Angie Chek: Shamanism, Soul Retrieval, Biogeometry, and the Hidden Forces Shaping Your Health

This conversation between Dr. Alexis Cowan and Angie Chek — a shaman, Chek practitioner, certified nutritionist, and biogeometry expert — explores how soul loss, past life karma, and energetic imbalances manifest as physical and emotional illness. Angie shares practical wisdom on soul retrieval, past life regression, the ego-soul dynamic, and how biogeometry uses ancient Egyptian-inspired science to restore healing energy to the body, home, and environment. The episode is packed with powerful client stories demonstrating how these modalities can produce dramatic, sometimes instantaneous results.

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1. Angie Chek's Journey: From Intuitive Child to Shaman and Healer

Dr. Alexis Cowan opens the episode by introducing Angie Chek as someone who, along with her husband Paul Chek, has been transformational in her life. Angie's credentials span an impressive range — nutritionist, personal trainer, Chek practitioner, holistic lifestyle coach, Chek faculty member, and a shaman who completed a three-year training through the Foundation for Shamanic Studies.

Angie traces her path back to childhood, where she was naturally highly intuitive. She shares a vivid story from when she was just five years old, coloring at the dining room table while her grandmother worried about a sick friend:

"I get this intuitive hit... I said, 'Well don't worry Grandma, she'll be dying soon,' and I kept on drawing."

Her grandmother was horrified, and when the friend did pass away the following week, she blamed young Angie. This created a deep wound:

"There was part of me that went, 'Did I do this?' ... She blamed me in a way, so I pushed away these kind of gifts."

Growing up in a strict Catholic household, Angie was told not to explore her intuitive leanings. It wasn't until her teen years that she started secretly exploring tarot cards and the Ouija board, and in college she began working with herbal medicines and studying biology. After graduating, she started taking courses to figure out who she truly was.

She emphasizes an important lesson for listeners:

"When you have an intuitive hit to take a class, don't wait for other people to join you."

Angie describes how she kept delaying courses because friends would make excuses, until one day she just decided to go alone. She flew to San Francisco by herself as a young woman to study shamanism, and that was when everything opened up:

"That's how it started — just taking the initiation, the action by myself."

She also teases her upcoming inspirational memoir book series, which reframes every struggle as a stepping stone:

"Everything that's happened to you is creating the person you're supposed to become. It's making you stronger."

The book explores how events in her life revealed deeper and deeper meanings over time — sometimes three or four layers of significance unfolding from a single experience, creating a beautiful spiral of growth.

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2. What Is Shamanism? Understanding Soul Loss and Soul Retrieval

Defining Shamanism

When asked to define shamanism, Angie explains that she adapts her definition depending on the audience. At its core, shamanism is rooted in cultures that are closer to nature — those we might mistakenly call "primitive." These cultures connect to the spirit of the land, animals, and plants. A person with a strong ability to receive messages from these elements is considered a shaman.

"The shaman can look basically in you and through you to figure out what is out of balance in you so that you can heal."

Shamans traditionally lived somewhat apart from the community — perhaps up in the meadows or mountains — and people would seek them out during times of challenge. Their toolkit includes working with animal spirits, herbal remedies, and one of the most important practices: soul retrieval.

What Is Soul Loss?

Angie explains that soul loss occurs when parts of your soul fragment and separate from your body due to traumatic experiences. She uses a powerful analogy:

"Think about your soul and your body — they should be like a hand in a glove, a perfect fit. But when we have soul loss, there's like holes in your pockets in your body, and that leaves room for other things like disease and illness or entities."

Soul loss can happen any time you wanted to die or escape — feeling like the black sheep at a family gathering, being in a car accident, having a near-drowning experience, or any moment where your body thought death was imminent. The soul might eject from the body prematurely as a protective mechanism:

"Your body thinks it's going to die, the soul might leave because it's thinking, 'Oh my gosh, this car accident is going to kill me, I don't want to feel the impact,' and it shoots out of the body. But then you survive — there's part of that soul still hanging out because it didn't think you were going to make it."

A key indicator of soul loss is when your mind keeps returning to a past event:

"A lot of times people say, 'I can't be in the now because my mind keeps going back to this event.' That's an indication that there was soul loss there."

That fragment of your soul is essentially stuck in a Groundhog Day loop, reliving the traumatic event over and over. The shaman goes back to that moment, retrieves the fragment, and brings it into the present.

How Self-Criticism Creates Soul Loss

Angie shares a fascinating insight about how negative self-talk about our bodies can literally create soul loss:

"If you're going, 'Oh I hate my tummy, I don't like my butt, I don't like my thighs,' you're pulling out your soul from those parts of your body. And so those parts don't get better — they get worse because there's no vitality in them."

She compares it to how you'd treat a sick child — you'd cradle them and give them chicken soup, not smack them and say "Go away." Yet that's exactly what many people do to their own bodies:

"Your body's saying, 'Hey, there's something that's irritating me, therefore I'm inflamed.' And instead you're like, 'Let's just suck this out or starve ourselves.' You're doing this against your body like an attack mode instead of loving and saying, 'How can I heal this?'"

Dr. Alexis shares her own relatable experience of going through a 100-pound weight loss journey and having loose skin on her stomach that she always hid out of shame. When she began sunbathing and exposing her abdomen to sunlight (which has biochemical benefits due to special neurons under the skin), her entire relationship with that part of her body transformed — and it literally looked healthier too.

Soul Loss and Grounding

Angie explains another critical mechanism: when the soul starts leaving the body, the body holds onto extra weight to ground itself to the Earth plane:

"When the soul's fully anchored, the body is anchored to the Earth plane. But when the soul starts to leave, the body feels threatened — like it's leaving the Earth plane — so it will hold on to weight to help ground it."

This works in reverse too. People who are very cerebral and disconnected from nature — living indoors, never touching the earth — can experience a lack of embodiment:

"People are like just like a kite flying in the wind, and they're no longer present in their body."

She references Paul Chek's story about a woman whose legs were frail and wouldn't build muscle despite her upper body being fit. When they discovered her soul was floating above her body (likely from a car accident), performing a soul retrieval caused her legs to fill out almost instantaneously.

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3. Soul, Spirit, and Ego: Understanding the Non-Physical Self

Defining the Soul

Angie defines the soul as the non-physical part of you that lives forever. When your body dies, the soul lives on, carrying with it all the information gathered during your lifetime:

"When we die, the only thing we take back is our information. So when we come to this planet, we can't take our shoes, we can't take our house — but the information is stored in our soul."

This explains child prodigies and "old souls" — a three-year-old who sits down at a piano and plays beautifully is drawing on accumulated soul knowledge from previous lifetimes:

"I've had times where I go, 'You know what, it wasn't me learning — it was me remembering.'"

Angie shares how she instinctively knows how to do farming tasks — milking goats, trimming hooves — after watching just one video, because she was a farmer in a past life.

Defining Spirit

Spirit is described as the characteristic of who you are — your personality, your unique energetic signature:

"When I say, 'Oh Alexis, I love your spirit,' that's who you are. It's like your personality — the character that embodies you."

The Ego: Two Sides of a Coin

The ego and the soul are like two sides of a coin during our earthly experience. When we die, the ego and soul split, and what remains is pure consciousness — God:

"We realize our soul is that part of us that's God, that's in each and every single one of us."

Angie's definition of the ego is particularly powerful and empowering. Rather than the ego being solely about survival, she says:

"The ego is concerned with anything that you think is important."

This means the ego is essentially a mirror and amplifier of your beliefs:

"If you say, 'I'm not good enough,' your ego is there to make sure you're not good enough. If you say, 'I'm amazing,' your ego is there to make sure you're amazing."

This is why successful people often have "big egos" — they believed in themselves, and the ego reinforced that belief. The practical takeaway is profound:

"It's important to say, 'Wait, what am I thinking?' Because my ego is going to make sure — if you say, 'Oh, people are so nice and loving,' the ego is going to change its mind too, because that's what it's designed to do."

Distinguishing Soul from Ego Guidance

When it comes to telling the difference between soul and ego guidance, Angie offers clear markers:

• The ego tends toward materialism, self-interest, and may lead you to act in ways that harm others or create bad karma
• The soul offers gentle guidance — a quiet pull rather than a forceful push — and never leads you down harm's way

"The soul is not going to tell you what to do. But if you ask for soul guidance, it's always there — it's in the background."

She recommends starting with small decisions to build your relationship with soul guidance — asking whether to eat a certain food, whether to have another cup of coffee. She humorously shares how Paul will ask his soul if he can have a cookie, get a "yes" for one, a "no" for the second, eat it anyway, and wake up with a pimple:

"He realized that the soul was guiding me and I chose differently."

Once you've built this trust through small decisions, you're better equipped to listen when the big decisions come. Angie shares how she and Paul used soul guidance to buy their house during COVID in April 2020 — a time when the world said it was terrible to buy:

"Our souls said yes, this is a good time to buy it... The world is telling us it's a horrible time, but our souls said yes."

It turned out to be a blessing because during lockdown, workers who had lost their jobs were eager for employment, and they had five or six different crews working simultaneously on their 14-acre property. 🏡

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4. Dreams, Angels, and the Pain Teacher: How Life Guides Us

Dreams as Soul Communication

Dr. Alexis shares that she's always had a strong gut feeling as a form of soul communication. She describes how, when she was set to do a postdoc at Harvard, she began waking up with a pit in her stomach as the start date approached. When she called it off, the lead weight lifted immediately.

Angie confirms that the soul communicates through many channels — physical sensations, dreams, and even encounters with strangers. Dreams are especially powerful because we're in an unconscious state and more receptive.

She shares her own dream experience about UC Santa Barbara, where she had recurring dreams of drowning in the ocean. When she visited campus, she recognized everything from her dreams — her specific dorm room, the kitchen, even the laundry room:

"My mom's like, 'How do you know that?' I'm like, 'I had dreams of this.' And then we went to the beach, and that's when I got the hair stuck up on my arms. I was like, 'This is where I've seen myself drown again and again.'"

Distinguishing Inevitable Events from Changeable Ones

Dr. Alexis asks an insightful question: how do you tell the difference between something inevitable and something you can change? Angie's answer is elegant:

"If it's inevitable in your life, you probably won't dream about it. Dreams are usually unfinished business or something you can change."

Dreams and warnings are essentially the universe collapsing a possibility field — showing you that there's a fork in the road where you could choose differently. Angels may also show up as strangers who deliver exactly the right message at the right time:

"Those are usually angels that show up in our path... There is intervention so that we do what we came here to do."

The Pain Teacher

In Chek Institute philosophy, there's a concept called the pain teacher 📢. When you're supposed to change direction, life starts with a gentle knock. If you don't listen:

"It's a more persistent knock. And then the next thing you know it's like the door slamming you in the face, or next thing it's a car accident that changes your life. How many times do you have to ignore the knock before the pain teacher has to up the volume?"

Once you start paying attention and following your soul's guidance, life becomes almost effortless. Challenges still arise, but they serve to confirm you're on the right path — if you're willing to solve them, that's how you know you're doing what you love. When you're not willing, that's your signal to move on:

"Stagnation causes disease and illness."

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5. Karma, Past Life Regression, and Rewriting Soul Contracts

Karma Across Lifetimes

Angie confirms that karma travels between lifetimes. Some people experience hardship in this life because of karmic debt from previous lives — they may have chosen to experience the pain they once inflicted on others:

"You chose to take on a life and experience those things that you did to others, so you know how much pain you put those people in."

Past Life Regression in Practice

Past life regression involves entering a trance-like state and traveling back to previous lifetimes to uncover information that can help resolve issues in the current one. Angie shares several compelling examples:

• A man who had problems with women discovered the root cause in a previous lifetime. Once he understood it wasn't from this lifetime, the issues completely resolved.
• Sometimes you discover you're with the same soulmate across multiple lifetimes in different scenarios
• Sometimes you realize you need to end a contract with a particular person to stop repeating the pattern

One of her most remarkable stories involves a client who experienced intense anxiety every day at exactly 2:00 PM — so severe she had to stop working during that time. Doctors and psychiatrists couldn't help:

"Turned out she was a pilot in the war and got shot down at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and her plane went into the ocean."

The young man in that lifetime wasn't ready to die and was refusing death. It was essentially a past life retrieval and soul retrieval at the same time — once they reclaimed that fragment, the anxiety disappeared permanently:

"Once you can identify the source, then it's like the 'Oh!' — now I know why I've had that. And it just almost disintegrates."

Rewriting Soul Contracts

One of the most empowering ideas Angie shares is that you don't have to wait until the afterlife to rewrite your soul contracts:

"Sometimes we think we can only make our soul contracts in the afterlife, but you can actually work on those contracts in this life."

Once someone understands their karmic pattern and consciously chooses to release it, the ego aligns with the new intention:

"If you say, 'No, I can change it now,' the ego goes, 'Oh yeah, you're right — I'll show you how.'"

Much of Angie's knowledge in this area comes from personal experience rather than books — she's learned by living it and working directly with clients.

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6. Souls Stuck After Death: Psychopomp Work and the Middle World

Angie reveals that soul loss can persist after death, especially when someone dies unexpectedly. She shares a deeply personal story about her great-grandmother, who was shot in the back during the Revolutionary War while home with her newborn baby:

"She didn't know she died. She was dead and she was still stuck in that time period."

When Angie visited her in a shamanic journey, her great-grandmother was simply waiting — still on the ranch, thinking the family would come back from town. This is called being stuck in the middle world, the plane where living beings and ghosts coexist.

The work of helping these stuck souls move on is called psychopomp work. Angie notes that the Catholic Church used to perform this service but eventually stopped:

"I think they weren't getting paid for it, so it was like, 'Oh, this is one of those useless things — let's just stop doing it.' But it's so important."

Spirits can be stuck for centuries — from major events like 9/11 to ancient times — still running through their world thinking it's still their era. This work involves going back and releasing them from that stuck moment.

Light Beings and Dark Forces

Angie offers a fascinating perspective on why some people seem to face more trauma than others. She suggests that very bright, powerful light beings are specifically targeted:

"The dark forces of the world don't want those light beings to participate... Let's get that bright shiny one now, because if that one becomes an adult, we've got our work cut out."

Both Angie and Dr. Alexis observe that since COVID, there's been a massive awakening — more light beings speaking truth and more awareness of who the "key players" causing chaos really are:

"The dark always exposes the light. Before COVID, we didn't know who the bad guys on the planet were, and it exposed them."

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7. Biogeometry: Ancient Egyptian Science for Modern Healing 🔺

What Is Biogeometry?

Angie introduces biogeometry as a relatively new science based on ancient Egyptian techniques, founded by Dr. Ibrahim Karim, an architect now in his 80s. His lifelong question was: Why do the pyramids have healing properties, and what about their design emits this healing energy?

Dr. Karim traveled to sacred sites around the world and discovered that three specific energies come together to create a sacred site:

1. Higher harmonics of gold (the gold halos in churches)
2. Higher harmonics of ultraviolet (the healing quality of sunrise/sunset light)
3. Vertical negative green

When these three energies converge — called BG3 energy — they balance all biological systems on the planet: plants, animals, and humans. 🌿

The Hemberg Story: Balancing 5G Towers

One of Dr. Karim's most famous projects was in Hemberg (Switzerland area), where he created devices to transmute the harmful energy from cell towers into healing energy. The results were dramatic:

"Everybody who had the ringing in the ears — immediately stopped. Like, 'It's gone, what happened? It's gone.'"

When skeptics claimed it was a placebo effect, Dr. Karim pointed to the animals:

"What about the animals — is it placebo effect for them too?"

He went on to demonstrate that balanced barns resulted in leukemia disappearing in animals, blood levels normalizing, chickens not needing antibiotics, and fruit trees producing bigger, longer-lasting apples without preservatives.

Bio Signatures: The Body's Energetic Blueprint

Dr. Karim also discovered bio signatures — the specific pathways through which energy optimally flows through each organ. When we're exposed to WiFi, EMFs, toxic food, and chemicals, this energy gets scrambled, and the body may adopt suboptimal pathways that invite illness:

"When we trace these signatures on a person's body or create an emitter, it emits that signal back into that person's body and reminds them of how that organ is supposed to be balanced."

Angie's Mother: Reversing Pulmonary Fibrosis

Angie shares a powerful personal story about her mother being diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis in 2020 — a devastating lung disease with a two-year death sentence. Through a combination of lifestyle changes, diet modifications (including organ meats and targeted supplements), and biogeometry bio signatures for the lungs, her mother began to heal.

At the six-month checkup, the nurse kept looking back and forth between the machine and Angie's mother in disbelief. The doctor delivered the verdict:

"Unbelievable — your lungs got better. With people who have pulmonary fibrosis, they either stay the same or get worse. They don't get better."

When Angie's mom rolled up her sleeves to show the bio signatures drawn on her arms, the doctor — a 30-year veteran — showed genuine humility:

"He goes, 'I know what I saw and I know what you had, and I know what you don't have anymore.' He goes, 'Whatever your daughter's doing, keep doing it — because she's getting results I can't get.'"

Every six months at follow-ups, the doctor would say: "Tell your daughter I said hello." 😊

How Angie Diagnoses with Biogeometry

Angie uses a special tool called an IK Up pendulum that works on physical, mental, emotional, vital, and spiritual levels. She can assess people remotely using just a photograph (unfiltered!) because it holds the person's genetic blueprint.

Her favorite approach is to not be told anything about the client's condition first:

"Don't tell me anything about you — I'll find the problem. And if I miss it, you tell me later. And people's jaws just drop."

She shares a recent story of a boy in the hospital whose mother was desperate. Without being told anything, Angie identified problems with his kidneys, testes, and eyes. The mother confirmed the inflammation and bloodshot eyes. Within 24 hours of applying the bio signatures, the boy's severe swelling was completely gone — after three days in the hospital with no answers.

Over years of practice, Angie has built her own reference book by noting what each numbered signature corresponds to in the body, combining her biology background with intuition. She shares another impressive case where a boy was in the hospital with mysterious organ problems. By checking the spine with biogeometry, she found a specific spinal segment imbalance and traced the nerve roots — they innervated all the affected organs. The boy had simply fallen off monkey bars and had a pinched nerve! A chiropractor visit resolved everything.

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8. Practical Tips: Using Bio Signatures and Biogeometry Tools

Drawing Bio Signatures on the Body

For anyone interested in applying bio signatures, Angie shares important practical details:

• Signatures can be drawn on any body part — your body is a whole system, so you can write a face signature on your ankle
• They must be drawn in the correct direction — typically top-to-bottom or left-to-right, following the body's natural energy flow
• They must be drawn in one continuous flow without starting and stopping
• Multi-part signatures must be drawn in the correct order (1, 2, 3)
• The shape matters, not the size — smaller is fine as long as it's precise
• The signatures are "compassionate" — they don't need to be perfect, just flowing in the right direction

"If you draw them in the wrong direction, they don't work."

Practical hack for beginners: Take a photo of the signature on your phone, shrink it to a small size, place Scotch tape over the screen, trace it with a ballpoint pen, then stick the tape on your arm. 📱✨

Best Materials and Placement

• The ideal color for drawing is green (the most healing biogeometry color)
• Angie recommends BIC tattoo body mark pens (available on Amazon), which last about a week
• Signatures work best when exposed to air — wearing them under tight, synthetic clothing reduces effectiveness
• If covered by loose, breathable clothing, they still work fine

"It'll work better if it's exposed outside... but as long as there's airflow into it, it will work."

The Bio Signatures Pendant

Angie wears her pendant low, at the solar plexus (third chakra) for maximum effectiveness, as it's the center of the body. She always wears it outside her clothing:

"If I wear it up here, it's working but not as effectively as it's working here. So get a longer chain, wear it lower."

Paper Emitters for Remote Healing

Angie also creates paper emitters with a client's photo surrounded by their needed signatures. These work on the person anywhere on the planet as long as the emitter is:

• Exposed to air (not in a closed drawer)
• Face-up (not flipped over)

Signatures Change Over Time

As the body heals, needed signatures will change. Angie recommends reassessments every 4-8 weeks. She advises against tattooing signatures permanently:

"Let's wait to see which ones you need long-term, because these might be temporary."

Biogeometry for Your Home and Property

Using colored stakes (painted in primary colors), you can identify and correct energy imbalances on your property. Angie shares how she found a fault line running through a hedge on her property — identified by plants growing away from the line, leaving a hole. After placing the correct colored stake in the ground:

"Within about three to six months it cleared up — so this hole that's been there forever is now gone. I have a beautiful hedge."

The BG16 pendulum can also be used to detect BG3 energy in your environment, rotate plants into their optimal position, and identify grid lines and fault lines. For those interested, the foundation course is available at biogeometry.com with a discount code CHK75 for $75 off.

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9. Wrapping Up: Angie's Services and How to Connect

Angie offers a comprehensive range of services:

• General wellness and nutrition coaching
• Customized exercise programs based on length-tension muscle assessments
• Shamanic work: soul retrievals, past life regressions, energy healing, chakra balancing
• Communication with deceased relatives
• Biogeometry assessments and corrections (done remotely with just a photograph)

"Every person that comes to me is unique, and I use all the tools in my toolbox — but it depends on what tool is necessary for that person."

She can be reached at angiesworld@me.com and through her website. Most of her work can be done remotely from anywhere in the world — all she needs is an unfiltered photograph.

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Final Thoughts

This episode is a remarkable deep dive into the intersection of ancient wisdom and modern healing. Angie Chek demonstrates that the body is far more than a physical machine — it's an energetic, spiritual system that responds to intention, awareness, and the correct flow of energy. Whether it's retrieving fragmented parts of the soul, understanding karmic patterns from past lives, or using biogeometry to remind organs of their optimal energy pathways, the thread running through everything is the same: healing begins with awareness, and your body knows how to heal when given the right support. As Angie beautifully puts it:

"Everything that's happened to you is creating the person you're supposed to become."