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About

​​​Dani’s approach involves active listening, tending to and returning to presence, understanding and reflecting client’s gifts and talents and supporting them with manifestation.

 

She focuses on ways to receive new insights, inspirations and soul wisdom through supporting client connection to their own inner wisdom.

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The Backstory

After years of traversing her own health journey, including recovery from a car accident and different surgeries, Dani sought pain relief, answers and support through many different healing modalities. Reiki has always been her ally and guide.

 

Human beings, especially women, are by their very nature cyclical. Our ability to regenerate ourselves is profound and directly connected to knowing how to listen to our bodies, reclaim and consolidate our power, how to companion ourselves through adversity and to know that all healing ultimately comes from within. Mindset matters.

 

Born in London, Dani has lived in the hinterland of Byron Bay with her daughter Remy for the last 16 years. She’s a musician, writer, Nature-lover and very much appreciates the amazing community she lives in. Other passions are yoga and yoga nidra, art-making, kitchen creations, communing with Nature, playing with friends, travel, tea drinking and reading books.

 

 

Experience

 

Dani has a Masters in Psychology from Manchester University in the UK and completed three and a half years of professional development with an experienced trauma counsellor and practitioner of the Alexander Body Technique. She has 530 hours of specialised Leadership and Facilitating training from the Institute of Bodywork and Personal Development in Kin Kin, QLD and has worked in corporate and not-for-profit organisations for twenty years in London, Cornwall, Sydney and the Byron Shire.

 

In 2024 Dani completed a life coaching program with international speaker and wellness coach, Alison Canavan and the Foundation of Energy Medicine with shaman, teacher and author Isa Lara Marie from the US. These have been rich experiences to draw and make regular practice from.

 

Other trainings include The Empress and The Dragon which focuses on women’s health and wellbeing and teaches the embodiment and practice of women’s wisdom and energetic protection, womb health and creative manifestation. Dani also journeyed the first year of Her Mystery School, an international school nurturing women to return to their true nature through different transmissions, meditations and energetic practices.

 

As a certified Reiki therapist Dani has worked with hundreds of clients around the world witnessing their transformations in great joy. She is also certified in Kundalini Reiki, a new form of Reiki from the US. Dani has continued a daily meditation practice now for over twenty years and studied Vipassana in Australia and Sri Lanka, facilitating women’s Circles and her own guided meditations.

 

Artistically Dani’s performed and created in various places as a musician, dancer and artist, as well as facilitated songwriting and singing workshops.

 

Dani's heartfelt and living, breathing intention is to support her clients to heal and empower themselves on all levels.

 

She is part of a diverse network of highly skilled practitioners and therapists in NNSW and can recommend further support if needed.

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Qualifications & Study

  • Masters in Psychology, Manchester University UK 1999

  • Certified Reiki therapist of 17 years experience

  • Reiki Master and Teacher, Pure Existence Reiki, Brisbane 2022

  • Kundalini Reiki Levels 1, 2 and 3, Pure Existence Reiki, Brisbane 2022

  • Advanced Degree of the Usui System of Natural Healing, Holistic Harmony, Gold Coast 2018

  • Reiki Level II, Rishikesh, India 2008

  • Reiki Level I, International Usui Network, Sydney 2000

  • Foundation of Energy Medicine, Isa Lara Marie 2024

  • Toltec Recapitulation Teacher Training, Isa Lara Marie, May 2024 to complete May 2025

  • Dreambuilder Course with Alison Canavan 2024

  • Her Mystery School nine month program, Jumana Sophia 2023

  • The Empress and the Dragon, Caitlin Priday 2021

  • Professional development with trauma-informed counsellor Varda Shepherd 2016-2020

  • Leadership and Facilitator Program [530 hours] @ the Institute of Personal Development and Bodywork with Mette Sorensen specialising in singing and songwriting facilitation 2018

  • Meditation: personal practice and study over 26 years including Vipassana (1999/ 2003), facilitating women’s circles and creating guided meditations

  • Breathwork - PADI training in Freediving with The Pressure Project and pranayama

  • 20 years of experience with nutrition with four years working at charity Santos Organics

  • Sisters in Song, music mentorship with professional musician Kathryn Jones 2012

  • Mixed Media, Still@theCentre, Byron Bay 2011

  • Painting, St Ives School of Painting, Cornwall UK 2004

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How to book

Phone Dani for a discovery call 0411 496 159 or book online below.

About

Dani Akehurst offers Transpersonal Coaching and Reiki in Brunswick Heads and Eltham (30 minutes from Byron Bay).

Re-energise, heal and empower yourself.

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Contact

Reach out if you would like to connect before you book. Call Dani on 0411 496 159 or book a discovery call below.

Acknowledgement of Country 

I acknowledge the Arakwal Bumberlin people of the Bundjalung Nation, the original custodians of this land where I live, work and flourish. I pay my respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging. I honour and give thanks to the Ancestors of the land and the medicine they share.

Content copyright 2024 Dani Akehurst unless otherwise stated.

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