Meet George / Jo Peterson /Amor

We caught up with the brilliant and insightful George / Jo Peterson /Amor a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Hi George / Jo, we’re so appreciative of you taking the time to share your nuggets of wisdom with our community. One of the topics we think is most important for folks looking to level up their lives is building up their self-confidence and self-esteem. Can you share how you developed your confidence?

For Jo and I, confidence wasn’t something we were born with. It was something we have to learn to build.

We came into adulthood carrying very real trauma stories. Jo lived through long chapters of depression and anxiety, and I carried my own battle with addiction.

Our self-esteem grew the moment we stopped abandoning ourselves in hard moments. When Jo and I could both look anxiety and addiction in the face and choose healing instead of shame. When you stop outsourcing your worth, when you stop apologizing for your story, when you stop running from the parts of you that hurt, something powerful happens: you begin to feel worthy of good things.

This is how confidence grows.

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?

We’re the founders of The Vedic Vault, a space where people come to remember their strength, reclaim their self-worth, and reconnect with the parts of themselves they’ve forgotten. Although our paths looked very different, both of our lives were shaped by adversity — addiction, anxiety, depression, burnout, and the deep emotional work that comes with healing. Those experiences became the foundation of our teaching and our ability to hold others through their own transformations.

At The Vedic Vault, we teach Vedic Meditation, Breathwork, trauma-informed coaching, and embodied practices that help people regulate their nervous system, release old patterns, and build an inner life that actually supports the outer one. What makes our work unique is that it’s not theoretical for us , we’ve lived every layer of this healing. We’ve hosted retreats across the world, coached hundreds of students through major life transitions, and witnessed how quickly people shift when they feel genuinely seen and safe.

George’s background spans sobriety coaching, breathwork facilitation, meditation, yoga, and self-love work, informed by more than a decade of personal transformation and recovery. Jo’s work draws from Vedic meditation, sacred sexuality, shadow integration, feminine embodiment, and two decades of navigating the realities of motherhood and mental health. Together, our skill sets weave into a grounded, relatable, deeply human approach to healing.

We also have many beautiful offerings on the horizon. As we step into the new year, we are preparing for our Joshua Tree retreat and our India retreat in 2026, both designed as deep containers for deep rest and transformation. We also have new openings for one on one self love coaching with us both, which is something we love to share with our community. We are also growing The Vedic Vault with programs that blend the most effective principles of modern science with the timeless intelligence of ancient wisdom, creating a system of transformation that is both rapid and deeply sustainable.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

1. Learning Vedic Meditation

Vedic Meditation was the doorway that started everything for both of us. It gave us access to a level of rest, clarity, and nervous system stability that we had never experienced before. Before meditation, we were both living in constant states of overthinking, emotional overwhelm, and survival mode. Vedic Meditation softened all of that. It helped us reconnect with our intuition, regulate our internal world, and build the energetic foundation needed for any real healing to take place.

2. Doing the Shadow Work

The second key was shadow work. Both of us struggled with deep feelings of unworthiness and self rejection for most of our lives. For a long time, we believed something was wrong with us. What we eventually discovered is that the only way to heal our wounds, release lifelong patterns of shame, and finally feel the self love everyone talks about is to go through the body. Shadow work allowed us to meet the parts of ourselves that felt abandoned, afraid, or unlovable. It gave us a way to rewire the brain, regulate the nervous system, and build a relationship with ourselves that was rooted in compassion instead of criticism.

3. Living Through the “I Do Not Know” Mind

The third quality that changed everything was learning how to live from an open mind rather than a fixed one. We often say that a question opens the mind and a statement closes it. The more we have grown, the more we have realized how much we do not know. Living this way keeps you curious, humble, and available to life. It also frees you from the pressure of needing to have everything figured out.

Thanks so much for sharing all these insights with us today. Before we go, is there a book that’s played in important role in your development?

For Jo: Pussy: A Reclamation by Mama Gena

One of the most influential books for Jo was Pussy: A Reclamation by Mama Gena. This book completely reframed her understanding of what it means to live as an empowered woman. It helped her see that her pleasure, intuition, and emotional truth were not weaknesses to hide, but sources of strength, creativity, and leadership.

The book invited her to reclaim parts of herself that had been shamed or silenced and showed her how a woman’s body is a compass for confidence, self respect, and spiritual connection. It helped her heal years of conditioning around people pleasing, over giving, and shrinking herself to fit the room.

A few of the most impactful teachings included the idea that a woman who is connected to her own radiance becomes naturally magnetic, that pleasure is a pathway to power rather than something to earn, and that expressing the full emotional range of womanhood is not dramatic but deeply authentic. This perspective shift became a foundational part of how Jo teaches, coaches, and holds space for other women today.

For George: The Surrender Experiment by Michael A. Singer

A book that transformed George’s life was The Surrender Experiment by Michael A. Singer. It taught him that there is an intelligence moving through life that is much wiser than the personal mind, and that the greatest breakthroughs often happen when we stop fighting life and start trusting it.

One of the deepest pieces of wisdom he took from the book is that courage and surrender work hand in hand. When you take a step toward what feels true, even when the outcome is uncertain, life often rearranges itself to support you. It is almost as if the moment you stop resisting what is unfolding, a greater flow carries you forward. This teaching became central to George’s transformation and now informs how he guides his students through change.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.thevedicvault.com/ https://www.joamor.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joamor_meditation https://www.instagram.com/georgespeterson_meditation https://www.instagram.com/thevedicvault
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joamormeditation

Image Credits

Louisa Seton Photography – First Image of Jo and I