MEET THE VISIONARIES

Christy Abate is co-owner and manager of The Angel Cooperative®.  Christy has been in retail for over 15 years, owning The Little House Shoppe from 2011-17.  She 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. She has been a model for the annual Ann’s Place Fashion Show and a contestant for the RVNA’s Spelling Bee. She enjoys being a member of the Ridgefield Playhouse Gala Committee. She is also President of the Board for her daughter’s charity BearHug. Christy is Reiki II Certified and a crystal and shungite expert. She holds a Master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She credits her parents with instilling in her the importance of family, community and country.

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.

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

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 some 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.” 

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 laws and 5 grandchildren.

Shannon Marzella is an intuitive, medium 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

Anna is the host of The Angel Cooperative® podcast, "Talking to the Dead in Suburbia." See link below to watch/listen to our podcast on YouTube. (Also available on Soundcloud andApple Podcast)

As a motivational speaker, teacher, intuitive and author, Anna’s mission is to give others the tools they need to live their lives in joy, while following their souls' mission. Anna, through her gift of intuition, provides wisdom and healing from heaven as she provides others with insight, guidance and direction. Among other accreditations, she holds a BA in Clinical Psychology, a M.B.A. and is a Hypnotherapist, Grief Counselor and Spiritual Counselor. Her path has led her to teach, work with clients, facilitate retreats and present at seminars.  Anna was the host of a radio show on Cox Radio called "Messages from Heaven.” Anna has appeared on the “Dr. Oz Show,” as well as the Dr. Oz podcast, and The Drew Barrymore Show. She has been a guest on numerous national radio shows and has been the subject of several articles in many publications.

Anna has written "Talking to the Dead in Suburbia - An Ordinary Woman with an Extraordinary Gift" and "One with the Drum - A Journey to the Soul." Her latest book, "Conversations with Mary," (Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster) was published on October 17, 2017.

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

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

Alison DeNicola is a yoga and meditation teacher, energy healer, and author of Mudras for Awakening the Energy Body Deck & Book Set, Mudras for Awakening the Five Elements Deck & Book Set, and Divine Feather Messenger. She has been leading classes and workshops nationally based in yoga, mindfulness, and self-healing for the past 10 years. Common themes in her work include symbols and practices of yoga, goddesses, angels, and shamanic journeying.

DeNicola is certified as a Five Element Yoga Teacher, Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra Teacher, Certified Aromayoga teacher, Cht Hypnotherapist, and Therapeutic Restorative Yoga Teacher. She has also studied chakra therapy, healing, coaching, shamanic healing, reiki healing, and has completed the master instructor level IET training utilizing the powerful energy of the angelic healing ray.

DeNicola is the National Sales and Marketing Manager for US Games Systems, Inc, the publisher of Rider Waite Tarot. She is also 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.

After a near-death accident in 2006, Lisa experienced a journey into the angelic realm. 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.  As an energy worker and Reiki Master practitioner, Lisa channels intuitive messages for people and animals. In addition to being a well-respected speaker and adjunct teacher for weekend retreats in Connecticut and New York, she is also an Ordained Priest in the Order of Melchizedek. Lisa is passionate about guiding and healing others through her experiences and bringing peace and love into the world.  Lisa offers Reiki with Angelic Messages every Wednesday and monthly workshops in Angelic Automatic Writing, Channeling Angels with Numerical  Messages, and Group Meditation and Reiki.  Visit Lisa's website: healinghandandheart.com

Annalisa is a Channeler, Reiki Master/Teacher Ordained Minister with the Order of Melchizedek, and a Certified Crystal Healer.  Annalisa is a channeling medium who works mostly with angels, saints, and ascended masters to receive messages that are of the highest and greatest good for her clients. She is also able to connect with and channel loved ones who are both living and departed, as well as animals who are both living and departed.  Her divine purpose is to assist in facilitating whatever healing is needed to help someone on their journey.

  Sandy is an intuitive and empath. She reads both classic Tarot and Angel Oracle cards. As a fine artist and designer, Sandra has been drawing and painting since she was a child  with her artist mother.  Her spiritual journey started young, then she delved deeper after  the sudden death of her father in 2007.  If desired, Sandy will create soul portraits or self portraits for her clients as part of their reading. The process of creating a tarot inspired “soul portrait” starts with a few moments of silence and prayer with the cards. “I ask for guidance for myself and the client I’m with. I then create a portrait that reflects on the inner self, inner beauty, and natural gifts. Images blend  from meditation and the card reading, and the result is a portrait of your highest self."Sandra is constantly studying the spiritual realms, different religions and the beyond. She’s also a member of the CT paranormal research group C.O.R.P.S.E. 

  Denise Lamoureux was the Founder of Finding Feathers Wellness center in Fairfield C. 

Denise combined her education and knowledge in both western and eastern medicine to create The Colette Technique for Core Trauma Healing. The Colette Technique helps people find freedom from long term ailments including anxiety, addiction, suicidal thoughts, cutting, weight gain or loss, auto immune system illness, physical problems and low self esteem. Having found extraordinary results in her practice as a healer she is also now an inspirational speaker and teacher. 

. Website: DeniseColette.com

Karen is a gifted 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.  They showed her how to move energy, use plant medicine, and perform healing despacho ceremonies.

Karen also explored shamanic journeying for guidance and healing with spiritual light with Sandra Ingerman.  She trained with The Jaguar Path studying soul retrievals,  removing heavy energy through cord cutting, extractions, divination, along with spirit guide and power animal ally work.  Twin Shamans dona Ysabel and dona Olinda showed her how to heal ancestral karma and remove ancestral spirits.  Karen also received training in crystal healing. 

Mikki Baloy has been practicing shamanic healing for over a decade. She has studied with shamans, ritual-keepers, and mystics from around the world. A student of many traditions,  her intention and commitment is to remind clients and communities of their birthright: an inherent connection to land and to Love. She does this through private healing sessions, group events, rites of passage, and ceremonies, as well as in her writings.

Mikki's holistic approach to healing is both intuitive and grounded, fusing indigenous traditions with yoga, 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.  mikkibaloy.com

Eve is renowned throughout the country and the world as White Buffalo Woman. Although she remains humble and approachable, Eve carries the same Divine Feminine imprint as Mother Mary, Isis, Eve, and Quan Yin. She is an accomplished Shamanic Healer and Channel, bringing her clients profound messages of inspiration and guidance, working with each individual's spiritual, mental, emotional and physical bodies.

In 1991, Eve experienced a series of personal challenges, which prompted her inward search. During a period of deep meditation and intense drumming, the divine being White Buffalo Woman made her presence known, and has since guided and orchestrated her inspirational work for the benefit of humanity. In addition, Eve's spiritual gifts enable her to connect to the energies of the Archangels, exalted masters and guides, and at times to the Higher Self or Inner Child of the client.
Check out her book The Awakening: The Life and Work of Eve Kerwin, White Buffalo Woman 

available for sale at the shop.

  Lea Grimaldi is an author, intuitive meditation and yoga teacher and Reiki Master. She is the author of the book Increase Your Peace from A to Z: Simple Steps to Find Calm Amid Chaos. A mini-directory for stress relief, Increase Your Peace from A to Z is

easy to read so even the anxious reader will find something to calm them down. Books are available for purchase ($14.95) at The Angel Cooperative and make a great gift for yourself or a friend.

Lea wrote this book because she also experiences

anxiety and these are the tools she uses daily to keep her anxiety in check.