About Dr. Amy
Doctor of Chinese Medicine · Oracle · Executive Advisor
The Origin
Dr. Amy Albright started where skeptics might start — in a neuroscience lab, studying the brain to try to understand the human experience. She was eighteen, an atheist, and convinced that if she could understand neurotransmitters, she could understand what it means to be alive.
Then her grandfather — a consciousness student who had been practicing transcendental meditation under the Maharishi since the 1950s — sent her for her first acupuncture session. On the table, with needles in, something cracked open. She could feel and trace the meridians running through her body. She heard clear messages from a place she didn’t believe existed. And in a single moment, everything she had built her worldview on rearranged. The whole thing was entirely unexpected.
Dr. Amy didn’t abandon science. She expanded it. She shifted from neuroscience to cognitive psychology — the study of how the brain shapes behavior — and began studying the anthropology of indigenous healing and shamanic traditions alongside it. The merging had begun.
The Path
After graduating, Dr. Amy’s grandfather told her it was time for a trip. A vision quest of sorts. The instructions were simple: get a one-way ticket to a place where locals don’t speak English — and it can’t be Europe. She chose Costa Rica — not the modern Costa Rica of yoga retreats and tourist shuttles that you see now. This was over 25 years ago, and she spent time in gold mining villages miles from the nearest dirt road. She spent two and a half months hitchhiking, following her instincts, and learning that nothing outside of us keeps us safe. Only our internal calibration can do that.
She came home, took a corporate job that nearly broke her, and then received what she describes as explicit guidance to go to Chinese medicine school. The program was rigorous — biomedicine, pharmacology, orthopedic and neurological evaluation, hundreds of acupuncture points and hundreds of herbs, and the entire cosmological framework connecting them. She graduated, sat for boards, and opened her practice.
“Teach me, heal me, guide me, show me the way.”
In her first month, she stopped holding back the intuitive capacities she had been suppressing her whole life. Miraculous things started happening. Her earliest patients were people conventional medicine had given up on — chronic conditions, terminal diagnoses, the cases no one else would take. And what came through — the perceptual gifts, the ability to cut straight to the pattern running the whole picture — became the foundation of everything she does today.
The Work Takes Shape
Over two decades, Dr. Amy’s work has been shaped by three convergences that most practitioners never attempt — and that she didn’t plan so much as follow.
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Amy holds both with equal rigor. She studied cognitive science as an undergraduate and completed a doctorate in Chinese Medicine. She has worked inside research and clinical neuroscience laboratories — and also inside states of consciousness most people associate with deep meditation or psychedelic experience. She doesn’t ask anyone to choose between the quantifiable and the mystical. She lives in both.
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Dr. Amy advises founders, CEOs, and members of curated communities like the Mavericks entrepreneur group through the decisions that shape companies — and she does it by going to the place most advisors can’t access. The leadership ceiling and the unresolved trauma and the relationship pattern are usually the same thing, seen from different angles. She works at the level where they converge.
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Dr. Amy also works at the level of the actual business — hiring calls, strategy pivots, critical negotiations, organizational design. This isn’t advisory perspective borrowed from a textbook. She scaled a groundbreaking company as a member of the executive team, during the company’s peak growth years. Dr. Amy learned what she knows in the dojo, not the classroom. That operational fluency, combined with a rare perceptual capacity to read what’s true in a situation before it fully surfaces, is why leaders describe getting clarity from her they couldn’t logic their way to.
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Studies of Dr. Amy’s own brain via EEG have shown patterns of access to information beyond ordinary processing. She uses these gifts — the ability to see what’s actually driving a person, an organization, a situation — in combination with clinical medicine, neuroscience, and two decades of practice. The result is a form of work that doesn’t have a name because it didn’t exist before she built it — equal parts heart and head, grounded strategic rigor and energetic knowing, held together by a practitioner who never learned to separate them.
The Dojo
In the chapter just before founding Holon, Dr. Amy joined Bulletproof — Dave Asprey’s biohacking company — first as an advisor and coach, then as VP of Retail and VP of Culture during its high-growth era, helping hire the team, build the operational infrastructure, and make critical decisions for one of the biohacking movement’s most visible companies. That work placed her at the center of a field redefining human performance — and showed her exactly where its ceiling was.
The ceiling wasn’t technological. It was human. The real potential of neuroscience and performance technology, she came to believe, wasn’t competitive metrics — it was wisdom: the capacity to perceive and work with the deeper patterns shaping a life, including the karmic and energetic forces that most performance frameworks never touch. That conviction led her to reunite with Dr. Drew Pierson, a neuroscientist she had worked alongside for many years, and create something that didn’t exist yet: a private clinical immersion pairing advanced neurofeedback with deep 1:1 energetics and advisory work, producing transformation tracked by EEG and felt in every dimension of a participant’s life.
Today she lives and works at the Holon property in Nevada City, California — among cedar and fir trees — where she sees private clients, leads the Holon Signature Intensive alongside Dr. Drew, teaches The Holon Field, and records courses and podcasts from an on-site studio.
The Philosophy
That pain does not have to accompany healing. When the work is done well, it often doesn’t.
A single line
“It only takes an instant to create a miraculous shift.”
That human desire is not an obstacle to growth. It is the engine. The question is how clean and clear we are inside of what we want, and whether our wanting serves more than just ourselves.
That interconnectedness is not a concept. It is a state — felt in the body, one second at a time, until those seconds accumulate and reality begins to reorganize around them.
That the ancient teachings are not relics. They are precise, practical, and alive — when they are felt rather than thought.
That the nervous system is the foundation of everything else. Cognition, emotion, relationship, leadership — all of it runs on the same substrate. Address that layer directly, and change that would have taken years can happen in a fraction of the time.
That real leadership is not a style or a strategy. It is an inner state that others feel before you speak. It is the capacity to stay present under pressure, to see what others can’t yet see, and to hold the room — not through authority, but through the quality of your own settled attention.
That how a leader relates is how an organization moves. The patterns in the room at the top reproduce themselves throughout the whole system. Change the relational field and the organization changes with it.
That the most important things about a business are rarely visible in its data. The underlying dynamics — what is spoken and what isn’t, where energy moves and where it stalls — determine outcomes more than any strategy alone. When the real obstacle is named, the decision that felt agonizing becomes obvious.
That the body is always showing us something. When it isn’t well, something is misaligned at a deeper level. The body is the messenger, not the problem.
That physical symptoms which have outlasted every conventional approach are often not medical mysteries. They are unfinished business at another layer — and when that layer is addressed, the body often resolves what it could not resolve on its own.
That everyone carries a capacity they haven’t yet fully accessed.
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