About
Working where body & psyche meet.
I'm Dana. A somatic psychotherapist, Certified Educational Supervisor in Bodynamic Analysis, educator, speaker, bodyworker, mother of two, and host of the podcast Felt.
For more than fifteen years, I have worked across countries and cultures with individuals, mothers, therapists, practitioners, and educators, exploring how human experience becomes organised in the body, and how our capacity to feel, connect, and respond to life can continue developing through relationship.
My Why
Long before I found a home in somatic psychotherapy, my path was shaped by years of immersion in transpersonal psychology alongside my uncle, Prof. Jure Biechonski.
Yoga, meditation, and embodied practices across cultures, and later living and studying in India, became my way of exploring what it means to be human.
Movement was always home. Gymnastics, yoga, partner acrobatics.
Then I developed chronic pain.
I searched for answers in two separate worlds. Physical approaches focused on the body. Psychotherapy focused on the inner world. My experience didn't fit into either. It was both physical and emotional, embodied and relational.
That gap wasn't only in my own healing. I kept meeting it across the fields that were trying to help people.
So I returned to study, and found the system that would become my foundation: Bodynamic Analysis.
In 2020, I graduated. That same year, I became a mother.
I stepped out of the greenhouse of education and into the living laboratory of life.
For six years I stayed close to home with my children, unhurried, outside the agenda of the school system. Everything I had studied about psychomotor development, attachment, and the nervous system unfolded in front of my eyes.
Not as theory, but as the daily practice of meeting another body.
Motherhood became my deepest training. It still is.
It showed me how much of a child's world is shaped through the body of the one who holds them, and how much of my own history I needed to meet in order to stay present.
This is why I work the way I do.
Not body or psyche. Not parent or child. But the living relationship between them.
Today I know that our experiences become organised in the body, and that healing happens not by separating physiology from psychology, but by restoring the relationship between them.
My clinical foundation today is Bodynamic Analysis, the Danish school of Somatic Developmental Psychology founded by Lisbeth Marcher.
Developed over four decades of psychomotor research and clinical practice, Bodynamic maps how psychological development unfolds through the body. Over 125 muscles have been linked to the ego functions they support as we grow: our capacity to connect, to need, to stand our ground, to hold boundaries, to express ourselves.
It brings together development, trauma, character, and relationship into one integrated understanding of the human being. And it holds something I have come to know deeply: connection is a body-based skill.
My roles within the system:
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Certified Bodynamic Therapist
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Supervisor, Educational Therapist & Educational Supervisor, approved by Bodynamic International to work with students in training
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Teacher in training within the Bodynamic system, since spring 2025
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Further specialised trainings within the system, including Bodymap, Developmental Trauma, Attachment & Bonding, and Reorienting Birth
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Board member, Association for Bodynamic Psychology (since 2023)
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Co-creator of the ABP support system for Ukrainian psychotherapists (2022)
Bodynamic taught me how a child's body develops in relationship. Motherhood taught me what that means in real life, day after day.
About my approach
The Body Remembers
When the body meets experiences that are too much, too soon, or too alone, it adapts.
The system organises around what could not yet be processed safely.
These are not mistakes. They are intelligent responses.
Over time, these patterns can begin to feel like who we are.
But the body is not the problem.
What you feel, the tension, the anxiety, the numbness, the exhaustion, the pain. These are not failures.
They are signals.
But the body does not only carry symptoms.
It carries our way of relating to life.
How we learned to stay connected.
How we hold emotion.
How we shape boundaries, intimacy, expression, meaning, and presence.
The body reflects not only physiology, but relationship, history, consciousness, and lived experience.
The work is learning how to listen.
Not to fix or override,
but to come into a living relationship with the body.
The Body Speaks
When the body is truly met, something begins to shift.
The system reorganises. Capacity expands. Life begins to move again.
And what once felt overwhelming becomes something you can stay with.
This is the movement from survival into coherence. The body is no longer something to manage, but a place you can trust, inhabit, and live from.
Not another attempt to become a better version of yourself.
An invitation to discover more of who you are, and who you can become.
Ways to work with me
Different pathways. One underlying inquiry.
Background & Training
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Bodynamic Analysis, Somatic Developmental Psychology, the Danish system grounded in psychomotor research (practitioner training 2016–2020; Educational Supervisor 2024–2025)
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Clinical Applications of Polyvagal Theory, Stephen W. Porges PhD (2019)
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Core Evolution Body Psychotherapy, Siegmar Gerken PhD (2015–2017)
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Transpersonal Psychotherapy, Teadlik Mina
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Bodymap Training, Lene Wisbom (2020–2021)
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Reorienting Birth Training, Lisbeth Marcher, Bodynamic analysis system (2025)
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Developmental trauma, Ditte Marcher, Bodynamic analysis system, 2020
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Trauma, Development & Attachment, Raja Selvam PhD, 2020
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Professional seminars, Dr Gabor Maté
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Attachment & bonding, Ditte Marcher
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Shock trauma, Raja Selvam PhD
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Neurobiology Matters, Kim Barthel
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Rebalancing (2014)
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Structural Integration (2014)
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MER, MyoFascial Energetic Release (2015–2017)
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Myofascial seminars, Tom Myers
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Fascia and the nervous system, Dr Robert Schleip
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Certified Ashtanga-Vinyasa Yoga teacher 200h (2011)
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Certified Hatha-Tantra Yoga teacher 200h (2016)
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Certified AcroYoga teacher (2014)
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Light Medicine
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Shamanic Work
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Subtle Energy Work
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Working with people worldwide.
Alongside my clinical work, I've contributed to therapeutic, educational, and community-based initiatives across international and multicultural settings.
Between 2017 and 2025, I ran a private clinic in Norway, collaborating with Tou Helsepark in Stavanger, working with an international community experiencing chronic stress, chronic pain, psychosomatic conditions, anxiety, burnout, and developmental trauma.
I've taught workshops across Europe and Asia exploring embodiment, relational presence, movement, emotional integration, and the felt sense of self in connection with others. Before my years in clinical practice, I created Family Playground, a movement-based relational space for parents and children, bringing together play, embodiment, attachment, and connection. It was the first seed of the work I'm returning to now.
I'm currently writing a book, Emotions and the Body: From the Story into Connection. If you'd like to hear when it's ready, join Felt Letters on the home page.
