Dana began channeling in 1987, right around the time of the Harmonic Convergence — although she didn’t know it at the time. It was fourteen years later, in 2001, during the time of 9-11, when a co-worker identified her gifts and Dana veered off the road of her traditional life path and whole-heartedly ventured into the realms of esoteric possibility and potential.
Eventually, her awakening catapulted her out of a marriage, a job and family life in Northeastern Colorado. She eventually was drawn to southwestern Colorado, via the San Luis Valley, where she courageously established The Purple Phoenix, LLC in the fall of 2006 in Durango, Colorado. Despite her traditional up-bringing, Shino launched full-intent into providing “Practical Psychic Tools” for her clients and wrote metaphysical articles as a self proclaimed metaphysical journalist for her growing audience — a completely creative use of her journalism degree from Indiana University.
As The Purple Phoenix grew and Dana’s session work and gifts developed, she found greater and greater dissatisfaction with her work as purely a psychic and client’s assumptions that sessions were fortune-telling time. In the spring of 2010, after she and her partner, Bob, lost their son six months into the pregnancy, and Dana nearly lost her life, Dana decided it was time for a few changes, including The Purple Phoenix. On the morning of her decision to change her professional path, a friend from Boulder, Colorado called her and told her, “My Spirit Guides are bugging me to tell you that you’re not a professional psychic, you’re a Spiritual Coach!” It resonated deeply and resulted in that very change.
The shift out of pure psychic work into Spiritual Coaching was also followed by a Reiki I attunement in June 2010, the beginning of healing work in December 2010, a Reiki II attunement in February 2011, and the first of four Shaman Classes at Four Winds in May 2011. The result is what you find here — a combination of practical intuitive tools and hands-on energy work.
In June of 2011, a month after Dana returned home from her first Shaman Class, Dana received multiple nudges to shut down The Purple Phoenix, her website and business of five years. The resulting shift is www.DanaShino.com. Stay tuned as the journey continues!
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Dana Shino has worked with hundreds of clients, logging over 1,000 client sessions; written and published “When Elephants Fly”; written a psychic column for the local Durango Herald; been interviewed by KOA 850′s Rick Barber; sponsored the movie, “Leap,” in Durango; recorded and produced “Are You Really Psychic? – A Practical Psychic Audio Series” and produced volumes of written work enlightening others about the spiritual journey.
Dana lives with her partner, Bob, and their two cats outside of Durango, Colorado. Her spiritual journey and home life are frequently the settings creating the rich palette she writes about for her audience.