sustainability | design | textiles | education | wellness
Amanda is a passionate advocate for living a sustainable life. Her lifestyle and design purpose is to create beautiful handcrafted products with less footprint on our environment.
Amanda is a textile designer born and raised in Costa Rica. She grew up most of her life surrounded by the magical rainforests of Costa Rica, where she learned about the importance of caring for nature and a having a simple lifestyle. When she was in her early 20’s she moved abroad to Buffalo, NY where she attended college and lived with her father.
Amanda graduated with honors from Buffalo State College and achieved a B.S. in Fibers Design. At the same time she pursued her career as a yoga instructor and art educator. Her passion for well being and design lead her to continue researching sustainable ways to make her own textile products and start her own small business.
Amanda has been in a constant research of creating sustainable products by making natural dyes, up-cycling fibers, and finding raw materials that are biodegradable. She aspired for a design that would not only be decorative but functional and biodegradable.
Neroli Design Studio is Amanda’s most recent project. This project is one of her many entrepreneur projects. In 2016 Amanda also opened her first yoga studio in La Fortuna de San Carlos, Costa Rica. She operated this business all on her own for 3 full years until the pandemic of Covid-19 shut down most business in early 2020.
Even tho she had to close the doors to her beloved yoga studio, she kept herself busy and decided to keep improving her sustainable home decor products. By the end of 2020 she was invited to participate in a national curated Craft Fair to sell her products. This was a great incentive to help her continue pursuing her dream.
Amanda has recently relocated back to the United States and is hoping to keep growing her sustainable home decor products and opening a world wide online shop.
“Yoga is that space where I have a conversation with my body, a space where I truly find peace. Yoga is an art of the body, it's a necessity for human kind"
"I hope to be able to adapt craft techniques I see around the world into my own designs . My goal is to create art with a better approach to our impact with nature".