Meghan Makena

Meghan Makena Founder of the Amba
Creator of The Embodied Woman
# 1 path to true nourishment beyond food

Your new era of peace starts here 🕊️ www.ambamethod.com

I'm a feminine embodiment facilitator, founder of the Amba Method, overeating expert, and creator of The Embodiment Solution--a proven 3-step path for women to overcome emotional eating and feel at home in their skin. These two ways I support women have emerged from my own healing crises. For over 20 years, I was stuck in emotional eating patterns. The physical weight I'd gained was nothing compared to the emotional burden I carried and the nonstop battle in my mind. I tried clean eating plans, cleanses, diets, pushed myself to exercise harder... but the pattern kept coming back...and getting worse every year. When I finally found my way to lasting peace with food, which started by getting my body out of protection mode, everything shifted for me. Not just with my eating, but with how I lived my life. From this, The Embodiment Solution was born. My journey wasn't only about food, though. I grew up in an environment that prized intellect, achievement and reason, and where all things feminine...creativity, feelings, intuition, and sensuality (if you know me now, you know that these are all the essence of my true nature)....were looked down upon, and even made fun of. In addition, the nurturing qualities of warmth, softness, and compassion were simply not present in my early life, so I went on a quest to uncover them within myself, one earth breath at a time. For years, I forced my way through each day: pushing, rushing, overriding my body's wisdom with excessive exercise, working 7 days a week, choosing to be in relationships where I was neglected, and sheer willpower. This led me to the edge of burnout before I found my way back to myself. This homecoming to my body and feminine nature became Amba, the method of embodiment that came out of my own need for a soft place to land, slow down, and feel truly nourished from within. When I started to teach embodiment in 2008, nobody had heard of that word. Now "embodiment coaches" are on every corner of the internet, slinging hip circles in sexy dresses on TikTok, I'm grateful to continue to offer a grounded, depth-focused embodiment practice space for women who are more seasoned meditators and yoginis. Today, I offer two pathways to work together:

1) The Embodiment Solution – For women ready to heal their relationship with food once and for all and break free from emotional eating. www.meghanmakena.com/register

2) The Amba Community (Embodied Babes) – We hold virtual gatherings and have an on-demand studio for women looking to go deeper into feminine embodiment, sensuality, and receptivity...honoring your body as the sacred vessel it truly is.

03/01/2026

It was a gorgeous spring day here in Nashville and I was thinking about how excited I am for summer swimming and pool parties and trips to the beach….and it reminded me of how much I used to dread summer because I was always trying to hide my body from the world
There was a season of my life when I didn’t want to be in photos. I wore oversized shirts, cancelled plans when I felt bloated. Even though I was in college, I didn’t want to date or be social.

What I didn’t understand then is that hiding costs you more than you realize. It’s not just the photos you skip or the plans you cancel. It’s the way your whole system contracts. Your kids feel it when you’re at the pool but not fully there. Your partner feels the difference between a woman who’s at ease and a woman who’s bracing. And there not necessarily judging you… but you feel uncomfortable because you’re trying to hide all of the shame and guilt and internal conflict you experience on the daily…..hoping that nobody else can see it. It’s an exhausting way to live.

That contraction isn’t just in your body. It touches your friendships, your creative capacity, even (and especially) your romantic life.

But as a woman stops hiding, everything around her opens up. She laughs more often and more freely. She gets in the water on vacation without the internal battle running in the background.

Inside the Embodied Woman Immersion, you don’t just change how you eat. You change how much of yourself you’re willing to let the world see 🌹

03/01/2026

I wish every woman on earth knew about the endless rivers of delight and enjoyment and nourishment that are available to us (literally) at our fingertips, when we become embodied.

When you become an embodied woman, one of the benefits is knowing how to deeply enjoy simply being in your body. Anywhere, anytime.

You can be sad and still enjoying being in your body. You can be sick and still enjoying being in your body.

You can even be in the middle of a big business launch, but because you know how to access your body in a very specific way, and breathe in a way that opens you up, you can still receive a tremendous amount of nourishment simply by dropping your attention down into your hips or thighs.

The common saying “energy goes where attention flows” is so true. And when we learn to inhabit our body with presence, we experience a rich kind of energy that doesn’t come from cortisol or caffeine. It comes from our own loving attention being turned inward.

And here’s what makes this so beautiful… we’re not making anything happen. We’re not creating the experience by changing anything in our body. We’re simply changing where we place our attention, and refining that attention until we can literally track the movement of light as it flows through the waters of the body, which is a subtle yet ecstatic experience.

It feels like surfing down a river, only the river is inside of you.

03/01/2026

I wish every woman on earth knew about the universes of delight and enjoyment and nourishment that are available to us (literally) at our fingertips, when we become embodied.

When you become an embodied woman, one of the benefits is knowing how to deeply enjoy simply being in your body. Anywhere, anytime.

You can be sad and still enjoying being in your body. You can be sick and still enjoying being in your body.

You can even be in the middle of a big business launch, but because you know how to access your body in a very specific way, and breathe in a way that opens you up, you can still receive a tremendous amount of nourishment simply by dropping your attention down into your hips or thighs.

The common saying “energy goes where attention flows” is so true. And when we learn to inhabit our body with presence, we experience a rich kind of energy that doesn’t come from cortisol or caffeine. It comes from our own loving attention being turned inward.

And here’s what makes this so beautiful… we’re not making anything happen. We’re not creating the experience by changing anything in our body. We’re simply changing where we place our attention, and refining that attention until we can literally track the movement of light as it flows through the waters of the body, which is a subtle yet ecstatic experience.

It feels like surfing down a river, only the river is inside of you.

03/01/2026

Money and a bangin’ career can get us a lot of things (I don’t deny that) but they can’t get us the utterly satisfying softness that is cultivated through the process of becoming an Embodied Woman.

02/28/2026

Some of the deepest wounds we carry as women….came from other women.

A mother who didn’t have the ability to nurture you, a friend who betrayed you, or a sister, a colleague, or even a mean group of girls growing up who taught you that other women aren’t to be trusted… that you’re better off doing it alone.

And so you became the one who holds it all together by herself. The lone wolf.

You’re independent and can count on yourself, which is awesome. But along with that, you may have missed out on the experience of being seen, held and cared for by other women.

One of the unique aspects of the Embodied Woman Immersion is that it’s not just you and me working together solo. You enter a supportive community. Real women walking through the same work, showing up for each other with the kind of warmth, vulnerability and depth that most of us haven’t experienced from other women in a long time…if ever.

02/26/2026

Everyone used to comment that I seemed so grounded. Nobody knew I was eating to create that feeling.

For years, I used extra food and extra weight to give myself something I didn’t know how to give myself from the inside: nurturing. And it worked… until it didn’t. The grounding people felt around me wasn’t coming from my presence. It was coming from my coping with stress through reaching to food.

The shift wasn’t a meal plan. It wasn’t another round of self-disciplined eating. It was learning to access my Inner Nurturer: the part of me that could create safety, warmth, and Deep Nourishment without food doing that job for me.

If you use food to ground, DM me BODY and I’ll send you something to help.

You would never know this about me today, but there was a season of my life when I didn’t want to be in photos.I wore ov...
02/25/2026

You would never know this about me today, but there was a season of my life when I didn’t want to be in photos.

I wore oversized T-shirts. I angled my body away from cameras. When I look back, what strikes me most isn’t just how different I looked, it’s how different I felt. My energy was contracted. Guarded. I was there, but not fully there.

When a woman is in a war with her body and with food, and she’s carrying extra weight that feels tied to secret overeating, she is often hiding. I was hiding. Not because I was insecure about my intelligence or my capability, I wasn’t. I could lead. I could produce. I could hold a lot. But my body comes with me everywhere. And when I felt ashamed of it, the hiding followed me everywhere too.

I hid in dating. Meaning…I didn’t really date at all. I didn’t want to be fully seen.

I hid socially. If I had an overeating episode and felt bloated and low, I would cancel plans. I missed more parties than I can count. I hid professionally in subtle ways, not putting myself forward, not expanding the way I could have, because somewhere inside, I felt exposed. The evidence of my struggle felt visible, even when no one was saying a word.

Hiding has an energetic cost. It’s a contraction. A pulling inward. There’s no spaciousness in it. When stored emotion and held stress sit in the body without being digested, the whole system tightens. And that tightness doesn’t only affect food. It affects your joy. Your friendships. Your marriage. Your creativity. Your income. Your capacity to feel pleasure in your own skin.

And your family feels it.

Your children feel when you’re only half in the room. When you’re at the pool but slightly self-conscious. When you’re on vacation but managing your body instead of inhabiting it. Your partner feels the difference between a woman who is braced and one who is relaxed in her own skin. Not because anyone is judging you, but because presence is palpable.

When a woman comes out of hiding, something softens in the whole home. She laughs more freely. She stays at the party. She gets in the water. She sits at the dinner table without that quiet undercurrent running in the background. Her availability expands. And that shift ripples outward in ways that are hard to quantify but impossible to miss.

I have worked with so many women who, when they begin to metabolize stress and digest their emotions instead of coping through food, something remarkable happens. The weight begins to shift, yes. But more than that, they come out of hiding. Exercise feels different, romantic moments with their partner feel different, and work even feels different.

When you end the war with food, you don’t just change how you eat.

You change how fully you show up.

If you’re tired of living slightly pulled back, slightly guarded, slightly hidden, this is the work: Overcoming stress earing for good, through effectively digesting your past emotions and metabolizing your stress, so you can have lasting peace with food…and end the battle, once and for all.

If this speaks to you, message me with “READY” and we’ll talk about what stepping out of hiding could look like for you.

02/20/2026

You and I both know by now that the way to stop emotional eating and over eating isn’t more control. Otherwise, the keto plan would have worked for you. The intermittent fasting would have worked. The primal bod diet would have worked. Outside control has a shelflife. But once you learn to deeply reconnect with your body, so you’re living in it and unlocking your bodies, bio intelligence, you can’t overheat even if you try. The way is about connection, not control. If you want to find out more about how to stop cravings through partnering with your body instead of fighting it, comment BODY 👇🏽💛

02/09/2026

Ever wonder why more nutrition plans, rules, clean eating habits, or wellness routines never prevent you from overeating longterm? It’s because these are all like apps that you add to a phone that’s needing a new operating system. When your system is overloaded and outdated, the last thing you need is more apps (habits, information, plans, restrictions). You need to install a whole new operating system, an entirely new way of being in your body.

02/09/2026

Here’s exactly why you overeat on food you don’t really want, even though you know a ton about holistic health and nutrition. Thoughts?

There’s no amount of monetary wealth that can replace the inner wealth of knowing how to unlock the direct line to God’s...
02/04/2026

There’s no amount of monetary wealth that can replace the inner wealth of knowing how to unlock the direct line to God’s luminous goodness from within your own body.

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