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.

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.

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.

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

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.  In October she will present a workshop o nth heck for the first time on the east coast at The Angel Cooperative. 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 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 

Meet Kathy Katts. After beginning a yoga practice in 1996, Kathy began a journey into holistic health for the body, mind and spirit. The study of Ayurveda, Yoga, Meditation & Reiki changed her life immensely. Kathy graduated from New York University with a BA in Organizational Behavior specializing her studies in Emotional Intelligence. She is a certified life coach, reiki master teacher, Ayurveda practitioner, meditation instructor and a registered Yoga teacher. 

With over 10,000 hours of study in the fields of consciousness and human behavior Kathy has been able to realize and apply these teachings successfully within her own life. By discovering her truth, she realized all things are possible. Kathy shares her expertise to assist others to live a life of optimal health and fulfill their potential on every level. Being witness to her clients incredible growth is nothing short of brilliant. Kathy's deepest desire is to help others end suffering in life. 

“I have always believed there is a source of light and purpose within us all...It was that knowledge which lead me to a path of healing and transformation.” -KK
For more information on Kathy and Inner Source Ayurveda go to: www.innersourceayurveda.com

Habib  Sebaihi was trained in advanced Cranioscaral Therapy by Dr. Ron Wish from Nyack, NY. His  training in holistic medicine gives him the opportunity to be an intuitive and energetic Healer. He also received his degree in usui Reiki I & II  in 2004. He has continued his training  in Eastern Jikiden Reiki techniques with James Landers and  Jeanette Stellato from 2009 until present, Lineage of - Dr. Mikao Usui. He is truly grateful for the opportunity to work with adults and  children, some with special needs like CHARGE Syndrome. He works with adults and children with special circumstances such as multiple sclerosis, depression, stress,  chronic neck and back pain, TMJ Syndrome, and loss of energy.  Habib is available for private sessions at The Angel Cooperative monthly.

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

Dianne Frost, Ph.D. specialized in dream‐work for her doctoral dissertation at Pacifica 

Graduate Institute.  Since earning her Ph.D. in Depth Psychology in 2003, Dianne has led 

numerous dream work groups and has guided many individual clients in exploring their

dreams as part of their spiritual awakening. As a teacher, life‐long dreamer, and Intuitive 

Life Coach, Dianne loves to share the inspiring realm of dreams with others! She leads

2-hour dream workshops, one-day dream workshops and 6‐week dream classes for

groups, and she coaches individual clients according to their personal needs/desires as 

mutually scheduled

 Katie Braja is a yoga and meditation teacher for Real Humans with Real Lives. She helps people use the time-tested tools of movement, breath, and meditation to feel more like themselves, more of the time. 

She studied at ISHTA Yoga with co-founders Yogiraj Alan Finger and Sarah Platt-Finger, and has continued to expand her teaching toolkit by studying anatomy, functional movement, nervous system regulation, energy work, and Tarot.

Her yoga classes are explorations in authentic movement alongside concentration on the breath and subtle body, and her meditation coaching is based in the real experience of navigating daily life. View Katie’s schedule, full bio, blog, and free resources at www.katiebraja.com.