Today we’d like to introduce you to Amber “Aiyana Amaru” Carter.
Hi Amber “Aiyana Amaru”, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
My name is Amber Carter, though many people in my healing work know me as Aiyana Amaru. My path into healing wasn’t something I originally planned. Growing up, I imagined becoming a doctor, but like many people searching for stability, I found myself pursuing engineering and chasing financial security instead. When my grandmother passed away from cancer, something shifted in me. I made a quiet promise to prioritize health and wellness for myself and my lineage, even though I didn’t yet know what that would look like.
That promise first led me into personal training, where I began to understand how deeply emotional experiences live inside the body. What started as fitness quickly evolved into a deeper curiosity about healing and embodiment. Over time, I became a Reiki master, yoga teacher, massage therapist, and eventually was led into Shamanic healing practices. Each phase felt less like a career path and more like remembering who I had always been.
My work became deeply personal during a period of severe depression, anxiety, and alcoholism. After losing a pregnancy and reaching a point where I knew I needed to change or risk losing myself and my relationship with my daughter, I entered rehab. That season forced me to confront parts of myself I had spent years avoiding. I was tired of feeling numb and purposeless, and healing stopped being optional, it became a necessity.
As I began transforming my own life through embodiment practices and intentional declarations, people around me naturally began opening up about their own struggles and desire for change. I realized that the same practices helping me reclaim my voice and direction were also creating safety and transformation for others. Stepping into authority as a practitioner showed me that the medicine I was learning wasn’t just for me.
Today, I’m building a global school called House of Embodied Alchemy, devoted to helping people master their mind, reconnect with their bodies, and practice true embodiment through real-life integration. My work focuses on helping women rebuild their voice, regulate their nervous systems, and step into leadership without abandoning themselves in the process. Motherhood and my lineage have deeply shaped my path, and my personal experiences also guided me toward womb healing and supporting others in reconnecting with safety, autonomy, and power within their own bodies.
I believe many people today are successful on paper but disconnected from themselves internally. Burnout, anxiety, and constant pressure have become normalized, especially for women carrying families, businesses, and communities. My work exists to help people slow down enough to hear themselves again and build lives that feel sustainable through honest embodiment and lived transformation.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
It definitely hasn’t been a smooth road. Some of my greatest lessons came from learning how to rebuild myself personally before I could lead others professionally. Early on, I had to confront struggles with mental health and addiction, which forced me to slow down and completely reevaluate how I was living. Recovery taught me accountability and honesty with myself long before I began guiding others through healing work.
Relationships, especially romantic ones, were another powerful teacher for me. I had to recognize patterns of overgiving, people-pleasing, and trying to hold everything together for others while quietly abandoning myself. Learning boundaries became a personal necessity. Those experiences helped me understand how deeply our nervous systems and sense of safety influence the choices we make in love, leadership, and life.
Building a business while navigating motherhood, family responsibilities, and periods of financial uncertainty also required difficult decisions about where my energy belonged. There were seasons where everything felt uncertain at once, and I had to learn how to lead myself before I could lead anyone else.
Looking back, the challenges taught me that embodiment isn’t something you practice only when life feels peaceful. It’s what carries you through grief, transition, and growth. Those experiences now shape how I support others who are rebuilding their lives or learning how to choose themselves without guilt.
Great, so let’s talk business. Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
House of Embodied Alchemy is a healing arts school and community focused on embodiment, nervous system safety, and leadership through lived transformation. My work centers primarily on supporting women who are navigating life transitions — whether they are rebuilding after burnout, redefining relationships, stepping into leadership, or learning how to reconnect with themselves after long periods of survival mode.
What sets my approach apart is that it bridges both somatic bodywork and spiritual practices with practical, real-life integration. My background as a personal trainer, massage therapist, Reiki practitioner, yoga teacher, and shamanic practitioner allows me to work with how stress, trauma, and emotional experiences are stored in the body, not just talked about intellectually.
Through House of Embodied Alchemy, I’ve developed what I call the Embodied Soul Integration Method — an approach that weaves together somatic bodywork, nervous system regulation, ancestral healing, womb wisdom, and voice reclamation. Rather than offering quick fixes, the work focuses on helping people build sustainable change in how they relate to themselves, their relationships, and their leadership.
What I’m most proud of brand-wise is creating spaces where people feel safe enough to be honest. Many of the women I work with are strong and capable but exhausted from carrying everything for everyone else. Through mentorship, group programs, retreats, and certification pathways, my goal is to help people rebuild trust in their own voice and move forward with clarity rather than pressure.
I want readers to know that healing doesn’t require stepping away from real life or becoming someone else entirely. The work is about learning how to live, lead, and succeed without abandoning yourself in the process. House of Embodied Alchemy exists to help people come home to themselves while still building meaningful lives and communities.
We’d love to hear about how you think about risk taking?
I’ve learned that risk almost always requires honesty with yourself. One of the biggest risks I took was after leaving the military, when I moved to Houston with very little money and no real safety net. I didn’t have a permanent place to stay, but I knew I needed a fresh start and an opportunity to build something different for myself and my daughter. That season taught me resilience and resourcefulness in ways nothing else could.
Here recently, I found myself taking another major leap when I decided to move to Peru. This time the risk looked different. I wasn’t running toward survival, I was moving toward alignment. I approached it with more strategy, intention, and clarity about the life and global work I wanted to build. Living abroad challenged me in unexpected ways, but it also expanded my perspective on healing, community, and what’s possible when you allow yourself to grow beyond familiar environments. Traveling as a mother also required me to trust myself in a completely new way, because every decision carried responsibility beyond just my own comfort.
Both experiences taught me that risk isn’t about being fearless. It’s about listening when your life is asking you to evolve. Some of the greatest opportunities in my life came from moments that felt uncertain at the time, but each one ultimately created space for growth, purpose, and deeper trust in myself.
Today, I don’t think of risk as something reckless. I see it as a conversation between intuition and preparation. When those two meet, risk often becomes the doorway to transformation.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://houseofembodiedalchemy.com
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/healingenhergy
Image Credits
Belero Photography
