Jan — if you've known her, you've been touched by real and true love.
Last night, surrounded by her beautiful family (and our daughter), Jan took her last breath.
We lost a true love legend.
One that has been so much to so many.
She's been my friend, my business partner, community mama, and at least a thousand other wonderful things along the way.
We've dreamed together, prayed together, figured ourselves out together, walked through our shadows together, laughed together.
This last six-year initiation into the next realm was taken on with such dedication, sensitivity and power, I will be in everlasting awe.
As I reflect on all our shared time, I think I would call her my Love Mentor.
Just by being herself, she’s been a teacher to so many of how to love all the way: your life, your situations, your family, your friends, spirit, plant, animal, element, and how to honor that love by sharing it freely.
Witnessing her change and grow and become such a pure and loving vessel, and to really walk the walk of love through challenge, has been a precious and lasting blessing.
To you, dear friend, a deep bow of gratitude for the high and low planes we meandered through, our shared trust in the beauty ways, our love of flowers and dreams, our expansions through love and connection.
Always and forever, loving you, beautiful friend. 💙🦋💙
Kaia. The One who turned my world inside out & right side up in the most magnificent of ways.
Who inspires me just by Being.
The One who showed me all the portals of purification I needed to step through to be in full presence for you.
Who has awakened a wild animal power protection in me I never knew existed.
Who at 3yrs old, sits at the altar in front of a full studio, silent, calling in presence.
Coming on retreats & spontaneously alerting each person of their power animal, with clarity.
I've loved all our forms of schooling. The Farm, making medicines with you, gathering flowers, wandering that land. Making fires, reading poetry, making art.
I'm always in awe of how captivated with Life you are.
Becoming big sister each time with such love & curiosity.
Moving countries—I've watched you stretch waaaaay out of your comfort in the most impressive of ways.
Your determination, graduating early through your own discipline, teaching yourself several instruments, dedicated practice, your creative artistic brilliance is a total marvel.
Powering ahead on the trails, seemingly unrushed, somehow transcending time & space.
How with little to no interest in the kitchen, a few weeks got you lit up, & within months all those years of tasting & watching turned into real skill & clear direction.
Deepest of gratitude for joining me here, for all this learning, growing, celebrating, moving & evolving.
This last month of rivers of tears, with a simultaneous trust & excitement for what's to come-is a wild new experience.
Sitting near you at the wheel with clay in our hands, long beach walks, soaking in every note of your singing & playing. All of it-pure blessing.
You are highly adaptable, intelligent, curious, fiercely loving, massively creative, kind, determined, a beautiful light, so so so fun to be around, inspiring. It's clear we're entering a new way together. A transition into some sort of beauty I've not yet known. Because that's what you bring.
Kaia, I will forever hold you in the highest light, be on your team, be soaking in all that you are & all that is still to come.
Birthday Blessings to you, beloved Kaia.
#ReadyWhenYouAre #ILoveKaia
Gentle Reminder | Threshold Ceremony & Ritual this Sunday, 4/5/2026
This Sunday morning, we gather in ceremony & ritual, held in the spirit of Ostara, the luminous threshold where light returns and life begins its journey from the invisible into the visible.
We'll honor what has been wintering, resting in the dark, and listen in for what is quietly dreaming itself into form.
We'll journey inward, plant personal and collective seeds for the coming cycle, and clean up the visionary pathways for renewed insight.
You are so welcome to join.
💗🧡💗
Live Online (or via recording), 8:30-10:30am pst
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Hi Friends, Spring blessings to you.
Here, the feeling of a lush & steady forward motion has emerged.
The winds were incredibly strong this year.
So for a while, things felt dry and barren.
But within just weeks,
the flowers began budding again,
leaves came back in full abundance,
the monkeys have returned.
The bursting bougainvillea is back.
The ylang ylang tree that fell over in the storm is somehow still blooming its intoxicating flowers.
Nature, still so generous.
What I keep returning to
is that with even the slightest bit of attentiveness,
Beauty will continue to find us.
When I tune into the channels of global information,
I see and feel the real horror happening in many places in the world right now.
From that, I can't look away.
I can't downplay it.
But still, something in the calm, wise, quiet, center of being,
knows that narratives like "the world is in irreversible decline" and those like them, cannot be the whole story.
It creates a real heartache to hear phrases like that.
No creation, no healing, no inspiration, no possibility can take root in that kind of soil.
As mentioned before, last month's collective directive was to Nourish the Roots.
It's a subtle form of resistance to those creeping narratives.
To keep searching the inner and outer environment for even the tiniest representations of beauty and wonderfulness.
Tending very carefully to what we're
Rooting our minds in,
(What am I spending your time contemplating? Learning? Unlearning? Listening to? Focusing on?)
Rooting our hearts in,
(Kindness? Compassion? Bliss? Peace? Patience? Forgiveness?)
Nourishing our bodies with,
(What practices, activated, or restful, are nourishing deep down to the roots of the inside and outside pathways of this human body?)
Find what’s true,
then let yourself bathe in it.
Let it sink all the way to the roots.
And from those nourished roots,
may new beauty arise in all directions.
Wishing each of you a very Wonder-Filled spring season.
💙 Amber
PS Last offerings before I go mostly offline. Links below.
Slow Bhakti Vinyasa & Mantra
Wed. 4/1/2026
Final Ceremony & Ritual
Sun. 4/5/2026
Yoga Nidra & Writing 4/22/26
Hi Friends, quick invitation for you to an online offering happening this week.
New Moon Meditation, Yoga Nidra, & Journaling 🌒
Wednesday, March 18th 2026
5:00pm–6:00pm PST
Zoom, Online (recording available)
All are welcome
This practice will rest on the collective insight and intuitive directives from last week's Ceremony,
held to explore antidotes to fear, uncertainty, and inner collapse,
and then to steady ourselves in the strong, healthy, trustworthy, adult version of ourselves,
stabilizing from the inside out.
It was shown that right now it is incredibly important to resource ourselves by dropping our attentiveness in and down to
Nourish Our Roots.
With a loving ferocity.
To be precise in clarifying:
What is my mind rooted in?
What is my heart rooted?
What is my body rooted in?
What is stabilizing my energy field at this time?
I am so very grateful to everyone who participated in last week's ceremony in real time or spiral time.
It is community that visions us into the future and informs what’s most called for in the moment.
This week’s
Meditation, Yoga Nidra, & Journaling
gathering will be a deeply nourishing practice for our root systems and an orientation for the coming cycle.
I would love to see you in the space of collective rest.
Wishing you find yourself fully steeped in a rich, nutrient dense cycle as we make our transition from waning moon to new moon, winter to spring, and earth to sky.
Many, many auspicious blessings to you!
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Or, just respond “Nidra” & I’ll share the info.
#YogaNidra #Community #Roots
Exciting News! ✨
More Rooms Available for
Soul Alchemy Retreat in Costa Rica
with Amber Tande & Melissa Lundsgaard
May 16th-23rd 2026
The single rooms filled quite quickly and we had a rare opportunity to rent a second five-bedroom home just a three-minute walk on the same road, with an equally gorgeous view, a salt water pool, and wonderful spaciousness.
So we now have a single room option for you!
/soulalchemyretreat
It is truly a stellar group of deep sea spiritual explorers.
The overall group craving: tons of spaciousness and illumination practices to nourish the Well.
We’re on it.
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Note: We also have two spaces for partial work trade in a shared room.
Reach out if you’re interested.
#YogaNidra #BhaktiYoga #Ceremony #Ritual #Rest #Renewal #Song #Jungle #Beach #Love
Dear Ones,
I've just returned from a whirlwind week in Seattle for another training with one of my dear teachers, Grandmother Sarah, immersed in Ceremonial Constellation practices,
work that strengthens our capacity to see wider patterns in the field and move with more precision and presence at a time that is asking so much of our attention, seemingly from every direction.
Before I share a potential antidote, I want to just acknowledge the enormous forces shaking the ground beneath our personal and shared realities right now.
And perhaps a pause for a full cycle of breath here.
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This moment in time is calling for strong, stable, steady, joyful, well-resourced adults.
Adults who can meet the moment without collapsing into fear.
Adults who are resourced enough to remain open to wonder, beauty, and possibility.
Adults who can see clearly and FEEL deeply.
This Sunday, I'm holding a Ceremony and Ritual Gathering
where we'll access antidotes to fear, uncertainty, and inner collapse, and move through a strong, Self-resourcing process, stabilizing from the inside out.
Enhancing inner stability and adaptability requires emotional movement.
Stepping out of fight, flight, freeze, and fawn.
A few beautifully simple things that help move emotional material:
Breath moves it.
Singing moves it.
Writing moves it.
Movement moves it.
Rhythm moves it.
Ritual moves it.
Community moves it in BIG waves.
🌀 So Sunday, we’ll practice all of the above. Our time together will weave in meditation, mantra, a journey to your Empowered Inner Wisdom, Self Steadiness resourcing, writing, community presence, and a brief rest practice for integration. ✨
Ceremony and Ritual
Sunday 3/8/26
Live on Zoom
8:30am–10:30am PST
Recording provided
Cost: $45
Or, pay whatever feels right for the moment
To join, simply DM or comment "yes please" by Saturday night and I'll send you the link.
All are welcome. 🌿
Note: This will not be on my website, so please email me or DM me here.
#Resourced #InnerStability #Steady
The best Valentine’s date with this guy.
His choice:
✨Sunset-he made himself a lounge chair.
✨Dinner & dominoes.
✨Storytime & stargazing (you turn off the lights, I’ll turn on the sky).
One of my favorites of all time.
🌀💙🌀
Soul Nectar Super Micro Retreat
With Amber Tande & Melissa Lundsgaard
This Sat. 2/7, we’re holding space for the sweetest drop-in:
an hour of still, quiet, contemplative spaciousness, deep nourishing restfulness and devotional chanting in online community as a practice of resourcing self, Self, and Life.
Free
All are welcome
Date: Saturday, February 7, 2026
Time: 10:00am–11:00am Pacific
Location: Online (Zoom)
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#yoganidra #bhakti #ritual
Beautiful Friends,
This Friday, we begin a 13 week ritual of gathering in our own home sanctuaries for
Tea Sit and Meditation.
We'll explore the art of presencing ourselves through elemental awareness; a living ceremony.
For 13 weeks, we pause to re-awaken our memory of a truly slowed down timeless pace.
We'll explore the nuance of water quality and temperature, simple breathing, and meditation practices that are warm, sensory, and deeply nourishing on so many levels.
Every Friday Morning Online (or via recording)
January 23 – April 17, 2026
30 minutes
6:30-7:00am pst | 8:30-9:00 cst | 9:30-10:00 est
We'll begin each session in stillness.
This will be a very slow, spacious build of teachings and embodied practice and processing with lots of silence and a really lush, steady pace.
These will be very quiet gatherings.
No experience necessary.
13 Weeks, just $169.
Replays available within 24 hours.
Return to each session as often as you like: daily, twice daily, whenever you need a pause. Recordings can work quite well in the evenings as well if that's better timing for you.
These 13 weeks are supported by a lifelong love affair with plants, flowers, tea, and water which led me through traditional ceremony, wild-crafting medicinals, creating non-alcoholic elixir & tonic menus at our 3 restaurants and long practiced plant spirit connection.
What I’ll be sharing is an offering for you to find a ritual practice that anchors you in presence and nourishes the whole of your life in the way that most speaks to you.
Reach out if you'd like recommendations for tea or medicinal herbal blends.
I'm so looking forward to sharing these beautiful 13 weeks with you!
❤
Amber ........................
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If finances are a barrier, DM me
No need to explain.
I have options for you.
Already part of The Altar Online?
This Tea Sit lives there too. You're already in.
Hi Friends! Dropping a quick reminder about The Altar Online beginning this Sunday, Jan 18th,
and to share some uncontainable excitement for what’s been coming through for this first new moon of 2026.
Something really beautiful is opening!
It’s a loving invitation to shift the way we perceive reality itself—in a BIG way.
To step into high quality potentiality.
New Moon in Capricorn; the mythology of Sea Goat is telling in and of itself.
Half creature of the deep ocean waters, carrying songs of remembrance in our blood, our tissues, our tears,
and half high-mountain traveller, traversing the path with precise landings and clear wide open vision.
We’ve walked a wild and perhaps unexpected path in 2025, every challenge, shift in understanding, every tiny (or monstrous) recalibration in how we relate to Life, has been a preparation for NOW.
This intuitive leadership energy is a support to fine tune how it is we’re leading a Life designed by our deepest soul remembrances and by the light of these heavenly minds
(when it’s easy & when it just seems inconceivably hard).
Our New Moon Ritual Process:
✨Meditation on our current nature of reality with an opportunity for a great expansion of this reality
✨Integration of somatic wisdom and high mind vision & possibly jumping timelines
✨Journey to the your precise path of support
✨Access your dharmic directive for the season
✨Yoga Nidra rest and integration.
We’ll settle into the remembrance of ourselves as the deep-sea intuitive and the high-mountain traveller to tune into what’s called of us the year.
Blessings, blessings to you!!
The Altar Online includes this New Moon Ceremony & Ritual Practice.
Registration closes Sunday.
Or you can just come Sunday as a Drop In
New Moon Ceremony & Ritual
Jan. 18th, 2026
8:30-10:30am PST
11:30-1:30 EST
$45
Would love to see you there!
All are Welcome.
💙
Amber
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If finances are a barrier, dm me.
I have options for you.
#NewMoon #Ceremony
#Rest #Journey
A return to a steady and spacious rhythm of inward bound practices
gathering live online
in linear time or spiral time to remember what’s real, right, and true for this next season of life.
💙
Starts this Sunday, 1/18/2026
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#yoganidra #ritual #tea #meditation #altar
