Dana Toogood Healing Space

10/07/2024

Kia Ora and Salam, I’m Dana! I am passionate about supporting and guiding people to connect to their inner wisdom to find answers when they feel stuck in moving forward, whether in their professional or personal lives, as I believe each informs the other. As a Somatic Coach and an ICF-trained Executive & Organizational Coach, I am committed to providing you with a unique coaching experience that integrates embodiment practices, creativity, wellbeing, cultural safety, and a trauma-informed approach.

I am now ready to take on clients from August onwards 😊 Open to all regions of Aotearoa and Australia ✌🏾Check out my website for more info!

Lead authentically Cultivating personal and professional transformation Crafting Purpose Kia Ora and Salam, I’m Dana. I am passionate about supporting and guiding people to connect to their inner wisdom to find answers when they feel stuck in moving forward, whether in their professional or person...

01/05/2022

✨🌙 Eid Mubarak from the Toogood Whānau! ✨🌙
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Wishing all of my family, friends and community in Melbourne, Auckland and around the world a very blessed Eid 🌍 ♥️✨

23/02/2022

✨Yay! Our Bright Side team at AUT university had the opportunity to meet with the Minister of Health Andrew Little and Auckland Central MP Chloe Swarbrick .swarbrick earlier today 👏🏾 We discussed the new preventative health initiatives and promotion for holistic wellbeing support that will be offered to our student community at AUT University created through the investment made by Government to respond to student’s mental health 👏🏾

This was an opportunity for some of AUT’s mental health and health promotion services to showcase what is being offered to AUT students while they are studying and navigating a challenging pandemic landscape 🌱

I am honored to be in this role as Bright Side’s Health Coach as part of the expansion in 2022 for the preventative health, student support & well-being campaign in tertiary education both in the North and City Campus 👊🏾

Love our team, love our tribe 🙌🏾✨

👉🏾 Tune in tonight @ 6pm news and learn more! 😉
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21/02/2022

👏🏾Yipeee for my very first well-being workshop at Bright Side AUT university! So pumped that I got to share this project with the amazing .rebuildwithlex 👊🏾♥️ Stoked we got to create this workshop on well-being, resilience and releasing stress for 4th year students 🙌🏾 It feels amazing to share, connect and create healthy conversation and dialogue to support the next generation of practitioners, and even more kickass I get to do this with another WOC 👊🏾🖤
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Excited to see what we create this year ✌🏾🤍
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04/02/2022

• Jabana 🇸🇩 الجبنة السودانية ☕️•

Jabana or Qahwa is a traditional coffee ritual that is part of the Sudanese culture - milled coffee beans with added spices such a ginger, cinnamon and cardamom 🌱served in a clay flask, Jabana, which gave its name to the drink ☕️

The offering of Jabana symbolizes the essence of human connection, the softening of hearts and the meeting of souls 💫

Jabana is used as a way of connecting us together bridging our shared stories and different lived experiences under the common shared experience of enjoying Qahwa ☕️❤️

The richness and essence of Sudanese Jabana symbolizes more than just a delicious coffee, each sip brings us back to our heritage, our generational stories and our human connection as we celebrate where we come from and who we are as people 🧡☕️

➰ Your heritage matters, your traditions and culture add to your unique style of what you do in your life, so own your stories and 🇸🇩✌🏾🖤
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01/02/2022

“The world would have been different - and better - if women had had an equal say in the development of literature, medicine, chemistry, physics, peace and economics. Better, not because women are better, but because they are more than half of humanity, representing more than half of what it means to be human.” -Elizabeth Lesser
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📚One of my favorite books that explores what happens when women dig deep for the courage to speak from our own experiences and how the power of our storytelling can help to build an equitable society. This book opened my mind to questioning the earliest stories and myths we have unconsciously absorbed that have limited, defined and contained us as a society. How generations of these stories have convinced us to silence our voices and offers a vision of courage, hope and strength through that power of storytelling 💖✍🏾

Elisabeth Lesser inspires and fuels us women to rise up and speak and share our stories in order to reclaim how we lead our lives and the world 🌍 💖🙌🏾

Highly recommend this book ☕️👌🏾
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28/01/2022

🔥Updates!

Sooo…I am super excited to announce that I will be embarking on a new career path as a Health Coach at Auckland University of Technology 💪🏾☀️

After 10 years of working as a chiropractor and running my own private practice I have decided to expand and move towards academia in order to bring my knowledge and experience of holistic healing, neurology, emotional well-being and somatic trauma healing into a wider community - I am so excited to see what I can create in this space at the 🔸Bright Side AUT🔸 as we create programs and coach students from all walks of life towards a journey of self development, awareness and resilience, supporting them to enhance their ability to develop leadership skills and unlock their inner potential for success in their studies, work and future 🌈🙌🏾💖

So grateful I get to be working alongside a community of like-minded professionals that celebrate inclusivity, diversity and cultural awareness and to be within the education field. Excited to coach, teach, collaborate and learn along the way 🤓🧠

2022…here we go!🔥💪🏾🙌🏾

🚩 Ps: shoutout to my Melbourne peeps, practice members 💕 and whanau for your ongoing support and trust along the way - love y’all 😘

✌🏾🤍Dana • دانه

10/10/2021

And…we’re off! Goodbye, Melbourne ✈️ 👋🏾 Farewell to our life of 10 years- my magical practice and all of our beautiful friendships and connections 💛✨ Melbourne will always be a part of our story and I’m sad I didn’t have an opportunity to bid farewell to everyone who has been a part of our life here - you will all be a special part of our story. I will miss you all and I wanted to say that I am grateful for you and that you will hold a sacred place in my heart forever. Thank you for being a part of my world 🌍❤️✨💛
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Excited to embark on our new chapter as a family in New Zealand 🇳🇿
🧡بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ🧡
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12/09/2021

Appointments are now available with Dr Rebecca Soosay from Svastha Chiropractic Wellbeing Centre. To book your chiropractic appointment head over to the practice FB page or call 9889 8008. Family appointments (including babies and children) now available!

~Dr. Dana