Rewild Your Mind.
Replant Your Leadership.

Where meditation science meets Indigenous wisdom to grow high-performing, emotionally intelligent leaders.

Who we are

At Nurture Meditation, we believe that art and science together create wholeness

A visionary path where emotion and evidence walk side by side. Meditation Science Rooted in Indigenous Wisdom means braiding ancestral knowledge with neuroscience, somatics, and psychology to create trauma-informed, emotionally intelligent leadership rooted in the nervous system.

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Our Founder

Tansi, I’m Angela Poundmaker

Angela Poundmaker is the Founder of Nurture Meditation, an Indigenous-led platform integrating art, science, and ancestral wisdom to replant wellness across Turtle Island. A Sixties Scoop Survivor and eighth-generation descendant of Chief Poundmaker, she is a Halifax-based facilitator specializing in Indigenous leadership and nervous system education. Angela draws on the legacy of her matriarchs and her lived experience in care to deliver trauma-informed, emotionally intelligent training for individuals, organizations, and institutions. Her life’s work is to restore wholeness through the power of culture, ceremony, and intergenerational growth; rooted in the wisdom of her past, present, and future Ancestors.

My Journey

Indigenous Medicines as Relationship

In Indigenous worldviews, medicine is anything that restores balance to the mind, body, spirit, and community. Medicine is not limited to pharmaceuticals or illness care. It includes every practice that reconnects us to ourselves, to each other, and to the living world.

Breathwork, guided meditation, sound baths with quartz crystal bowls, and ceremony-based retreats are medicines because they stabilize the nervous system, strengthen empathy, and support emotionally intelligent communication—especially under stress.

These medicines are ancestral technologies of care, belonging, and relational leadership, designed to sustain dignity, safety, and accountability in every environment where people gather, work, and make decisions together. They build cultures of trust from the inside out.

Connected people create healthy systems.

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Breathwork Facilitation

Restore Vitality | Regulate the Nervous System | Reclaim the Body

Our breathwork sessions, informed by Soma Breathwork training, combine rhythmic breathing, music, and guided visualization to oxygenate the body, calm the mind, and restore the parasympathetic nervous system. Especially supportive for those healing from Complex PTSD, our breathwork empowers individuals to release stress patterns and build emotional resilience.

Guided Meditation

Center the Mind | Rewire Thought Patterns | Cultivate Emotional Intelligence

Trained through the Lab of Meditation, our guided meditation experiences are trauma-sensitive and culturally grounded. Each session is intentionally designed to restore cognitive clarity, deepen self-awareness, and foster the emotional fluency needed for leadership, creativity, and connection.

Sound Baths with Quartz
Crystal Bowls

Soothe the System | Harmonize Brainwaves | Reconnect with Self

Our signature sound baths use pure-tone quartz crystal bowls—tuned to the body’s natural energy centers—to calm the nervous system and shift brainwave states. Trained through Toronto Sound Therapy, our facilitators offer immersive sonic experiences that support healing from burnout, overwhelm, and chronic stress.

Retreat Planning & Facilitation

Curated Ceremonial Spaces | Restorative Design | Transformational Leadership

We design and facilitate retreats for communities, organizations, and leaders seeking deep restoration and intentional transformation. Grounded in Indigenous ceremony, somatic science, and ecological connection, each retreat is curated to include breathwork, meditation, sound healing, movement, and meaningful integration.
From intimate wellness weekends to executive leadership intensives, we create immersive experiences that inspire sustainable healing
and growth.

Journaling as Medicine

Release Old Narratives | Regulate the Nervous System | Cultivate Clarity

We honour journaling as more than writing — it is a medicine for the mind, body, and spirit. Rooted in Indigenous wisdom and supported by neuroscience, this practice is designed to support emotional regulation, ignite creativity, and restore executive function while deepening self-connection. Whether you are seeking grounding, insight, or renewal, Journaling as a Medicine offers you a gentle yet powerful tool to reclaim your story and nurture your future.

Testimonials

We are deeply grateful to Angela Poundmaker for guiding us through the Nurture Method during her Indigenous sound bath session this June as part of the Indigenous Innovation Design Sprint at the Arthur L. Irving Entrepreneurship Centre. As the leading business in charge of delivering the challenge statement to our young students, her thoughtful presence and powerful practice created a grounding space that nurtured reflection, balance, and connection for all who participated.

— Natasha Fernandes, Business Consultant, TD Entrepreneurship Inclusion Initiative at Saint Mary’s University, Arthur L. Irving Entrepreneurship Centre
This session was awakening, and culturally healing. It allowed me to sit still in myself after a very deep and heavy board meeting around my culture. Thank you!

— Folami Jones, Director & Lawyer at African Nova Scotian Justice Institute
Highly recommend and if you're curious, you won't be disappointed!

— Shirley Cardinal, Chair & NSSHFC at National Sixties Scoop Healing Foundation of Canada