Annika Fae, Threshold Witch
I’m an energy healer, ritual guide, Feldenkrais practitioner, and nature connection mentor in Durango, CO.
I help people rewire their nervous systems, release old energy patterns, and reclaim the life that feels most truly their own.
Have you ever felt called by something more — a quiet knowing beyond logic?
That’s how my journey began.
The Beginning: Called Back by Nature
I didn’t set out to become a healer. I was an engineer — managing HVAC projects in Seattle, surrounded by cubicles, spreadsheets, and fluorescent lights. It was supposed to be a good life: stable, respectable, predictable.
But inside, I was withering.
My first escape was a vacation on a wilderness trail crew in Alaska.
Under the ancient trees, through fog, rain, and mountain silence, something in me stirred awake. I felt connected again — to the earth, to the wind, to everything alive.
That was the beginning of my animist education — the living world teaching me directly that everything has spirit, that relationship is the real intelligence.
When I returned to the office, walking between rows of gray cubicles, I heard a voice calling from somewhere deep inside:
“If you stay in this job, it will kill you.”
It wasn’t a metaphor. It was truth. And I listened.
Leaving engineering wasn’t easy — it meant walking away from security and from who I thought I was supposed to be — but it was the first crossing. The first threshold.
At first, I thought I just needed a new career. But what I really needed was a new nervous system.
I was carrying deep layers of panic, shame, and inherited trauma — survival patterns that shaped every relationship, every choice, every breath.
My body became my first teacher. Healing myself became my first apprenticeship. Over years, under the mentorship of a powerful healer and intuitive, I walked the path of unlearning and remembering: healing childhood wounds, navigating illness and depression, untangling ancestral threads, learning that healing isn’t about fixing but about remembering who you are.
The Long Path Home
I found Waldorf education, becoming a preschool teacher, drawn to the deep rhythms of childhood, the balm of a sticky little hand in mine, and the unseen forces that guide us.
From there I graduated to Nature Connection mentoring for children of the middle years and teens, learning valuable lessons with each age group, healing my child selves as we played and laughed together, finding my wild self again as we moved like foxes through the forest.
Eventually, I found my way to Feldenkrais, where I experienced firsthand how intelligent touch, movement, and attention could rewire long-held patterns. It changed my body—and how I move through my life and the world.
Following the breadcrumbs to myself
And somewhere in all that unwinding of what wasn’t mine, I became a witch.
Eventually, it all wove together — body, energy, ritual, and relationship with the more-than-human world — into what I now call Threshold Healing: the practice of crossing from old patterns into the field of possibility.
The word witch came to me, not as fantasy but as lineage.
A green witch who listens to the land.
A hedge witch who walks between seen and unseen.
A threshold witch — one who stands at the edge of transformation and helps others cross into who they came here to be.
The Work I Do Now
Today, I work with people who feel that same stirring — the sense that something deeper is calling, even if they can’t name it yet.
Together, we clear old energies, restore connection, call back lost parts of self, and anchor new patterns for living in right relationship — with body, with soul, and with the living world, and open the way for what’s waiting to be born.
This isn’t about fixing what’s broken.
It’s about remembering what’s real — your own intelligence, your belonging, your aliveness.