Opening Meditation: Awake, Aware, and Alive!
Spiritual awakening is a blossoming—a gentle unfolding, like a sunflower turning its face toward the light. A Spiritually Transformative Experience (STE) may mark only the beginning of this ongoing journey of awakening. As we grow, our awareness expands, opening us to new insights and the timeless mysteries of existence.
Dana Taylor will open the Spiritual Awakenings International Conference 2026 with a guided meditation designed to attune our hearts and minds for the profound sharing to come. She will invite us to be fully Awake, deeply Aware, and vibrantly Alive—like sunflowers reaching joyfully for the sun.
Raised in the cultural crossroads of Southern California, Dana Taylor graduated from the University of Redlands, CA with a degree in theatre and writing. She enjoyed a long marriage to a lawyer from Oklahoma. She has two daughters and eight grandchildren. Her search for personal wellness led to studying alternative medicine, essential oils, and energy healing. She is a Reiki Master.
Her books have won various awards including Golden Quill Awards Best First Book and a 2014 Independent Spirit Book Awards – Energy Medicine Category (Ever-Flowing Streams: Christ, Reiki, Reincarnation and Me). She’s been writing articles for her website, Supernal Living with Dana Taylor, since 2010, “exploring spirituality, healing energy, visionary writing, and wonder.” Her website and YouTube channel offer free meditations co-created with her spiritual “team.”
She serves as Executive Assistant to the President at SAI. Currently, she lives in a cottage in the redwood forest of Northern California.
