About Amaya: Compassionate Healer
Imagine going up to someone you've never met before to ask a simple question and being told where you were in your life, what was holding you back, and what issues you needed to look at. Unsettling, maybe, but knowing at a deeper level that what was said was absolutely right. That is one of Amaya's many gifts.
As a holistic healer and therapist in private practice in Santa Fe, NM and nationwide, Amaya has the compassion and power to connect with people and know them deeply. That's is what draws people to her workshops, lectures, and individual counselings. She helps people to release their unconscious emotions and physical blocks so that the fragmented parts of themselves can come into wholeness.
Describing herself "first and foremost as a human being who brings spirituality into the material for people to use in their lives," Amaya is down-to-earth and practical with a lively sense of humor.
Background and Gifts
Amaya,(formerly known as Robin A.Velez), was born with highly advanced intuitive abilities. From early childhood she saw spirits and knew of coming events before they happened. Growing up in a "dysfunctional family" left its mark; it was only by working through her own denial, grief and anger around childhood issues that she has been able to accept her experiences and herself and in turn help others. She now sees her childhood as a "gift," without which she might not have searched for a deeper meaning to her life.
As a young woman she began a period of intensive self-education which led to meeting her first mentor, Evelyn Isidore, in 1986. With Evelyn's help she experienced a maturation of her abilities. She then began to channel the advanced group of spiritual beings known as "Isaiah". The first one of the group to identify himself to her was the Archangel Michael. "There is always one initiation energy that comes through first to clear the Channel," she states. This group chose the name Isaiah because,"it is a name that clears the way for the coming of the Godself...,"they are a wonderful group, very high and very exalted. But this work is not for the faint of heart. Isaiah can be very direct and will cut through the wounded ego like a hot knife through butter.
Since 1988, Amaya has worked full time as a healer, channel, teacher, advisor and counselor. She is certified in Gestalt Therapy, Rebirthing, Hypnotherapy and energy/healing body work. These range of tools, in addition to her own natural talents, help people release stored pain and come into wholeness and joy.
Amaya also uses her own inspiration and creativity while listening to the "Guides" when she performs her healing and counseling work. Using this process also helps her design powerful experiential workshops such as The Child Within, Healing the Healers, among others. These programs combine bodywork, dance, breathwork, music, meditation and Gestalt Therapy techniques; they have proven to be highly effective in clearing out stored pain from the body and replacing it with positive attitudes, greater clarity and freed up energy.
Public Events and Credentials
* 26-years as a professional therapist & healer
* Certified in Gestalt Therapy, Gestalt Institute of Philadelphia
* Learning Annex
* Temple University
* Holistic Bar Association of America
* Borders Bookstore
* Rosemont College, PA
* Lifespace Institute, Toronto, Canada
* Institute for Higher Learning, Richmond, VA
* Montgomery County College, Philadelphia, PA
* Mariano Holistic Health Center (Dr. Dennis Mariano, DC), NJ
* Positively Yours, Inc. Holistic Health Center, PA
* Mazurkeiwicz Chiropractic Center, Buffalo, NY
* Beauty & Wisdom, Santa Monica, CA
* A.R.T. Brooklyn, NY
* The Heart Touch Project, Los Angeles, CA
* The Center for Spiritual Living, Santa Fe, NM
* Greater Philadelphia Religious Science Center
* The Celebration Metaphysical Gathering, NM
* Sound Energy Research Center, Oxnard, CA
"I take you down to the depths of your shadow, to your darkest space, and then back up again." Amaya
"Working with Amaya gave me a lot of answers to questions that I had had for a long time. It completely transformed my life. I didn't know where I was going or why I was struggling, and she gave me a lot of insight into why I was doing things I didn't want to be doing. It confirmed for me that I wasn't completely insane, that what I had always believed about myself was true, even though others were telling me that it wasn't. She gave me a lot of hope that I wouldn't always be horribly depressed, and gave me a concrete direction to move in. It was like I was lost in the forest, and she helped me find the path." Cindy Payne
"I was shocked that she -and Isaiah- knew so much about me. And it was very personal--it wasn't in general terms. In the first week of my work with her, my body tensed up while I was sleeping and it felt as if there was a knot that was just pulled from me. It was so wonderfully dramatic that it woke me up. With Amaya, you can actually feel and see her power--it's a supernatural god-like force." Lauren Seymour ~ Margate, NJ
"I met Amaya in early 1987 at A Course In Miracles group meeting in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At meeting's end, Amaya channeled "Isaiah and the Group" and those in attendance had a chance to ask questions of spirit. I knew then that Amaya had the unusual ability to transcend the known limits of communication. The answer given to my question prompted me to have a private reading with Amaya.
During that private reading, the intimate information transmitted through Amaya that evening of my personal life experiences, both past and present, and my probable life's journeys, revealed a picture of myself unknown to me prior to that reading.
Amaya's source of inspiration, her friends in spirit, have a compassionate awareness of one's being. I consider Amaya's channeling work as spiritual psychotherapy of the highest order."
Bill Tomaszewski ~ Founder of the New Hope Metaphysical Society, Shrewsbury, England
"Dear Amaya,
When I first met you I wasn't able to touch the deep down hurt of sexual abuse. It seemed impossible. You saved my life from self-destruction; you helped me enter into my healing. In the nine years since I've seen you. the tape you made from our channeling session gave me strength. And the counseling sessions we had together helped to turn my life around. In the channeling Isaiah said that I was "almost done" with this part of my life. Since then, I have gradually entered into the world of more healthy and healed people. I am happy inside. Isaiah also said that they were going to shake up my world and that's been an understatement! Thank you so much for helping me through. I am in such a different place today than when I first walked through your door."
Liese Carmen, West Virginia
The Amaya Center
1925 Aspen Drive suite 702B, Santa Fe, NM 87505
(505)466-3510 or amaya@amayacenter.com