Life is the ceremony. Nature is the church.
Who We Are
Our fun-loving, spirit-driven community informally began in 2016. We gathered in digitial communities to explore non-dogmatic, ancient, cross-cultural traditions of contemplation, ancestral rites, plant sacraments, and communion with the sacred realms of the cosmos and the earth.
Over time a global network of curious seekers began to take root to discover the real signs, wonders, wisdom, and miracles that come with building a personal relationship with the Divine, and the natural world.
We have evolved into a modern, collaborative community where we are reclaiming and re-envisioning the very definition of church
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​​​​​In 2021 we opened our primary sanctuary in Mount Shasta, California. Members from around the world gather there to take pilgrimage, do ceremony, receive ancestral sacraments, and deepen their connection with the sacred lands, allies, and each other.
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Our Members
We are open-minded and down to earth explorers.
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​Some members have left their traditional faiths and are redefining their relationships with faith. Some identify as religious while others identify as mystics, shamanic, atheists, or agnostic.
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All of our members, however, crave a supportive, safe, spiritual community that doesn't suck...
At aWake Community, we do our best not to suck.
​ We celebrate our imperfections and promote radical authenticity, radical acceptance, and radical honesty.
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What We Believe
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We believe that dogma leads to trauma. We encourage open-minded curiosity, personal authority, honoring the inner healing intelligence, and direct mystical experience over any one set of rigid beliefs.
At our core, we embrace the ancient wisdom of our ancestors which unifies all people from all seven continents who taught:​
Nature is sacred.
Nature is alive.
Nature teaches.
Nature cures.
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Like our ancestors, we believe that the creative force behind all things manifests in all things, and offers humans allies—plants, animals, land, elements, ancestors, angels, and other humans—to cure our hearts, minds, communities, and restore balance within ourselves and with the earth.
We believe that all people have equal access to this power and that by learning how to listen to, learn from, and heal through these sacred intelligences, we not only heal ourselves, but we also build inspired new paradigms for our families, communities, and the planet to thrive for generations to come.
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aWake Founders
Founder & Luminary
Corin Grillo, MA, LMFT
Author, Educator, Spiritual Instigator
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Corin is an internationally renowned author, transformational leader, therapist and educator.
After years of supporting clients as a traditional psychotherapist, her career transitioned to facilitating and mentoring others in intuitive healing, ritual, and ceremony. This transition was ignited by a mystical experience that put her in direct relationship with her guides, angels, ancestors, and the earth's sacred medicine.
For over a decade Corin's passion has been been sharing potent mystical pathways and ancestral traditions with other's to bridge individuals with the direct experience with the miraculous healing power, love, and grace of the sacred allies and our Creator/s.
She supports humans from all walks of life in opening the divine, miraculous healing power within them and the earth in order to learn, heal, grow, evolve, celebrate, and live in Joy.​
She has authored 2 books, "The Angel Experiment", and "Angel Wealth Magic", and has run her online spiritual community, The Inner Sanctum, for 7 years.
Founder & Luminary
Mandi Stevenson, MA, LMFT
A seasoned professional who seamlessly blends psychology with holistic healing practices. With a background in Modern Dance (B.F.A.) and a Counseling Psychology degree (M.A.) from Pacifica Graduate Institute, Mandi brings a wealth of experience to her work.
Mandi operates a thriving private practice with expertise in trauma-informed care, substance use dependence, and integration work post Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness experiences. She's presented at multiple conferences on psychedelics and research and co-teaches courses on the interplay of Alchemy and Shamanism practices.
Mandi's impressive training includes EMDR certification, completion of the California Institute of Integral Studies program for Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapies and Research, and ongoing studies in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy and neurofeedback. Her deep interest in Shamanic Witchcraft, particularly Aromatics, reflects her commitment to holistic healing and spiritual exploration.
aWake Advisory Board and
Associate Luminaries
aWake Lawyer
Advisory Board Member
George "Greg" Lake
George "Greg" Lake, Esq. Is a trial and appellate attorney licensed in Texas and various federal courts throughout the country. In 2020, Greg entered the psychedelic space through publishing his first book "Psychedelics in Mental Health Series: Psilocybin." Shortly thereafter, Greg found his higher path in assisting entheogen-based religious practitioners in forming tax exempt religious entities in states all across the country. After forming approximately twenty such organizations, Greg published his second book, "The Law of Entheogenic Churches in the United States." Eventually, Greg published his third book, "The Law of Entheogenic Churches (Vol. II): The Definition of Religion under the First Amendment" which was peer-reviewed in Cambridge Press and Greg's work was acknowledged as key in assisting the entheogen-based religious movement in the United States to its current heights. Greg works vociferously to ensure that minorities enjoy the same level of free exercise protections as do their similarly-situated but Caucasian colleagues, to engage in entheogen-based religious practices. In addition to his legal practice, Greg also works with institutions across the country in researching the entheogen-based religious phenomenon in the United States.
Associate Luminary
Advisory Board Member
Kelly Cascaden
Kelly Cascaden is a dedicated mother of two and a passionate advocate for healing and community empowerment. In 2016, she founded A Bike for Every Child, a nonprofit that brings the joy of bike ownership to children, giving them a sense of freedom and adventure. In 2021, she co-founded Mobile Om Healing, a nonprofit focused on holistic wellness and healing.
As a certified sound healing practitioner, Gene Keys guide, and expert in Quantum Human Design, Kelly is dedicated to supporting others in their personal development and healing journeys. Her commitment to lifelong growth and evolution fuels her mission to inspire transformation in both herself and the world around her.
Advisory Board Member
Melanie Davis
Melanie Davis is an Advanced ThetaHealing practitioner and spiritual development coach who has worked with hundreds of clients worldwide, helping them to discover their underlying trauma, beliefs, and patterns that hold them back from making decisions and taking actions from a place of authenticity and integrity. Melanie assists clients with digging deep into the root of their issues, tapping into their intuition to understand “why” they maintain certain beliefs and habitual patterns, and “how” releasing these beliefs and patterns allows them to live a more empowered life.
Melanie has helped clients clear beliefs and fears around self-worth, abandonment, being seen, being judged, money issues, the ability to make and/or receive money, and being an imposter. Many of these clients have gone on to start businesses, write books, create art, and live their lives in a way they only used to dream about.
Associate Luminary
Julian Acosta
Julian Acosta's artistic journey began in Bakersfield, California, where he was born and raised. His creative spark was fueled by a complex tapestry of influences: his upbringing as one of the
only Latino kids in a rough, Black neighborhood and later in a more affluent, White neighborhood;
his devotion to and subsequent departure from the Mormon Church; his struggle with his fading
Latino heritage; his contrasting family relationships; and his deep love for rowdy, raucous music.
These diverse elements intertwined to shape his artistic vision and drive his passion to create. As the first college graduate in his family, his education at Brigham Young University launched him
into filmmaking, where he developed a distinctive poetic realist style.
His work spans commercials for major brands and music videos for renowned artists. His upcoming projects demonstrate his continued growth as a filmmaker, his versatility and his ability
to tell compelling stories across multiple formats and genres.
Associate Luminary
Romy Keegan
Romy Keegan is a Community Dance Pioneer & Mystic Magick Maker, a Lightworker, Ceremonialist & Steward of the Directions, based out of Albuquerque New Mexico, The Land of Enchantment. Here she nurtures a beautiful, light-filled dance temple and sacred arts space on her small but Wildly Divine Land, called the Netherwoods.
It is her honor and her JOY to create and facilitate meaningful, playful, community dance and nature based classes, workshops, performances and ceremonies designed to uplift, activate, comfort, and heal the inner child of adults of all ages, and all persuasions.
Her work focuses on establishing and developing meaningful relationship with the Divine: All Around, Above, Below, Within and Without, in order to bring more Love, Light, Beauty, Joy and Wonder to the World(s) around us, seen and unseen.
She is so honored, humbled, to now offer additional pathways to healing and blessing, through psychedelic relationship, ceremony, and integration, individually, or in groups, long or short term.
Blessings Friends and Siblings, may we all embody a Path of Beauty in ever deepening Communion with the Divine, Everywhere Present.
Associate Luminary
Advisory Board Member
Amber Maier
Amber Maier is a Soul Alignment Coach, Healer, and Teacher who helps Lightworkers reconnect to their spiritual nature, awaken their intuitive gifts, and align with their soul’s purpose. She believes that disconnection from our inner wisdom and divine power is the root of much personal suffering, and her mission is to guide others in healing this separation to reclaim their power and live joyful, purposeful lives.
As a Luminary for the aWake Church, Amber is passionate about using sacred plant sacraments, nature immersions, and integrative spiritual practices to help individuals open the channels to divine guidance, inner wisdom and create personal and spiritual transformation.
​Based in Minneapolis, MN, Amber serves clients worldwide through her online coaching, Akashic Angel Healing Academy, and healing programs.
Advisory Board Member
Heather Murison
Heather is a Psychic Medium, Healer, Teacher, Mentor and Energy Alchemist that draws grounding and expertise from 38 years as a Registered Nurse.
She is a life long learner and over the past 28 years has studied and trained in a variety of healing modalities. In 2021 she was able to bring it all together during her time in the Angel Alchemy Academy. Following graduation Heather started her own business Angel Essence Healing and works with clients all around the globe.
Her current interests include Galactic Astrology and she is currently training to be a Quantum Soul Practitioner.
Associate Luminary
Advisory Board Member
Autumn Bayliss
Autumn Bayliss is an aspiring retreat facilitator with a passion for the mystical. She is a Registered Art Therapist with an MA in Marriage and Family Therapy from NDNU, a BS in Cognitive Science from UC Merced, and an AS in Environmental Design from Cosumnes River College. She is from Sacramento, CA and currently lives in the Central Valley, working as a supervisor in a forensic psychiatric hospital. Autumn assists clients in finding freedom within so it may be reflected outward.
Advisory Board Member
​Queers in Query Circle Facilitator
Calvin West (he/they)
Calvin is proudly trans, having spent the first 21 years of his life female and these last 21 years in the white male space navigating pockets of privilege. He’s the oldest of four kids to teenage parents on welfare, requiring him to grow up painfully fast inside the conditions of addiction, abuse and poverty.
His house was haunted during many of his formative child years. He’d get mediumship messages from deceased loved ones of people he knew but didn’t know what to do with the intense sensations and information. After years of being in constant fear of the invisible, coupled with societal messages of being “too sensitive” he began to close himself off from his natural gifts and intuition. Since 2019 he’s been on an active path to reconnect to his true essence, to trade fear for fun, to replace terror for self trust.
The process of integrating his full self, loving on the parts that felt eternally unlovable, would not have happened without some powerful healing helpers and a whole lot of humor!
Calvin has a unique lens to offer us all about what it means to turn wounds into wisdom, jeers into joy, and betrayal into belonging. He’s had to reinvent and reconnect to himself several times.
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Associate Luminary Spiritual, Sexy Singles Circle Facilitator
Lynn Renae
Lynn Renae is a passionate advocate for Love, healing and transformation, dedicated to making sacred ceremonial plant sacraments and integrative spiritual practices accessible to all. With over eight years of experience in Qigong, and a lifetime of studying mystical and spiritual practices she guides others in discovering their innate power and divine wisdom. Her journey has been dedicated to blazing a trail of freedom from Dogma and love, deeply rooted in unconditional love and the beauty of nature and the cosmos.
As a mother and grandmother, Lynn’s heart is devoted to nurturing and supporting others in their healing journeys. As a proud graduate of Corin’s Angel Alchemy Academy and a certified Death Doula, compassionately supports others on their healing journeys, from life celebrations to end-of-life transitions. As a luminary, she believes in the profound light that exists within each person and strives to help others uncover and embrace it, living out her mission of love, connection, and illumination every day. Lynn is a lifelong student and teacher, currently living out her childhood.
Associate Luminary
Holy F*ck Circle Facilitator
Brannon Patrick, LCSW
Brannon is a therapist, entrepreneur, and influencer. He has been in the battle for truth (even when it's uncomfortable) for many years. He has a popular podcast (Therapy Brothers), he also runs a thriving clinic "Therapy Utah". Brannon was raised in a rigid Mormon religion. Both personally and professionally he has been on a journey to untangle harmful beliefs that create suffering with individuals. Through his journey he has helped individuals heal from rigid religiosity and learn how to fully accept all of themselves. Brannon believes that for someone to heal they need to have deep soul experiences. That's why plant medicine journeys have become so crucial in both his personal and professional work. He facilitates retreats here in the US and abroad that involve deep trauma healing experiential work and plant medicine ceremony. He is trained in Psychedelic assisted therapy. His greatest accomplishment is his marriage and 4 beautiful children.
Advisory Board Member
The D Word Circle Facilitator
Scott Owings
Scott Owings, a seasoned spiritual leader, pastor, and healer, brings a wealth of experience to our church as an advisor. Ordained in 2015, Scott has been deeply involved in pastoral care, spiritual direction, and community building through his work as a pastoral leader. He is also the founder of 12 Moons, a sound-based nonprofit dedicated to holistic healing and justice, offering his services towards end of life care and underserved communities. His passionate work offers healing by aligning with the natural rhythms of the moon to foster community and spiritual growth.
Associate Luminary
Spiritual, Sexy Singles Circle Facilitator
Leilani Garcia (she/her)
Leilani is a certified intuitive hypnotist and Reiki Master specializing in uncovering and releasing blocks to allow the body to receive an increase of energy and optimal health so her clients can unleash the extraordinary within!
After graduating from Corin Grillo's Angel Alchemy Academy, Leilani continues deepening her skills and knowledge of the energetic body and the beautiful universe supporting us. She is currently pursuing a certification as a medical intuitive. Leilani has a true passion for life. She genuinely cares about people, is curious about the truths, and enjoys uncovering opportunities for her clients. She’s very curious and very playful.
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