Amanda Harper- Young

I retired this year from being a Registered Massage Therapist from my 15-year practice. While I was an RMT I began practicing Osteopathy. Many people ask what is an osteopath? Osteopathy or Osteopathic Manual Practitioners focus on your whole body, including the soft tissues (such as muscles, ligaments and tendons), spine, nervous system, viscera (organs) and cerebral spinal fluid. We use a variety of different hands-on methods to align your body and I have been practicing for 7 years now. I have also been practicing Reiki for the past 13 years holding a current title as a Master Student. I find that combining all of my training and forming an individualized treatment for my clients works best. Addressing Spirituality, Emotions, Mentality and Physicality in my approach in treatment of a client.

Friend, Wife, Daughter, Sister, Mother to my two children plus one fur baby our cat “Hendrix”. 

I like to say my healing journey began many life times ago. I started off as an intuitive healer at a young age but have been carrying it as a profession for 15 years now.

I made my way to Massage Therapy School graduating in March 2006 and became a Registered Massage Therapist in June 2006. I began taking continuing education courses with Scapular Stretch & Rotator Cuff Release 2008, Neuromuscular Integration & Structural Alignment 2008, Introduction to Doula Training 2009, Ortho-Bionomy 2009, Reiki First and Second Degree completed twice 2008-2016 (13 years practice with Reiki). Now working towards my Masters with Andrea Connell of New Leaf Metaphysics. I returned to school 2010 with Osteopathic College of Ontario. Graduating as an Osteopathic Manual Practitioner June 2014 (7 years practicing). After all that learning I felt the need to return to my passions seeking Mentorship with Shore Charnoe & Richard Szponarski of Circle for Change and Gary James aka Grandfather Blackbear (Anishinaabe Ojibwe Elder) from 2013-present. Where I found guidance with Indigenous Wisdom, Storytelling, Nature Connections, Regenerating Culture, Reclaiming Natural Connection, Stepping into Natural Design, Village Building, Sacred Economics, Kamana, Red Road, 8 Archetypes of Nature Connections, and Ancient Methods of Healing. My Mentors encouraged me to follow up with Empowering Ancient Ways of Sticks and Stones Wilderness School, which I followed through with in April 2014 learning primitive skills. It was AWESOME! Art of Mentoring with Pine Project was my next venture August 2014 to explore experiential village building and learning to mentor others. I took away so much and still to this day see the new lessons I gained from that week but it certainly needed a pause. I decided to further my education in Visceral Vascular Manipulation with Toronto Academy of Osteopathy in 2016 as we are required to keep up our education. I then was gifted an opportunity to become a Grief Ed-Therapy Specialization Certification 2018. This led me to Design for Peace with 8 Shields Institute 2019, Trauma Recovery 2019, HeartMath Certification for Stress, Anxiety, Emotional Management 2020 (biofeedback), returning to the basics with Standard First Aid and CPR Renewal February 2021 First Aid 4 U. Now that I have joined Ancestral Voices Healing Centre, I have been initiated into the healing energies of Munay-Ki “Love Energy” finishing the nineth rite in July 2021. Such A blessing, Thank you Donna Stares. 

This continued learning is a lot when I look at it on paper, all these words can seem overwhelming so I bring it back to the symbol in my mind's eye of a spiral forever cycling. Oh... that flower of life is oh so pretty, wouldn't you say?

While feeding my own learning journey I have also been co-creating Four Directions Mentoring with Layla Black since 2017. We have developed many mentoring programs such as: Exploring Nature Connections, Healing with Nature, Marketing Model, Children’s Model, Parenting Model, Building Foundation for the Future, Following a Peaceful Path and much more.