We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Dayana Carmona. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Dayana below.
Hi Dayana, really happy you were able to join us today and we’re looking forward to sharing your story and insights with our readers. Let’s start with the heart of it all – purpose. How did you find your purpose?
For years I have felt like my purpose was to help people. I did my undergraduate degree in psychology and the more I dove into learning about people it became clear to me that this is all I wanted to do, to help people and help them become the best versions of themselves. However, as the years went by, and as I studied more, I felt as though there was something missing. I did my masters in counseling and I also dove into coaching. And even though I was doing the “thing” of helping people, I felt like something deep and true was missing.
The missing link came after I had a pregnancy loss and lost my daughter Mia. I felt like my life was falling apart, it was so painful. Yet, through it all, I had a deep knowing and clarity of what my path would be like from now on. I found a lot of light within my being and this inner knowing that I was meant to experience this, in order to help women that have undergone pregnancy loss, heal. This experienced opened a huge door for me to dive deep into myself, my healing, and my relationship with my womb. By doing all of that work on myself I realized that I was here, on this path, on this journey to help women heal their relationship with their womb and their bodies.
In short, my late daughter Mia, who was born sleeping, was how I found my purpose. Through the pain, the anguish, the heartache, I found a lot of life. She was the catalyst for me to know what I was born to do.
Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?
Dayana is the founder and creatrix of HER WHOLLY WISDOM. She is a dedicated Womb Rites Facilitator, guiding women on a journey to reconnect with their bodies and rediscover the wisdom within their wombs.
As a Womb & Pelvic Care Practitioner, Intuitive Coach, Medicine Woman, and Practitioner of Emotional and Energetic Healing, Dayana draws upon a diverse range of skills and modalities to create deeply transformative experiences. She is also an Embodiment Practitioner, Cacao Ceremonialist, Reiki Master, and has immersed herself in the Mystic and Shamanic Arts. Currently, she is expanding her knowledge as she trains to become an ORIGIN Pelvic Care Practitioner. Dayana also holds a Master’s Degree in Mental Health Counseling, bringing a grounded, spiritual, and holistic approach to her work.
With her own life as her teacher, Dayana lives and breathes the practices she shares. Her journey into womb healing began with the profound experience of pregnancy loss, which opened the door to exploring her body and spirit through somatic, energetic, tantric practices, and womb healing. This path led her to uncover hidden aspects of herself, deepening her devotion to her own womb and to Spirit, and to become a part of the lineage as a Womb Keeper.
Dayana’s background and life experiences uniquely help her to hold sacred, ceremonial spaces where women can thrive, heal, and remember their true essence. She is devoted in supporting a woman’s body, her rites of passage and seasons, offering a safe, empowering environment for transformation and self-discovery.
My vision is for women to know what it is like to rest in themselves, to rest in the hands of another woman that will tend to them, take care of them, and just hold them in reverence. For women to know that they are whole and complete as they are, and that their body is sacred and full of wisdom. I pray women know what it is like to be and sit at the altar of their own holy womanly body.
It is so special to be able to tend to women’s bodies, to really give them all the nurturing and care that so many of us are longing. To teach them about their womb, their reproductive organs, their center of creation.
There are two current ways of working with me: through an online mentorship where women can learn about their bodies, womb, and come into better relationship with all of themselves. This is curated ceremonial space for the woman craving the safe space to return back home to herself, her wisdom, her heart, and her womb.
And the other way is through Ceremonial Pelvic Care; this is hands-on whole body, womb and pelvic bodywork. This is for the woman looking to have her body be tended to come home to herself through hands-on care.
There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
1. Learning all about the mind-body connection. Everything is always working together. Our thoughts affect our emotions and our bodies. The same goes for the body affects our emotions, which also affect our minds. Learning to be more in our bodies will give us so much more space to be and to get know ourselves in a deeper way.
2. In a world that thrives in hustling; spaciousness, stillness, rest, and slowness comes a long way.
3. Now learning everything I can about women (in the spiritual, energetic, physiological, emotional, and psychological level).
I think the best thing to do when someone is starting, is to begin the practice of intentionally and mindfully breathing. Taking just 5 min a day to inhale through the nose and vocally exhaling through the mouth can help in the process of welcoming calmness in the mind and connection with the body. Doing this, can help people become more attuned to themselves and to life.
What’s been one of your main areas of growth this year?
My biggest area of growth within the last year has been motherhood and navigating heartbreak at the same time. I am currently a single mom and that has been a mix of challenges in its own way. Motherhood has been the greatest teacher about myself and life. It is a journey that has embarked me into shedding everything I thought I was into something I am still discovering (this is what I have talked before of the seasons of life). This season of my life is all about learning how to be a mother whilst also learning how to be a woman. It has dived me deep into healing many parts of myself that I have judged upon, been ashamed of, and feel insecure about. And doing this whilst going through the ending of a relationship has been one where I have learned many things about myself. It has allowed me to come into contact with so many parts of myself, to love them, to meet them with compassion, and it has shown me how strong I truly am. The last 12 months have and continue to teach me how to love myself reverently and wholeheartedly, and to be the woman I know I am meant to be.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.herwhollywisdom.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/herwhollywisdom
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/balancewithdayana
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