THE INITIATE
Self Healer → Master Of Initiations.
The Feminine Path.
5 weeks. Begins Wednesday, August 26th.
You've done enough healing work.
You're ready to meet life deeper from a place of fullness.
It's not about throwing away all the work, knowledge and skills you've gained as you tended to your wounds. It's about being the kind of woman who uses alllll of these resources to meet life from the lens of fullness, initiation and acceptance for what life is instead of constantly questioning, analyzing and seeking out new wounds that keeps you looping in fix it mode.
You want to feel the through line of transformation. That there is another side.
Self Healer → Master Of Initiations
The Feminine Path
Self Healer is a medicinal identity when you are first experiencing what it's like to have your pain validated, your symptoms explained and your wounds tended to.
Master Of Initiations is the medicinal identity for the rest of your life as you learn what is required to validate your pain but not stay addicted to it. As you learn to discern between tending to grief as a wound vs tending to grief as an initiator of transformation.
Initiation is the language of psychological, spiritual and biological transformation for women that has a through line and holds you accountable to holding fire AND self-tenderness at the same time without collapsing or stopping.
The Initiate is for women shifting from, "what needs to be healed?" to, "how do I resource all my body knowledge, connection, wisdom and the potential of the modern world to build a life for myself that asks the most from me and makes me feel the most alive & full of vitality?"
Your head is coming up and you're looking forward while staying rooted in your body, pelvis and nervous system. You've done enough healing work, now it's time to play in the game of life.
Exit the waiting room of your nervous system and engage in a direct experience of yourself and of life.
HEALING VS TRANSFORMATION & WHY THINGS DON'T 'HOLD'
I want to highlight healing vs transformation with a specific example that I experienced and truly 'changed the game' for me. Over the years in all of my somatic 1:1 session and group sessions, I would come up to a moment where I wanted to leave my body.
I would say, "I'm getting to the edge of my capacity".
Healing spaces would tell me, "okay let's respect that, back off and hear that signal from your body. that's all we will do for today". Over and over again I met this edge, would respect it and back off.
Finally, after spending a few months really fucking angry that my healing work wasn't "working", I was in a 1:1 session with a mentor who had been helping me exit my core healing era and we met this moment.
"I really do NOT want to be in my body right now" I said to her. And I fucking felt it. I wanted to run (flight) away from myself. She said, "okay but what if you choose to stay?".
I was really mad at her for about 30 seconds while I was fighting with myself internally. Am I pushing it too hard? Am I going to cause a nervous system collapse? Is she not respecting the pace of my nervous system?
Then I felt so clearly that this is self abandonment. In these moments when I leave my body, even with the language of respecting my capacity, I am abandoning myself when I need myself the most. So I decided to stay and it was really hard, intense and almost violent for about 15 minutes. I started repeating to myself "I will not leave you again". I FINALLY felt what it was like to go to the other side of that edge. I realized there was another side.
Not only did my nervous system get the chance to process the intense charge in my system related to wanting to leave my body, but I became a woman who could walk up to an edge in myself and choose to stay through it without knowing what I would experience.
THAT was fucking transformational. It fundamentally shifted my perception of myself, what I was capable of and made 'life' a lot less scary. Which is exactly what we want when we're exiting the core healing era and moving into a phase of integration and empowerment.
The Initiate is built on finding these edges, choosing to stay and feeling what the other side has in store for you.
THE ARC
Wounded (Self Healer) → Empowered (Resourced Woman & Master Of Initiations)
A SELF HEALER
Is looking into how her nervous system works, learning about IFS & parts work, how oxytocin is the master neuroregulator for women and is learning how to do somatic tracking and keep an open dialogue with her body.
She (validly) sees and feels herself as wounded and is seeking spaces, support and somatics that validate this and will help her tend to her wounds.
Often the narratives of capitalism, patriarchy and parents being responsible for everything really resonates at this phase.
Challenges that come up in her life are often still experienced through the lens of internalized shame, an outsourcing of power and as proof that she isn't healed.
Life is challenging because she is her, and because of all these forces of power that are working against her.
A MASTER OF INITIATIONS
You already know all of these things about your body and nervous system.
You are moving from being so heavily focused on introspection and processing the backlog of pain in your body to externalizing your healing and using the NS capacity you've gained to make the choice to see and feel yourself differently.
You are in the active practice of seeing challenges as an innate part of life, not as a personal attack against you.
You are in the active practice of not pathologizing discomfort, but seeing yourself as capable of feeling it without collapsing.
You are getting annoyed and tired of endless emotional dwelling and want to feel the through line of transformation (that there is another side).
Narratives around capitalism, patriarchy, how hard it is to be a woman and your parents being the root of everything just isn't landing the same and you're more focused on just doing what needs to be done to become extremely well resourced.
Which part of the spectrum would you map yourself to?
INTRODUCING...
THE INITIATE
A 5 week initiation. Self Healer → Master Of Initiations.
THE SHAPE OF OUR FIVE WEEKS TOGETHER:
*Curriculum is subject to some change based on attunement to the group.
WEEK #1
Self Healer → Master Of Initiations (Identity Shift)
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Healing vs Transformation
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Self-tenderness + Fire Of Transformation through the nervous system
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5 Phases Of Initiation & Identity Shifts: Death Of Certainty, Death Of Control, Death Of Self (deep void), The Climb, The Return
WEEK #2
Innate Capacities Of Initiation Within Female Physiology & The Heroine's Journey (with Guest Practitioner Miriam)
WEEK #3
Detoxing Control At The Identity Level + Resourcing Your Cycle
- Slowing down while under pressure
- Mapping control + rigidity & broadening perception of reality to work smarter instead of harder
- Resourcing cycle phases to support + deepen into initiation
WEEK#4
Story Medicine: Birth As Identity Initiation - Guest Practitioner Kait Horn
WEEK #5
Reclaiming The Lost Intelligence Of The Huntress Archetype: Stop Dwelling, Make The Return
- Being audacious, purposely cultivating ‘disagreeable’ parts of you
- Going under the social nervous system to hold the through line of transformation
- Productive anger, rage and emoting to get what you want
THE FLOW
30% / 30% / 30% split across embodied education, guided practices rooted in the female nervous system, intermediate somatics, and open Q&A. Group yoni steam in week 3 or 4.
SOMATIC IDENTITY MAPPING | FASCIAL & LYMPH WORK | YONI STEAMING | EMOTIONAL PROCESSING THROUGH FEMALE PHYSIOLOGY | SOMATIC INTEGRATION OF FIRE & SOFTNESS
THE DETAILS
- Begins Wednesday, August 26th, runs 5 weeks
- Sessions Wednesdays 6-8pm EST (one guest session 12-1:30pm EST)
- Recordings Lifetime access
- Between sessions Slack community with an ask-dana channel
- As we go Supplemental lessons as needed
HI, I'M DANA
I'm a 31 year old free-spirited Canadian woman known for her fiery attitude, intense loyalty and an unquenchable thirst to experience the full potential of my human experience.
A lifetime of chronic illness beginning around seven years old is what led me down the path of holistic healing, seeking esoteric wisdom, studying ancient healing modalities and ultimately realizing that I would have to create my own path if I wanted to truly resolve the myriad chronic symptoms that had become almost as familiar as breathing to me.
Chronic sleep infections, brutal cystic acne, constant skin infections, cold sores that would coat the inside of my mouth, intense depression, suicidal ideation beginning around 11 years old, digestive pain + issues, emotional flooding and emotional intensity beyond anything that was present in my other family members.
…but also, intelligent, high cognitive processing capacity, high achieving, known for going after what I want, a thirst for travel and knowledge and an unwillingness to stay somewhere that just didn't jive with me.
Over the past seven years I have been merging fields of study spanning the emotional-nervous system connection, the female nervous system, circadian health, shadow work, evolutionary nutrition, fascia and proprioception, and ultimately building a bridge between biology and the previously intangible world of emotions and spiritual connection.
Most of my chronic symptoms have been resolved and I have emerged from this profound initiation with unique wisdom to share with those who are willing to walk the path of truth, biology and earth-based spirituality.
THE INITIATE IS FOR...
Intelligent, self aware and holistically ambitious women who have been IN the inner work for years (consciously unwinding Functional Freeze + dysregulation) with a large focus on being internal.
You've done a lot of beautiful work around listening to your body, meeting your shame, learning more and more how to rest and be soft with yourself, have started the process of learning how to hold more activation + safety at the same time in your body and are feeling yourself edge closer to identity-level transformation (and realizing how hard it actually is).
Some words from Sofía who has been in multiple of my programs and is in the process of growing her own business:
In Healthy Hustle, I connected with the part of me that wants to make the world her playground. I started healing my relationship with action and reflected deeply on how I relate to my power and life force. I also continued healing my relationship with my pelvic area. Now, I feel tenderness, love, and deep respect for my somatic center. I can feel its wisdom and its desire to protect me. And I can finally relate to my fierceness from a place of gratitude for the healthy aggression that has come online in me through this process.
A year ago, I was in a completely different place in my relationship with my body, my femininity, and my cyclical nature. I felt that being a woman — living in a body that doesn’t have the same kind of energy every day — was a burden, a weakness, and a huge disadvantage in the world we live in. I thought, felt, and said things like: “I wouldn’t mind if I never had to menstruate again,” “I wish they would remove my uterus at some point so my life would be easier,” or “I wish being a woman wasn’t so hard.”
A year later, I understand the complexity of being a woman in a very different way. I no longer reject the wisdom that has always lived within me: being a woman only feels like a burden when we’re not living in alignment with our needs and desires.
- Some words from Kelsey who was in my Healthy Hustle program:
"Wow! LIFE CHANGING GOLD when I found Dana online in the first video something clicked! The way that she was able to describe my internal landscape and experience so eloquently and with such accuracy was mind blowing.
I think one of the first concepts that I learned about was self awareness versus self attunement. I cannot recommend her course highly enough. She creates such a safe and loving container to truly explore what it feels like to be you on a somatic level.
For those of us girlies who are trying all the things and have been on a healing journey for a very long time but have felt stuck and felt like something is deeply missing that we can’t just healthy diet or bio hack or meditate our way through.
She’s your girl!!!
I think timing is everything and I was very much ready for the wisdom that she had to share. I feel safer in my body than I ever have. I feel more connected to myself more grounded and less afraid of the ups and downs or sensations or coping mechanisms and habits that I thought were my personality but turns out they were a part of deep nervous system functional freeze.
I’m so grateful for her attitude towards the body and towards healing and life in general. As a healing perfectionist with an absolute army general. I’ve a critical mind. It was beautiful to be able to feel like I’m healing trauma in real time without getting stuck in the loops and stories.
I’m developing a new language with my body and my life that feels truly softer and more accepting and simultaneously is giving me strength and the containment that I have been looking for for a very long time.
I feel a sense of freedom, aliveness and connection to self that I didn’t know was possible in just a short 8 weeks. Her teaching is truly transforming how I live on my day today in terms of however relate to myself. I’m so grateful to her and can’t wait to continue to experience more expansion.
Also have to say the other women in the group were an absolute pleasure to meet and be around and I felt so supported by both her and them. Her integrity and authenticity encourages me to express my own and I am very grateful! Thanks Dana for being an absolute powerhouse of a woman i’m helping me believe that I can too fuck around and find out. "
When does it start?
When are the sessions?
What if I can't make one live?
Is there support between sessions?
Who is this for?
Can I split the payment?
What happens after August 21st?
No amount of more healing is going to make life easy. That knowing is the doorway.
We begin Wednesday, August 26th. Waitlist price holds until Friday, August 21st.
