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Lana Lanaia (Daniela Lanaia)

Lana is a singer and creates retreats, courses, and co-created gatherings with carriers of the old ways. She is known for her ‘crystalline voice’ and ‘music that infuses the heart’.


Born in England and now living in the Scottish Highlands, she has been drawn since childhood to the ancient and indigenous cultures of the world, including the old ways of her homeland. Her path has led her to learn from indigenous traditions of North America, the Andes, the Amazon and the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, as well as ceremonial and animistic ways of our Isles.


For almost 30 years she has journeyed to sacred sites and lived in wild places, learning to listen to the land, sea, and sky. She lived off-grid in the Highlands for nine years, growing food and in close relationship with the land. These direct and living experiences are woven into the essence of her music and work.


Lana brings 20 years of experience as a holistic practitioner and 17 years curating and leading retreats. She is a vocalist & solo artist and was the lead singer within the group Anima / Ananui. She is part of the musician collective of the Voice of Gaia and also works within Weaving Remembrance as a course creator.

Lana is the founder of Temple of Ioua (formerly Aluna Healing). Through journeys, ritual, and sound, she creates spaces that invite us into the heart ~ to reawaken the songlines of the soul and return to ancient wisdom and ways of living in harmony with our beloved earth.

 

"Dear Lana, I believe you don’t have to say a word, your presence and true watchfulness, your natural energy is beauty full and alive with grace. Such wisdom in one young in the earth. I honour your steps. Gratefully..." ~ Phyllida Anam-Aire

 

A personal share:

Aluna Healing is an Offering of Love from my Heart for Mother Earth & Her Children

Since childhood, I have been drawn towards the healing arts, and the magic of the Earth.

I am blessed with parents who encouraged me as a child and young woman to follow my creativity and dreams - to follow the call and path of my heart; as I journeyed, stumbled, fell, healed and opened my wings to fly & travel through this sacred journey of life.

I have been immersed in creative arts and explored intuitive healing from a young age. Studying Fine Art at university in the beautiful city of Bath, gave me the freedom to explore and delve into connection with Nature and the Goddess, and express that intimate connection through painting and photography. The three years of my degree was spent between the art studio and with the woodlands, springs and stone circles, listening to the land, and experiencing her living presence manifest in form within the trees, rocks and rivers. 

The stone circles, sacred sites and wild places of these lands have continued to fascinate and call to my heart, and are a source of inspiration and remembrance that ever continues to deepen. 

I have sung and played guitar since I was twelve, though was very shy and rarely shared my music. When I was 22, I was living with a Najavo elder and his family on Turtle Island, and one day he told me to go and sing on a stage in a bar we were in. That was the first time I had ever sang in public, and in that moment, overcame my fear.

I have travelled internationally sharing music and retreats, have lived for many years in the quietness of Nature, gardening and tending the earth, while being gardened and shaped by Her, and am blessed to have and continue to learn from elders and wisdom keepers of the Americas and the Isles of Albion (Britain). I am deeply grateful for their teachings and presence, and for the living wisdom held within the rocks, stones, waters, winds, trees, mountains and spirit of these lands.

 

My study and training since 2001 includes:

  • Sound healing & holistic voicework
  • Sining the Unseen - year long vocal training with Briony Greenhill (current)
  • Shamanic healing (with teachers from the Americas & British Isles)
  • Touching The Light Energy Healing with Dr Meg Blackburn Level I & II Practitioner
  • Yoga: Certified with Yoga Alliance. Scaravelli & Hatha yoga;
  • Altai Massage Therapy Advanced Practitioner with Virve Viigand
  • Minister of Walking Prayer, Ministry Training with Center for Sacred Studies & Jyoti Ma
  • Earth stewardship (with indigenous wisdom keepers)
  • Way of the Kestrel Shamanic  Healing with Kestrel & Jay Oakwood
  • Holistic health & herbal medicine
  • Celtic & druid lore 
  • Nature connection & listening to the land through time in the wild and vision quests.
  • Permaculture & biodynamic gardening

 

I live in the Scottish Highlands, with the land, wild places and the waters of life.

On this site you will find a selection of services, events & products that I hope will nurture and support you, as we journey through these times of great transformation 

Aluna Healing Temple is the home of my online sound journey library & courses

and Anima music at Anima Sound Medicine 

With love & blessings

Lana

 

 

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