DANA MENLOVE
Dana Menlove
Master Coach and Guide
I am a trusted guide in human nature and the lifelong journey of spiritual development. I will help you live an inspired life by seeing things more clearly. I believe you have the innate capacity to spot, understand, and clear blocks, realize core potential, and move forward guided by your own insight. This work is grounded in awareness, authenticity, and aliveness. This process of self-discovery means coming home to your true nature and living the hard questions. It is heart-expanding and inspired by understanding the truth and wisdom of impermanence.
This is the elegance of aliveness, the source of joy and beauty.
Like you, I am Nature.
Like you, I am powerful, steady, wild & deep.
Like you, I embody paradox and I live in the unknown.
Like you, I am a child. I am playful.
Like you, I am infinite.
Like you, I am the wilderness of this moment.
I work with individuals seeking to align open hearts and clear vision with mind-body-soul integration. In addition to coaching and teaching 1:1, I design and guide strategy sessions and lead transformational retreats in wild places. Over a lifetime of devotion to contemplative wisdom study and practice, I have received steady guidance from my primary teacher: Nature. From living on remote mountaintops raising Peregrine falcons to advising in high-level political circles in Washington, DC; from the board room to the river, I am at home in connected authentic presence.
My life study focuses on the human condition and cultivating clarity through the direct, embodied experience of relaxed presence. In myriad ways this awake awareness leads to deeper connection in all relationship types, beginning with self. I'm interested in exploring the fundamental nature of being (human is Nature), consciousness, real connection, identifying what activates potential, and investigating what it means to be fully alive, including beauty, pleasure and spontaneous joy of existence. It's an honor to give back to my community by serving as mentor to others called to this field. In addition to years serving as a health care executive, I am a former practitioner in the Converge network for environmental and social impact and a graduate member of the Earth Shakers Forum led by Joe Hudson, dedicated to creating personal and collective transformation through conscious leadership. I also lead yoga and meditation retreats in wild places.
My formal study and degrees background includes biology, psychology, blood memory and storytelling at University College Cork, Ireland, creative writing and literature from the University of Arizona with Alison Hawthorne Deming and N. Scott Momaday, Mind-Body Medicine with Jon Kabat-Zinn of the University of Massachusetts Medical School Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society, and Professional Yogic Education at The Nosara Yoga Institute, Costa Rica with Amba and Don Stapleton.
I am a devoted mother and partner and I thrive wild and free in the mountains and rivers of the American West.
Dana is my most precious resource as I seek clarity, focus and skill for solving critical challenges. She's a master of her craft, a trusted advisor, and has become a true friend. This is the best investment I've made in years. Highly recommended!
K. Bradley