About Madeline

My name is Madeline Giles, and I am a somatic guide, breath teacher, herbalist, writer, and dreamworker. I have been teaching, mentoring, and facilitating classes and retreats for sensitives and seekers for over a decade.

At the heart of everything I share is a simple call:

To help you hear your Self in a world that is breaking open.

While you can read more about my certifications and teaching experience here, what most influences my practice is a deep desire to live in communion.

Communion with the wisdom woven within.
Communion with Grace - with the unseen support that is often subtle, yet ever-present.
Communion with the living intelligence woven through plants, wind, water - with the guidance that becomes audible when we slow down enough to listen.

In a culture that is oversaturated with quick tips and flashy promises, discernment matters deeply to me, both in how I live and how I facilitate.

I don’t resonate with hierarchical teaching styles, with a teacher/mentor/guide elevated on a pedestal delivering directions from above. I’m far more interested in the wild wisdom that lives and breathes in you and in me - in the kind of learning that unfolds through relationship, listening, and shared presence.

My work is less about transmitting answers and more about creating the conditions where truth can be heard.

I believe that a world that can hear the wisdom within is a world capable of deeper care, wiser action & more reverent ways of being.

And hearing, I believe, begins within.

If you’ve found yourself here, it’s likely something in you already knows this too. Welcome to you! Let us meander this road less traveled together.

Learn more about my professional training & teaching experience →

How to work with me

If you are seeking intimate support and somatic healing → MENTORSHIP

If you long for communion and community with likehearted folks and the earth → APOTHECARY

If you’re drawn to decoding and demystifying your dreams → DREAMING DEEPER

If you hold curiosity and reverence for the sainted ones and holy helpers → SUMMER OF SAINTS

If your fast paced world calls for in person connection, adventure and attunement → RETREATS

If you wish for a bedside companion to dream deeper → BOOK

If you love to curl up with a cup of tea and an online journal → JOURNAL

My
wings were not born in the sky

The
feathers found me

In
the darkest depths of sea,

Beneath
sand & soot -

Buried,
like a burden.

A glimpse of my world within…

I am a listener, a lover of small, living worlds -
I am immersed in the beauty of being Nobody.
I tend to my garden and at times, I get to be fully immersed
in listening - to land and trees, Fae and bees.

And still, this simple reality
does not dilute, dismiss, or deny
the immensity and travesty of these times.

A president posturing as if governance were a circus,
as if people’s lives were not at stake.

Children playing, learning, laughing -
and also practicing lockdown drills, hiding from shooters & raids, carrying futures they did not choose into a world
growing hotter, harsher, more unstable.

The Earth continues to warm…
Oceans heat and swell.
Smoke and chemical haze swallow the sky.
Helicopters ferry water again and again~
to fires that keep on burning.

This is my present view.

I wonder: what is my future? Our future?
How will we meet this moment?
Will we root deeply enough to take powerful personal and collective action?
Many already are - some quietly,
others in ways that ask for great courage.

There are many ways to respond to these times -
protesting in the streets, making meals for those in need,
donating, storytelling, and bravely turning towards the places
where this patterning lives within the shadows of psyche.
I believe the sickness in our society takes root there…
and this is where my listening leads me.

No matter what, I refuse to feed this day with doom.
I will keep seeking spaces where little me
becomes regenerative we.
No matter what, I will seek and share ways
to plant prayers of possibility.

STAR SIGNS
Aquarius Sun, Virgo Rising, Virgo Moon:
future-oriented vision & a wild kind of weirdness grounded in depth, devotion & meticulous care
HUMAN DESIGN
I am a 5/1 Splenic Projector:
seeing what’s unseen, discerning what works and what doesn’t, led by instant, body-based knowing
ENNEAGRAM
I am an Enneagram 4 (with a 3 wing):
emotionally attuned, depth-oriented, devoted to beauty and meaning
MYERS-BRIGGS
I am an INFP - The Mediator:
values-led, imaginative, guided by a strong inner compass with one foot in the poetic, one in the practical
GENE KEYS
My Life’s Work:41 – The Patient Dreamer
My Radiance: 44 – The Pattern Interrupter
My Purpose:24 – The Silent Mystic
I appreciate the above as tools for deeper understanding. While I don’t relate to these systems as authorities, I appreciate that they are capable of highlighting uniqueness and bringing what may have been hidden into perspective.
Lately I’ve been loving a simple blend of nettle and peppermint, with a small sprinkling of licorice root. I affectionately call it my Sweet Green Stomach Lullaby - a go-to after meals or during that afternoon slump.
While I usually make my teas by eyeballing amounts, for one strong serving this looks like about 2 tablespoons dried nettle leaf, 1½ tablespoons dried peppermint leaf, and ½ teaspoon dried licorice root.
I find it so soothing and refreshing, gently awakening digestion while still feeling light, nourishing & grounding!
Note: This blend uses a very small amount of licorice root; still, while Licorice Root has tons of positive herbal actions, it’s best not to exceed 3g per day. Licorice is best enjoyed in moderation (or avoided altogether), especially if you have high blood pressure or are pregnant. Please consult a healthcare provider if needed.
“Tenderness” by Jane Winther
“Words for the Road” by Joseph Fasano
“The First Promise” by James A. Pearson
I love making playlists ~ in the past few years of feeling overstimulated by information everywhere, I have gravitated to listening to mostly ambient, classical, and instrumental music in my freetime. Here is a playlist I made called “listening in a butterfly’s dream” with some of my calming favorites.
When I’m hosting friends for a dinner party and want something more vibey, I reach for this one.
Then there are playlists for my otherworldly heart - songs that remind me of the Angelic Realm, songs that feel like slipping into a fairy dreamdate east of the sun, west of the moon, and songs that feel like immersing into the magic and spirit of River and Mountain.
I would love to pilgrimage to Crete and Greece - to the pre-Bronze Age Neolithic caves and sacred sites connected to the Bee Women of ancient Crete, whose ways I studied from 2021-2024. I’d also love to experience Ephesus, Turkey - where a sacred well is devoted to Mother Mary and where it’s said she appeared years ago.

The short-long story: how I got here

I often say I’ve lived many lifetimes within this one - and I can tell you with certainty that I never imagined that this would be my vocation! Below is a sped-up synopsis of how I got here.
If we rewind to 2009, you’d find me as a rose-colored-glasses-wearing, angel-loving college student, splitting my time between classes, partying, and angel conferences. At the time, I was majoring in journalism, following my dream to become a magazine editor in New York City.
After graduating, I moved to NYC and landed an internship at Nylon Magazine. I gave it everything and soon after wrote for the magazine, traveling internationally on press trips, and once even test-drove Bentley's through the Spanish countryside. From the outside, it looked glamorous. Lavish, even...a total dream opportunity. In many ways, it was! And yet, something in me started to feel quietly, persistently off.
I remember imagining 5 years into the future… 10 years into the future… doing the same thing. And my heart asked a question I couldn’t unhear: How is this actually helping anyone?
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At 22, I walked away from the magazine world with no backup plan and no idea what came next.
In the midst of this time – behind the scenes during my college years and my New York days - my favorite thing to do in my free time was attend angel conferences and read books about fairies and angels. I never, ever imagined this would become a part of my life’s work.
After leaving Nylon, I hired a life coach - Christine Hassler - who remains a profound wisdom keeper in our world. Working with her helped in changing the trajectory of my life. She encouraged me to apply to the University of Santa Monica, where I eventually earned my master’s degree in Spiritual Psychology. That choice brought me to Los Angeles - and into a season I now affectionately refer to as The Nunnery.
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When I moved to Los Angeles, I began practicing Kundalini Yoga and breathwork daily. Breathwork, in particular, became the most visceral bridge I’d ever experienced between my body and my intuition. My life took on a monastic quality - I was waking at 4 a.m., meditating for hours, praying constantly to be of service, asking to be guided in ways I could easily recognize and understand.
And then one day, seemingly out of nowhere, the words Angelic Breath Healing arose in my consciousness. I saw myself offering breathwork classes with an invitation to connect with angels. I spent most of 2014 quietly preparing, and on January 13, 2015, I taught my first public class.
For the next few years, I taught weekly breathwork classes and offered 1:1 sessions rooted in my spiritual psychology training. And then, a deep reckoning arrived. I had been studying with a spiritual teacher for years when I realized - behind the scenes - that the values behind the stage no longer aligned with my own. Leaving that world felt devastating. It initiated what I can only describe as a dark night of the soul.
Even as I continued teaching, something fundamental was unraveling.
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This was when herbalism entered my life.
In the midst of disillusionment, the plants grounded me. They re-oriented me. They helped me reclaim boundaries, embodiment, and a deeper honesty. I’ve written about this often: how the plants didn’t bypass my grief or confusion, but instead rooted me more fully into myself.
From there, I grew increasingly disillusioned with New Age spirituality as a whole and felt called to distance myself from its more performative, “good vibes only” expressions. I pivoted my training toward trauma-informed care and somatic work - body first, Earth first. This shift wasn’t a rejection of spirit, but an integration of it.
Through every threshold I’ve crossed, my relationship with the Divine has remained central. To me, the Divine is synonymous with the spirit of our hearts. I honor that each of us likely holds a personal relationship to what “the Divine” means - some shaped by disillusionment with organized religion, others by disappointment within New Age spirituality…some perhaps a combination of both. Others maybe be a revelatory remembrance, a sense of connection with something bigger, stronger, deeper, truer than all of us. As the Sufi poet Rumi once wrote, “there are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
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Within my personal practice, I may be something of an anomaly as I am deeply devoted to the Holy Spirit and to the teachings of Christ, yet I do not identify as Christian, nor do I resonate with the dogma of religion. What I do resonate with is Christian mysticism, and I find deep nourishment in studying the Gnostic gospels.
My spirituality is deeply animistic. I honor the divine expression woven through plants, trees, saints, you, and me. I relate to them as vibrant expressions of Spirit. At times, I joke that I’m too Jesus-forward for the plant people and too plant-centered for the Jesus people - and I’ve come to see this in-between place as a misfit home of its own.
Amid all the change, centering Spirit has been my constant. What has evolved over the years
is the shape of my work - and the depth of my discernment.
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I’ve learned the most through the hardest seasons. I never imagined I’d end up here -
and yet, looking back, I can see how my soul wove the way.
I’ve found that fulfillment comes from living in harmony with what is stirring within. The most miraculous unfoldings in my life have come from following that subtle yet persistent inner guidance.
I remain a devoted student of life - and 11 years into this vocation, I still hold a beginner’s mind and can also acknowledge that this isn’t my first rodeo! It is satisfying to feel seasoned in my work.
I look toward the days, months, & moons ahead with humility and wonder.
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