Rage, Release, and Rebirth: Healing Through Community with Amanda Alappat, Ep.182
In this episode of the Empowered by Design podcast, I am honored to share with you, my special guest: Amanda Alappat, a birth doula, ceremonialist, writer, and educator. We discuss Amanda's gifts of service to women and families, highlighting the importance of community and ceremony in personal growth, empowerment, and collective healing. Amanda shares her passion for inspiring authentic connection with self and others and the powerful impact of the practice of spiritual hygiene.
Her upcoming retreat: “Rage Release Rebirth”, will empower women to safely and genuinely explore and express the broad range of human emotions, including the release of anger and rage, to embrace all aspects of self and radiate love and light with authenticity. Amanda shares her experiences with unassisted births and the transformative power of nature in child development through her Spark program. Our conversation emphasizes the significance of creativity, connection, and community.
Episode: 182 Show Notes and Links:
Amanda Alappat is devoted to serving and nourishing women and families. She has been a birth doula for the past decade, guiding women to weave ceremony, confidence and self-trust into the pregnancy and postpartum experience. Amanda also holds women's circles twice a month at the Red Rose Temple, a sacred space in the heart of rural Pennsylvania. She centers beauty, sisterhood and the divine feminine as well as being a driving force in the reclamation of community. She and her husband have an art, yoga and meditation program for children called Spark where they teach socio-emotional skills, mindfulness tools, self-expression and collaboration. They recently expanded to starting a forest school on their land to create a space for children to be immersed in and connected to nature. Amanda is a three time homebirth mama, writer, educator and Priestess devoted to walking the path of love, reciprocity and reverence for life.
Learn more about Amanda, her gifts and service: https://www.amandaalappat.com/
Amanda and Brandi’s upcoming retreat - Rage Release Rebirth - August 22nd to 24th, Harmony Mountain House, NJ. https://www.amandaalappat.com/RageReleaseRebirthRetreat
Find Amanda and her programs on social media: @amanda_alappat, @theredrosetemple @thespark.pa
Amanda Alappat started out as a fitness trainer over twenty years ago. During that time, she became a competitive boxer, winning the New York Golden Gloves in 2008. She hung up her gloves and traded them for a yoga mat where she became an avid practitioner and teacher. She is a birth doula having witnessed and supported over 50 births and is also a pregnancy guide helping women take radical responsibility around their births. Amanda started holding women's gatherings ten years ago and has since opened a space dedicated to beauty, sisterhood and the divine feminine called the Red Rose Temple. She collaborates with women in her community to offer sacred ceremonies on a wide range of topics, ranging from honoring the Wheel of the Year to exploring taboo topics like money, sexuality and rest. Amanda is a writer and recently contributed a chapter to Magdalene Unveiled, an anthology centering stories of love, grief, birth and power. She and her husband have an art, yoga and meditation program called Spark teaching children socio-emotional skills, mindfulness tools, self-expression and collaboration. They also have a forest school to connect kids with the natural world. Her devotion is to women and their families, nourishing them with love, circle and support.
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