Dami Roelse

Dami Roelse is a certified life coach and author. Born and raised in Holland, Dami has traveled the world extensively, lived on different continents and studied with different spiritual teachers. Dami has learned to use her travel as an inspiration for living. Her memoir "Fly Free" takes the reader to a remote destination in Ladakh on the border with China and is sprinkled with flashbacks of her travels in Afghanistan, India and Nepal, where she met Goenka, Neem Karoli Baba and Ram Dass.

Dami has used her passion for long distance hiking and backpacking as a means to deepen her connection with nature and the universe. Her inner spiritual journey has evolved right along with her outer journey. Dami’s first book, “Walking Gone Wild, How to Lose your Age on the trail”, is a call to women in the third phase of life to find freedom and inner peace as they walk in nature. A second updated edition of Walking Gone Wild is available as well. Dami completed hiking the length of the Pacific Crest Trail at age 75. Her third book, "Body and Grace, a woman's walk to wholeness on the PCT" will be released March 2026 by Mantra Press. Dami makes her home in Taos NM, a diverse community of artists, writers, and outdoors people. There she writes, enjoys the fruits of her garden, kayaks on the Rio Grande. She continues to hike in the Sangre de Christo Mountains of Northern New Mexico and on journeys abroad where she likes to walk pilgrimage Caminos. Dami publishes a weekly post on Substack under WalkwithDami