Leonie Wolff, Holistic RN, Integrative Nurse Coach, Oregon Licensed Psilocybin Facilitator:

Leonie has developed and offered programs, experiential learning, professional education 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 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 and new parenting.

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 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.

September 2015 Leonie graduated from the 120 hour, national board certified program: The Integrative Nurse Coaching Program. Which blends integrative health, holistic nursing and life coaching.

In the mid 90’s she began extensive study of Ayurveda, meditation and yoga 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’.

In 2014 she became a certified 'Masters of Wisdom and Meditation Teacher' with author and internationally recognized meditation teacher, davidji.

Leonie has developed and facilitated retreats for over 30 years in a variety of locations including Hawai’i and in 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 20 years, Leonie has developed and facilitated retreats and support groups for people living with cancer and their loved ones in a variety of locations. She 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). 

For 15 years Leonie facilitated retreats and professional education 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 hundreds 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 programs.

Tending her Beloved husband Joe through last breath at home was the most profound and difficult experience of her lifetime and this has informed her Way of Being ever since. She then 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 deeply life-altering path, inspired and informed Leonie as she began to explore and develop a unique approach to grief, loss and facing the difficult paths: The Way Within

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 within Oregon's legal framework. She graduated in December and became licensed by the State of Oregon March, 2024.

In February 2024 Leonie became affiliated with Reconsider as a co-host for their nurse retreats that are held in The Hudson Valley of New York. These retreats are to support community, research and education around psychedelics and nursing  

In March 2024 Leonie joined The InnerTrek Center for Psilocybin Services as a personal, group and retreat psilocybin facilitator. She is also one of the facilitators for the 40 hour student practicum retreats.

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:

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. And 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. And being with thousands of women birthing babies… Taught me about facing and moving-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 central Wisdom I have gained from all of my experience and study is: I know the remarkable potential and resiliency of the human Heart & Spirit. For almost 40 years I have been present with tens of thousands of people as they face all expressions of being alive: From deep pain and fear… To profound insight and joy. I know your capacity to face… To move through… And to lean into what you seek…

The timeline of accomplishment above is only a bit of my story. 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 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!