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Daenin Tejeda:

Events and private sessions for embodying the new paradigm

Welcome to Daenin Tejeda

Explore a whole selection of:

  1. superb sessions to choose from.
  2. excellent events to take part in.
  3. lavish links on sustainable community resources to share.

To get more details on a type of session click on the “sessions” tab and choose from the menu and you will be directed to a whole site on the topic.

Using this site:

You can roll over the tabs above for a drop down menu. Then point and click on the subject of your interest.  Sessions and some events take you to other dedicated sites of mine for more elaborate descriptions of these offerings.  They have return links to this main directory site for ease of navigation.  Enjoy!

What am I up to? I am making major changes to my main website.

I have decided to make the process visible to people so if they have feedback they can provide it.  So I will lay out the objective, so as you feel inspired- you can help me achieve it.  And let me know if you have a better idea which works inside wordpress. The idea is:

  1. to make my main site more user-friendly
  2. and turn it into a useful directory with more specific websites for each area of interest.
  3. So if you are really interested in Touch Based sessions you can learn about that in a site dedicated to just that in detail (http://touchthedivine.wordpress.com) with all the info you want easy to find and use.
  4. If you are interested in learning about a community created vision for sustainable community you can go to a specific site for that with lots of resource links.  (http://shambhallanetwork.wordpress.com)

Men’s work: Connecting with the Earth

Many times I have heard of derogatory and also feminist uses of the term “woman’s work”.  But what about men’s work?  In our emerging culture what is the real work to be done? And what does it have to do with being a man?  I was in Hawaii recently and I was struck at how easy it is to connect to the Earth there.  Molten lava flows under the very ground, and a sense of the aliveness of the Earth and the Goddess Pele is so palpable, it is shocking for me to return to Seattle’s apathy.  I toured intentional communities, ate food with people as a community, I swam with 16-20 dolphins for over an hour, drank the juice of coconut from a nearby tree and went to sleep with the sound of koke frogs. I began to move in rhythm with the Earth in a new way. As I have come back I have felt a strong and determined desire to connect to the Earth that deeply here.  I feel called to work with the land more deeply and I have felt an awakening of my desire to also work with men more deeply and to create challenges for men to connect to the Earth more deeply.  I believe that in this way, men can become stronger in themselves.

I have lived a relatively connected life to the Earth here in Seattle. But relative to what I experienced in Hawaii, it is really disconnected.   I long for that bigger connection to earth and intentional community.  I see this as a source of wellness and as deep spiritual journey and practical way of sustainable living, and it can be super rewarding socially too.

I have been separated from the food I eat, and from the beauty of soil and fresh greens growing.  I have been living in my head too much. When I was in Hawaii, something in me woke up.  That’s not gonna do it for me anymore.  I have been beginning in a Daka Training and getting out of the head and into the body is part of it, but it is also connecting to the soil, and to accepting the challenges of life as invitations to grow and plant new seeds.

I am learning how to plant the garden of loving community; A community more in harmony with the Earth.

The Quickening Pulse of Life – Passion!

Happy February!  On Feb 2nd “Groundhog Day”,  a pagan holiday called “Imbolc” is celebrated.  Imbolc is also called the quickening, and is the time of year when milk begins to flow and when the sap begins to flow in the trees, it is said to be the quickening of life in nature as the world awakens from a wintry slumber and into the passion of spring!

There has definitely been a quickening in my life!  Here are a few updates:

  1. This mainsite has gotten a makeover with rollover drop-down menus and a new slick “directory look”. (still being updated)
  2. The first of the mini-sites (my session site) is going live tonight which is called “Touch the Divine”.
  3. I have moved to a new location in West Seattle with a nicer sacred healing space and am now nearly moved in.
  4. And I am going to Hawaii for ten days to visit Pele, and teach and recharge my solar batteries before my next adventure.
  5. I have a new class being co-created with Verla Wade called Light up your Passion for Life which will be my first co-creation class with Verla who has taught globally subjects such as Kabbalah and pathworking.  I will be leading a Sensual Dance portion of the night and Verla will be teaching about candle Magick and how you can take that passion home with you in a candle all charged up from our dancing! So watch for that the date being talked about for that is March 28th, from 1-6pm $45 includes  your own passion candle and entry.
  6. 3 Loves Part 2 was a big success! Thank you so much to everyone who was there and who made that experience so beautiful!

Happy New Year!

Blessings on your New Year!

I have been loving All Star Fitness and have been building up my strength and reducing my stress and improving my cardio. I have been loving it. Winter is the best time ever for going to the gym! it is a total pick me up when it is cold and wet. I can take Yoga and do cardio and weight train and use the sauna and hot tub and steam room or pool after.

All of the challenges which have faced me have been blessings in disguise. It is amazing to feel so blessed and loved.

Abundance Abounds!

  1. My life has never been better, I am surrounded by loving community and am deepening into my spiritual growth as a man.
  2. I am going so deliciously deep in my practice of Divine Touch.
  3. I am so blessed to be in a loving, fulfilling, open relationship with Robyn Lynn. She is a major inspiration in my life and a great co-creator and experimenter in building loving community.
  4. I am grateful to David Whelan who is letting me use his car, which has been an awesome blessing!
  5. I am learning tons from David Cates about new models for sustainable group process and what it really means to be heart-centered.
  6. I am starting another round of Pathworking with Verla Wade and learning about my deep psyche and how it can be used to harmonize with nature and the divine and being fully resourced by life without hesitation.
  7. I am taking a class with Teri Ciacchi on Goddess teachings and their social activism aspects. The Goddess is a compass in my life in this emerging time of Divine Union where men and women and people of all genders learn how to create together harmoniously.
  8. I am learning about community -and man there is a lot to learn, and yet I am finding it a fun creative challenge. Reading a book on Sociocracy called “We The People: Consenting to a Deeper Democracy” which is fantastic, best read in a long time! Which is answering all kinds of questions i have about how to be in community and work together.
  9. In a couple weeks I am getting ready to meet with Adele and start building the next series of Gemstone Energy Medicine classes. The transcription of the notes from our work together is almost complete! The Book editing can soon begin!
  10. I am teaching a part 2 of the Class: 3 Loves: A Story of Love and an Experience of Loving on Jan 28th @ Sharma Center, with Robyn Lynn which features three luscious exercises on how to embody love (which we update). I am so looking forward to that! The last event was amazing and packed! save the Date details to follow, this one will be even better! $20 at door

And this is just the beginning!

Winter Update:I am splitting up this blogsite into several smaller sites

Some People have noticed that my Blogsite is so big and complex that trying to keep your attention on one thing can be as difficult as herding cats! So in honor of that and my past tendency to try to do too much all in the same place with too many split focuses, I will be simplifying my Blogsite Format and giving you another update and this lovely picture:

Yee Haw! ;)

Format Change for blogsite: I have made a choice to simplify the user experience by  keeping this as my main site as a master link directory to multiple dedicated blog-sites each featuring one topic.  Each service will have it’s own blog-site now all linked to this main site and with return links.  There will be sites for:

  • Divine Touch
  • Reiki
  • Storytelling
  • Touch Positive Culture
  • Meridian Integration Technique
  • Crystal Coil Amulets
  • Sustainable Culture Links in Seattle
  • GEM Gemstone Energy Medicine
  • Life Activations
  • and More!

So now when you go to my site you can just learn in detail about a subject and then go back to the main site to explore a different area if you are interested.

Health Update: It is getting cold! and I will be joining the All Star Fitness in West Seattle to get in shape. It is time to winterize myself again.  time to strip away to the essentials and make it easy to take care of myself with a good plan in my new location.  I have recovered fully from the concussion and am making a concerted effort to become healthier than ever before.  I also received a rather Miraculous Healing which has changed my whole outlook on my practice.  I am also making some blessed oils blends to use in my Spiritual Touch Sessions. It is so amazing what power presence has!  May I enjoy sharing this with others!

Blessings to you all and hope you are staying warm this winter.    :)

Daenin Wellness Fall Update! New Location, Declaration of Ministry and Touch Positive Culture

Hey, I am sending this note to you because I want you to know where I am, what’s going on with me and my business, and because I value how you have helped me develop my life’s work.

Goodbye Capitol Hill! I will miss your walkable restaurants and many familiar conveniences.Most of all I will miss walking to ecstatic dance. Daenin Wellness has been there for some time -at least 3 years. Thank you for all you have taught me and how you have nurtured me and my business. I am sad to let go of these things and yet I am grateful for what I am gaining and the new adventures in store in my new home. I will stay in touch with the ecstatic dance community and visit the hill often.

Hello West Seattle! I am not far. I am just over the West Seattle bridge. For now call for directions and address: 206-679-1363. West Seattle feels more relaxed and has adequate free parking! Yay! I have housemate who shares the sacred healing space with me.  I have my own separate space and a dedicated healing space, too. I am getting the lay of the land here now. Blessings abound!

New Practice Space: I am happy to report that my new practice space is quite lovely. I still have use of my double plush wide massage table, but now it is heated too. Yes! And it now lives in a dedicated sacred healing space with beautiful lighting and decor and a view of a tall stone Buddha in a garden under a tree. The practice space has big windows that open into a view of a big tree and lush vegetation all around. It’s private and comfortable. Some of my receivers have transitioned there already and really like it.

The Flood: Thank you for your support at the Touch of the Divine event. It was a huge success and really made a difference to help me deal with the damage done from the flood to my things and the mold issue that made it impossible to work or live there anymore. Thank you Teri Ciacchi and thank you Living Love Revolution for throwing the event. It was great to experience being supported by community so deeply and I hope everyone gets to have that experience, truly a blessing.

Recent changes for Daenin Wellness:

1. Declaration of my Ministry. As many of you know I have been a pretty spiritual guy for some time and in the past I have been framing my lifework as a wellness business. It has never really felt quite right though. I have had my resistance to religious dogma and not wanted to be associated with this and yet my approach to my life’s work has always been deeply spiritual. I also have resisted the mental approach to spirituality, that was never a good fit for me. I have always seen the temple of spirit as our bodies and always experienced spirit more kinesthetically and somatically. I was raised in 5 religions and have studied orthodox religions and their mystical counterparts. My grandfather was a reverend in the Science of Mind church and I had my reactions to that too. They have mostly been so “in the head” for me and confusing that It has taken me some time to own that I am really a kind of priest after all. My religion has been a journey to embody Love. For me dancing and healing touch are sacred and holy acts where I feel the Touch of the Divine. I have stories to tell feeling moved to speak like the Quakers, and my sincerest hope, now that I am a priest, is that the stories will inspire and not preach.

2. Reverend Status: I am a reverend in the Universal Life Church and I am capable of performing weddings and other ceremonies legally and all of my practices are now a part of my ministry. You will find more and more about this and about my personal practices within my ministry on my website in new pages. The messages are coming quickly, and I am changing a lot, so I will try to keep you abreast of the changes. As we are now in what the Modern Mystery School calls the “Time of Divine Union” and they are putting on Fusion Events. I am seeing the need for fusion everywhere. Where there are gaps, I bridge them with presence. As a reverend my practice is being in the heart and embodying this so deeply that my presence inspires others to remember being fully integrated within the deep, full, scope of heart-self within the dream.

3. Daenin Wellness supports Touch Positive Culture: Over the years of doing wellness practices and energy medicine and massage and Reiki etc. I have found that no matter how good I am at “being therapeutic” that people really have repeating hangups in many of the same places due to bigger cultural deficiencies. If I give someone exquisite touch or hold really unconditional loving presence and then they go back to their lives of no touch, or really unconscious touch and people who are not present or in their bodies, this can even be kinda traumatic.

I am tired of people coming back to me again and again because I am the only one or one of the few who knows how to embody loving touch in their lives. So I have chosen to ask myself: What really will lead to peoples wellness?

So what really makes a difference for people? My answers coming through have required major changes in my approach! There is no way around it, people need touch in community to be healthy. A baby without loving touch will die. I also discovered that people are starving for healthy touch and sexuality. There is so much shaming that has gone on in this world around sexuality and I do not believe that this has anything to do with a “divine plan.” I believe that people have often become neurotic when they have been touch-deprived and are also not often reminded of the Divine within by the touch they do receive. I feel deeply moved by people and groups who support “Touch Positive Culture.” And I feel even more moved by those who embody unconditional love so purely that it is palpable and even transfers to those they touch. I hold this as sacred.

I likewise hold ecstatic dance as sacred–where else can you go to experience not being in the mind and being embodied in the heart and not talking -with people of all ages? This a powerful and sacred thing to me. People come out of these dances transformed and having “religious experiences” without the religion or dogma.

So there has been this divide between sexuality and divinity that has seemed like too big a bridge to span for people in a such a sex-negative culture. That is why I am really moved by the emergence of Touch Positive Culture and I have added it to the embodied solutions I support. I see it as one of the most safe, effective and necessary ways to produce wellness for community. There is an organization in Portland called Love Tribe and I am helping to create a Seattle chapter for Love Tribe. Please check out http://LoveTribe.org They are really heart centered, high integrity people who are well-organized and putting on amazing events.

I have also been working with Rev. Teri Ciacchi and the Living Love Revolution as well as a group known as the Love Council which is here to create a Seattle chapter of love tribe and and puts on touch-positive events in Seattle.

To your wellness, in love and light,

Daenin

Envisioning Sustainable Culture

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Wellness for all is a goal of mine.  I am here to tell the stories that bring people together.  And together we can create wellness for all.  Even if the scope seems overwhelming to change, people can come together and make a difference when they know they have another viable option.

And the scope is huge! When I think about wellness for all, it really is more than just the availability of good wellness plans and single-payer health-care.  It is our relationships, our media, our institutions, our schools, our environment, our monetary system and even our deeply held personal  beliefs which influence our wellness.  Can we afford to spend time caring about ourselves our kids our friends, our species, our planet? At some point if we are going to get well we face being holistic, humanitarian and empathic enough to deal with a cultural redesign.  So I have been asking myself: What is the best way to envision a sustainable culture?

I have a very active mind, and I spend a lot of time thinking about the possible directions I will go in my life. I think about what my friends will accomplish and about our relationships. Where they will go in their lives? On a larger scale I think about the emerging trends toward a sustainable culture which lift my spirits and I get all analytical with my highly technical friends and model out what it will take to create a sustainable culture more consciously.  More than all that I feel this sense of passion and motivation to connect people together who I feel have such brilliant gifts to share that may be pieces of a sustainable culture.

Are we too busy to redesign our broken systems, institutions and habits?

How can we come to agreement on tough issues?

How are we going to pay our rent and our bills, feed the starving kids, deal with urban sprawl, clean up our environment, have a sense of self-worth and live happy lives?  What does it take to feed all of humanity and clothe us and give us homes and excellent health-care? How do we as a species learn how to regulate ourselves and come into balance with the eco-system?

What is really going on with our economy?

How are we doing at creating opportunities to accept each other and love one another?  How can one person even a  compassionate person make a difference?  These are questions that require more than lip service.  Their are actually technical answers to these emotionally charged issues.  I have been looking to create groups for a long time to help my community and I have found issues with power struggles and ego and competition have gotten in the way.

Well I believe their is an answer if not several for these questions.  When I first heard about Dynamic Governance, or Sociocracy, I was skeptical.  But as I have gone deeper into understanding what it is and what it has already accomplished as a means for decision making and governance I have become more and more intrigued.  In particular I have been impressed with meeting John Buck.  Can this method actually work?  Am I someone who can help make a difference?

I care about my friends and family , and I am seeking a deeper connection to my greater family.  I bless my food.  I give thanks to a power greater than my ego.  I  do my best to inspire people to come together and create something fulfilling.

I am so desirous of an efficient and successful means to envision together and make choices together to agree and have consent together!  People with a common humanitarian goal are capable of great achievements.

One thing is clear about envisioning sustainable culture: it requires a lot of participation and insight.   I have had visions of what a Utopian world would be like since I was a child.  And the last thing we need is people getting attached to single persons version of a Utopia!  I know we can do better as we come together and share our insights.  And there is always another step. I am not aiming for perfection. I am aiming for what our next step is that is a whole lot better than where we have been. We live in a real world, and visionaries are often looked at as dreamers.  So in light of this, I choose to envision with my eyes open.  I believe that whatever we come up with we will eventually outgrow that too as a species. And that as an individual my vision has less scope than if I can invite other visionaries working toward a common goal to envision together.  I believe Sociocracy to be a brilliant new method to harness collective wisdom with consent quickly and more fairly than majority rule.

I reject the lone-ranger-visionary approach.

I advocate online crowd-sourcing, and Sociocracy to empower vision with insight, depth and discernment.

I see other visionary’s works not as stand alone dreams to be scrutinized, but rather as invitations to collaborate. If there is something I don’t like or do not understand about another’s vision, I can ask what function that aspect of the vision serves and if they are open to input or collaboration on that aspect.

It is in this light that I invite you to look at the Venus Project and the movie Zeitgeist II addendum. For those of you who have seen it already check out the Zeitgeist Movement Orientation.

My additions to this vision would be to emphasize interfaith collaboration and acceptance and add Sociocracy to the interdisciplinary groups.  I was raised in 5 religions and everyone was pretty convinced their beliefs were “right”.  I learned how to make up my own mind and am better off for having been exposed to many different kinds of beliefs.  Their are groups called sociocracy circles eachwith their own name in the Seattle area now forming who are studying sociocracy for various applications or just to learn about sociocracy itself. And there is a group which helps organize sociocratic groups in Seattle called “Next Step Together“.

What does it take to reform healthcare? -Healthcare reform begins with Your willingness to recieve Love

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I was on the radio 8 ball show on 9-9-09 and found myself once again in the role of storytelling- observing synchronicity in the questions and answers of the show participants and weaving together meanings into a message for community insight…

In This show someone asked: What is the matter with the health care system? What does it take to reform health care?

The answer came back with a song in position four the “heart” position- which has to do with love and relationships.   I thought about it and began piecing together the other bits of wisdom in the lyrics of the songs and the message was something that struck me hard.

Our health care system reflects the quality of our relationships.

How?

Well here are a few connections of health care as it “has been”:

Fear, Isolation & competition- as we are isolationist or “independent” we wait till the last minute to bring up what is important and then may require drastic measures which adds to the drama of our relationship or our wellness in life.  Are you really communicating your true desires early and clearly? The perception of lack and competition leads to more drastic “quick-fix” behaviors.

Here is what the emerging health care “can be now” if we so choose:

Love, Inclusion & Cooperation- as we are inclusive of what is going on for us and share our desires our “symptoms” and what is really our deep heart desire and support each other in creating our true desires our relationship and our wellness improves in many ways.

  1. When the quality of our relationships is good our immune systems work better- less unnecessary stress
  2. When their is positive passionate energy flowing it is easier to manifest and create a desirable life -increased lymbic function and endocrine health.
  3. We are more hopeful and believe in our power to effect change in the world- in areas such as health care for instance.
  4. It is easier to be a good friend when relationships are going well and it our friends and loved ones that in their care and love of us really prevent our needing lots of extraneous psychiatric help. To put in the positive, unconditional love is our best medicine.

So, to wrap it up. The “song answer” on the show was about a black woman who risked her life to cross the Ohio river when it was frozen to get to somewhere where she could be loved and accepted for who she is. How far do we have to go to get to the place that is true for us?  The answer is simple.  We get to have a profound heart connection as a people. We get to learn how to receive love and be courageous enough to pursue what matters to us on a heart level. When we are taking care of ourselves and each other and have enough hope and passion to know we can make a difference we will because we will be connected on a heart level to what really matters and we can all “get” that.  Lack and Abundance start as perceptions -they are contrived stories that manifest in the world based on our willingness to receive love and our courage to put our real desires on the table for everyone to look at.

Blessings to your wellness,

Daenin

“I am choosing to take good care of myself now!” Special Offer

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Yes, if you have been going to festivals or not here is your chance to get 3 months of solid excellent self-care.

Reduced rates for those who receive four 90minute sessions per month for 3 months.

This is a special deal for people who commit to 3 months of work on certain select time slots once a week.

I am focusing on teaching now, and all my current clients are awesome and I only want 4 more.

I have 4 time slots I am looking to fill with 3 month-ers. You may choose any one of the following:

  1. Mondays 12:30pm-2pm
  2. Mondays 4pm- 5:30pm
  3. Tuesdays 2pm- 3:30pm
  4. Tuesdays 4pm-5:30pm

If you can commit to showing up at the same time 4 weeks a month and write 3 post-dated checks for $300 each. You can have ongoing awesome self-care at a fraction of my regular price.

$300 vs $130×4=$520  –> $220 savings!

You may check out the sessions I offer by clicking on services above.

This offer is only good while these time slots are still available.