Words of Reflection

Becca

Dara is the swift and loving cut of the Vajra sword. She cuts, cuts, cuts through the dense material that gets in the way of truth and light. She cuts cords; she cuts nonsense; and most importantly, she cuts through the thick fabric of your sheath so that you can more easily access your own sword. Dara also knows the delicate art of rendering: she bends time to your advantage, making supple material from the seemingly intangible. At first pass, Dara alchemizes –– making not only something, but magic, from nothing. The more you connect, the more you realize that Dara is, in fact, catalyzing –– she illuminates that which was always there and invites you with the right balance of respectfulness and persistence to let go and make space. 

Dara is space itself. In epitomizing emptiness, she gives permission for your own process of cleansing, clearing, and purifying. Dara creates conditions for this constant gerund form, this long term on-goingness, this infinite game. She does this not merely by offering refuge, but rather by supporting you to create safety within your own system. Dara doesn't teach you how to fish –– she whispers quiet truths as you awaken from your slumber and dip your toes in the measureless wellspring, which of course is full of fish and bliss. 

Dara is boundless becoming. She is coming to be, open and see, showing and knowing that being is freeing. She will say, "Welcome. It's good to see you," and you will feel at home at last.

Joy, abundance, and forever expansion are always available. 

Ashley Waverley, ancestral lineage healing steward, Death Walker

Dara describes indescribable experiences, provides context and resources for support, and offers a clear, grounded container to sensemake within.  Her insights and mirroring cut through the noise of power dynamics, un-useful hierarchical structures, and transactional energy that is often present in other spaces of mentorship/therapy/guidance/facilitation. 

It’s nearly impossible to describe the spiritual facilitation that she offers— together we integrate ways of knowing that transcend words and rationality altogether.  It’s even more impossible to explain the level of gratitude I have for learning from and with her. 

I have been working with Dara for a year now, though it feels like lifetimes in the best way.  Our ongoing work has included: healing attachment wounding, honing and refining working with the subtle senses and direct knowing, staying grounded and present in the body, as well as working with the mind to re-pattern behaviors and beliefs that no longer serve.  I have discovered and honed spiritual gifts that have shifted my life completely to live and work in integrity with my path.  Finally experiencing deep alignment with purpose.

Our work together has spanned many historically rooted traditions, as well as emerging and co-created methods to ground and integrate the accelerated, expansive experience of a spiritual awakening and journey to liberation and sovereignty. 

Dara is pure light and an utter delight to be in the presence of.  She is grounded, clear, precise, fierce, compassionate, and wise beyond belief. 

If you’ve gone this far, if you’re reading this— you feel called.  Let this be the nudge you need to deepen your work and begin your journey with Dara. 

Samara Valentina, Healing & Awakening Guide

It is very difficult to articulate (in words) the impact of Darananda. Words can’t really do it justice as what I have received is so deep, so subtle, and so beyond mind, but I will try here. For context, I have been connected and working with and beside her since 2020. 

Dara is the most compassionate, unconditionally loving, patient, and skillful Being I have ever encountered. I received the gnosis recently (in my own personal work) that she is one of the most devoted Beings on the Earth today to her Path and Awakening. This is not surprising if you are intimately connected to Dara. Her life is about awakening and Service. It is a blessing to witness her devotion to Dharma, Sovereignty + Interdependence, Reality, and Liberation. And, it is impactful for literally anyone in her orbit. As they say, the gift waves travel. The field effect is very real. 

She provides what is needed and meets the moment in an effortless way. She is brilliant (mind) and also deeply wise (beyond mind). She is deeply energetic, intuitive, alive, attuned, embodied, Fullness, wild, Feminine, Liberated, surrendered, and also deeply spacious, open, Nothingness, silent, stillness, Pure Consciousness. She is also absolutely fierce and equal parts Power and Humility. She is the most integrated mentor and teacher I know of, in that her awakening is embodied. She doesn’t settle for awakening from the head up or stopping at the non-dual (or stopping at any stage, for that matter). She brings each shift she goes through deeply into every level of her Being and the body.

She is not someone who is interested in ignoring form or the body. She is not someone who is interested in leaving Earth and blasting off. She is not someone who is interested in not being engaged with people and the world. She is not someone who denies the darkness and Wetiko. She is not someone who is interested in pretending the Ego does not exist. And Thank Goddess for that - as we need examples of this today, more than ever. 

She is walking a path of deep integration and Wholeness. The Divine Light emanating from the field that appears as a person (Dara’s mindbody) is undeniable, in the sense that, if one is able to sit in, around, or as the field emitting, instantaneously, deep, spontaneous, and effortless healing transpires. Every time. And by healing, I essentially mean, returning Separateness to Wholeness and allowing Divine Light into Form. 

Being connected to her as a client, mentee, and human is one of the (if not) the greatest gift of this lifetime. I once read that True Love is the love between a seeker and a spiritual friend. That is what I feel towards Dara. 

When I met Dara, I was suicidal, deeply unwell, almost fully blind, and had SO much karma and Trauma to digest. The amount of clearing and purification that occurred in those first 2 years (or even, in just ONE daylong with Dara) is beyond mind. It is miraculous and by pure Grace. Since then, I have cleared the Trauma from my system to completion (My personal work is no longer about trauma), become aligned with my Dharma and Path (surrendered to Divine Will and deeply guided by my Path itself), cleared codependency from my system (allowing for deep intimacy with Self, Other, and the World) developed, received and refined spiritual gifts (and continue to) and have began traversing the Path beyond the personal self and material (towards stabilizing and Realizing Self). The consciousness shifts I have experienced in 2024 since being co-located with Dara and around her very much, are something I didn’t know was possible or something I even wanted - and yet, the greatest gift of my life. 

I am clear, grounded, open, connected, and meeting the bliss body. I am aligned with my soul and Divine Embodiment is occurring and continues to occur more and more each day. I feel as though every day is a new beginning and am more timeless, spacious, vital, and Present than I ever have been.

The gift of the field of Presence available by sitting with Dara is priceless and precious - a gem. The Presence leads to Wisdom. The Wisdom to Clarity. The Clarity to Right Action.

I cannot recommend any connection point that you feel called to with Dara enough. There is almost infinite potentiality available in the field. I continue to be both excited and inspired by my own Path, in large part due to seeing (but mostly, feeling and experiencing) what’s possible through Dara as she walks hers. She is also just a joy to be with, fun, human, funny, quirky, joyful, and Real.

Ale Pernalete

After the energetic medicine session we did and our 1:1 sessions, I felt called to calm down a bit and let all those movements integrate, and start to see the results outside. I decided to let it settle.

Today I must confess that I have witnessed miracles and have been able to access opportunities in the professional field that I never thought would be possible for me, given my background and the new country I was coming to. I am convinced that all these external results are a consequence of internal movements.

I wanted to thank you for having been that guide that in such a natural and spontaneous way helped me to see parts of me that I could not see at that moment, and through energy medicine let me discover those seeds of evolution and growth.