I started Donáh’s Passions initially as an herbal body care company. However, after several years I began to realize that it was meant to be much more, and that I would soon expand the body care business from topical products to recreating inner connection. My own journey of learning how to see the world with new eyes and a great sense of well-being by shifting into the physical body, would place me in the position of assisting others in doing the same. On this journey I met many wonderful people that were consistently asking for my guidance. I began speaking at conferences and coaching as an answer to their wishes. I quickly learned that my inner guidance was teaching me that most often, we move too quickly, get stuck in chaos, ignore it, and ultimately lose ourselves. 

My personal journey has challenged every core of my being. It began when my first born child was born diagnosed with Hirschsprung’s disease, a chronic condition of the bowel and intestine. She had to undergo many surgeries that left us living in hospitals for

many years.  After each surgery, she took longer to recover, and so did I. We both became emotionally and physically depleted. Eventually, it became an act of will and strength just to crawl out of bed to leave the house. I studied homeopathy, yoga, meditation, and I apprenticed as an herbalist in order to make her well. I spent many hours in the woods communing with nature. Finally, with all of my studies and perseverance, she became healthier and her allergies subsided, her quality of life vastly improved. However, my depletion of energy did not. I found myself moving through the world very unaware that I was just going through the motions. I was not in my body and not present in my life. This story of love for my daughter led me to a love of self, nature and developing a deep connection with the divine source within me. This journey was what led me to learn how to connect within and find stillness.

I left a great job in New York with McKinsey & Company, and moved my children to Charlotte, North Carolina to be closer to my parents. However, by the time that I arrived I was severely broken. I first arrived with the intention of a small vacation, and never went back. Charlotte became my place to heal. At a yoga class, I met my soon to be teacher, MyLinda Morales-Hutchings. She began to teach me tools that brought me out of a severe depression. I learned that you can heal from anything and everything if you learn the maps of your body and connect them to your soul. I have been inspired by nature and connected to Spirit only to learn that all of what we will ever need exists within us. We just have to be linked to the road map. Once I regained my sense of great well being, I continued on to study with other great teachers such as Jim Self, and obtained my MBA.

Just as a musician has his muse that inspires him to play, I have mine. When I teach others the tools that I have learned, some people can feel openings being created, some feel joy and others feel nurtured. It is my hope that after our time together you will “Find the Passion and Live in Ecstasy”.