Today we’d like to introduce you to Amy Patee.
Hi Amy, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
I grew up in Faribault, Minnesota — a typical small-town experience. At 18, I moved to the Twin Cities to attend the University of Minnesota, and pretty quickly realized I had no idea what I was doing there. So I did something that felt terrifying at the time but turned out to be one of the best decisions of my life: I quit, went home, and asked myself a question I’d return to again and again — what would actually feel joyful?
The answer led me to a two-year applied visual arts degree at Dakota County Tech, and then to a job as Visual Merchandiser at Erik’s Bike Shop. I traveled around the Twin Cities resetting stores, building displays, getting paid to be creative and free-range. Eventually I moved into a Marketing Manager role there too. I didn’t know it at the time, but those years were laying the foundation for everything to come — my entrepreneurial instincts, my eye for design, my understanding of brand and story.
But something else was also happening in my early twenties. I was struggling with depression and an eating disorder — a kind of inner darkness I didn’t have language for yet. And in the middle of that, I found yoga, and it not only healed me, but it also changed the trajectory of my life. This was 2001, before yoga was on every street corner (there was really only one real studio in Minneapolis). Because my experience was so life-changing, I decided to head to California, where I trained at Mount Madonna to become a yoga teacher, and came home completely transformed.
For the next 20+ years, yoga became my life’s work. I taught classes, led workshops, guided international retreats, and co-produced a large-scale yoga conference in the Twin Cities. I created yoga CDs, a DVD, an oracle deck, a manifesting journal collection. And because I’d never stopped being the girl who loved marketing and design, I kept building — products, brands, experiences. Other wellness professionals started coming to me for help with their own businesses. It was always in my back pocket.
Then, right before COVID, I hit another wall. I was exhausted from years of giving and creating. I got a full-time job — something I hadn’t done in over two decades of entrepreneurship. I bought a house. I settled into a serious relationship.
When the world reopened and my employer wanted me back in an office, I knew I couldn’t do it. I am an entrepreneur through and through. So I quit, sold my house, moved in with my partner, and bought a ticket to Costa Rica for a three-month work-trade with Blue Osa Yoga Retreat & Spa — helping them with marketing. That trip catalyzed another new beginning. I returned home and launched bAmplified — a space for conscious women building businesses differently, using Human Design as the map and embodiment as the practice.
Then came the next unexpected calling: real estate. My love of spaces, sanctuaries, and the idea of home — both inner and outer — kept surfacing. Getting my license felt like a natural extension of that thread, and it holds a longer vision too: one day creating a retreat space where people come to reconnect to their truest selves. For now, I’m a licensed agent with Edina Realty in the Twin Cities, and I love helping people step into the next chapter of their lives through the doorway of a new home.
Today, I’m nearly 50 years old. I teach yoga again in my local park. I offer private sessions through something I call The Council — one sacred hour drawing on 25+ years of wisdom in energy work, Human Design, intuition, spiritual coaching, and business mentoring. I support people through the portal of selling or buying homes. The through-line is alignment – whether that is with oneself, their work, and where they live. When we feel aligned, life flows, and when life is flowing, joy is more easily embodied.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Life has never been a linear path for me.
I grew up with a mother who was diagnosed with MS at 18. By the time I came along, her illness was already woven into our daily life. I became a caretaker very young. Joy and play took a backseat. Being at home in myself wasn’t something I was taught or given space to discover — there were always more pressing responsibilities. Looking back, I can see how much of my adult life and work has been a direct response to that early experience. The woman who now guides others back to themselves was first a girl who needed that guidance most.
Then there were the darker passages in my own journey — the depression and eating disorder in my early twenties that eventually led me to yoga, and a midlife reckoning before COVID where I had to stop, get quiet, and completely re-examine who I was after 20+ years of pouring myself into work. Both seasons felt like falling apart or as if I had failed in some way, but each turned out to be an opening.
I’ve started to understand this as my own pattern: dark night of the soul → breakthrough → new offering for the world. Like a butterfly’s metamorphosis. Every descent has deepened what I can offer — and I think people feel that when they sit with me.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
I call my signature offering The Council — and the name reflects something true about how I show up. When you sit with me, you’re not getting one tool or one framework. You’re getting 25+ years of experience woven together in real time: Human Design, astrology, intuitive energy clearing, somatic awareness, spiritual coaching, and business mentoring.
People come to me at turning points. Moments when they’re awakening to something bigger, navigating a breakthrough, or standing at a crossroads and can’t quite see the path forward. What I seem to have — and people have been telling me this since I was a kid — is the ability to see underneath what’s being said. To listen between the lines. To find the blind spot where the real breakthrough lives, and hold it up like a mirror so someone can finally see themselves more clearly.
What clients most often tell me after a session: I feel so seen. So heard. I feel more like myself. They leave with less fear and more courage. More permission to trust their own knowing.
What sets me apart, I think, is that combination of natural intuitive ability and real-world grounding. I’m not just a spiritual coach — I’ve been a yoga teacher, a marketer, a business builder, a retreat producer. I understand the inner and the outer. I help people come home to themselves, and then I help them build a life that actually reflects it.
Beyond The Council — people can do laser-focused business mentoring with me, take a yoga class, or utilize me as their Real Estate Agent in the Twin Cities. I love having many avenues for folks to work with me
Do you have any memories from childhood that you can share with us?
My most alive childhood memory isn’t a warm one — but it’s the truest one.
My mom was diagnosed with MS at 18, before I was born. I grew up watching her suffer, and naturally fell into the role of caretaker. Joy and play didn’t come easily in our house. There were always things to tend to, responsibilities to hold, a parent who needed help.
I carry that with me always. Every piece of my work, in some way, is an answer to what I didn’t have as a child: permission to come home to myself. To let joy be a compass. To trust that our own inner life is worth tending to.
I didn’t get that young. I’ve been finding my way back to it ever since. And now I help other people do the same.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://amypatee.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amypatee
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Amy-Patee
- Other: https://bamplified.com/
