Long before entering the somatic field, Dana’s path was shaped by years of immersion in transpersonal psychotherapy alongside her uncle. Yoga, meditation, and embodied practices across cultures. Time spent living and studying in India deepened this exploration, informing her understanding of the relationship between body, psyche, consciousness, and human experience.

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After a childhood immersed in movement — from gymnastics to yoga and partner acrobatics — she later lived with chronic pain that did not respond to conventional approaches.

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Seeking answers, she moved between different worlds.

On one side were physiotherapists, orthopedic specialists, and physical approaches focused on the body.

On the other were psychotherapy and psychology, focused on emotion, meaning, and the inner world.

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Yet her experience did not fit neatly into either.

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What she was living was both physical and psychological.
Both physiological and emotional.
Both embodied and relational.

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As she began exploring somatic approaches, it became increasingly clear that the struggles she had been experiencing from both sides were deeply interconnected.

The body was carrying far more than physical symptoms.
And emotional experience was expressing itself through the body in ways that could not be understood through words alone.

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That realization became a turning point.

Not only personally, but professionally.

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She came to understand that the separation between body and psyche did not reflect the reality of human experience.

The gap between the two was not only a gap in her own healing.

It was a gap she repeatedly encountered across the helping professions themselves.

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So she returned to study.

Body Psychotherapy.

Somatic developmental psychology.
Developmental trauma.
Attachment.
The nervous system.
The fascia.
Embodiment.

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Building, over years and across continents, the training, understanding, and lived experience that would allow her to bridge what had too often been left separate.

 

This is why she works the way she does.

Not body or psyche.
Not physiology or consciousness.

But the meeting point between them.

Her own practice continues through ongoing supervision, mentorship, embodied inquiry, and a lifelong exploration of human development, embodiment, relationship, and consciousness.