We had the good fortune of connecting with Amala Rose and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Amala, we’d love to hear more about how you thought about starting your own business?
Starting my business as a healing practitioner was motivated by newfound passions and a strong desire to be of service in new ways. In the beginning, there was no thinking involved. It was purely heart led.

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
I started as a professional artist many years ago and was represented locally by Conrad Wilde Gallery, exhibiting internationally in galleries and museums.

In 2016, I had some significant and unexpected life changes on top of serious chronic illnesses, all of which were a catalyst for my healing journey. I was seeing many types of MDs, NDs, and alternative practitoners. I thank all who were in my life at that time as I moved through tough circumstances. I thank all of the medical professionals who supported me during intense challenge, some of whom were open to the extraordinary things that were occurring. You know who you are. Even with all of that support, the allopathic and alternative medicines I had tried were keeping me alive but I was not living and experiencing the state of wellness I longed for. So I took a Reiki class in order to feel more empowered and to try new avenues of healing possibilities.

I started playing crystal singing bowls and doing self Reiki every day for an hour or more, and slowly noticed that my health was improving. Additionally, I began to see, hear, and sense in other ways (clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, and claicognizance all opened). Not only was I physically healing, but my sense of reality became far richer, more beautiful, much more expansive, and more joyful. Who doesn’t want more of that? To go from a state of near incapacitation to wellness and stability was no small thing.

In gratitude, I decided to begin offering private sessions because I wanted to share what had helped me heal and what had opened my life and heart so profoundly. In the first session, which I thought was just going to be Reiki, I was able to see the person’s light body architecture and how that flows and interacts with the physical, mental, and emotional landscapes. I was being guided where to go and intuitively knew how to move energy in ways I’d never been taught. I was receiving pertinent information about the person’s experiences, attachments, and challenges without being told. It was a complete surprise for me to experience that way of receiving “extra”sensory information multidimensionally.

It was very challenging having all of these sensory ways open so quickly. I had to take a lot of time to develop an understanding and a way of working with all of this. It was a constant state of learning in ways that we aren’t taught to learn.  What got me through all of that, in addition to my dogs, my crystal singing Bowls, nature, and some amazing humans, was the incredible beauty I was experiencing in my inner world. It’s beyond imagination.

However, no part of this journey has been easy. I had my life planned out and had achievable goals as a professional artist. How I physically healed sounds magical (and it was) but it was also hard. It took a lot of time, energy, self awareness, dedication, practicing, belief in possibilities no one else thought were possible, strength, and a pure-hearted devotion to cultivating and allowing a completely new way of being. It also took a willingness to be with my shadow aspects and to move through those awarenesses rather than spiritually bypassing them and hanging out in the meditative beauty all the time.

With all of that said, the hard work was worth it! In healing myself, I found a new passion and profession. I officially started my business and clientele grew through word of mouth. I continue to offer private sessions as well as group events and classes. Operating my own business has definitely had its challenges as well, but I absolutely love my work with clients, the freedom is unbeatable, and I also love being my own boss.

Sometimes the worst chronic challenges and the most devastating surprises can be what opens us to new potentials that are beyond what we could have envisioned for ourselves. I have a vivid imagination and massive creativity, yet I could not have foreseen all that my life has become. And it continues to get better all the time.

Perhaps being an artist helped me to be open to healing in new ways that I may not have been as open to otherwise. I already knew how to create from nothing but imagination. I already knew how to come up with creative solutions to challenges. I already knew how to get into the eternal flow. While it was all in an entirely new context, I knew how to be a creator, starting from a place of believing that I could create a new reality from the rubble. In hindsight, being an artist (and having those skill sets) was such an enormous gift.

I’m currently creating classes that will bring art and healing work together, supporting others in developing somatic and “extra” sensory awareness, energetic discernment, and intuition within the practice of art making, which is very exciting! I’ve been waiting to see how art would weave back into the rest of my work. I’m also currently in a 3 year Somatic Experiencing training program, which is allowing me to better blend highly intuitive skills with integrated ways of trauma resolution. It’s an exciting time of expansion and learning.

For me, being an entrepreneur is to be in a consistent state of openness to learning, and an openness to asking questions like how can I provide rich ways of supporting others with their challenges and spiritual expansions while also doing what nourishes me, so it remains a reciprocally balanced co-creation, so I continue to have the capacity to hold space for and be a guide for such amazing transformations, staying energized and excited about the work we do together.

It’s a true joy to offer support in the context of private sessions, group sound and energy work events, classes, and mentoring. I’m in gratitude for the challenging circumstances that helped me open to more infinite potentials. It’s a deep honor to be an entrepreneur and practitioner who is actively engaged in being part of other people’s healing and/or spiritual journeys, being a part of those shifts, and being a guide to the places within where infinite potentials and beauty can be accessed, regardless of external circumstances.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
There are so many beautiful and interesting places in this city and in the state! My favorite places in and around Tucson are nearly all nature based recreation. That’s how I recharge and maintain resilience. It’s fun to share those places with others.

My favorite place in town is Tohono Chul Park. It brings me joy to know that people left their private home and land for a public respite. It’s particularly amazing in spring, when all of the wildflowers are in bloom, and during the holidays when there are twinkling lights strung everywhere, but it’s wonderful year round. For those who aren’t as nature oriented, there is also a bistro, a plant nursery, and a lovely art gallery, which presents beautiful exhibits. I was fortunate to have my art work included in one of them. In my opinion, Tohono Chul Park is a Tucson gem.

Catalina State Park, Sabino Canyon, and Madera Canyon are also favorite places for more solitude and/or longer hikes and gorgeous views. Sabino Canyon has a tram for those who would like to enjoy the views without hiking. Mt. Lemmon is a wonderful place to visit in the summer, when the temperatures in the valley get very hot. It’s refreshing to not only experience cooler temps but also to be in landscapes with different types of vegetation and tall pines.

There are numerous places to view art and experience music as well. Tucson has a vibrant, eclectic mix of experiences available from Tucson Museum of Art, to the Rialto, to Solar Culture.

Sedona is also a special place to visit for hiking and/or for inner spiritual exploration with the support of the land and energy. There is some delicious raw food and fresh pressed juice at Local Juicery. They even have a drink that’s the blue color of the Sedona sky, made so by a special type of spirulina. I hesitated to bring up Sedona because the sheer amount of visitors can harm sacred places, but it’s still strong and magical.

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
There are many people who have helped me on my path. I’d like to think that everyone knows how much they mean to me.

I want to especially extend a shoutout to Jamia Janine Walter for her support, encouragement, healing work, classes, and friendship. She was very supportive as I stepped into offering private healing sessions and classes of my own. And I met some other close friends through her as well.

I’d also like to dedicate a shoutout to clients, past, present, and future. My life is so much richer because of all of you!

Website: https://www.amalaalchemy.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amalawhitestarrose/

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Image Credits
Jose C. Photography

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