Dan Joy

Dan is an author and has been working as a trainer, coach and complementary therapist for almost 20 years. He obtained his master's degrees respectively in protestant theology, organisational development supervision, and bank management. Hi wrote his 2005 MA on the relationship between Ken Wilber's integral theory and the transpersonal aspects of self-development processes in supervision. He has been trained in nonviolent communication, he is an NLP practitioner and psychodrama assistant. As a theologian for several years he has been doing prison mission, and as a supervisor he has been holding case study groups and worked with psychologues, social workers and therapists at various family care and child protection centres and NGOs. For most of his professional life he has been working as a trainer, mediator and coach, providing services for various organisations such as IBM, British Telecom, Prezi, Deloitte, various banks and insurance companies. After moving to the UK in 2013 he went through a series of realisations and awakening experiences, left the corporate world to become a full time complementary and cuddle therapist and became a lomi lomi massage teacher. With his team they are specialized in providing multiple handed and several-hour-long lomi lomi massage based transformational experiences. Their 4-handed lomi lomi sessions are enlisted by Time Out as "one of the best massages in London" and they had the privilege of massaging people like various Grammy Awarded artists, spiritual teacher Mooji, singer Susie Ro or writer Neil Gaiman. Dan has been a therapist and teacher at triyoga and formally has been working as the therapist coordinator of the Psychedelic Society. He is a Founding Member of BrightSky, a Global Community Platform and is a co-founder of the Wellbeing Collective Online, a London based organisation that was set up to share knowledge and experience online during lockdown to enhance people's mental, emotional and physical wellbeing. Since his first Reiki initiation in Jerusalem in 2000, Dan is fascinated by the therapeutic perspectives offered by altered states of consciousness, recently in particular to explore how prolonged multiple handed bodywork sessions can induce such transformational states and experiences. He currently lives in London, with her wife, Dora, and daughter, Noémi and their two cats :-) www.stayintouch.earth www.presenceinstress.com