Ready to Become a Mountaintop Leader in the Guidance Industry?
Book your Career Elevation Session with Amara and together you’ll explore how to best optimize your next level potential for greater depth, value, and fulfillment doing the work you love.
Fill out the form and book your complimentary 30-minute conversation for coaches, practitioners, and trainers ready to explore what’s aligned, what’s not, and what they can do about it.
If there’s a good fit, we’ll also explore the opportunity to join the InnerGuidance Method™ Certification program and take your work to the next level.
Trainers. Coaches. Practitioners.
If you guide others through growth and change, you deserve to work at a level that matches your capacity for depth.
What Is The Guidance Industry?
It’s the growing field of guidance-based professionals committed to helping people access their own greater discernment, so they can better understand themselves, relate to others and live with more clarity of direction and realized purpose. It’s a rising industry that calls for both personal and professional integrity, collaboration, and the wisdom needed to guide others responsibly in a rapidly changing world.
Why Mountaintop Leadership?
You have the credentials. The client hours. You ask good questions, hold space well and get results. And yet something still does not go as deep as you know it could.
That’s the gap. Not your capacity, but the fact that most professional training gives you skills, tools and techniques without giving you a cohesive methodology for in-deeper transformation.
IGM is that methodology, designed to elevate and extend your existing expertise without replacing it so you can lead the way to greater wellbeing for those you serve.
Ready to Elevate your Career?
Elevate your work through greater depth, value, and fulfillment.
A complimentary 30-minute conversation for coaches, practitioners, and trainers to explore what’s aligned, what’s not, and what they can do about it.
If there’s a good fit, we’ll also explore the opportunity to join the InnerGuidance Method™️ Certification program and take your work to the next level.
“Studying the InnerGuidance Method™ has given me clarity about how modern concepts of psychology can best be applied to support people holistically.”
NIAMH OERI, Ph.D.
Psychologist | Human Development Research, University of Bern | InnerGuidance Method™ Certified | IGM Somatics | Switzerland
What Is the InnerGuidance Method™ (IGM)
IGM guides clients through five stages that make in-deep transformation possible, consistently. The Method is not dependent on any particular belief system. It can be adapted across different ways of working, including coaching and counselling conversations, guided visualisation, journaling, movement and hands-on matwork, depending on the client and the practitioner’s existing field, IGM sits as the amplifying core of any service dedicated to human development.
1. Preparation
Creating the conditions for depth: safety, trust, a clear intention and the client’s readiness to face themselves and look honestly at what needs acknowledgement.
2. Realization
A structured process that guides clients through the corridors of their own identification until what is driving a pattern, and why, becomes undeniably clear. Not merely as an idea, but as something they see, feel and verify step by step for themselves.
3. Resolution
From that clarity, greater self-awareness and discernment become something concrete: new agreements and aligned actions become reflections of what they now know to be more true.
4. Remembrance
For many, an attunement with a truer nature, or a knowing already within, begins to arise. Something is remembered, restored or reset, giving rise to a renewed sense of being, possibility and a more compassionate worldview.
5. Integration
What has been realized, resolved and remembered is carried into daily life through clear strategy, aligned decisions and follow-through, so the change holds.
“When I was first introduced to Amara’s work I was very skeptical, ‘How could someone know so much about getting to the heart of an issue so quickly?’ I’m pleased to say her work gets to resolution fast. What she has perfected is truly impressive.”
DR. BRENDAN DAUGHERTY
Medical Doctor & Psychiatrist | InnerGuidance Method™ Certified | IGM Somatics | Australia
Where IGM Makes the Difference
IGM works from a simple premise: one whole person, living one interconnected life.
A person may come with a professional challenge, a relationship issue, a question of purpose or something deeply personal, but these are not separate selves. They are different expressions of the same human being.
IGM works with the whole person: psychologically, emotionally, physically, spiritually and socially, while allowing the practitioner to focus within their own expertise, for their clients needs.
Through a structured framework, something as simple as a breath, a truth spoken, an emotion expressed or a shift in awareness can work together strategically to break through old limitations and bring a different sense of self into presence.
That is the moment IGM is designed to reach: when something previously unseen becomes undeniable, a new sense of self becomes available, and meaningful shifts can begin to take hold across the life that person is actually living.
Meet Your Trainer Amara
Amara Samata is the founder of the InnerGuidance Institute™ and creator of the InnerGuidance Method™ (IGM), a structured approach to discernment and in-depth transformation that she teaches to coaches, trainers and practitioners worldwide.
Hi, I’m Amara. As someone who has facilitated more than 2,000 in-depth, breakthrough sessions with people from 35+ countries over the last 13 years, working with families, tech founders, CEOs and billionaires, I began to see the same patterns again and again.
Having built a deeply fulfilling practice myself, almost entirely through word of mouth, based on my life-long commitment to greater self realization, I discovered what it takes to help people reach the depths of realization they had previously been unable or unwilling to reach.
This body of work became InnerGuidance Method™ (IGM) and a mission: to bring clear, teachable and transferable knowledge to those ready to grow into exceptional guides themselves, deepening their own mastery and expanding the impact and value they bring into the world.
READ MORE ABOUT AMARA
As a child, the daughter of a preacher in rural Arkansas, Amara, born Carolyn, had a near-death experience at the bottom of a pool.
What followed was a deep desire to understand what she had been shown, and an unwavering commitment to discerning false reality from what is actually real.
That search took many forms. A shy teenager fascinated by theatre, she earned a scholarship to NYU and went on to appear on stage, in film and on TV, including Friends.
After several disturbing experiences in the industry, and knowing that what she was really searching for had become more compelling than the world of storytelling, performance and fame, she fired her agents, left Hollywood behind and chose a simpler life focused on family and inner work.
She spent more than a decade training in yoga and meditation, followed by five years of energy and somatic work, and a rare, intensive two-year daily private mentorship with a female Buddhist Lama, studying advanced Dzogchen teachings on the nature of reality while practising direct self-inquiry.
Exploring very different approaches, from somatic movement to disciplined seated stillness, Amara began to recognise that no single doorway held the whole answer. Mind, emotion, body and energy, intuitive and intentional practice, could work together, each revealing something no single approach could reach alone.
The search reached a tipping point in the forests of Malaysia, where Amara entered a spontaneous ten-hour guided experience that culminated in a profound awakening, followed by seven months of uninterrupted, unyielding and at times almost unbearable bliss, and years of reintegration. The experience was later confirmed by her Lama’s own teacher, and Amara was asked to teach. Almost immediately, people began seeking her out.
She began offering 1:1 breakthrough sessions, entirely through word of mouth. From late 2012 onward, thousands of people across countries and cultures came to work with her, including spiritual seekers, CEOs, couples, parents, teenagers, athletes, industry leaders, backpackers and billionaires. Over time, many of these relationships developed into longer-term international advisory work.
Across thousands of sessions, Amara tested, refined and codified practical frameworks for working with the core truths that shape every area of human life.
That work became the InnerGuidance Method™ she teaches today. Around the Method grew practical frameworks for communication, relationships, decision-making, self-leadership and the many areas through which the journey of the soul is lived through human life.
What Being a Mountaintop Leader
With InnerGuidance Means For You
A Pathway to Mastery
InnerGuidance Institute™ offers an ongoing path of professional growth, helping you become known for depth, value and the quality of your work. Not just greater competence, but greater excellence, fulfilment and the capacity to become someone others recognise, recommend and turn to. And as AI reshapes the guidance field, that depth becomes part of what keeps your work distinctly human and increasingly valuable.
“This method has shifted the way I approach sports wellness. My team is winning and expanding in ways we never thought possible thanks to InnerGuidance. I can confidently say it’s literally a game changer!”
LISA GISBERTZ
Holistic Health | Athletics + Rehab Coach | M55 Germany National Hockey Team | InnerGuidance Method™ Certified | IGM Somatics | Germany
Explore Your Pathway at InnerGuidance Institute
About InnerGuidance Method™ (IGM) Certification
Advanced professional training OPEN NOW · By application · 2026–27 Winter Enrolment · Live online · 10 weeks · 12 places
Become certified in the complete InnerGuidance Method™ and develop the capacity to guide the deeper 5-part transformational framework through guided dialogue and supplemental support.
Use IGM as a standalone professional service, integrated into the coaching, counselling, facilitation, training or transformational work you already do, or develop a distinct new program that brings IGM together, along side your existing work.
About IGM Somatics™
For Hands-on, Somatic & Energetic Practitioners.
IGM Somatics™ is a live training program focused on transformational support. It does not teach the full InnerGuidance Method™ but it does focus deeply on hands-on, somatic and trauma-informed support. It includes preliminary clarity practices combine with energetic, embodiment work.
IGM Somatics also includes Amara’s signature awakening-informed education and explores the metaphysical dimensions of embodied transformation support. Although it is not required, many practitioners choose to complete both, with special tuition available for those who do.
About Future Programs
InnerGuidance Institute offers a complete professional pathway. Depending on your experience, goals and field, you can explore the next opportunities available to you during your Professional Clarity Session.
Elevate Your Career Today
If greater depth, higher value and more fulfillment is what you’ve been missing, here’s what to do next in two simple steps.
Complete the questionnaire and book your Career Elevation Session with Amara. There you can explore where you are professionally, what you can do about it and how IGM might best support where you want to go.
- The questionnaire takes about 2-5 minutes
- After submitting the form you will have instant access to book your Career Elevation Session.
Inside the 30 Min Call
The first 20 minutes are yours, together we will evaluate how to elevate your current professional impact, value and fulfilment.
In the final 10 minutes, we will explore whether InnerGuidance Method™ programs are your best next step. Either way you will leave with new found professional clarity.
“The radical shift in my life is hard to put into words. I subsequently became an IGM practitioner to continue supporting a culture of success in my family, company and community. Her work is challenging, world class and life changing.”
CATH WORTHINGTON SLATER
Co-Founder, HIRO Drink Co. | InnerGuidance Method™ Certified | IGM Somatics | Australia / Bali
Boutique Training by Design
Only 12 placements per cohort
Why? We’re training mastery, not filling seats. This is high-touch engagement for those committed to transformational impact, ready to elevate what’s possible, becoming role models and leaders of transformational impact with integrity, commitment and care.
What Will I Gain With IGM Certification?
Guidance Acumen — Confidently guide clients through intake to the end of a session knowing how to support resistance and protective deflection welcoming genuine, self-chosen breakthroughs, with meaningful follow-through learning the 5 stages of InnerGuidance work.
Integrative Expertise — Make IGM a seamless, high-value part of the work you already do, or develop a distinct new service or program around your existing expertise.
Elevated Value & Pricing — Structure, position and price your offers around the depth of transformation you can support, not simply the time you spend delivering them.
Bespoke Professional Depth — Work at the depth each client calls for. Your capability can continue to grow with your own capacity.
Ongoing Educational Access — Certification connects you to continued practice, Founder Q&A, professional development and future opportunities through InnerGuidance Institute.
Who Is This For?
You’re the right fit if:
- You already train others in your field and want to integrate IGM into what you teach, with a clear pathway to eventually training other trainers.
- You’re already working with clients, 1 to 1 or groups, in sessions or workshops, and ready to take your impact further.
- You’re seeking to add higher-value to what you already offer.
- You’re beginning your practice and want to start with impactful skills that put you ahead of the basics.
This isn’t the fit if:
- You’re looking just for frameworks to lean on instead of developing your own discernment alongside them.
- You’re here for your own personal growth alone, with no intention of using this work in a professional context.
- You’re not open to working on your own wellbeing, only on helping others.
- You’re hoping to find something unique you can repackage as your own, without acknowledgment of the brand that built it.
- You don’t understand the value of being a supportive part of a growing transformational modality and community.
“I’ve spent the last 18 years working and studying different healing modalities, and I recommend the InnerGuidance Method™ to anybody willing to show up for themselves. There is just so much wisdom to be gained from working with Amara. You have truly changed me and my life’s work.”
DR. CARLI AXFORD
Founder, Spinal Flow| InnerGuidance Method™ Certified | IGM Somatics | Australia
FAQs
How long does the program take?
10 Weeks of classes. Average 3 months of certification. 1 Year of dedicated support. IGM-CT is 10 weeks of live weekly training, followed by monthly Q&A sessions and weekly alumni office hours for the remainder of your first year. Download the brochure for the full curriculum.
What if I’m a beginner or already an experienced practitioner?
IGM is advanced professional training, with admission by application and interview. If you’re newer, we’ll explore your readiness and goals in your Career Elevation Session If you’re experienced, IGM adds a new dimension and capacity to the work you already do.
What credential will I have when I’m certified?
You’ll be IGM Certified. If you don’t have another professional title, you may use IGM Certified Practitioner. Your first year of professional licensing is included in tuition, with annual renewal thereafter.
Can I teach IGM or bring it into my own training programs?
Once certified, you can use IGM in your own client work, groups and classes. Teaching other professionals to use IGM requires Trainer authorization through the IGM Trainer Pathway. This keeps the Method consistent as it grows.
What’s the tuition, and is there a payment plan?
Pricing and payment options are included in the application form and brochure, alongside the full curriculum. If it aligns, the next step is your Career Elevation Session with Amara.
Is there a money-back guarantee?
No. Tuition is non-refundable. The program is for people ready to commit fully to the training and practice.
Do I need to complete the InnerGuidance Method™ Certification to take InnerGuidance Somatics?
No. You can train in InnerGuidance Somatics without completing the full InnerGuidance Method Certification™. Both pathways begin with foundational InnerGuidance training, but they develop different practitioner skills. You can choose either pathway independently or complete both for a more comprehensive approach.
What’s the difference between InnerGuidance Method™ Certification and InnerGuidance Somatics?
InnerGuidance Method™ (IGM) Certification teaches you how to guide people through in-depth inner journeys of self-discovery, realisation, resolution and integration. The emphasis is on developing the skills to facilitate guided transformational work, without requiring hands-on bodywork.
InnerGuidance Somatics focuses on hands-on facilitation, combining body-based practices with the simple but powerful inquiries of the 8-Step Clarity Practice™️. It includes introductory guided work and purification practices, but does not teach the full depth of guided transformation covered in IGM Certification.
If you want to facilitate in-depth guided transformation, you’ll need the full IGM Certification. If your primary interest is hands-on, body-based work, InnerGuidance Somatics offers a separate training pathway.
Practitioners who complete both can integrate guided transformational work and hands-on somatic facilitation into their professional practice.
At IGI We Understand That No Single Profession Owns Depth
Coaching, training, therapy, counseling, consulting, advisory and wellness practices all offer valuable areas of expertise. But the capacity to guide another person into deeper realization, so that they can access their own inner guidance, discernment, compassion and wisdom, does not belong to any one profession. Depth is a capacity. Capacity can be cultivated.
What Alumni Say About The InnerGuidance Certification Training
From Psychiatry and Psychology to coaching, corporate training, yoga and embodied practices, our InnerGuidance Method™ graduates come from very different professional backgrounds and seasons of life, but share a common interest in bringing greater transformational capacity into the work they do.
“When I discovered Amara’s method I was awestruck. She makes transformation both practical and accessible. Amara is a master.”
BYRON DE MARSE
RYT® 500 Yoga Instructor | InnerGuidance Method™ Certified | IGM Somatics | USA / Bali
“Her coaching and communication methods changed my life, saved my marriage, and catalyzed my new career. Deeply transformative.”
ANDREA WIESER
Former Investment Banker | InnerGuidance Method™ Certified | IGM Somatics | Hong Kong / Switzerland
“IGM was a powerful addition to my corporate training services. I later found the courage to unite my talents and passions into a thriving new business. Working with Amara is truly a life-changing experience.”
CORONA MEERMAN
Corporate Training | InnerGuidance Method™ Certified | IGM Somatics | Netherlands
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