What if what’s showing up isn’t in the way - but part of the way?
In Depth Body-Based Healing, Integration & Beyond
A slower, body-led path for deep self-discovery—so you can feel more steady, relate more honestly, and move through life with greater clarity & ease.
Welcome. I’m Dayna.
This is Awaken Within Healing
If you’ve been trying different things just to feel better, and it still hasn’t really shifted…
Your body isn’t failing you. It’s communicating.
When symptoms or patterns keep returning, it’s rarely because something is wrong. They’re asking to be met, not corrected.
A different way of working with the body—and with what’s showing up in your life.
I offer in-depth bodywork and supportive healing sessions for people who have been sincerely trying to feel better, yet find their symptoms or patterns keep coming back.
This work can help with ongoing pain, tension, limited mobility, fatigue, sleep or digestive issues, emotional stress, and other physical symptoms that often build up over time through life experiences and prolonged stress.
It can also be supportive during difficult times in life—such as grief, loss, major changes, or those in-between periods when something in life has ended but the next step hasn’t fully arrived yet. Many people also come to work through past relational hurts or to learn how to show up more fully and honestly in their relationships and their lives.
When Symptoms and Patterns Keep Returning
Physical symptoms are often not separate from lived experience. They reflect how the body and nervous system are holding what hasn’t yet completed.
This may show up as recurring pain, physical symptoms, repeated emotional or relational patterns, or a lingering sense of being stuck or unsettled.
From a nervous-system perspective, trauma isn’t only about what happened, but about what couldn’t finish at the time. When a stress response remains incomplete, the body continues to carry it.
Not as failure.
As protection.
How This Work Helps
This work isn’t about fixing you or asking your body to perform differently. It’s about meeting the body’s deeper intelligence—the part that already knows how to restore balance, health, and well-being—and supporting changes that are felt in your body, reflected in your relationships, and carried into everyday life.
By slowing down and creating safety, the body learns to stay with what is rising rather than pushing it away. When met with compassion and curiosity, stress responses complete, tension softens, and clarity returns.
Through in-depth bodywork, embodied presence, and relational coaching, these shifts integrate—so new ways of responding become available and life no longer has to get your attention in the same ways.
What People Often Notice
• feeling steadier and more grounded during difficult or uncomfortable moments
• greater ability to stay present with themselves instead of shutting down or self-abandoning
• more choice in how they respond, rather than reacting automatically
• clearer boundaries and increased self-trust in relationships
• reduced pain, tension, or fatigue as patterns soften
• improved sleep, digestion, and overall energy
• feeling more present, connected, and engaged in daily life
How I Work
I’m a licensed massage therapist, somatic guide, and midwife of deep healing and change, with nearly 30 years of experience. Sessions are individualized and responsive, guided by what is unfolding through your body and life in real time.
This work isn’t about changing who you are. It’s about understanding what has been shaping your experience—and supporting real, embodied change that carries into everyday life.