Helping Christian mystics, MAHA moms & trauma survivors heal toxic love cycles through my simple four-step Yoga of Relationship method without spending years unpacking childhood wounds, playing the blame game, or betraying your faith. She began practicing Christian-adapted yoga and meditation in 2003. Amanda left the midwest immediately after high school, where she first began studying trauma as a chaplain's assistant in the Army. Her healing journey brought her around the world, and landed her in the spiritually diverse city of Mt. Shasta, CA after she came out to California for BSSM in 2011. She lived in Mount Shasta on and off until she moved home in 2021. She volunteered on staff at The Gathering Church and offered pastoral leadership regarding how to minister to the myriad of New Age spiritual seekers that visit in search of healing.
Amanda launched her ministry in 2013 in Stillwater, MN as a small yoga, reiki, and massage practice named Stillwaters Healing. She also launched an herbal product line called Eden's Essence. Amanda Brees' ministries are dedicated to Christian creative and healing arts via natural products, services, and classes. She holds a BA in Biblical Studies & Theology from UNWSP, a MA in Transpersonal Psychology from Sofia University, graduate art-therapy and eco-spirituality certificates, and a myriad of alternative medicine certifications. Today, Amanda lives on 15-acres of the family farm she grew up on where she's expanding her small herbal product line focused on healing trauma. She recently graduated from Liberty University with a doctorate in Pastoral Counseling. She capstoned her personal and professional journey of Christian spirituality and healing by writing a dissertation via meta-synthesis with the aim of developing a working theory of Christian alternative medicine for complex and attachment trauma Her dissertation topic was, “The New Age of Christian Spirituality and Healing: A Meta-Synthesis Exploring the Efficacy of Complementary Therapies for Adult Survivors of Familial Trauma." Dr. Brees' research focus is: contemplative neurotheology, embodied meditation, and Christian healing and spirituality. Her private practice has been informed by her original research. She's a spiritual yoga teacher (and yoga therapist in training) whose specialty is developing a working theory of Christian yoga and meditation focused on returning to yoga's roots as a vehicle to embodied meditation and union with God that can positively impact both one's spirituality and mental health. This aligns with society's embrace of eastern healing modalities into behavior therapy. She's currently a 300hr and Yoga Therapy student at Soul of Yoga, and has offered private devotional yoga and healing work since becoming certified in 2014. You can book a session or take a training at her office space in downtown Plainview, MN.
