety, depression, and overwhelm is lifted. It slows your heart rate, clears your head, and creates room inside a body that's been running on full for too long. Truly, the very thing your body already takes infinite sips of is the first thing a hospital checks you for when you pay them a visit. So, this gets to be a relationship you build overtime that is used in an intentional way.
Movement
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Stress doesn't just live in the mind- it lives in the body. Movement gives it somewhere to go. Tension gets released. Your energy shifts. And you start to feel like yourself again. Our bodies desire movement because there's much movement happening beneath the surface of our skin, naturally our body moving with more intention will serve our energy levels with more aliveness.
together
When breath and movement are combined, your body begins to feel safe enough to actually rest.
Steadiness inside yourself returns. Not because everything is perfect but because you finally gave yourself room to breath & move without making meaning of absolutely everything.
ground zERO
This is the place we return to when we've been carrying too much
for too long.
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It's not about fixing yourself or changing who you are.
It's about coming back to the body, and giving it space to express, sometimes in ways we have worked long and hard to keep locked in for a long time.
Your breath becomes the starting point - the simplest way to slow down, quiet the noise, and find room inside yourself again.
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Breathwork is known to stimulate physical sensations and surface
emotional expressions.
You notice sooner when you're reaching your limit with lifey things.
You see things more clearly.
You respond instead of react.
​You find the steadiness to speak your truth
instead of staying silent to keep the peace.
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Life no longer has to be carried through overwhelm and survival.
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It gets to move through you with steadiness, rhythm, and presence.
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This is what has changed everything for me,
This is what brings me back to myself, again and again.
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Naturally, it's become the philosophy behind everything I guide.
The path back to yourself
Regulate
Create safety in your nervous system through breathing.
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Reconnect
Begin to hear yourself again, while the noise softens. ​
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Return
Live from the steadiness you've come back to, and feel like YOU again.
ways to WORK TOGETHER
You already have everything you need.
I'm simply here to help you remember how to access it through these tools you own.
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Each offering is an invitation
to return to yourself- choosing the level of support that feels right for you is the start of something peaceful.
Dance Alchemy
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A space to move what words can't reach.
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Sometimes the body needs to shake something loose that sitting still never could. This is where that happens- through movement, rhythm, and yes, a whole lot of fun.
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No experience needed.
No performance, only play.
Just you, your body, and permission to let it all move.