I’m Angel, mama to Sebastian. Nothing I do matters more to me than ushering him through this life — and nothing humbles me faster or deeper.

Out in the world, I co-founded Death Over Dinner and Drugs Over Dinner, global movements that spark essential conversations around death, addiction, and connection. I’ve written and hosted gatherings for Roundglass, co-founded two yoga studios on the Carolina coast, and, since 2010, trained teachers and facilitators in meditation, yoga, emotional intelligence, somatic awareness, and the mechanics of waking up, always winking at non-duality.

I’m grateful to have worked closely with my mentor and dear friend, Dr. Gabor Maté, on trauma-healing retreats grounded in plant medicine + Compassionate Inquiry. This lens — that our pain can be transmuted, not just managed — runs through everything I create and offer. 

Way back in 2011, I helped build a little RV, hit the road with my two dogs, and The Yoga Bus was born. My mission was to share practices for trauma healing in some of the most overlooked communities, before trauma had become a trending hashtag. That mission took me from the freeways + back roads of the US to South Africa, where I partnered with TRIAD Trust on HIV education, in communities with infection rates believed to top 40%. In the US, I designed and led programs + practices for at-risk youth in wilderness therapy and a school in an underserved community.

I didn’t take the traditional route in this life, by design. I wanted to experience + understand existence at the marrow. To walk straight into the avoided places, like grief, addiction, survival, and belonging — and come out the other side carrying something true enough to offer back.

The thread that runs through all my work — death and dying, addiction rewiring, trauma healing, attachment repair, and expanding consciousness — is simply to collapse the illusion of distance.

Between self and other.

Between self and Self.

Street Cred // Featured Stages + Events:
• The Dalai Lama’s 80th Birthday Gathering with Peak Mind Foundation
• Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s Facing Addiction in America Summit
• Science and Nonduality’s Dying and Living Conference
• New York Academy of Medicine with Lab/Shul
• Kripalu
• Summit Series
• Conscious Dying Summit at Harbin Hot Springs
• Newport Academy
• Sex, God & Yoga Conference
• Puget Sound Zen Center
• Institute of OM Women’s Summit
• Women Teach Men
• ReImagine at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
• The Shift Network Psychedelic Healing Summit