Amanda Dumenigo

Amanda is the executive director of Save Our St Vrain Valley Campaign. With many years of experience leading innovative conservation projects, Amanda's mission is to preserve the ecologically unique St Vrain River watershed in traditional Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Territory (Boulder County, Colorado).

Amanda is dedicated to the healing arts and to reconnecting people with the instinctual wisdom of the natural world using ancient traditions, animals, and nature. She works with her herd to support children, youth, and adults in cultivating body-centered awareness, accessing somatic information, using a series of exercises in her programs, designed to facilitate and teach participants to access and work with their emotions, and reconnect with their body’s innate wisdom. Amanda holds a Master's in Eastern Studies from St John's College, Santa Fe, NM. She weaves ancient teachings and her yoga training (with Richard Freeman, Dena Kingsberg, Tias Little)  in her nature connect programs & EFL sessions– reconnecting participants to archetypes, animal totems, and esoteric wisdom. 

Born in Cuba, Amanda left with her family at age of six and was raised in multicultural Miami. She is a writer, devoted mother of two beautiful boys, and tireless environmental and human rights activist.