Ways of Song
with Amanda West

:: education : ritual : community ::

Rooted in Santa Cruz, CA, traveling frequently along the West Coast of the U.S., Amanda West is a singer-songwriter, music educator, and community song leader offering private mentorship, community singing, song rituals & concerts, as well as peri-natal support through song.

Amanda is part of a growing mycelial web in a collapsing world, committed to cultural paradigm shift into life more thriving and whole, through the medicine of music.

Built on a foundation of touring singer-songwriter, academic anthropologist, and heart-centered teaching artist, seasoned in the trenches of motherhood and grief, Amanda stands today as a powerful healer.

Holding song as a human birthright, a technology of belonging, and a bridge between the worlds, Amanda offers her work in a unique blend of ritual, education, & community connection through Ways of Song.

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Ways of Song

Amanda West holding an acoustic guitar outdoors in Santa Cruz, California.
Private Sessions & Workshops
Amanda West singing during a song ritual gathering.
Song Rituals & Concerts
Amanda West leading Bridge Songs community choir inside a wooden covered bridge.
Bridge Songs Community Choir
Participants connecting through touch during a Womb Song perinatal gathering.
Womb Song Perinatal Support

  • “True & deep words & music from the wisdom of an Old Soul… Amanda offers something profoundly healing.”

    — Roanne Weisman, Writer & Teacher, Harvard Medical School

  • "Bright, powerful medicine for each of us and for our world."


    Jeffrey Ringold, Mindfulness Practitioner and Director of the Human Fulfillment Institute

  • “Amanda gave such valuable insights and ideas about my process and the way forward.”

    — Stewart/Desert Myth, Songwriter | Tucson, Arizona