Lynn Trotta

Who am I?  I'm a naturalist, certified coach, lover of archetypes, passionate gardener of weeds, farmer of chickens, facilitator of rites of passage for women, and
contributing author to Discover Your Woman Within: A Journey to Wholeness. I'm also a self-proclaimed Sit Spot ninja with 10,000 hours to backup my claim. I love to share my connection to nature with others so that they may foster their own meaningful relationship to nature, and ultimately their true nature. I'm a student of bird language, an aspiring mixed media artist, podcast junkie, loving wife and mother whose skills and commitment to Inner Tracking consistently allow me to rediscover and birth my most authentic truth and self. 

With a degree in Biology from Quinnipiac University, a yearlong apprenticeship with with the Vermont Wilderness School, and a husband busting to co-create transformational, nature-based experiences for individuals and communities,  I said good-bye to the usual career path and co-founded the Sagefire Institute with my husband, Michael, in 2005. 

When I'm not coaching women or facilitating groups, much of my joy and energy goes into spending time splashing in puddles with my greatest creation – my six-year-old daughter.

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“Lynn has a wise woman’s intuition and a wizard’s grasp of the magical.  
Her gentle encouragement helped me let go of my relentless ‘to do’ lists and play more. We live in such a hard-charging, distracted, busy culture.  I found Lynn’s Nature-Based Coaching to be the perfect, creative antidote.” 
- Amy E., OH

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Naturalist

I was that kid who found wounded animals and brought them home to a hospital bed made of a grass filled tissue box. Caring for nature was in many ways how I cared for myself, and as I grew older, my love and concern for nature grew too. After college, I worked for the Audubon Society of Greenwich, CT, where I was responsible for ferrying myself out to a small island in the sound in order to conduct research on the health of bird populations. It was there that my love of all things avian was born. Shortly there after I began to supplement my modern, academic understanding of the natural world with a more native, cultural understanding. This approach, melded with what I had learned formally, proved to be the key to a whole new consciousness for me.
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Life Coach &
Inner Tracker

With nature awareness providing a new world view and approach to living a life of harmony, coaching or "Inner Tracking" provided me with the vocabulary for navigating this way of seeing to others. It wasn't long before I began using my innate ability for deep listening, my nature-based world view, and tools for tracking both the inner and outer landscape in order to guide others to their deepest truth. 

Empowerment
Maven

In the many years I have been learning about ancient, nature-based cultures, perhaps one of the most profound cultural elements they had, that are all but lost today, is what we would call rites of passage. Consciously designed to help individuals transition from one life stage to the next, rites of passage initiate people into new identities and empower them to take hold of their rightful place among the people. The significance of this is often lost on our modern selves, yet their absence can be felt in the struggle and "stuckness" that many of us feel as we long to become a bigger expression of who we are currently showing up as. Fortunately, there has been a reawakening. People have begun to rediscover importance and possibility of rites of passage, and I have been a passionate student, facilitator, and teacher of these psychologically imperative and culturally dynamic life transition ceremonies for over 10 years.