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Dana Young, Reiki Master Teacher and Life Coach

About Dana

Since founding Dragonfly Reiki in Atlanta, GA in 2008, my work has focused on helping women like you connect with the deeper well-being, peace and wholeness you are seeking in your daily lives through Reiki healing, Reiki training, and spiritual development.

Empowerment, abundance, and meaningful life transformation is possible when you remember your connection to the Divine and your own innate healing ability.

In my Reiki healing and coaching sessions, I help you understand and experience how energy directly influences your emotional, physical and spiritual well-being. The work we do together enables you to restore well-being and clarity about who you are, what you need, and what purpose you are here to actualize

Like the women ancestors and elders in my family, I am clairvoyant. I have a highly intuitive style and my ability to tune in to a person’s energy can reveal insights about the physical, emotional and spiritual work needed to bring about deep healing and change.

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Dana’s Reiki story

I received energy healing during a business trip to India in early 2006 that brought about immediate relief of neck and back pain. I’d suffered from chronic and sometimes debilitating cervical spine pain for two decades.  To be completely pain-free in a few hours was an experience that changed my perception of “healing” from being something that others managed for me (often, with limited results) to something my body was fully capable of initiating and sustaining on its own by reconnecting with the abundant energy of the universe. It was life-changing.

I know, it sounds like such a cliché to have a spiritual awakening in India, but that’s exactly what happened. It was a very ordinary morning, before heading out for another day at the office, when I had a brief encounter with an energy healer who gave me a glimpse into what was possible with healing – and what my future was going to be – simply by asking, “Is there something paining you?”

I returned to the U.S. with the intention of learning a self-healing practice to help take better care of myself. I had a stressful job as a manager for a global professional services firm. The long hours, travel, and time spent on the computer made me more susceptible to chronic pain and other stress-related issues.

What happened in India was a wake-up call, even though I didn’t fully know it at the time. It was an urgent message that I needed to take care of myself differently, and tap into my own innate healing ability so that my other gifts could shine.

Soon, I found Reiki Ryoho, which has been instrumental in bringing about greater physical health, balance, emotional clarity, and spiritual growth into my life. Reiki brings me home to myself, every day. I can’t imagine my life without this beautiful spiritual healing art. Reiki has been a gift that continues to inspire me with what is possible when we trust the healing presence and guidance of the life-sustaining, transformational energy of the universe.

In time – and with encouragement from others – I realized my calling was to be a companion to those embarking on their healing journey and support their spiritual and personal growth.  I am grateful for the opportunity to help others recognize and live from their own inner divine light.

*My pronouns are she/her. Are you a woman? A womyn? Or a womxn? You – and your pronouns – are welcome and honored here. 

My training

I am a certified Reiki pracitioner and teacher (Shihan) of Komyo ReikiDo, and a direct student of Hyakuten Inamoto, a Japanese Buddhist monk and the founder of this system of traditional Japanese Reiki. I am also certified as a Reiki Master Teacher in the Usui System for Natural Healing. I’m also trained in or have working knowledge of other energy healing modalities and may incorporate them as needed.

In the corporate world, I have also trained and mentored team and staff members to develop their skill sets and support career goals.

As a certified life coach, with additional seminary-level training in spiritual formation and spiritual direction, my focus is on helping women like you explore and discern how the Spirit accompanies and guides you and to assist you in deepening and trusting that relationship.

In my personal and professional life, I am committed to anti-racism. I am a mixed race Latina whose grandparents were from Puerto Rico. I affirm the LGBTQIA community. I strive to make my work accessible to people with disabilities.

You are welcome and honored for who you are, in the fullness expression of your being. 

Certifications

Other Coursework

  • Practicing Reiki in Health Care: Instructor – Pamela Miles (Reiki, Medicine and Self Care)
  • Harvard Management Essentials – online certificate course – Harvard Business School
  • Spiritual Direction and Spiritual Formation courses at Columbia Theological Seminary
  • The Spiral Way: Celtic Spirituality and the Creative Imagination: Instructor – Christine Valters Paintner
  • Celtic Shamanism: Rituals, Myths & Journeys for Reclaiming Your Sovereignty: Instructor – Jane Burns

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Awards