My name is Amanda Wells and I want to share my love and passion for plants and hands on healing with my community. 

 

My career started as a massage therapist at the Finger Lakes School of Massage in 1995. Where I developed a love for energy work. I learned Craniosacral Therapy from Upledger in 2000 and 2003.  I received my first Reiki I in 2001 followed by Reiki II in 2006 and finally Reiki III in 2019.

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In 2011 I wanted to switch gears and reconnect with my childhood passion for essential oils and plant medicine, I enrolled at Aromahead and learned clinical aromatherapy. This is when I fell in love with making products. While I love essential oils, I acknowledge that they are resource hungry. I also feel limited with their safe usage due to their concentration and frustrated by how inaccessible they can be to many people.

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I began exploring whole plant medicine on my own, prompted by a beautiful experience with milkweed. In 2013 I enrolled at the Big Tree School of Natural Healing to learn Meridian Massage, but also to help me dive deeper into the world of energetics.

 

In 2017 I was ready to sink my teeth into some real herbal training, I enrolled in the weekend program at the Northeast School of Botanical Medicine and learned botany and clinical herbalism with 7song.

In 2025 I enrolled in the Actaea Institute and studied under AC Hill and Gabriel Mojay deepening my understanding of blending both Eastern and Western plant energetics and healing. 

I also have to add, because she has played such a big support in my life,  I have also been unofficially learning from my beautiful friend Lauren Eadline since I met her in 2019. 

I have taken some trainings with David Dalton and Delta Gardens to learn flower essence healing

I have also done some plant initiations with both Emma Fitchett and Pam Montgomery, learning how to build relationships with the plants

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In 2026 I have received certification to provide Arvigo Mayan Abdominal Massage through Tul'ix Indigenous Arts

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I am working on bringing it all together, the bodywork experience and knowledge with the healing of the green world to help integrate what divides us from our whole self. 

 

The plants have been here before us. They are our ancestors. They sustain and support us body and spirit. The connection to them and to each other is the strongest medicine.