meet Amber Harris

Your guide to a rested, rebellious life

Yoga nidra, astrology, energy work, and 1:1 mentorship for high-achieving women ready to stop hustling and start living.

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Amber Harris sitting cross-legged on a yoga mat outdoors with a laptop and candles, working with intention

I wasn't always this rested.

I spent years being the woman who had it all on paper — the advanced degree, the career, the marriage, the child, the house, the car — and still felt hollow at the centre of it all. I was a pharmacist. Highly capable, deeply responsible, and quietly drowning.

I wasn't burned out from laziness. I was burned out from giving everything to everyone else and leaving nothing for myself. My body was tired. My joy had gone quiet. And every tool I reached for — therapy, planners, affirmations, self-care — helped at the edges but never touched the root.

What brought me back to myself wasn't a productivity system or a hustle strategy. It was rest. The kind of rest that made space for me to feel like myself again. To dream again. To trust myself again.

Amber Harris wrapped in a cozy white blanket, holding a mug and smiling warmly in a sunlit park

So I started sooner. And I went slower.

I changed my relationship with work. I learned to feel my feelings instead of manage them, and to trust my body as a compass rather than a machine to push through. I set a new pace — one that felt satisfying and sustainable for the first time in my life.

And I kept meeting women who were exactly where I had been. Overachieving, over-responsible, and exhausted. Women who had tried everything and still couldn't get free.

I knew there was a fresher, lighter, deeper way. So I created The Open Underground — an intuitive living ecosystem for high-achieving women who are done with hustle and ready for something that actually works. Rebellious and rested. Counter-cultural on purpose.

This work changed my inner landscape so I could build an outer life that finally supported me as a whole person. It can do the same for you.

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HOW I HOLD SPACE

My work is rooted in rest, intuition, and the belief that going slow is the most radical thing you can do.

I blend yoga nidra, energy work, astrology, and deep coaching to create change that actually sticks — not at the surface, but at the root.

    • 2016 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training

    • 2017 Reiki I, II and Master Attunement

    • 2021 Daring to Rest Yoga Nidra Facilitator Training

    • 2025 Living Chartwork Astrology Sessions

    • 2025 Subconscious Repatterning Workshops for Leadership in the Workplace

    • Rest

    • Permission

    • Intuition

    • Clarity

    • Connection

    • Self-honesty

    • Self-trust

    • Kate Northrup — doing less, receiving more

    • Tracee Stanley — yoga nidra as a portal for deep rest and awakening

    • Gabby Bernstein — spiritual directness

    • Pema Chödrön — compassion and meditation

    • Brené Brown — honest, courageous work

    • My local meditation teacher  - Anand Murthy - building a meditation community without a storefront or attachment

    • My local yoga studio owner - Lisa Kanne - creating a community of teachers and students with compassion and care

    • My local astrologer - Sarah Paasch - the guiding light for the whole word to begin seeing the goodness within and building a life based on love, light and truthful positivity 

    • My local mindfulness teacher - Alexis Espinoza - bringing light, fun regulation to children as a way to nurture our future

How we can work together

  • The Lantern Library

    SELF PACED | ALWAYS OPEN

  • The Arcade

    POP UPS | DROP IN

  • The Immersion

    GROUP PROGRAM | 6 MONTHS

  • The Integration

    ONE-ON-ONE MENTORSHIP

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  • Working with Amber has been one of the best things I have done for myself. Amber listens so well, but she also asks tough questions and follows intuition for both of us. It has been a soul-changing experience.

    -Katie, The Integration 12 month one-on-one 

  • From the moment we began, she created a welcoming space. I released tension and experienced a profound sense of rest. By the end, I felt light, warm, restored, and clear-minded.

    -Alexis E, Single Reiki Session

  • Amber makes you feel seen and understood. She meets you where you’re at and guides you to honor yourself, your needs, and the best version of you. I feel lighter, more free, and more myself.

    -Blair, The Immersion, 3 month small group

Amber Harris smiling up at the camera from her yoga mat, at ease and fully present

This is the work I was built for.

I am living proof that the life you want doesn't require more effort. It requires a willingness to slow down, go inward, and trust what you find there. I show up to this work fully — not from depletion, but from genuine presence and joy.

If you've read this far, something in you already knows you're ready.

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