About the Artist & Storyteller
Cherie Aimée is the founder, educator and storyteller behind Flourishing Ecology. Her work emerges at the intersection of lived experience, professional knowledge, spiritual and contemplative study, and a deep relationship with the living world.
Through thoughtful reflection and accessible contemplative, creative and embodied practices, she explores the conditions that support human flourishing, cultivating greater presence, connection and meaning.
The loss of her cultural heritage in childhood, followed years later by an extraordinary near‑death experience, profoundly shaped Cherie’s understanding of identity, belonging and what it means to be fully alive. Her story subsequently reached more than 100 million people worldwide through television and film.
Today, these understandings are woven into the rhythms of her everyday life. Time with horses, healing rituals, farmers markets, food grown close to home and meaningful relationships within her local community. Flourishing Ecology is not simply something she studies or writes about. It is a way of life she actively cultivates and inhabits.
Cherie lives by the lake surrounded by farms with her husband of nearly twenty years.
Cherie majored in international history while studying ballet, jazz, modern and African dance throughout college. She is also professionally trained in adaptive yoga and embodied practices.
Her medical history spans cancer, cardiac arrest, prolonged life support, coma, brain injury and heart transplantation, followed by more than fifteen years of physical and neurological rehabilitation.
