Your Coach
About Your Coach
Amanda DeCarlo
Amanda is a passionate guide, educator, and visionary who offers her work from a place of deep lived experience and authentic transformation. Having found freedom from methamphetamine addiction at just 19 years old, Amanda has spent over two decades walking the path of recovery, healing, and self-discovery. Her approach is grounded in holistic harm reduction, nervous system regulation, personal empowerment, and a commitment to living fully in mind, body, and spirit.
As the founder of Breath.Dance LLC, Amanda brings wisdom, compassion, and real-world experience to every space she holds. Her healing journey deepened in her late 20s when she became the primary caregiver for her mother following a traumatic brain injury. This experience inspired her to explore holistic healing modalities and develop a greater understanding of trauma, resilience, and the body's innate capacity to heal.
Amanda's love for motorcycling began at a young age, inspired by her father and the freedom, confidence, and adventure that riding represented. After years of navigating addiction and recovery, she reignited that passion in sobriety and discovered a profound connection between recovery and the open road. For Amanda, both journeys require courage, presence, trust, and a willingness to embrace growth beyond perceived limitations. She believes that true freedom is found not only through abstinence from substances, but through actively engaging in life, pursuing passions, and stepping outside of one's comfort zone.
Recovery and motorcycling have become a family affair. Amanda shares her passion for riding with her husband, who is also a Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF) Rider Coach, and their 17-year-old daughter. Together, they embrace the values of safety, lifelong learning, adventure, and connection that motorcycling brings. Amanda believes that pursuing meaningful experiences and healthy passions can be a powerful part of building a fulfilling life in recovery.
Amanda is a bestselling author, MSF Rider Coach, Peer Recovery Coach, Qualified Behavioral Health Assistant, and abstinent holistic practitioner. Since 2009, she has taught and practiced a variety of healing modalities including Holy Fire® III Karuna Reiki®, Sound Healing, Hatha Yoga, Breathwork, mindfulness practices, and teachings rooted in the Medicine Wheel. Through trauma-informed coaching, recovery support, sound healing, Reiki, breathwork, and rider education, Amanda creates safe and empowering spaces where individuals can reconnect with themselves, regulate their nervous systems, discover new possibilities, and embrace the fullness of life.
Her mission is simple: to help others release the limitations of the past, follow their passions, breathe deeply into the present moment, and fully enjoy the dance of life.
Angela Beaube
Amanda is the most authentic person I’ve ever met. She’s also the first person (for me) to have demonstrated and embody so much power, yet instantly and freely CRY because she was filled with so much love and compassion. (I always viewed tears and vulnerability as the opposite of strength).
True story: I’m 5ft tall and weighed 231 lbs. I kept ending up in the ER and having multiple surgeries because I had overzealous scar tissue (internal) that would grow and wrap around my esophagus. I was being strangled from the inside-out. Amanda explained how suppressing my voice was manifesting in my life. She held space for me- screamed, yelled, and cried till I was able to do it and match her in volume. Long story short- I lost over 100 lbs and the viney/ web scar tissue? My CT last month (I get follow-up cat scans every 6 months) showed NO signs of it. None. No trace.
She is my sister, angel…just love her and so happy for her.
Affiliations
Pairing Vibroacoustic Therapy (VAT) with modern music production techniques, Sonic Sessions™ invites you to awaken your best self. Owner and Founder Soren Peterson is a certified Vibroacoustic Therapist and Holy Fire Reiki practitioner, with an extensive background in audio and visual engineering. To learn more about his practice and the benefits of vibroacoustic therapy, please visit sonicsessions.org.
reiki.org
Reiki.org offers over six hundred web pages and hundreds of articles covering every area of Reiki practice. The Resources page has articles, Reiki Stories, plus free practice and teaching materials. The monthly free online newsletter will bring you fresh insight about Reiki, and the articles in the 80 page hard copy Reiki News Magazine are written by the some of the most experienced and well known Reiki practitioners and teachers on the planet! Visit reiki.org for more information.
