01 Jan Amanda Ma
Amanda Ma is a ceremonialist, arts administrator, and integrative healing practitioner based in Tucson, Arizona. Her work is devoted to creating spaces where women can slow down, gather in community, and reconnect with their own creative and spiritual medicine. Her offerings center intuitive craft, communal ritual, song, and somatic awareness as grounded pathways into healing and remembrance. She is the founder of The Creative Medicine Path and the Sonoran Soulfire Retreat.
Her doorway into this work came alive through durational performance art, where she came to understand the body as a living altar. Working with symbolism, womanhood, and repetitive actions that invited trance states opened a channel for catharsis, radical self-acceptance, and transformation.
She has spent years in ceremony and apprenticeship with Indigenous teachers in South America and North America, including ongoing relationships with Shipibo communities for healing chant transmissions (icaros), dietas, and personal wellness. She is also an Advanced Kambo Practitioner (IAKP) that brings a strong emphasis on ethics, nervous system awareness, integration, and cultural sensitivity into her work.
In her work within the arts and cultural sector, Amanda produces large-scale festivals, oversees galleries, and coordinates public art programming across Arizona. This leadership role informs how she holds complex containers with care, logistical clarity, and lasting community impact.
Amanda Ma is honored to offer Needle-Felted Medicine Dolls at Spirit Weavers.