About Dina
As a child, Dina suffered from debilitating seizures. As an adult, she struggled with anxiety and insomnia. One day, she stepped inside a yoga studio for the first time and experienced a kind of quiet, stillness, and peace that she’d never known. Her life was never the same.
Today, she leads yoga and meditation circles for women, teaches intuitive and grief writing classes, and is a certified life coach and author.
Dina's grief story and loss of her best friend, Jax (beloved cat companion for 16 years), and father in June of 2022 inspire her grief classes and community.
In her newsletter, Through the Lens, she writes about yoga, mindfulness, love, loss, and the human experience. In her book, Wild Horse, Wild Heart, she describes a life-changing connection with an animal and how this relationship taught her to slow down, be curious, and trust her instincts.
For Dina, yoga, meditation, and writing are three tools to quiet the mind, explore important questions, and lead a more intentional life. She loves sharing these practices with her clients. Clients describe Dina as “soothing and uplifting,” a teacher with “quiet grace” who helps you “come back home to yourself.”
A harmonious approach
Dina believes in a harmonious approach to life, aspiring to create a quiet, calm, clear stillness in the mind and building sattva in the body and energy through daily practices that support and reveal our soul's subtle inner knowing and language.
She believes that writing and applied daily aspiration practices are powerful tools to expand our capacity, seek the freedom we desire, and answer the call of our hearts.
Writing as a spiritual practice
Writing has always been a spiritual practice, a sacred ritual, and an anchor in my life—a place where I find refuge from the busyness and worries.
The very act is grounding and invites me to slow down and sit still, making time for me and what I love most.
It is a gravitational force that opens the flood gates to my deepest desires and darkest shadows. A safe and constant space to sense and listen to what my heart and body are asking. Releasing words and expressions on paper quiets my mind and creates space to breathe. To inhale and exhale. To pause in silence and hear the secret language of my soul.
In 2020 I established a morning writing ritual that I have stayed loyal to for over a year. The healing practice has transformed my life in many ways. It is my morning cup of coffee and what I look forward to most in my day - quiet time to reflect and write. It is where I witness challenge and heartache, joy and growth, peace and quiet, and profound breakthroughs in my practice and journey.
Writing allows me to work my way into my soul and through guarded or shut-down emotions that tug at my heart and write freely. A place where I can safely let go and let the tears flow—a sacred pause. A time to work through emotion stuffed so deep I didn't know existed.
Writing helps me to track my practices and patterns, refine and clarify my aspirations, experiment with new skills and habits, highlight places of struggle and attention, and celebrate progress.
It's a splash of light in the darkness of this uncertain world. It illuminates beauty were otherwise believed did not exist. It opens my mind and heart to see the existence of grace and strength in the corners of my heart and world, a place we can only know if we get out of our own way.
Writing is an invitation to embrace what is without needing to fix or control, a place that connects me to that place of lasting and infinite inspiration and faith.
xoxo, Dina
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