About

EARLY DAYS
Growing up in an academic family, I balanced my highly active mind through theatre arts, singing, sports, and meditation.  Meditation I learned at 5 years old and practiced daily at the Quaker school I attended as it is the form of worship used in the Quaker religion.  Although most of the students were Christian or Jewish, we all participated in daily meditation before school began which I enjoyed immensely, almost as much as I enjoyed singing in church on Sundays.

I loved animals and had an enchanted dog--a small but mighty Welsh corgi who taught me that the size of one’s body does not correlate with the scope of one’s spirit—in fact the spirit is immense. My dog was my brother in a furry body, and he allowed me to dress him up and put him in my doll carriage out of the pure, extraordinary, unconditional love that all animals are.  My parents taught me to respect and love animals and I took that teaching to heart, reading the teachings of St. Francis and becoming a vegetarian later in life, following the principle of ahimsa, a Sanskrit word for "non harming."

As a teenager I talked to raccoons who would visit and gaze at me late at night through my window while I laid in bed writing. When everyone was sleeping and the world was quiet, I experienced tremendous peace and stillness communing with the raccoons as I glimpsed their spirits and felt our oneness.

Life was an exciting adventure and mostly I felt happy, but I was also highly sensitive, distinctly hearing and sensing what others were thinking, a skill I would use later as a healer. I spent hours singing which taught me the power of the voice as a means of self expression and connecting with the Divine spirit that lives within us and acting on stage which enabled me to see life through others’ eyes and understand that our pleasures and pains are the same.

Like many, I pursued a traditional path: I went to college, earned a degree in English and then worked in the publishing field in New York City. But inside I felt unfulfilled and unhappy, as if my spirit were constricting, so I escaped to graduate school where soon I felt unsettled again, not wishing to pursue a career in academia.

It was then that my life suddenly changed when I discovered Reiki, self development, and metaphysics.  

By day I studied Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Thoreau, spending many hours in the university library, and by evening I explored Reiki, crystal healing, polarity, yoga. I attended self development workshops and received healing bodywork sessions. Suddenly, I found insights not only on an intellectual level but also an energetic level and my soul was soothed.

LOS ANGELES & INDIA

After graduate school I taught English at the university but soon moved to Los Angeles, and on my way across the country I met a powerful female guru from India who gave me an intense, remarkable energy transmittal, igniting special energies within that would shape and deepen my path.

In Los Angeles I taught English but also continued the inner quest by studying hypnotherapy, pranic healing, magnified healing, yoga, past life regression, and Feng Shui.  I started a Reiki community which eventually grew into the American Reiki Academy, now Los Angeles’ oldest continually-running Reiki school where we teach all levels of Reiki healing.

I also began studying the teachings of Indian gurus and learning Sanskrit mantra chanting, an incredible and transformational practice.  Magically, India was calling me.  Indeed when the time is right and the seeker is open, "Mother India" scoops up your weary spirit, challenges you, consoles you and teaches you. 

I began praying for the next step in my spiritual journey which I found in journeying to India...

INDIA

In 1998 I took my first trip to India, visiting spiritual ashrams and ancient temples, where I meditated, chanted, and met powerful gurus and swamis. To my great fortune, I was introduced to and accepted by a humble, wise, and learned guru to begin a lengthy course of personal study called Vedic Healing, a comprehensive program involving meditation, Sanskrit mantra chanting and other rituals that changed me forever, enhancing my life and my healing practice.

The word “guru” means “one who leads you from darkness to light” and thus finding a guru provides us with tremendous growth and acceleration on the spiritual path. Through the blessings and generosity of Guruji and the Vedic Healing teachings, I found what my soul had been seeking.  

In Los Angeles I began sharing Guruji’s rare Vedic healing tools,  and in 1999, we started the Vedic Healing Center, sharing these spiritual practices from ancient India.  For the next 25 years, I studied in India with Guruji, led Pilgrimages to India, taught, and continued to study with India’s very special gurus, yogis and saints.  

TODAY

Today, after many years of teaching and practicing Reiki and Vedic Healing and deepening my personal spiritual practice, my life has become a magical unfolding and it is my joy to share with others.

Through the spiritual tools that have helped me so profoundly, I guide people to move through obstacles, access power, and manifest their dreams and destinies.

My mission is to help people overcome stress, negative thoughts, emotions and conditions and create magnificent lives by using spiritual self development and healing.   Whether it is love, happiness, peace, abundance, health, balance, anything you desire is attainable!  Spiritual healing tools can help you access what you desire...and more. 

But first it is necessary to understand and master how energy works.

SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU:

Are you interested in exploring ancient healing techniques to see what they can offer you as a means to happiness, peace, success and inner fulfillment? 

Do you feel oppressed by a mind that is filled with fear, worry, self doubt or anxiety? 

Do you consider yourself to be sensitive to energy or have natural healing abilities? 

Do you yearn to create a life of purpose and inner fulfillment?

Do you wish to help not only yourself but other people or animals? 

Through the healing art of Reiki, the spiritual path of Vedic Healing, the secrets of Feng Shui, and the magic of metaphysics, you can awaken incredible abilities inside you which then causes life to unfold easily and struggle to cease.   In such a magnificent state of being, you need not pursue anything anymore--for that which you desire actually comes to you naturally…as if by magic!

I invite you to explore this website and be in touch. Indeed, support is all around. You need only be quiet, open, and aware, and this beautiful universe will lead you.  

With love and blessings to all beings everywhere, 

In Service to the Divine,

Alexandra Savithri Amba, M.A.

Reiki Master, Vedic Healing Master, Feng Shui Teacher, Spiritual Life Coach & Fellow Seeker