Diane "dhiana sage" Barnes, M.Ed., eRYT500, YACEP Founder & President of Mindful Living Studio, LLC Transformation Catalyst Consciousness Junkie Earth Sculptress World Traveler Entrepreneur Faith Keeper Teacher Author Guide Yogi |
"The joy of observing people awaken as they get out of pain, discover inner direction & tap the True Nature is my passion. I created Mindful Living Studio (MLS) in 1994, to offer an enlightened perspective, transformative practices, and an empowered way of life for anyone willing to be curious about their inner world and let go of what isn't working. My unique talent is quickly detecting what's out of balance and discerning a skillful way forward for individuals, groups, and organizations." ~ dhiana (DNA) It's an exciting time on Earth as more individuals feel the call to embrace the inner realm of all possibilities with a noble heart, steady mind, and balanced body. What we cultivate inside impacts what we experience outside. We can transform ourselves and the world. MLS offers a way forward to support awakening humanity.
Conscious Evolution is the stage of development we are entering as a humanity longing for right relationship with self, others, and our Earth. It's a new kind of learning for most. RestWise RiseWise, the MLS Core Program, bridges Newtonian & Quantum models igniting enlightened learning in the inner world through conscious embodiment of Innate Wisdom as Being. May we RestWise and shed the old ways. Then RiseWise as integrated humans in Mind+Body+Being. Take Back The Garden. |
Work history & education that influence services:
MLS serves all willing to learn Mindful Living skills to develop their inner resources, create meaningful lives of purpose, heal, thrive, and align with their highest vision. All long for the experience of LifeTime Satisfaction. To embrace each day and not wait to live. To enjoy life now. LifeTime Satisfaction is available inside in every moment when we know how to cultivate our inner landscape of Mind & Body to awaken to Being as Presence. MLS expanded to digital in 2020 with a global aim. Online programs are hosted in secure group & private portals. Live video sessions foster community. Immersion retreats accelerate learning and deepen community bonds. Since 1994, I have been in private practice as an Executive Coach, Stress Management Specialist, Mindfulness MBSR Teacher, Yoga Therapist & Yoga Teacher, LifeStyle Management Coach, and Energy Frequency Healer. Long before Mindfulness & other complimentary healing paths were in vogue, MLS was offering Education and Training to integrate Mind, Body, & Being. I consulted with corporate wellness, community organizations, academia, and offered group programs & private client services. Formerly, MLS studio & office was located near the state capitol Columbia, SC, USA, set in a forest amid the sights & sounds of nature. Now, MLS is a global outreach thanks to the digital world. I am an educator. I am not a psychotherapist or other mental health practitioner although I have taught Psychiatrists in Residence in medical school and served Psychologists, Social Workers, Medical Doctors and clergy as private clients. I retired from an academic career in 2012 teaching with the University of SC where I designed and taught Mindful Living Courses including Inner Mastery, Mindfulness, and Yoga. Other credentials reflect study in a broad range of holistic practices including initiation with indigenous medicine elders. I received Bodhisattva initiation in 2016 with Lama Migmar Tseten at Harvard University that deepened my commitment to serving humanity. My focus continues to be cultivating a Regenerative Human Culture by offering programs on Human Development, Natural Healing, Optomizing Performance, and Spiritual Awakening. My thirst for knowledge includes study of ancient wisdom teachings, comparative religions, and quantum physics. Transformational practices of mystical teachings offer a proven path to cultivate life balance and spiritual awakening. Science now can measure how these practices rapidly reshape the brain, rewire the nervous system, awaken the energy body, and more. I live what I teach. Though I stumble, I rise again. It is a practice. Resilience is developed through mindful living. If we don't judge and discount our experiences, we learn.
My life has been an adventure. A long winding unpredictable path with many Divine Interventions. My aim always has been to seek Wisdom. That's why every step led me to here now. As has yours. Though you wouldn't know I was seeking Wisdom by some decisions I made. I dropped out of high school because it was meaningless. I was a single (divorced) mother willing to walk away from all possessions including child support. I gratefully received government assistance for housing & education, healed from cancer, and other trauma. Every experience made me more resilient as I learned to accept and transmute suffering that gets stuck in undigested traumatic experiences. Every hard knock made me more curious about how people use their experiences to create the life they truly want. I'm an earth sculptress creating inspired teaching gardens. For many years "The Garden" has been coming into form. Take Back The Garden fosters transformation of the individual, humanity, and right relationship with our Earth. I'm a world traveler as Great Mystery muse directs my steps to places near and far. I have prophetic dreams and visions. Some say I walk in the world undercover as a mystic easily perceiving things invisible to others. As a sensitive and intuitive, I perceive multidimensionally. We all can. I am married to a brilliant man with vast talent and unique expression. We have two children, three grandchildren, and ... We share our home with two spoiled cats and two gold fish who joyfully swim in a little pond outside our front door. |
Kunga Dolma, my Tibetan name, was given by Lama Migmar in 2016 upon bestowal of the Bodhisattva Vow. Lama also administered Green Tara Empowerment and granted permission to bestow Tara empowerment "medicine".
Kunga means to help, to serve. Guide. Just. Discipline. Adventurer. Dolma means "mother or goddess of liberation". Liberate. Free. Release. Dolma, also called Tara by Tibetans, is a Bodhisattva or Buddha of compassion and action, a protector who comes to our aid to relieve us of physical, emotional and spiritual suffering Green Tara, the female Buddha liberates. She carries enlightened frequency and active compassion. She is the manifestation from which all her other forms emanate.
Green Tara removes fear, gives protection, removes obstacles and obscurations, and transmits enlightened awareness. Green Tara supports healing and longevity. She symbolizes the night, and is associated with activity and abundance. She offers wealth and protection on a journey, as well as freedom from delusions or negative emotions. Tara is both peaceful and wrathful, beautiful and powerful, the actuality of wisdom and sensuality, compassionate and sexual, empty and yet fully manifest. In this way she transcends dualistic limitations. |
Author
During the pandemic, while I was immersed in my own healing, I wrote a chapter in two books with Kiva Publishing. In Sovereign & Jaguar Medicine I share stories about my life journey. Trials & Tribulations. Dreams & Healings. Experiences that upgrade endurance as I integrate a vast range of energetic frequencies. Versions of these stories and more will in my memoir (no release date). Both books became Amazon international best sellers! |
Sovereign, published in 2021.
Jaguar Medicine, published in 2022. |
"When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need it anymore. Presence is the key. Now is the key." ~ Eckhart Tolle |