What People Are Saying…

“The day was everything I wanted and needed, and more. Thank you so so much!! I'm so glad I got to participate. I was hoping for strategies and experience deepening my connection with nature, both at the offering and to take beyond the day ... for myself personally, and to bring into the work that I do as a course creator, facilitator, coach and consultant around mindfulness-based wellness and personal growth, and I definitely got that. The guidance was perfect and I'm walking away with strategies I'm already using, as well as a memorable and deeply meaningful experience”

-Melissa, course creator, facilitator, coach and consultant around mindfulness-based wellness and personal growth (Animacy Awakened 2023 participant)

“It was so foreign to actually set aside time to BE IN nature and connect with it, rather than doing an activity in it but not actually giving space to myself and to the earth around me to actually listen. I would also like to make it a regular practice, because it was so surprisingly easy and I gained so much from it so quickly. I would definitely recommend this offering to others.This experience was so powerful in helping me actually hear what's going on inside and reconnect with both myself and the world around me. It was like pressing the reset button that allowed me to get in touch with my intuition. Angela's experience and personality make her the perfect guide for this sort of journey!”

-Erin (Befriending Your Inner Guide day-long, 2023 participant)

“Fantastic—would highly recommend! Angela was skilled at connecting with and illuminating/mirroring what each participant was feeling and bringing. I appreciated her love and trust of the natural world and its ability to hold us. It felt to me that she was collaboratively holding space along with the land itself.”

-Sonya (Befriending Your Inner Guide day-long, 2023 participant)

“This trip helped me to drop way down into my slower, wilder self! It allowed me to tend to the aspects of my life and heart that only the spaciousness of nature can open. Angela and the other guides offered me the comfort and easy to be exactly as I was- which is such a gift! Especially when it’s unexpected, unfinished and surprising. Angela’s capacity to reflect and space hold is so on point- she brings a piercing clarity wrapped in kindness and deep care of the human experience. I would fully recommend this trip to anyone at a chapter gate!”

-Sarah Popp, Acupuncturist and Herbalist (Women’s Trip, 2021 participant)

“When you go to the woods, nature speaks to your heart. The guides created a beautiful and sincere space to allow the messages of the soul to come forward and be shared. Which is only possible with love and trust. The meals provided were nourishing and delicious and the icing to the cake. Each day new teachings unfolded and I left with a great sense of gratitude for the land, the offerings and the many reflections I received. A precious time that will be in my heart forever.”

-Monique (Women’s Trip, 2021 participant)

“I highly recommend this incredible journey. The guides are supportive and present. They held all aspects of the container with ease, confidence, and humor. This gave me the opportunity to fully let go and connect to parts of myself and the land I was longing for. As a psychotherapist, it was a valuable pause from supporting others and an invitation to reenforce my inner knowing. Thank you!”

-Truth, Psychotherapist (Women’s Trip, 2021 participant)

“The guides were great! Attentive, honest, full of surprises. Definitely a really unique experience with a diverse group of women. Heart opening, love felt, and inspiring. We should have these experiences monthly!”

-Christine, Farmer & Mother (Women’s Trip, 2021 participant)

"Angela is a skilled healer, using wilderness to bring others together to heal and be healed by each other. One of the women in our circle said "…it is strong women who get us through our most difficult moments in life.” After being on a wilderness vision fast solo and coming back out into my life I see how true this is. Angela weaves together sacred wilderness with sacred story. Working with Angela gave me a new perspective on the difficult life situation I was in, bringing forth the mystical and magical. I am very grateful for the work I have done with Angela's guidance, and how the journey from my wilderness solo initiation continues to unfold."

-Lucy Jones (Backpack trip, 2019 participant)

“Competent, responsible, professional, and well organized throughout the entire adventure. Especially having previous friendships within the circle, you really made everyone feel extremely included and attended. I felt so very comfortable and safe immediately, as well as befriended and supported by all. (So special!! So good for my heart!) Your ability to cast a positive aura of synergistic, loving and spiritually honoring wave upon the group is extremely inspiring and one-of-a-kind.”

Autumn Lampson—Farmer & Musician (Backpack trip, 2019 participant)

“The Women’s Wilderness Fast that Angela led into the wilderness and is one of the most beautiful experiences that I have had in my life. We were faced with exhilarating freedom from every constraint and cradled with so much care in the lap of the Eel River. We searched the solitary depths of our souls and when we returned were met with such careful reflections. Each story witnessed with presence and community. I highly recommend getting out there and enjoying the perspective that Angela has to share with us in the wild.”

Isabelle Lemieux- Entrepreneur, Sailor, & Master Gardener (Backpack trip, 2019 participant)

“I do not believe I would have gone on this trip if had not been that Angela was leading. She was grounded and firm. Perhaps the greatest lesson I learned as I watched her lead, a sort of out of body experience for me, was to let people find their own way. She is intuitive beyond belief. Each person, I felt, had their own kind of glass ceiling. She never pushed. She encouraged. Angela has a a distinctive poise. She has a combination of immovable wisdom, a cocktail of tough motherly love and gentleness. Both delicacy and vulnerability, and the ferocity of a lions heart. If there was anyone I trusted to lead a group of womxn along a river in the wilderness, it was Angela. She taught me to believe. In myself. How to test the terrain for trust, for firmness, for support. How to distinguish shaky ground from terra firma without tumbling downward. More than anything, I believed because she believed. And suddenly, it was all the same. It was all transcendent. The amount of space Angela is capable of holding is astounding.”

Callie Hernandez-Actor (Backpack trip, 2019 participant)

“What can I say? You were perfect. An angel sent from the cosmos. Truly. I felt so heard and taken care of I couldn't have asked for more out of a human. You're extremely insightful and loving but also a bit merciless which I very much appreciate. You're not babying anyone and that's important.”

Anabelle Lemieux- Actor (Backpack trip, 2019 participant)

“The wilderness hike was an experience that will not be forgotten. It was a pause from my everyday distractions to reconnect, through an intimacy with other humans and my love, the Eel River. The compassion that was shared between such a variety of people was astounding. My heart was broken open and left with an understanding that those "strangers" share more commonality than contrast. Since the trip, I feel more and more a part of this world, more accepting of my own self and of others -- and for that, I am forever so grateful. Thank you Angela, Sage & all who sat with me those 10 days.”

-Debra (Backpack trip, 2019 participant)

“My trip into the woods sent me into a catalyst of growth from the moment I said yes to the journey and is still unraveling today. Angela is an incredibly comforting soul to learn with because she is present, humble and intentional. She is an extraordinary trained guide who elegantly mirrors the process of growth, discovery and healing with her clients. What I'd want someone to know who may be considering a journey such as this offering, is that if you feel any inner nudge- that you follow it and trust yourself. For me, it has been a beautiful journey of leaning into vulnerability, understanding the deepest parts of myself and embracing my most righteous path as a woman. I LOVE YOU. Thank you.”

Amanda McDonald- (Backpack trip, 2019 participant)