About Leonie Wolff:
Leonie has developed and facilitated workshops, professional seminars and retreats for over 30 years and facilitates from her Heart with a warm presence, insight developed through experience and a clear passion for being alive.
As a child her love of being with the forest, rivers, ocean and sleeping under the night sky, led her as a young woman to immerse herself into Earth-based, feminine Spirituality. She studied with some of the great teachers of that time. From this fertile ground grew the roots of her love to gather people in circle. She continues to dance with the seasons, cycles, tides and moon... The Divine Spirals of love and being.
She began her role as a health educator in the early 80’s offering classes to prepare women and their partners for childbirth. This reflected her love of assisting women and their families through the powerful experience of birth.
A Registered Nurse since 1986, She continues to offer her knowledge and support for women, new families and her peers as an RN Lead at a hospital based birth center.
In the 90’s Leonie was seeking a deeper expression of the art & science of nursing. This led her to a 3 year, comprehensive program in Holistic Nursing offered by Seeds & Bridges. She is a graduate of this program, and has continued her study and exploration of holistic/integrative health ever since.
In the mid 90’s she began extensive study of Ayurveda, meditation & the yoga sutras with Deepak Chopra MD, David Simon MD and many others through The Chopra Center In 1997 she completed certifications in ‘Primordial Sound Meditation’ and ‘Perfect Health, The Ayurvedic Lifestyle Program’ and offered these programs both in retreat and class formats for many years. In 2011 she graduated from the Chopra Center’s 200 hour 'Yoga Alliance' certified teacher training program: ‘The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga’.
Leonie has developed and facilitated retreats for over 30 years in a variety of locations including being faculty at Harmony Hill Retreat Center in Washington State, Breitenbush Hot Springs in Oregon and with The Pink Lemonade Project at Menucha in The Columbia River Gorge.
For 15 years Leonie facilitated retreats for healthcare professionals in a variety of locations and forms. ‘ReAwakening The Heart of Nursing’ (as an educator with The Birchtree Center ) and 'Embracing The Wisdom of Nursing' (created by Leonie) was attended by thousands of health professionals who experienced this unique approach of shifting their relationship with this often difficult work. She also trained and mentored facilitators for these program’s.
She created and for 8 years facilitated the retreat: 'Passionate Sadness; Living through and thriving beyond the death of your life partner’. Sitting in circle with others on this profoundly life-altering path, inspired and informed Leonie as she began to explore and develop a unique approach to grief.
For 20 years, Leonie has facilitated retreats and support groups for people living with cancer and their loved ones in a variety of locations. She also trains and mentors new facilitators for these programs. She is also a past volunteer Administrative Director working in India for PINCC (Prevention International No Cervical Cancer).
In 2014 she became a certified 'Masters of Wisdom and Meditation Teacher' with author and internationally recognized meditation teacher, davidji.
In September 2015 Leonie graduated from the 120 hour, national board certified program: The Integrative Nurse, Life Coaching Program. Which blends integrative health, holistic nursing and life coaching.
As an expression of creativity and community, at Burning Man, Leonie is a Black Rock Ranger and is a mentor for new Rangers.
In July 2023 Leonie began a comprehensive 160 hour study program with InnerTrek to become an Oregon State licensed psilocybin facilitator. She graduated in December and will become licensed early 2024.
In February 2024 Leonie became affiliated with Reconsider as a co-host for their retreats for nurses that are held in The Hudson Valley of New York.
She is passionate about her organic gardens and creating a nurturing sanctuary for all critters (including the two legged ones) at her homes in Portland, Oregon and Kaua'i, Hawai'i.
From Leonie:
On this new version of my website, I let go of the 'initials' behind my name that I have spent my entire adult life gathering. It was time. We do not get degrees or certifications for life experience and as I enter my 'Wise Woman' years, I know this:
- Holding my Beloved husband as he took last breath in our home, dying from cancer...
- Doing CPR on my father on my parents kitchen floor, knowing in my Heart he was gone even as my highly trained mind went into action...
- Tending my mother as she declined to Alzheimer’s, watching her brain disintegrate while her Spirit fought back...
Taught me what searing grief feels like.
Creating and Facilitating retreats for:
- People living with cancer...
- Those going through profound grief...
- Burned-out health professionals...
Taught me about facing and walking-through the difficult paths.
Working in a hospital with other health professionals through the Covid-19 global pandemic:
Showed me the pain, the Heart and the resiliency of the dedicated people who choose healthcare as their profession.
Traveling the Earth, walking diverse paths and looking into the eyes of people of many cultures:
Taught me that the deepest yearning of our Hearts, are the same.
Walking (at times crawling) on my own Journey through The Way Within, The Three PathWays and The Seven Spirals of Grief.
Taught me how to be fully alive... NOW.
The Winter Solstice, 2023:
I just completed a comprehensive study program to become an Oregon State licensed psilocybin facilitator. Oregon is the first state in the country to legalize the therapeutic and wellness use of psilocybin mushrooms within a facilitated framework. It was not simply a program of study… It is a profound personal Journey.
Fall is an introspective time of year including my Scorpio BirthDay. With an amazing community and plant medicine as guides, I have wandered through a life review. I think one of the gifts of age is a clearer ability to recognize all the threads and spirals of a lifetime. How they weave and connect into the expression of who-I-am… Today.
Within community and by being in circle… I accept the way of being… The expression of being… I step gratefully and humbly into being a: Wise Woman Elder and Wild Crone. (aka... old ;)
The timeline of accomplishment above is only a bit of my story. That is why I tossed out ‘initials’ behind my name. What I do know, is that even after all of my ‘experience’… I do not have your answers. I do not yet, even know your questions. That said, there are similar threads of pain, of love... of yearning, of delight… In every lifetime.
What I do offer to you is this: I am a facilitator… I can Ease Your Way. I can be-with you. To invite your vulnerability to be witnessed. To assist you to more deeply cultivate resiliency… To seek the voice of your own inherent Wisdom... To remember the sacred rhythm of your own magnificent HeartBeat.
I invite you to take a walk with me… Lets go exploring!
