Today we’d like to introduce you to Amneh Taye.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
I started my holistic integrative work, after I broke my back working with the military in Iraq serving in war. When I got back to the states, surgery was the only option to recovery, I was told. At the time, I walked by a place called the Open Center in NYC. I walked in, communicated my symptoms, and was told there are non invasive healing modalities to pick from. At the time, I received a cranial sacral session, and Polarity Therapy session. Upon leaving, I noticed the pain had decreased, and I felt much better. I contacted the Open Center and booked more sessions, and eventually was granted a scholarship because of my military status, and learned as many holistic integrative healing methods I could. Since then, I have picked up many therapeutic modalities, including clinical hypnosis, therapy, and multiple life coaching niches.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Starting your own business, isn’t easy by now means. Mainly, finding the right clients in alignment with this kind of deeper life work. I get a lot of, “Do you give massages?” Then I have to explain the depth of my work, what energy, vibrations, and frequencies are, etc. Also, connecting with people who are ready to embark on their soul’s journey, isn’t always easy. Yet, theyre knocking on my door, at the right time.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your business?
With over 27 years of expertise, I currently serve as a Transformation Coach at Baraka Therapy and Healing LLC. My work centers on promoting deep identity and mindset shifts, trauma resilience, and self-care through an integrative approach that combines evidence-based tools like cognitive reframing and meditation with holistic healing techniques such as polarity therapy and conscious energetic alignment.
Dedicated to guiding individuals through their healing journeys, I empower clients to transcend trauma and rediscover purpose. By leveraging personalized coaching and innovative practices, I help foster emotional balance, alignment, and restoration in their lives, enabling them to achieve renewed clarity and fulfillment.
Transformation Coaching – Deep identity & mindset shifts
Self-Care Coaching – Resilience & restoration after trauma or burnout
Energy / LOA Coaching – Moving beyond mindset into conscious energetic alignment
🌟 The Baraka Healing & Toolbox 🌟
Cognitive Reframing – Psychology-based thought → emotion → behavior model
Energy Alignment – Meditation, polarity therapy, Source connection, LOA
Healing the Past – Hypnosis, karmic/past-life release, trauma resolution
Integration Tools – Astrology, accountability coaching, future planning
Self-Care & Emotional Intelligence – Daily practice & post-trauma restoration
🌸 Ways to Work Together
One-on-One Sessions – Personalized depth work
Group Circles & Workshops – Shared wisdom & connection
Corporate & Organizational Programs – Emotional intelligence, resilience & workplace wellbeing
Sessions available via phone & video — making our sanctuary accessible internationally 🌍
My favorite thing about what we offer, is that a client can come in for hypnosis, and be on a table doing body work, after hypnosis session. With multiple healing modalities, I work individually with each person, to address their blockages or work out their issue at hand.
Comprehensive list of all services;
Organizational Leadership Life Coaching
Empowers leaders to inspire, influence, and manage with emotional intelligence. Focuses on self-awareness, team cohesion, conflict resolution, and adaptive leadership. Builds resilient, compassionate, and visionary workplace cultures.
Health & Wellness Life Coaching
Guides clients toward sustainable physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing through lifestyle transformation, accountability, and motivation. Proven to improve energy, mood, and health outcomes while fostering lasting balance.
Transformation Life Coaching
Facilitates deep, holistic change by uncovering limiting beliefs and aligning clients with authentic purpose. Integrates psychology, neuroscience, and spiritual insight to ignite lasting personal empowerment and growth.
Art Therapy Life Coaching
Combines creativity with therapeutic reflection to help clients express emotions, heal trauma, and rediscover inner strength. A research-backed approach that promotes self-awareness, resilience, and emotional balance.
Self-Confidence & Self-Esteem Life Coaching
Helps clients rebuild inner worth and overcome self-doubt through affirmations, mindset training, and emotional regulation. Strengthens confidence, authenticity, and emotional resilience across all life areas.
Emotional Intelligence Life Coaching
Develops empathy, self-regulation, and communication skills for greater personal and professional success. Enhances relationships, stress management, and emotional awareness for holistic growth.
Life Purpose Life Coaching
Supports clients in clarifying their values, passions, and purpose. Aligns daily actions with deeper meaning to foster fulfillment, resilience, and long-term satisfaction in life and work.
Meditation & Spiritual Life Coaching
Integrates mindfulness and spiritual practice to cultivate peace, clarity, and higher consciousness. Helps clients release blocks, strengthen intuition, and live with greater harmony and purpose.
Self-Love Life Coaching
Teaches compassion, forgiveness, and positive self-connection to heal from inner criticism and emotional pain. Builds self-worth, emotional balance, and joyful authenticity.
Talk Therapy
A classic, evidence-based therapeutic dialogue that enhances self-understanding, emotional regulation, and coping skills. Effective for anxiety, depression, trauma, and personal growth.
Polarity Therapy
Balances the body’s energy fields through gentle touch to relieve fatigue, pain, and emotional stress. Promotes vitality, harmony, and energy flow across mind and body.
Craniosacral Therapy
Uses gentle touch to release tension in the craniosacral system, improving nervous system regulation, pain relief, and deep relaxation. Supports trauma recovery and emotional balance.
Ecotherapy
Heals through reconnection with nature—forest walks, gardening, or mindful outdoor experiences. Reduces stress, boosts mood, and enhances resilience through natural immersion.
Astrology & Personality Analysis
Offers cosmic insight into personality, purpose, and life cycles using astrological charts. A reflective, empowering tool for clarity and self-understanding.
Human Design Practitioner
Interprets each client’s energetic blueprint to guide authentic decision-making and self-alignment. Blends astrology, chakras, and quantum principles for personal and professional flow.
Career & Executive Coaching
Enhances leadership presence, performance, and clarity in professional settings. Strengthens strategic thinking, emotional intelligence, and decision-making for high-impact success.
Somatic Therapy
Connects mind and body to release trauma stored in the nervous system. Uses awareness, breathwork, and movement to restore balance, safety, and self-regulation.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing)
Processes and heals trauma by integrating bilateral stimulation and cognitive reframing. Reduces PTSD, anxiety, and emotional distress effectively and rapidly.
Quantum Healing
Harmonizes body, mind, and spirit through consciousness and energy realignment. Draws from quantum physics and spiritual traditions to activate self-healing and balance.
Hypnosis Practitioner
Uses focused relaxation and subconscious reprogramming to overcome fears, stress, and negative habits. Enhances mental clarity, confidence, and behavioral change safely and effectively.
Where we are in life is often partly because of others. Who/what else deserves credit for how your story turned out?
My gurus Chari and Daaji, from India, taught me the most about healing and meditation, through heartfulness meditation. My grandfather, too, was influential for he was a darwish who healed people with energy, his hands, and music. My mother also paved the healing path for me.
Growing up, I watched my mother, Subhieh Al-Kunni-Taye, heal infertile women by giving them fertility massages. After doing some soul searching and research, I was able to figure out, my mother had inherited her father’s DNA, and was providing healing – which connects to ancient Mayan abdominal massage, also known as Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy. It is a non-invasive, complimentary therapy technique focused om te-aligning reproductive organs, as well as helping blood flow to them, which improved overall health and well-being. My mother had a gift she would share from her heart, and since she’s connected to Divinity, she was able to channel God/Allah/Source consciousness and frequency, which helped her and those she worked with, towards vibrational alignment and healing.
My grandfather, Amine Al-Kunni, my mother’s father, as a Islamic Spiritual Healer, a Sheikh, a Qur’anic scholar/reciter and – “friend of the path,” or “sahib tareka” – which gave him the position to have spiritual gifts to heal with sound, by touch, and even, his mere presence. My grandfather never taught my mother, however, there is something to say about the energy, frequency, and vibrations some souls are able to access, transmit, and share – as they evolve on a soul and consciousness level, that enables their gifts to be used for the progress of humanity.
This work is also dedicated to my Gurus , Daaji, Chari, Babuji, and Lalaji, the creators and developers of Heartfulness (Sahaj Marg) meditation practice. Along with my ancestral lineage in higher consciousness and healer genetics, I was helped along my path by the transmission of prana huti, or energy potential, by my gurus. This helped clear lifetimes of impressions upon my soul, which helped me evolve spiritually and thus, become that much more open to a higher, more evolved paths of spiritual advancement and healing, in general.
Other inspirational historical parhs:
🌙Mesopotamia: Herbs, Stars, and Incantations
Mesopotamian healing divided labor between the asû (physician) and the āšipu (priest-exorcist).
Priests used monotone chants, ritual bowls, and fixed-gaze objects to focus attention and induce trance, or what we now call, hypnosis.
Herbs & Elements: Licorice soothed lungs, garlic repelled demons, juniper fumigated homes, and clay mixed with honey healed wounds. Ritual baths in rivers combined water and herbs for purification.
Astrology: Illness was linked to constellations; treatments were timed with planetary alignments.
Energy & Touch: Priests placed hands on patients while chanting incantations, transmitting divine energy.
Protection: Incantation bowls inscribed with spirals of text were buried under thresholds against the evil eye.
Birthing: Figurines of squatting mothers, protective amulets, and oil massages accompanied childbirth.
Modern Echoes: Medical astrology, Reiki-style hand placements, affirmations, colonics as purges timed with moon cycles.
🇵🇸 ✊ 🕊️🌙Palestine (Levant): Oils, Herbs, and the Evil Eye
🇵🇸 ✊ 🕊️Palestinian healers worked with herbs, oils, and protective rituals.
🇵🇸 ✊ 🕊️Hypnobirthing: Midwives recited rhythmic blessings with olive oil massage, calming mothers through suggestion — a precursor to modern “hypnobirthing,”
🇵🇸 ✊ 🕊️Oils: Olive oil massaged into the body for circulation, wounds, and sacred anointing.
🇵🇸 ✊ 🕊️Herbs: Pomegranate, figs, and dates strengthened fertility and digestion. Rue, basil, and fennel were hung in homes against the evil eye.
🇵🇸 ✊ 🕊️Energy & Touch: Midwives used oil massage and pressure to guide childbirth, combined with protective recitations.
🇵🇸 ✊ 🕊️Community: Fasting and prayer aligned households with divine protection.
🇵🇸 ✊ 🕊️Birthing: Amulets were placed on mothers and newborns; olive oil and date tonics provided strength.
🇵🇸 ✊ 🕊️Modern Echoes: Herbal folk medicine, protective charms, holistic midwifery, doulas using massage, affirmations, and herbs. Hypnobirthing for relaxation during childbirth.
🌙Egypt & Nubia: Herbs, Astrology, and Cosmic Order
Egyptian medicine combined herbal pharmacy with cosmic alignment.
Herbs & Elements: Aloe for burns, castor oil as purgative (colonic ancestor), willow bark (aspirin), garlic and onion for stamina.
“Temple sleep” rituals placed patients into dream states where priests whispered healing suggestions
Astrology: Healing calendars marked “lucky” days for surgery or herbs; Sirius (Sopdet) linked to Nile flooding and fertility.
Energy & Touch: Priests transmitted heka (vital force) through hands and spells.
Dance & Ritual: Nubians held smoke baths with chanting and drumming, cleansing whole communities.
Protection: Amulets of Taweret (goddess of childbirth) and Bes guarded mothers and infants.
Birthing: Figurines, castor oil, honey, and star charts timed safe deliveries.
Modern Echoes: Aromatherapy, hydrotherapy, colonics, spa therapy, medical astrology. Clinical hypnosis for trauma, pain, and phobias
🌙Africa: Dance, Herbs, and Regime Energy
Sub-Saharan African healing emphasized movement, rhythm, and community.
Herbs: Neem for purification, hibiscus for cleansing, kola nut for energy, baobab for nourishment.
Energy & Touch: Shamans placed hands during trance, painting skin with herbal infusions.
Dance & Music: Trance-dances with drumming expelled trauma and oppressive “regime energy.”
Protection: Beaded amulets stuffed with herbs warded off curses.
Birthing: Women gave birth surrounded by songs, chants, and protective rituals.
Drumming and repetitive dance induced community trance states, releasing trauma collectively, as well as gaining information of past and present behavior. This inspired changes in behavior.
Modern Echoes: Dance therapy, somatic trauma release, hoodoo, bush medicine, hip-hop cyphers, gospel and jazz as protective community music. Music-assisted hypnotherapy.
🌙Islamic Medicine: Prophetic Healing and Energy
📿Islamic traditions blended herbs, Qur’an, and protection.
📿Sheikhs: (dervish) that are Islamic Healing practitioners, who are spiritual masters, have the ability to heal with their mere presence. They are known as, “friends of the path.”
📿Meditation: Many adopted the path of deep meditation, along with five prayers a day. Their a ability to tap into higher states of consciousness, by adopting the prophet Muhammad’s practice of dhikr and meditation, which was a natural state he entered, to connect deeper with Allah or God, after prayers. My Guru, Lalaji, had expressed the influence of sufism on Heartfulness/Sahaj Marg, well.
📿Herbs: Black seed (“cure for everything but death”), saffron, olive oil, honey, dates.
📿Energy & Touch: Cupping (hijamah) removed “bad blood”; healers laid hands while reciting Qur’an.
📿Protection: Qur’anic amulets with herbs shielded against evil eye and envy.
📿Astrology: Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine tied humors to planetary influence; treatments were timed with moons.
📿Birthing: Qur’an recited during labor; mothers given dates and honey.
📿Islamic Medicine: Qur’anic recitations with touch worked as rhythmic inductions, calming patients into receptive states, similar to hypnosis.
📿Modern Echoes: Herbal supplements, integrative clinics, lifestyle coaching, medical astrology in folk practice. Visualization and mental rehearsal in coaching, as well as past life regression in hypnosis.
🌙Sufi Traditions: Dhikr, Baraka, and Whirling
Sufis centered healing in remembrance (dhikr).
Dhikr (repetition of divine names) and whirling are trance practices resembling hypnotic induction.
Energy: Baraka (blessing energy) transmitted through touch; repetition of divine names aligned vibration with divine flow.
Dance & Music: Sama’ (whirling) aligned body and cosmos; dhikr circles generated protective fields.
Herbs: Rose for the heart, mint for clarity, saffron for purification.
Birthing: Mothers surrounded by dhikr; rose/mint teas for recovery.
Modern Echoes: Heartfulness meditation (constant remembrance), Reiki/polarity therapy, group meditation circles.
🌙Ruqyah and Reiki: Parallel Energy Practices
Ruqyah (Islamic Healing): Qur’anic recitation, breath, and hand placement channel healing.
Protects against evil eye, envy, and jinn. Olive oil often infused with verses. Rooted in Allah as sole healer.
Reiki (Japan): “Universal life energy” (Rei + Ki). Hands-on or near-body placements balance energy. Uses mantras or silence. Rooted in universal/cosmic force.
Shared Ground: Hands as conduits, vibration through sound, intention as activation, protection against harmful forces.
🌙Hip-Hop as Modern Healing
Hip-hop continues the thread as energy, protection, and community healing.
Emceeing (Rapping): Incantations of survival, affirmations of resilience. Poetic mantras in rhyme, story telling and self-expression through writing and improvising rhymes. (This can be a cathartic release for processing trauma and emotions)
Breakdance: Trance-dance expelling trauma and oppression. Also, movement is used in art therapy theory as a way to process trauma, as well as a way to ground body, as feet hit the earth.
Graffiti: Protective wall inscriptions, like the pyramids and amulets. Physical activity can break cycles of depressive or anxious behavior and build self-efficacy.
Cyphers: Energy circles echoing dhikr or African dance circles. As well, as healing circles. Through beat making, breakdancing, story telling, and djing – hip-hop culture paved a way of liberation and empowerment for people of the struggle, internationally, to help regulate their nervous systems.
Hip-hop Therapy (HHT) used to help community process trauma, resiliency building, emotional and creative self expression Reduced symptoms of depression and anxiety:
• A 2019 study published in the Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment found that a hip-hop integrated program for low-income middle school youth led to improved mental health outcomes and reduced symptoms of depression and anxiety.
• Other studies cited in a 2024 systematic review noted that rap and music therapy decreased depressive and anxious symptoms in adolescents.
🌙Herbs, Elements, Colonics, and Protection🧿
🌙Water: Ritual baths, Dead Sea immersion, Nile cleansing → modern colonics, hydrotherapy 🧿
🌙Fire: Incense, sterilization, ritual flames → modern heat therapy.🧿
🌙Earth: Clays, salts, roots, resins → mud therapy, herbal powders.🧿
🌙Air: Smoke, drumming vibrations, breath in dhikr → sound healing, breath work.🧿
🌙Spirit: Astrology, prayer, manifestation, remembrance → Reiki/polarity, Heartfulness, hip-hop poetry.🧿
🌙Protection Against Evil Eye:
Protection Against Evil Eye:
Mesopotamia: garlic, incantation bowls.🧿
🌙 Eye:Palestine: rue, basil, oil.🧿
🌙Egypt/Nubia: amulets of Taweret, onion/garlic.🧿
🌙Africa: herbal amulets, charms.🧿
🌙Islam: Qur’an, black seed, saffron.🧿
🌙Sufi: divine names on amulets.
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🌙Modern: evil eye jewelry, protective tattoos, affirmations.🧿
🌙Birthing: Ancient Midwives → Modern Doulas
🌙Mesopotamia: Figurines, amulets, oil massage.
🌙Palestine: Olive oil massage, pomegranate tonics, evil eye charms.
🌙Egypt/Nubia: Castor oil, honey, Taweret & Bes figurines, astrology.
🌙Africa: Songs, chants, herbal poultices, community dances.
🌙Islam: Qur’an recitation, dates, honey, black seed.
🌙Sufis: Dhikr, rose/mint teas, Baraka touch.
🌙Modern Doulas: Massage, affirmations, herbal teas, holistic coaching, energy practices.
🌙Universal Healing Threads:
🌙Fasting & Colonics as purification.
🌙Meditation & Trance for energy alignment.
🌙Recitation & Manifestation as vibrational healing.
🌙Dance & Music as trauma release and cosmic rhythm.
🌙Astrology as timing and cosmic energy mapping.
🌙Herbs as carriers of healing and protection.
🌙Touch & Energy Work (ancient → Reiki, Ruqyah, polarity).
Protection (amulets, evil eye rituals).
🌙Prayer as direct spirit connection.
🌙Community Healing through collective rhythm (dhikr circles, hip-hop cyphers).
🌙Coaching as guidance through life’s transitions.
🌙Birthing as sacred initiation (midwives → doulas).
🌙From Mesopotamian priests laying hands with chants, Palestinian midwives anointing with olive oil, Egyptian healers timing herbs with stars, African shamans dancing trauma away, Islamic healers reciting Qur’an, Sufi mystics transmitting Baraka, to modern doulas, Reiki practitioners, Heartfulness guides transmitting prana huti, a energetic potential, and hip-hop poets regulating their nervous systems. e essence is the same: healing is energy, protection, cleansing, rhythm, and remembrance.
Ancient practices live on in Reiki, Ruqyah, Polarity Therapy, Yoga, colonics, Heartfulness Meditation, holistic doulas, hip-hop art and therapy, and integrative coaching. Also, Hypnosis is not new; it is the clinical refinement of ancient trance practices where rhythm, repetition, suggestion, and imagery guides the mind into healing receptivity.
Integrative healing, whether it is a wide range of tools a practitioner resources, coaching, or clinical practice – is not just a cure. These tools are cosmic, divine skill sets — that inspire the alignment of body, community, and spirit back into harmony with the earth, stars, and the Infinite.💫
🇵🇸 ✊ 🕊️Below, my grandfather I mention in my story telling above, and my magical mother, Subhieh Misleh Taye.
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