About

EARLY DAYS
Growing up in an academic family, I balanced my highly active mind through theatre arts, singing, sports, and meditation which I learned at 5 years old and practiced daily at the Quaker school I attended.  Meditation is the form of worship used in the Quaker religion, and although most of the students were Christian or Jewish, we all participated in this daily meditation 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.  

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 in a journal. 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 what others were thinking. I spent hours singing which taught me the power of the voice as a means of self expression and acting on stage which enabled me to see life through others’ eyes and understand that our pleasures and pains are the same.

I pursued a traditional path by going to college where I earned a degree in English and then worked in the publishing field in New York City. But I felt unfulfilled and unhappy, as if my spirit was constricting and I yearned for more, so I escaped to graduate school where I soon realized I would be expected to pursue a PhD and become a college professor.  Alas a life in academia did not feel right for me so again I felt unsettled inside. 

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

By day I studied Shakespeare, Bronte, Wordsworth and spent many hours in the university library hunched over books studying and writing, 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 was called to move to Los Angeles from the East Coast. On my way across the country I stopped to meet a powerful Indian guru who gave me an intense, remarkable energy transmittal, igniting special energies within that would shape and deepen my path.

In Los Angeles I began teaching English, but I also continued the inner quest by studying hypnotherapy, pranic healing, magnified healing, yoga, Feng Shui, and also started a Reiki community which eventually grew into the American Reiki Academy, now Los Angeles’ oldest continually-running Reiki school where I teach people how to be Reiki healers and Reiki Masters.

But also I somehow could not forget my interaction with the Indian guru so I  began studying her teachings as well as those of other Indian gurus and learning Sanskrit mantra chanting. Unbeknownst to me, “Mother India” was calling me. When the time is right and the seeker is open, she scoops up your weary spirit, challenges you, consoles you and teaches you. I began praying for the next step in my spiritual journey.

I GO TO INDIA

Finally, 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 accepted as a student by a very humble, wise, and learned guru with whom I began a lengthy course of personal study into Vedic Healing, a modality that changed my life and enhanced my Reiki practice.

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

Returning to Los Angeles I began sharing Guruji’s rare Vedic healing tools, and for the next 25 years, I studied in India with Guruji, led Pilgrimages, taught, and continued to study with India’s very special gurus, yogis and saints. We started the Vedic Healing Center to spread these special transformational teachings.

NOW

After many years of teaching Reiki and Vedic Healing and deepening my personal spiritual practice, my life has become a magical unfolding. I now show people how to move through obstacles, access power, and manifest their dreams through the spiritual tools that have helped me. 

My mission is to help people through spiritual self development to overcome stress, negative thoughts, emotions and conditions and create magnificent lives. Whether it is love, happiness, peace, abundance, health, balance, anything you desire is attainable, but first we must 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, and the secrets of Feng Shui, you can wake up incredible abilities inside you which then causes life to unfold easily and struggle ceases to exist.  In such a 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

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