AMELIA VOGLER is a Grounding and Energy Medicine Specialist, internationally respected teacher of energy medicine, life coach, and meditation guide. She embeds essential energetic practices in her meditations and teachings to support the betterment of humanity. Her goal is to help individuals who don’t feel whole, reclaim the parts of themselves that have felt lost. In addition to her teaching and meditation work, she has an international private practice. In her 15-year career, she has helped over 7,000 individuals re-pattern or transform self-limiting negative beliefs through grounding practices, intuitive insight, and advanced energy medicine. Her practice expands around the globe, serving clients in Asia, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South America, Canada, and the United States. If you are interested in bringing more grounding in your life, find Amelia on ameliavogler.com.
Welcome everybody, welcome to Spiritual Biz Chat for Spiritual Biz Magazine, and today we have joining us is energy medicine specialist, Amelia Vogler. Welcome, Amelia, thank you for being with us, how are you doing today?
AMELIA VOGLER: Hi, thank you so much for having me to chat today. I’m doing very well and grateful for this opportunity to share a bit of my work in energy medicine.
It’s a pleasure to have you here, Amelia! Could you share the story behind your personal journey down the path to your current life’s purpose and work?
AMELIA: Like many “life purpose” stories, the mind is a winding one that started when I was born here. I arrived as the firstborn in an interesting family – a father whose lineage involves working with the dead and a mother who carries art and creativity central to her life.
My father is a funeral home manager and funeral director at the family funeral home that has been our family for over 250 years! My bloodline flows the wisdom of caretaking, deep listening, compassion, and a unique relationship with the human Spirit. My mother, so dedicated to living fully, made a promise to herself that she would change careers every 10 years and create something new. When I was young, I knew her as a music teacher -playing and teaching 24 instruments, an amazingly dedicated mother, and a scientist who bred hybrid rhododendrons and opened a nursery on the farm where we grew up. Life bloomed through her, literally, and my father cared for the bodies of those who have passed over and the grieving of those left behind.
I grew up understanding life is full of opportunities to bloom and let go.
I also grew up sensitive – one of those children who could see and sense energy, who could feel others’ pain, who somehow knew when someone was suffering. My mother shares a story about how my peers would come up to me in kindergarten after hurting themselves, and I would place my hands on them, and they would be soothed by my presence. Perhaps my father taught me to be sensitive to suffering as much of my childhood was spent watching him soothe others by deep heart-centered listening.
I had other teachers, too. A few I found roller-skating through the funeral home and winding up face to face with the dead in an open casket – in a room, of course, I was told not to go in. Those early experiences seeing and experiencing the dead left a profound curiosity in me about the absence of light in their eyes. First, I would see them laying there, still, gone, uninhabited. And then, I would see us – “the living” – and each of us had a light in our eyes. What is that light? How do we stay close to it? How do we return to it when we lose it? Where does it go when it seems far away?
I didn’t really have a choice, I don’t think, to work with this light.
Stepping into my purpose took me on many side journeys – teaching special education, navigating successful engineering careers, flying on corporate jets, business conferences. The meandering was all-important. I learned something that I use today in every step, but corporate America dimmed my light enough that I had no choice but to stop, “quit,” and find my way to energy medicine.
What brought me back to the light? The reoccurrence of migraine headaches made it impossible for me to do my job. I sought out an energy healer; after four months, my migraines were gone (and 16 years later haven’t come back), and I had found my way back home. It’s a long story and one I will save for another time. But, in essence, my gifts came back in that first session, and then my “job” became how to get back to working with the light.
You help individuals who feel incomplete, reclaim the parts of themselves that are lost… over 7,000 individuals and counting. How do you use advanced energy medicine on your own self to recover and replenish your spiritual strength? How do you, as you like to call it, “come home to yourself” – to find belonging and re-connect with the world after long hours of spiritual work with clients?
AMELIA: Oh, I just love this question. I do a million little things, and I think even in that statement, there is a fundamental perspective that can be offered – energy medicine is in the moments and the minutes. It isn’t just in the formal hour “on the massage table” or “in a phone session.” I constantly use affirmations and imagery to support myself.
I pay attention to how my energy flows at any given moment of the day. The chakra system is highly responsive to our inner and outer environments. Think about going to see a bunch of puppies or kittens and “awwwww – oh-my-goodness,” your heart is filled with love and cuteness. I can almost guarantee that your energy system is wide open and balanced. Then think about getting a text message concerning news and feel what happens to your energy. It just contracts, doesn’t it?
I am extremely sensitive to managing my own energy first by watching it and paying attention and then attending to whatever is blocked, slowed, or just a little “blah.” I use all my skills – intuitive assessments and healing; imagery and visualization; affirmation and sounding. I know how to use the map of the 13 chakras, so I’ll sometimes work through complicated patterning of energies. These techniques or awareness are part of “coming home” to myself. Coming home is about connecting with one’s inner light. As often as possible, I try to choose actions, thoughts, or words to help me move closer to what is true for me, what is Right – as in Right Relationship with all living things, and what is filled with beauty or inspiration. It isn’t easy but attending to life in a series of intentional moments and choices is profoundly fulfilling.
Without revealing all your magic, how do you work with clients on reaching balance and finding keys to their physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional healing? Do you have that one client whose success story after working with you stayed in your heart and mind as one of your most proud career moments?
AMELIA: I love my work, and it is magical. You wouldn’t believe the profound beauty, courage, and transformation I see every week. My specialty is helping people come home to their light. Whether what eclipses the light is in the physical, emotional, mental, or Spiritual, my work follows similar processes. First, we look for patterns in life. I am really keen at finding these patterns. These are looping beliefs like “I am not good enough,” “I’m not loveable,” “I’ve never belonged here (as in on earth),” “Life has to be hard.” These patterns or looping energy circuits become the keys that we shift together. It’s pretty extraordinary.
It is so hard to isolate just one client story – it seems like I see miracle after miracle, day after day. I cry a lot in practice, not out of sadness but out of sheer joy and awe at the capacity each of us has to shift our life. For example, I have been working with a woman, let’s call her Kate, who is on her deathbed. She came to me after hearing me on a Summit talk about my experience in the funeral home. She came to me with the belief that “if she isn’t good enough here on earth, she’ll never be good enough in her afterlife.” After her session ended, a few days, later I received an e-mail that said, “I cannot find the belief/feeling ANYWHERE in me that I am not enough. It is the first time practically since I was born. Kate can die feeling fundamentally okay and whole after a lifetime of being haunted by not feeling enough. Wow. That’s just extraordinary. I see these types of miracles almost every day. It’s a true “coming home,” and I want that for everyone.
With the coronavirus pandemic and all this current negative noise around us today, more and more people are turning to lightworkers in their search for peace and comfort. In your experience, what are some top techniques to practice grounding to improve health and find the inner peace that our readers can try today?
AMELIA: I think first paying attention or being mindful about when you are feeling off. That awareness allows you to understand what exactly you need some support in. There are so many grounding practices – each attending to different aspects of the body. Breathe deeply for a racing mind. Affirm your kindness and goodness for emotional heaviness. Place your hands on your upper chest and lower abdomen and connect to your embodiment if you feel scattered or disconnected from yourself. One of my personal grounding practices is simply stopping what I am doing and going for a walk outside. I leave my cell phone behind and really pay attention to the way the sunlight comes through the leaves or the branches. I pretend that I am walking in a chapel of nature, and the light is streaming through like it might a stained-glass window. The beauty of nature grounds and restores us.
What is your ultimate goal with your work? What is your mission? And what is your legacy?
AMELIA: I think that the goal of my work is to support individuals to feel whole and come home to their light. My mission is about helping each of us find the light that we are so that we may see the light in others. I tend to believe that the more we can see our goodness, the easier it is to see the goodness in others and more accessible to be a person who can live the change we are all looking for in this healing world.
I’ve never thought about my legacy. How funny is that, coming from a funeral home and all…. But, I suppose my legacy will be left in the way that I loved, cared for, and dedicated myself to others. I deeply, sincerely believe that we are active participants in healing this world, and I want to help us wake up to our full potential.
Is there a final message you want to let our readers know? Or just any last little words that you have for them?
AMELIA: I believe in them. I have seen individuals shift patterns that may seem insurmountable, and I have seen the creativity and resiliency lead them to peace, grace, and beauty. I want that for everyone, and I do really believe that it is possible.
Thank you, Amelia, very much! It has been such a pleasure chatting with you today!
AMELIA: The pleasure has been mine!
