Dami Roelse is an author, certified life coach, and an avid hiker. Born in Holland, she has traveled the world and as a young woman, began her spiritual quest by traveling to India in search of answers. By her late 50s, and while suffering through a personal loss, Dami revisited India where a trek through the Himalayas brought illumination and peace. Since then, she has become an avid hiker/backpacker and has hiked most of the Pacific Crest Trail, including the John Muir Trail, and across the entire states of Washington and Oregon. She has also hiked parts of the Himalayas, including a Mount Kailash Kora (or pilgrimage) in Tibet, considered Asia’s holiest mountain. Most of her treks took place while in her 60s and 70s. Dami uses her passion for long distance hiking and backpacking as a means to deepen her connection with nature and the universe. Dami is enthusiastic about leading and mentoring women over 50, in the third phase of life, on the physical and spiritual benefits of walking and backpacking, and she serves as a model for redefining the aging process for women. She has written a book Walking Gone Wild: How to Lose Your Age on the Trail directed to women over 50. Her latest book Fly Free, a memoir of love, loss and walking the path is a journey of spiritual and physical exploration as she deals with the loss of her life partner and goes on a trek in the Himalayas.
I spoke to her in 2020 at her home in Ashland, Oregon
Music by Manpreet Kaur, @manpreetkaurmusic
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