Practices & Modalities

 About Dana

Dana Connor has dedicated her life to supportive human connection and believes that a basic human need is to have loving relationships with self and with others. She understands that society & its structures and personal experiences are not always supportive of this. 

Dana has overcome acute, chronic, and complex traumas, has survived loved ones to suicide and overdose, and has witnessed the complexities of addiction. She has learned how to abstain from the conditioning of an oppressive society. Her purpose is to serve those who have had similar experiences and to help expand their resiliency into growth.

Dana has had the honor to participate in countless Indigenous Ceremonies, one of them through the Aztec Traditions called Moon Dance. This ceremony entails a four-year commitment guided by a sponsor; In this case Dana had Yoloteotl as hers. The opportunity given to her to be part of this ceremony has given her the understanding on how to help her community. She helps by bringing awareness of how to present oneself as a white person within white privileged communities and among marginalized communities in support of reparation and decolonization thus, making sure that there is no appropriation of traditional ways of living.

Dana’s personal spirituality is a combination of learned spiritualities and would classify it as an Earth based practice. Dana remains accepting of all religious and spiritual beliefs. As a steward of the Earth, she has learned that strengthening ones intuitive connection to the natural world is a tool and resource for the times we, as humans, are living. She understands that this might look different for everyone.

In 2007, Dana graduated from Berkshire Community College in Massachusetts with an Associates in Complimentary Care, a prerequisite for her License in Massage Therapy (LMT). In 2012 she moved to Colorado and continued her work as an LMT learning modalities such as Cranial Sacral, Sports Massage, several different forms of energy healing, Herbalism, & Reiki. Dana learned somatic based practices and tantra under her teacher & mentor Juliet Haines. She completed Post-Traumatic Growth Somatic Therapy Certification Training focused on trauma and polyvagal nervous system theory. In 2021 she graduated with her Bachelors of Arts in Psychology from Fort Lewis College. In 2022 Dana graduated with her Masters in Social Work from the University of Denver and became a Licensed Social Worker (LSW). She continues supervision with intentions of obtaining her License in Clinical Social Work (LCSW).

Currently Dana resides in Durango, Colorado and she conducts her practice remotely. She has a passion to travel, has a love for dance and movement, and likes to perform when she can. She loves to be around her boyfriend and to spend time with her friends and family. Dana is devoted to nature and likes to camp, ski, kayak, swim, ride dirt bikes and other forms of off-road vehicles. Dana is a believer in movement and nutrition as a tool for good health and she participates in meditation and ritual, daily. Dana does not claim to live an all knowing perfect life. She is here to level with you and to be a good human while supporting you in doing the same.