Dana (she/they) is a meditation teacher and interdisciplinary nature artist whose work explores mindfulness, creativity, and our intimate connection with the natural world.

With nearly 20 years of meditation practice, and a lifelong mindfulness practice woven through her creative work and everyday life, Dana guides meditation and creativity gatherings grounded in sensitivity, curiosity, acceptance, and interconnection.

She is certified in Mindful Leadership through the Spirit Rock Dharma Institute, is a 200-hour Yoga Teacher, and is completing a teaching certificate in Insight Mindfulness Meditation with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach in 2026. Her practice has been shaped by extended silent retreats at San Francisco Zen Center, Spirit Rock, and Plum Village, as well as a month living in a Zen Buddhist monastery outside Kyoto.

Alongside the early years of her meditation practice, Dana spent over a decade in Experience Design Consulting across tech, services, and the built environment. She holds degrees in Science Illustration from Cal State Monterey Bay, and Product & Experience Design from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Her studies also include somatic psychology, sound healing, architecture, and the California Master Gardener program.

After a sudden illness in 2010 fundamentally altered the course of her life, she began to engage with practice as a powerful path to meet the unpredictable undulations of life with greater presence, tenderness, and acceptance. Her path to this work has also been shaped by profound experiences of invisible chronic illness, career change, compound loss, bereavement, family estrangement, and amorphous grief. She spent the pandemic years on a healing journey, creating and communing with nature on the wild California Central Coast.

Today, Dana’s art and teaching practices are motivated by a desire to share the support and restoration that deep mindfulness, nature appreciation, and creative exploration can provide.

She is a volunteer gardener at The Huntington, in Los Angeles, where she lives with her very friendly dog Clover.