Dyana Wells
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Dyana Wells has taught chemistry, anatomy & physiology, yoga philosophy and meditation for the past 25 years, including at a natural therapies college, and more recently on a yoga teacher training program, where she is a director.
The focus of all Dyana’s investigating and avid questioning has been to understand life and how to live .... more
Dyana Wells has taught chemistry, anatomy & physiology, yoga philosophy and meditation for the past 25 years, including at a natural therapies college, and more recently on a yoga teacher training program, where she is a director.
The focus of all Dyana’s investigating and avid questioning has been to understand life and how to live well. She has a BSc majoring in Botany and Zoology, MA (Hons) in philosophy; MCW (Hons) in creative writing, Dip Yoga Therapy from Wellpark College, and a Cert Counselling.
Dyana has been studying Tibetan Buddhadharma for the past 30 years, in the lineage of Canadian Namygal Rinpoche. She regularly embarks on long retreats to deepen her understanding of meditation, the nature of mind and the purpose of life.
Dyana lives in a small seaside village overlooking the Hauraki Gulf, where she writes and gardens, and has three children and four grandchildren. She teaches regularly in Auckland city.
The Yoga of Sailing is the debut novel in Dyana’s spiritual autobiography trilogy Anchors in an Open Sea. Buddha and a Boat continues the story.