Heart Of The Work
Meet the Founder
Vanessa Stone is a humanitarian leader for peace sharing a deep message of unity and service. She is an educator, artist, healer and author inspiring countless individuals and communities to cultivate sustainable peace within and without.
Vanessa has had a flourishing teaching and healing practice for over 15 years. Her offerings embrace the whole of our humanity. They are non-dogmatic, practical and potent, an invitation to deepen in relationship with the very nature and essence of life that animates us all.
The Origins of Amala
In 1998 Vanessa started a school for consciousness and healing in Austin, Texas. This course of study included serving others, and a group assignment to serve local children soon became a thriving children’s camp. Camp Indigo has since grown to be a celebrated annual Austin experience that has served hundreds of youth in heart-centered community.
Vanessa founded the Amala Foundation in 2002, realizing the vital component of humanitarian service in the larger picture of personal and collective health. Recognizing that sustainable peace begins within, Amala was created to contribute to a peaceful, equitable and compassionate world by unifying communities in service and inspiring youth to lead with a heart-centered global perspective.
The Service at Amala
At the Amala Foundation we practice a quality of service that is given free of expectation and attachment. We show up willing to grow and be impacted. Regardless of background, we approach one another as brother and sister, human to human. We come with undefended hearts, knowing that when our service is our spiritual practice, it catalyzes true transformation.
We realize that the most direct way to experience a fuller life is to serve others. We unite those seeking more meaningful lives with those in great need by channeling this inspiration into humanitarian service projects that matter. Join us and impact the world from within.
The Teaching Work
Vanessa shares her message within a global community, through public teaching, apprenticeship programs, residential immersions, retreats, international humanitarian service, art and writing. The wisdom of this work is in waking to a deeper, more purposeful life. Events with Vanessa are a celebration of remembrance, recognition and gratitude. Her guidance, compassionate listening and unwavering devotion support many in having direct contact with what is real and alive at the heart of Life.
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