MEET THE VISIONARIES

Christy Abate is co-owner of The Angel Cooperative, home stager and an interior decorator specializing in paint plans, custom window treatments, reupholstery, full room design, and furniture sourcing.  Christy is pursuing a feng shui certification and has been featured on HGTV and HGTV.com. She is the Reader's Choice for Best Home Stager 2018 and 2019 ( Ridgefield Magazine).  She was also honored as Women of the Year at the 13th Annual Women's Forum.  She is a former Board member and past Chair of the Board of the Ridgefield Chamber of Commerce.  Christy holds a  Master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She is devoted to  her family, friends and community.

Carol  Essig has been professionally channeling since 2002.  She is known  both nationally and internationally.  She has  been counseling people in spiritual practices since 1985.  Carol is a channel, sound healer, spiritual teacher, spiritual  counselor and vibrational conduit.  She connects to the higher realms  and frequencies.  She is multi-dimensional in her wisdom and has a clear  and direct channel.  Her approach is simple, but profound with a direct  path to the heart.  During her sessions she is able to transfer light  codes and channel the light and love frequencies of the higher  dimensions to entrain others to raise their own vibration. She is a Master of Shamballa  Multidimensional Healing since 2000. She is a certified Sound Healer. www.magentaway.com

Sue Baxter is a meditation instructor. “Meditation feeds my core so I can excel in the areas of competition and completion and, at the same time balance a full family life with love, laughter and compassion.” Sue has been trained in Spiritual Leadership and meditation: 2004-2005 training in an Ashram in up-state NY; 2005-2006 training with Insight Meditation, Mass.; 2007-2009 training in NYC with Living Meditation with David H Wagner; 2010  training in ayruvedic farm in Pune India; 2013 Silent retreat, Ganeshpuri, India; 2017 Leadership Training in Presence,  Eckhart Tolle. In addition to the events listed above, Sue has attended numerous retreats to include Menla Institute and Living Meditation in Puerto Rico. She guides many to have the same balance and career success that she enjoys.

Jennifer Ripa-Edson is an intuitive, transformational life coach, energy and sound healer, author, yoga teacher, and essential oil educator. She holds a health and life coaching certification from Health Coach Institute, 200 Hour Yoga certifications in Kundalini and Vinyasa Yoga, is trained in Reiki and Rising Star energy therapies and has been painting since she was in high school. Jen draws upon her skills in many areas to cut through the surface layers of resistance with her clients to help them activate change and personal growth. She is masterful at identifying belief systems and patterns of behavior that stand in the way of evolvement and future goals and co-creating action plans with her clients. These action plans bring her clients to greater success, health, vitality, and happiness. Because the mind, body, and spirit are interconnected, she employs energy healing, sound therapy, essential oils, yoga and meditation practices, and coaching methods in sessions with her clients. Her nurturing and supportive approach along with her commitment to being a catalyst for movement and expansion allows for breakthroughs and lasting life change for her clients. 

Internationally acclaimed spiritual medium, healer, author and speaker, Jeanne Street, a Catholic girl in an Angel world, works with the Spiritual realm embodying the Holy Spirit illuminating Divine compassion and love through her work.

Jeanne was born in to this life with the beautiful gift of connection. She has the ability to see, feel, hear and speak to both the departed and celestial beings. 

Through her connection and clear knowing her sessions and readings are precise and detailed. Jeanne has helped thousands of individuals navigate through difficult events in their lives. Jeanne’s deepest desires are in helping people to heal their pain and trauma. 

Jeanne provides connection to Spirit, Angels and departed loved ones through private and small group readings, large group events , her books The Goddess You, The Goddess Journal and Divine lifestyle products, accessories and vast resources that are available on Goddess Youniverstiy.

Jeanne’s loving and accurate connections have transformed the lives of her clients as well as her live audience on her show Angels Don’t Lie featured on FACEBOOK and on her Podcast.

Jeanne resides in Connecticut with her devoted husband of 34 years, her 4 grown children, her daughter and son in law and 5 grandchildren.

Pete is a psychic medium and shamanic practitioner who works with people doing shamanic healing, energy healing, and psychic medium readings. Pete began exploring his interests and experiences more deeply as an adult through meditation, shamanic journeys, and classes, including psychic development, mediumship, tai chi, qi gong, herbalism, and Reiki. He's been studying and practicing shamanism with teachers of core, Native American, and Peruvian methods. Pete also attended an ethical mediumship course at The Arthur Findlay College for spiritualism and psychic sciences in England, and a mediumship masterclass taught by John Holland and Janet Nohavec. Pete believes spiritual and energetic healing is meant to be both sacred and light, and he uses a compassionate approach with the intention of helping others.

Liza Mariani is an intuitive that is clairsentient, clairaudient and clairvoyant.  She is also a coach helping women and educating people about Narcissistic abuse.  She offers tarot card readings and also creates monthly Tarot Horoscope readings every month available on the Angel Cooperative YouTube channel.  Liza enjoys using her gifts to help others and empower them.  She is also an artist working with different mediums.  You can find out more about Liza at www.Lizamariani.com 

Erika Ward identifies as many things in this life, some of which include: artist, writer, intuitive messenger, teacher and (self-proclaimed) traveling philosopher. She has had a life-long fascination with metaphysics and is an endlessly curious student of Western esotericism. A practitioner of everyday mysticism, her greatest inspiration comes from time spent in nature, as showcased in her upcoming book, Wisdoms Of The Formerly Wilted. Whether working with clients one-on-one, leading group workshops, or engaging in casual discussions, Erika loves nothing more than awakening others to their personal power and reconnecting them to their own higher/inner guidance. She believes we are all capable of magic. 

www.erikadward.com

Kristie Molinaro is an intuitive and reader. She lives in Redding, Connecticut and has worked privately for many years.  She is available for psychic medium readings and intuitive healings at The Angel Cooperative. Kristie says, "As a young girl,  I always knew I wanted to change the world in som way but I had no idea what intuition was. Through a wonderful journey, I am so blessed to have found my path as an intuitive healer." 

Not sure which crystal you need? Kristie intuitively sees what you need at that moment in time to aid with what they’re working on. She is also an expert at enhancing meditation by incorporating crystals. 

Kristie’s clients say, “She keeps a safe space for them, and she sees into their soul and allows them to see that.” 

Alison DeNicola is the bestselling author of Mudras for Awakening the Energy Body and Mudras for Awakening the Five Elements. Her new deck is Divine Feathers. She is a certified Five Element Yoga Teacher, Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra Teacher, and IET Master Instructor. She is a faculty assistant at Kripalu Center in Lenox Ma and currently teaches yoga, meditation and energy healing in Stamford and The Angel Wing in Ridgefield, CT.

Aggregata  is a powerful healer connecting to Energy of the Divine as a pure  channel. While connecting to Divine source she transmits pure, deep  healing power to her client’s energy system through  the subtle body. Energy sessions with Aggregata allow clients to  experience release from any trapped negative imprints of past traumas to  optimize their health, harmony and happiness while creating higher  levels of energy, vibration and consciousness. Aggregata provides a relaxing,  transformational experience for clients that works on all levels of  your being. Her healing work is a “portal of grace” supporting others on  their journey to reconnect with their divine truth.  

Gisele came to the United States from Canada in 2010. She  is a certified yoga teacher through the 200 hour training at Yoga  Works in New York City. After discovering the benefits of Restorative  Yoga, Gisele was inspired to delve more deeply with trainings for this  soothing and nurturing practice which promotes healing on all levels-  physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. She has completed intensive  Restorative Yoga trainings in Toronto and New York City. Gisele is also a  certified Reiki Master and through an energetic and intuitive  approach, she guides her students with healthy breathing, proper body  alignment and balancing energy flow.  Gisele offers retreats in the shungite room as a well as restorative sessions the last Wednesday of every month. www.restore-with-yoga.com 

Katie is a master energy coach and spiritual trainer embodying the Dakini lineage. She adeptly mixes her own stories and experiences with ancient wisdom and sacred teachings and techniques to create powerful energetic, emotional and spiritual shifts, and is known for her simple, relatable methods and tools. With studies in energy healing, neuroplasticity, neuro-linguistic programming, the quantum field, mind-body connection and guided meditation and visualization, Katie brings together an eclectic mix of high level trainings to create whole system, multidimensional transformation.

She has been published in Elephant Journal, is a featured writer for SoulSpring, and recently published the book Simply Woman Stories from 30 Magnificent Women Who Has Risen Against the Odds. https://www.katiekozlowski.com/p/Lightyourselfup

Maria Amore Davis is a Reiki Master/Teacher, a Karuna Reiki Master/ Teacher, an IET practitioner and a Priest in the order of the Melchizedek. She also gives Tarot and Pendulum readings. The Cards are a tool for unlocking the subconscious mind and bringing thoughts and feelings into conscience awareness by identifying through the cards. Maria loves gardening and cooking. Gardening connects you to the earth, and cooking is a healing art. She connects her love of Food and Tarot at her Tarot Dinners....a fun night out. Maria taught music in the Greenwich Public Schools for 36 years. Teaching is “who I am,” and bringing it to a new dimension is very exciting!

For more information about Maria go to www.amoremaria.co

Shannon Marzella is an Intuitive and Reiki practitioner. She began using her intuition for personal growth and healing nearly a decade ago. Since that time, she has developed the ability to tune into her clients' chakra system and energy field through her empathic abilities and oracle cards to gather information on their core wounds and steps to heal in order to bring about their best possible future.  As an Intuitive Guide, she is devoted to offering clear, empowering readings on your soul’s path. Using oracle cards, numerology, and channeled guidance, she creates an experience tailored to your soul’s innate wisdom. Shannon works by tuning into your chakra system, where your body holds memories from this life and past lifetimes, glimpses of your soul’s current path, and healing information for your body,  mind, and spirit. Shannon's readings will leave you feeling empowered and clear on your next steps! You can find out more at www.wisewomanliving.net

Lisa Labozzo is a Reiki Master & Reiki Instructor.  Lisa is an ordained Priest in the Order of Melchizedek and a member of the International Association of Reiki Professionals (IARP). Ten years ago, Lisa experienced a journey to the angelic realm after a near fatal car accident.  She spent months in ICU and a rehabilitation center.  During those months of healing, she had experiences of crossing over.  As a result, she discovered she was blessed with a gift of healing and insight. Lisa offers Reiki with Angelic Messages eery Wednesday and monthly workshops in Angelic Automatic Writing, Channeling Angels with Numerical  Messages, and Group Meditation and Reiki.  

Throughout his career, Tom was exposed to  myriad programs involving executive coaching and personal growth.  Initially excited to learn and apply each of these frameworks and  tactics, Tom ultimately realized that none were generating the  long-term, sustainable change and growth that he and his colleagues were  seeking.   Tom’s decade-long search for sustainable change led him to  world-renowned sage Master Del Pe, who worked closely with Tom to help  him identify the 5 principles that underly all successful change. Tom now passes along these principles to executives through his speaking engagements and coaching programs.  www.tomscally.com

Shawna Starr, (Taranjoti Kaur), is a KRI certified Kundalini Yoga instructor. Her journey began in 2001 when she attended her first KY class taught by Rai Kaur. After practicing for many years, she became certified in 2013, and completed her teacher training in Katonah, NY and NYC. 

Her desire to inspire other women to empower themselves by sharing these ancient teachings comes from both her personal journey of healing and the intention to serve and guide others to reach their full potential and inner light. The spiritual name given to her, Taranjoti Kaur, in fact  means the princess/lioness who carries and guides others from darkness to Divine light.

Shawna also holds a certification from the Health Coach Institute as a Holistic Health & Wellness Coach, helping others through transformational coaching, to create lifestyle and habit change. She feels honored to guide others through both the powerful teachings of KY and coaching, to help them reconnect to what’s important in their life so they can find inner peace and shine their light.

“Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light.”

Yogi Bhajan

Karen is a gifted multi-dimensional Energy Worker, Teacher and Guide.  She has made 3 pilgrimages to the high mountains of Peru where she has received sacred rites as a guardian and keeper of the earth (pampomesayok) and medicine woman (altomesayok) through a lineage of light carriers and Q’ero shamans  - don Sebastian Flores Puccar (whom was written about in The Andean Codex), don Francisco Chura Flores, don Mariano Quispe Flores and his son Santiago Quispe K'apa, don Basilio Samata Apaza, and Jesus Rodriguez Acurio.  She trained with The Jaguar Path studying soul retrievals, removing heavy energy through extractions, divination, along with spirit guide and power animal work.  She also learned how to heal ancestral karma and remove ancestral spirits with The Twin Shamans dona Ysabel and dona Olinda.

She combines her love of the earth with indigenous teachings, native American and shamanic ceremonies for clearing energy, ancient technologies of yoga and her sister science Ayurveda, Feng Shui principles, Vastu Shastra, (yoga for the home) with other alchemy tools such as sacred sound, aromatherapy, crystals, deep breathing, movement therapy, Somatics, and relaxation techniques.  You will learn tools that assist in the somatic release of old traumas and discover the subtle art of energy clearing to help restore balance in your own energy field and the energy of your surroundings through her Tools for Transformation Workshop.

Melissa has been practicing yoga since 2012 throughout Providence RI, Boston MA, and New York City. In 2019, Melissa completed her 200 hour training of Ashtanga and Iyengar influenced Vinyasa at the Boston Yoga School led by Ame Wren. She takes an anatomical approach to teaching while weaving in energetic ideologies and philosophical tid bits. Focusing on integration of mind, body, and breath is a common theme in her classes. Striving to make her class the best part of your day, Melissa encourages her students to live their yoga on and off the mat.

Susan Hall-Bahr is a CT Licensed Massage Therapist, ABMP member.  A graduate of the CT Center for Massage Therapy, Susan has been practicing massage therapy for over 20 years.  Through participation in a year long transformational healing course, she found herself lead to the healing arts.  Susan’s passion for Reiki lead her into the massage field.  Susan embraces the concept of addressing mind, body, and spirit to help offset stresses so prevalent in everyday life   Appreciating the healing benefits of essential oils, Susan is happy to incorporate scent in to her sessions.  An intuitive massage therapist with over 20 years of experience, Susan works in many different modalities.  From therapeutic massage, deep tissue, prenatal, working with teens, each session is individualized based on the energy connection that I establish during a session.  She has worked with people with chronic pain, headaches, stress issues, and people just wanting to take care of their body/mind with the benefits of regular massages.  Healing touch is a tremendous relief for stress management.  Susan was part of the first massage emergency response team that gave first responders massages at Ground Zero and has volunteered at Red Cross disaster locations providing massage for the emergency responders.  

Kelly is a community herbalist with formal trainings in herbal and energetic studies. Kelly has the unique intuitive ability to help her clients identify patterns that connect their physical ailments to their overlooked emotional obstacles.  In sitting with her clients, Kelly can intuitively make such connections and lead her clients to an often profound healing experience.  Kelly’s heart-centered, gentle approach allows her to meet her clients wherever they are in their healing journey, without judgement, which allows for a meaningful experience. 

Kelly leads  workshops and takes private appointments at The Angel Cooperative and The Angel Wing.  

www.themindfulherbalist.com

 Sue Broudy is a Singer Songwriter, Reiki Master, Sound Practitioner, and Certified End-of-Life Doula. Sue has self-published a children’s book and song that stemmed from her doula work entitled Rosie, Leafers & PawPaw to help open the conversation with children about transitioning being just another part of life (the book can be found in the CoOp store).  Sue served on the board of WestonArts.org and was the founder of AcousticWeston.  Sue received her doula training with the International End of Life Doula Association (INELDA) and received training at the Regional Hospice and Palliative Care Center in Danbury, CT.  Sue also trained with the Buddhist Clear Light Society, and the Bhakti Center in NY with their chaplain.  She was recently showcased on WOSRadio.com as a female songwriter of substance.  Sue also leads sound workshops and impromptu musical gatherings at her home for healing.  She is working on two more children’s book, How to Be a BEE, and Otto’s Owl, and lives in Weston, Connecticut. http://suebroudy.com/  

Barbara Slaine  is a Holistic Nutritionist, End-of-life Doula, Master Reiki  Practitioner and Synergistic Therapist.  Barbara been a life-long  student of spirit-mind-body therapies and has obtained certifications in  an array of holistic healing modalities.  She is the founder of the  Liphe Balance Center in Weston, CT, a community haven for assisting  people on their journey to wellbeing.   Ms. Slaine is also the founder  of MyHealingRooms.com.

Mikki Baloy has studied with shamans, ritual-keepers, and mystics from around the world, both from her mixed ancestral bloodlines and from other relations. Her intention and commitment is to remind clients and communities of their birthright: an inherent connection to land and to Love. Mikki's holistic approach to healing is both intuitive and grounded, fusing indigenous traditions with western concepts, Buddhism, and more than three decades of creative training as a performer, writer, and musician.  She was the Director of a 9/11 foundation in New York City, helping to create and maintain programs to assist many thousands of people—while undertaking her own healing journey.  She is the author of Hallowed Underground: Sacred Hope and Healing in Dark Times, which describes her recovery from PTSD, depression, divorce, and sexual assault, and she has been featured in two books about post-disaster resiliency. Mikki is also a yoga teacher and minister of animism, and speaks and writes from her own direct experience.

Lisa is a clairvoyant and clairsentient intuitive.  She is board certified life coach and spiritual counselor with a Bachelor’s degree in Human Services (Mental Health Counseling emphasis) and a Master’s in Education.  Her coaching specialization is to help reduce grief in and assist with the difficulty of change through a variety of somatic, spiritual, and energy healing techniques.  She a Meditation and Imagery Instructor and a HeartMath Coach/Mentor, as well as a Seasons of Change Certified Coach.  She will soon be certified in Hypnotherapy.  Additionally, she is an Usui Reiki Master/Teacher and an Integrated Energy Therapy Advanced Practitioner, as well as a Certified Chakra Crystal Clinician.  She heals the mind, emotions, and spirit using words, energy techniques, and crystals. Lisa offers The Crystal Certification Course at the Angel cooperative in conjunction with Golden Cord Holistic Healing. 

Ken Lara is a Certified Crystal Healer, Reiki Master and licensed massage therapist. He has completed 13th  Octave LaHoChi Practitioner Training and  Level 1, 2, and 3 of the Reconnective Healing known as the Reconnection.  He has practiced GOJU Karate and Tai Chi Chu'an since 1987. 

Ken is a gentle soul and offers free Angel Light Healings at The Angel Wing. 

Bettina Rossi is a Feline Consultant and Animal Homeopath. She has additional certifications in Feline and Canine massage,Reiki and Bach Flower Remedies She is  also a licensed Wildlife Rehabilitator.

Bettina leads the Pendulum Dowsing for Animals workshop.

The Angel Wing, a Divine Spiritual Center, is next to The Angel Cooperative. Entrance is at the rear of the building. Ample parking is available in the CVS lot and in the front and rear of the building at 49 Ethan Allen Hwy (Rte 7), Ridgefield, CT.

In addition, to hosting workshops and events for The Angel Cooperative, The Angel Wing is available for rent on an hourly basis. Click button for more information!

The Shungite Room is inside The Angel Cooperative. It is the first and only Shungite Room in the USA.  It is free and open to the public to enjoy when not in use for workshops and private appointments. The Shungite Room hosts workshops, readings, energy work, Community Circles, Monthly Women's Circles, Book Readings, experiential events and more!