Owners, Bob and Jill Ruttenberg from Tucson Arizona, live on the premises at AmaTierra.

Jill is a registered herbalist (AHG) who specializes in Chinese and western herbal medicine. Jill is a colleague of Dr. Andrew Weil and participated in weekly patient conferences at the program in Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona Medical Center. She has also had the good fortune to study with some of the best herbalists and OMD's in the world, including Dr. Michael Tierra and Dr. Joel Penner.  Jill is also a certified massage therapist who practices many modalities,  a Hatha Yoga instructor,  and writer of articles for U.S. alternative health publications. Nutritional consulting, massage and yoga classes are all available on the premises at AmaTierra.

Bob Ruttenberg comes from a career of 40 years in the music business which began the day he returned to Chicago from the Woodstock Festival of 1969. He owned two record stores in the mountains of Colorado in the 70's & 80s and since then has helped hundreds of artists become known and respected, especially in the world of jazz music. Bob's enthusiastic nature and passion for turning people on to good things now allows him to ignite the guests' love of beauty and the arts and to be the innkeeper he has always dreamed of being. He is also working on creating a jazz and world music festival in Costa Rica. Ask Bob to play you something special. You will like it.

The Ruttenbergs have two daughters, Amanda, age 21, an artist currently attending college in Connecticut,  and Tara, also 21, who has studied at the University of Costa Rica and is now finishing her final year at Georgetown University.