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