Di was born in Southern California in 1969. At age 14 she fell ill with a high fever lasting
months upon end. Years later doctors were only able to diagnose her with an immune disorder with no known
cure.
" Little
did I know, the next 26 years of disabling fatique, feeling helpless and limited were all a part
of the Divine Plan for me. At a young age as far back as 1984, I gained a valuable piece of information -
western medicine severely lacks advanced understanding of the body. It was up to me to do my own learning, my own healing
and that I did."
Di was
in high school when Deepak's first book "Creating Health" was published in 1986. It became a favorite among
the alternative medicine books now accumulating on her home's bookshelves.
Still ill but not beaten, Di graduated from college with a California Teaching Credential, a
BA in Deaf Studies and a credential in sign language interpreting. She moved to San Diego to pursue
a job teaching the deaf but found a path of Alternative Healing .
"Moving to the beach in San Diego was a turning point for me. Up until then I may have been
taking classes in high school and college, but I now realized none of this had been my true schooling for life. My
true schooling was the outer and inner work my illness was forcing me to do. Life
didn't suddenly get easier with this realization, but certainly much more fascinating."
Since all of her free time was spent exploring and experiencing alternative healing, Di
found it only made sense to focus on a career in this area. In 1995 she enrolled in the School of Healing Arts in San Diego
pursuing a Holistic Health Practioner's license. Here she earned her license in various massage therapies and a
certificate in oriental medicine.
"Attending this
school gave me the affirmational confidence I needed with my already personal beliefs surrounding the energetics
of the human body and enhanced my natural wisdom, skills and intuitive gifts. For instance, I had
seen auras as a child yet grew up in a society where such a thing was a little absurd. At the school, auras
were not only a concept accepted but were explained scientifically in depth. I was attending this school when I heard
the announcement of Deepak coming to La Jolla. I knew my future involved Deepak and I was ready. "
In 1996, while the new Chopra Center was under
construction, Deepak sent patients that needed treatment to an ayurvedic/pancha karma clinic around the corner called
Ayus Life. Di was hired here as an ayurvedic technician and when the Chopra Center opened in La Jolla she helped
train newly hired massage therapists as ayurvedic techs. Di worked at the Chopra Center for several years, deepening
her practice of meditation, practicing yoga, and giving/receiving body work.
"I was very lucky to have learned meditation from Deepak. He generously
met with about seven of us in 1996 teaching us advanced meditation techniques, prerequisites to join the advanced
group in the upcoming meditation seminar - the first Seduction of Spirit in San Diego. That week long meditation seminar
solidified my beliefs on the benefits of meditation and I knew I needed to teach this technique to others."
Di became a Certified Chopra Meditation Instructor and for
several more years assisted in these week long meditation seminars held all over the country, often working closely
with Deepak as she guided the seminar's alumni groups. Before moving to Kaua'i , Di helped train new Chopra
Meditation Instructors at the Teacher Training Programs.
On
June 26, 2006 Di had an incredible healing, an out of body experience that cured her entirely of her then frequent
seizures, disabling fatigue, and limited lifestyle. She was now able to work full time, build some finance and
finally move to her long desired location, Kaua'i.
She
now lives on the island of Kaua'i teaching Deepak's meditation technique to those who want to deepen their
own practice or learn a new one.
"I am
finally home here on Kaua'i. I feel blessed that she embraces me the way she does. Kaua'i is purity, she is
organic, she is self sustainable. Here at last I feel settled and nurtured by my surroundings. I am perpetually grateful
that I live on an island that grants the opportunity to be at one with this planet as much as possible. I still
feel the change of seasons here but I can be barefoot in the winter, breathe fresh outdoor air while I sleep, and
swim in clean saltwater to purify myself of toxin build up - all qualities I need for good health and survival.
I will do my best returning the favor to her as I play my part raising the vibrational level of Kaua'i
and her inhabitants."
Not only does Di teach Deepak's courses of meditation, she works full time at Kaua'i High
School as a Sign Language Interpreter for the Deaf.