About
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Founder & E-RYT 500 Stoked Yogi
B.A. Literature & Creative Writing
M.A. East West Psychology (IP)
Coach | Speaker | Mystic
Hi, I'm Amelia - soul-centered business coach, yoga teacher, writer, speaker, and modern mystic.
Since 2011, I’ve trained thousands of yoga teachers and coached hundreds of women entrepreneurs align their passion and purpose to create success in yoga, wellness and creative arts.
My journey to an empowered life wasn’t easy. Body dysmorphia, people pleasing and perfectionist tendencies led to drug addiction, disordered eating, abusive relationships and dating older wealthy men for money.
As a lifelong seeker and modern day mystic, my own dark night of the soul led to my current life mission: help women heal, reclaim wholeness, own their gifts, and thrive doing what they love.
Whether I’m teaching, speaking, or coaching, my prayer is to help us remember who we are, return to love, and have the courage to live a life aligned with our big vision. My approach to awakening is pretty simple:
Show up. Love people. Tell the truth.
The most revolutionary thing a woman can do: the next right thing, without asking permission or offering explanation.
- Glennon Doyle
how I got here:
bad decisions
I grew up chubby and smart, insecure, but mostly happy. At 14, my dad left, and my teen years became a perfect storm of grief, rage, disordered eating, substance abuse, and one toxic AF, abusive relationship. When violence finally spurred me to flee, I drove across the country: thirty pounds underweight, addicted to prescription pills, and sought to gain my power back by dating older men for money.
With a sugar baby lifestyle and poor taste in men, I managed to get involved with not one, but two con artists and criminals. By 23, I was $100,000 in debt, estranged from my family, seriously abusing substances, dealing with daily psychological manipulation and deeply alone. I hated myself.
So I tried the only option left: I started to pray.
My dark night of the soul gave way to a spiritual awakening. It eventually dawned, I was the only one with the keys to liberate myself. I surrendered my life again to the Divine and prayed to become the woman I was called to be. Spirit gave me a clear message: Show up. Tell the truth. Go home.
the big shift
Showing up and telling the truth was a catalyst for miracles.
In 2009, I took off a few masks and put on my soul, ditched champagne and cocaine for surfing and yoga, took up painting and started to write. I sold my Lexus to pay for yoga teacher training, a years worth of bills, and a Toyota station wagon that died on the side of the freeway. I met an earth angel who would later become my husband, Brent. Six months after coming home, I sat by my fathers bedside as he took his last breath and left this world. Losing him was a reminder that we are all going to the grave - so how did I want to live?
The answer came in a near-paralyzing surf accident. Summer 2012, at age 27, I broke my back surfing and spent two months in bed thinking about what *really* mattered.
I realized life is too short to do anything but what we love, and once healed, gathered my courage and launched Stoked Yogi, teaching yoga on stand up paddle boards in San Diego. I faced the fears that no one would want to work with me, and committed to showing up for what I loved every day: yoga and the water.
turns out... love works.
Doing what I loved worked. Stoked Yogi grew into multi-six figure business. I certified over 1000 yoga teachers in stand up paddle board yoga and coached hundreds of women to personal and professional transformation.
At 33, I graduated university after 17 years, with a degree in literature and creative writing. My writing has been published in Yoga Journal, Huffington Post, and the Inertia. On the TEDx stage, I was invited to speak on mindset shift, and used my story to share how: "There Are No Big Decisions And You'll Never Be Ready."
That's a tidy place to wrap things up... but the spiral path always calls us deeper into truth and awakening. The Divine wasn't done with me yet.
wake up
There I found a tangled web of trauma, internalized patriarchal values, and a deep longing for healing and liberation.
Breathwork, plant medicine, and a community of women supported me through my own underworld.
On the other side, I realized there's much more for us to do than 'crush goals' or 'hit 10k months.'.
Women have the power to restore balance to this aching, burning planet - but first we must restore it within ourselves.
Today, my deepest work is walking with women on the spiral path back to the center of themselves.
currently
Our days are slow and centered around the ocean, moving our bodies, eating good food, and raising two male bodied patriarchy disruptors.
I serve incredible clients: artists, thought leaders, therapists, activists, change makers, and healers. Gathering women through retreats is still one of my favorite things in the world. My offerings include breathwork, astrology, medicine work and coaching support, and I love what I do.
And despite the fact that parenting is hard AF and the world is aching... most of the time, I trust completely that everything is an instrument for our awakening.