My name is Dainei Tracy.
I am human and full of important flaws which have helped point me toward my own path of self-discovery, for which I am abundantly grateful.
I have spent a lifetime making mistakes, learning, listening, dreaming, creating, training, consciously evolving, and encouraging others to do the same wherever I can. I am largely self-taught in the school of life and have completed several formal trainings.
200hr Yoga Teacher Trainings in both 1990 (Iyengar) and 2012 (Zenways)
I have been teaching regularly since 2012 together with over 40 years of personal practice where I draw from many somatic approaches. I will support you to become more embodied, landed and balanced.
Zen meditation and mindfulness teacher training in 2010
I can support your path to accepting the contents and flow of your mind and help you to grow your self-awareness so that when challenges arise you have a basic way to focus and mitigate overwhelm.
“Overwhelm” is an important part of our self-discovery journey because it directly points to the dissonance between our patterns and our evolving self. We will work directly with our nervous system to balance the release of what is no longer needed. Which leads on to my experience with the BSE skills.
Becoming Safely Embodied Skills by Deirdre Fay in 2018-19 (PCCP)
These skills support arising trauma and turbulence that may be triggered or sparked by the changes you want to make in yourself and your life. I am trauma aware and I use my training in these psychotherapeutic skills to help you feel more self-aware and confident navigating your life. Together we will create a trauma-sensitive awareness within you so that overwhelm, frustration, and emotional and physical turbulence can be welcomed and integrated as part of your self-realisation.
Counseling Skills 1998 and 2022 (TQUK Cert)
I use these skills to support my own listening and pay attention to my own bias and conditioning which supports me to reflect you and give counsel to encourage your own unique direction.
Zen Teacher Training
I am an experienced zen practitioner and mentor, I am integrating the teacher training of the Rinzai zen line of Shinzan Miyamae Roshi with Zenways London. I have been in a relationship with this for 12 years and I use zen approaches such as meditation, which is practicing a present-moment awareness of who we are right now, and koan embodiment.
“A zen koan is a question or proposition that sparks our own process to arise into our awareness through the stimulation of self-inquiry and self expression. Like a kind of self challenge so that whatever energy we put into it will be what we get out of it”.
We are the question, which might sound strange but as we close the gap between what we think we are towards what we truly are it becomes less strange. There are traditional ones that can be used but I help you to find your own so that what is relevant to you now can be expressed, integrated, and embodied.
We can also move into more shamanic approaches which come from the same explorations of who we are, or what consciousness is. I regularly journey deep within and am deeply connected with the elements and land spirits which help me to continue to evolve in harmony with nature, not against her.
No matter where you are on your journey through life, I’d love to support you.
“I have found the work we have done together very rewarding and I have gained some real insight into the core areas that are and may be generating my anxieties. Doing this at an appropriate pace and with support from Dainei has helped me be present with these feelings and thoughts and better understand them”. Richard Nelson
