What is Amanae?: A Tad Bit of History.

It was back in October of 1993 when I first discovered Amanae. I had been looking for my "next step" for about three years. By that time, I had already been on a spiritual path for about 20 years. Even though I had already done major emotional healing of my childhood's wounding, I still had anger. None of the work that I had done till that point had helped enough to keep me from being abusive. It was more like a quick rage. The kind of anger that hurt the people around me. I knew that my next step was to find a way to let that anger out and heal that part of me that was still suffering.

I kept looking through a resource paper of healing modalities that came out every couple of months. I found a few things that seemed interesting but if they were even a half hours drive away; well that was just too far. Then to fulfill the adage, "Seek and ye shall find.", I picked up the October issue and there was a full page ad for Amanae. Christine Day, the founder, also had a bio piece published that spoke deeply to my heart and soul. I immediately picked up the phone and booked a private session. And in the next day or so I cheerfully drove three hours for my first Amanae session. Although we hadn't discussed why I wanted a session, Christine proceeded to work my "anger" doorways for the entire session. And boy did I ever let go!! At he end of the session, Christine calmy told me that, "We didn't get enough." So I stayed over that evening in the very small center that she had. She arrived promptly at 6AM the next morning and we went to work again on more of my anger. That was the first time in my life that anyone had ever told me that I could be any way that I needed to be and really meant it! A couple of weeks later, I booked into my first Amanae 5 Day Workshop and the rest as it is said is history. But more of that later...

Amanae is a multidimensional bodywork process with the specific purpose of helping people open up to and release the emotions and traumas that are deeply held in the cells of the physical body. Many times when we are children, although events can happen at any time, something will happen that is too much for us. One thing we tend to do is hold our breath and we shut down to our experience. This experience will then lock into the body someplace. We call those places where the trauma and emotion are stored doorways. Again, in all honesty, it wasn't untill I had 3 years experience with Amanae that I understood why they where called doorways. It's because when a person does enough work to open to their own experience that has been stuck and blocked within the physical body, these doorways are the places where your own Divine Light can come most easily back into your body.

The traumas and emotions do indeed lock into the physical body. Christine Day, the founder of Amanae and my teacher for more than 10 years, says that, "Emotional blockages and traumas create all dis-ease." That saying that time heals all wounds is simply NOT true. For whatever reason, we have these experiences, they are ours. And it is part of our individual journeys to feel what we could not, express what we could not at the moment the experiences were happening.
Truly it is a journey. It does take effort, it is work but the rewards can be so amazing that it seems miraculous.