Pathway to Self with Dana Hersh

Pathway to Self with Dana on the 1st & 3rd Tuesdays at noon PST

Hi there! My name is Dana, and I’m an intuitive, healer, teacher, and facilitator. One of my greatest joys in my work is to offer doorways into inner wisdom. I help people like you on the path of awakening gain clarity, release blocks, and follow the guidance of your heart. As a listener on my show, Pathway to Self, you’ll hear me share stories, self-empowerment tools, guided meditation practices, sound healing and original music, and occasional guest interviews. We’ll also dedicate part of the show for you to call in and receive a mini intuitive reading. My aim is to provide a soulful listening experience that calms your nervous system, brings new insight, and inspires you to dream big. Come join us and be part of the collective expansion of light and love!

More About Dana:

Have you always been clairvoyant? Is it a gift that you were born with, or did you discover this ability later on in life?

My response is simple: We are all born with extrasensory abilities. Babies and young children see auras, read energy, and are pure channels in constant connection with Source. So, I was born with the natural ability of insight, and you were too! Maybe more than you give yourself credit for.

As a child I remember feeling what others were feeling (empathy), and knew that certain things were going to happen because I “saw” them in my mind’s eye (clairvoyance), but I generally kept these insights to myself. And like most of us, over time I gradually forgot these abilities. As a teenager I got good at conforming to societal expectations in hopes to fit in with my peer groups and please the adults I looked up to. The more I relied on what I thought others wanted me to be, the less in touch I became with my own truth and inner guidance.

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In my perception, this misalignment from Self is a common experience of modern times. We come into the world pure, bright, complete, and totally conscious. Then little by little, our light begins to dull as we attempt to mold ourselves to the demands and expectations of society. Like sponges we absorb what we learn from our environment, parents, teachers, and other adult role models, who, ironically, may have forgotten what it means to be a child.

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As adults, we may be influenced by cultural norms, external pressures, or habitual beliefs and conditioning that are imprinted in us from early on. Sometimes it can be hard to filter out all the noise and stay in alignment with yourself!

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The good news is, if we fall asleep to the voice of our inner wisdom, then the next step is to wake up. Isn’t that what we came here for? To grow and evolve into a fuller expression of self? Thankfully our soul, all-knowing and ever-present, faithfully sends us wake up calls. One after the other, louder and louder, until we hear choose to listen. 

My wake up call

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In the summer of 2008 during a semester abroad in Argentina, I was taking a Hip Hop class and attempted to pull off a flip, and… voila! – I landed on my head and injured my spinal column. I spent the next several months with compromised mobility and a lot of pain. Back stateside, I struggled facing my injury, and with the added challenge of “reverse culture shock”, I fell into a depressive state.

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This was the beginning to my waking up. Choosing to take things into my own hands, I sought out alternative methods of healing and began the journey of spiritual awakening. Once I got a taste of the golden drop of consciousness, there was no turning back! All sorts of synchronicities began to happen and life presented me with new opportunities to heal, grow, and open to more joy and magic.

After I graduated from college with a BA in Spanish, my heart led me back to Argentina. I had no idea how things were going to turn out; I simply knew to trust my intuition and go. Little did I know I would be spending the next eight years in various parts of the country, with many intense and beautiful chapters, including the start of my exploration in the subtle healing arts. I opened up a creative channel, started making art, and reconnected with my long–time joy of playing the flute. I sought out studies in energy healing, and found my first teacher of Kundalini yoga.

A grand inspiration

In 2011, I visited a friend in Buenos Aires who told me she had recently taken an aura reading course. She was radiant, and enthusiastically offered me a reading. I thought to myself, “I don’t know what that is, and YES, I want one!” To this day I vividly remember the felt-sense of something magical happening, and the profound messages that moved me to my core. I yearned to learn more.

The following year, I immersed myself in two levels of energy reading courses in Patagonia, and became a certified Aura Reader through the Piracanga School in 2013. This experience gave me the realization that it wasn’t about acquiring a skill set outside of myself; it was the peeling back of layers to reveal my innate intuitive capacity. Like polishing a diamond in the rough.

I have been giving Intuitive Readings since early 2013, and it is so fulfilling! Each reading is an uplifting soul-to-soul encounter, and I am very grateful to be doing this work.

Weaving it together