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.

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Emotional Intelligence is economic infrastructure, strengthening organizations, communities, and planetary health through trust, relational leadership, and collective well-being.

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