Wellness Program Architect

FOR
CORPORATIONS · WOMEN-LED BUSINESSES ·
SAFARI & TRAVEL BRANDS · WELLNESS STARTUPS

Embodiment Coaching with Dana Damara

Leadership &

Corporate Experiences

Helping high-performing teams cultivate resilience, reduce burnout, and lead with greater clarity, connection, and purpose.

Whether you're planning an executive retreat, leadership summit, conference, or employee wellness initiative, I create immersive experiences that combine evidence-informed nervous system regulation with timeless contemplative practices to support the people who make your organization thrive.

I Build Wellness Programs. Not Just Advise on Them.

WHAT I BRING

Twenty-five years in the field.
Hundreds of retreats curated.
A yoga school that has certified over 500 teachers and wellness practitioners.
Now I bring that experience to the brands ready to lead this industry, not follow it.

  • Founder and Director of the Embodied Practice Academy since 2001. Certified over 500 yoga teachers through Yoga Alliance 200 and 300-hour trainings.

  • Founding Wellness Director at Sirona Healing Center, where I built the wellness vision, programming, and team for a multidisciplinary healing center from the ground up.

  • Designed and led international retreats across Europe, Africa, Asia, and North America.

  • ERYT-500. Certified leadership coach. Breathwork facilitator. Nervous system expert.

  • Founding CEO of Satsang Yoga and Wellness Center in Vancouver, Washington; offering yoga, Pilates, Chiropractic Care, and bodywork.

  • A background in hospitality operations, from restaurant management to running guest services aboard private superyachts. I know how to deliver an experience, not just design one on paper.

Wellness is not a luxury - it's a necessity

WHY NOW

Women's wellness, neuro-wellness, and peri-menopause/menopause care are no longer niche markets. They're some of the fastest-growing categories in health today.

Most companies see the opportunity.
Few know how to build for it.

Fewer still know how to build it right.

I do all of these things.

I've spent 25 years designing the programs, the centers,
and the experiences that this moment now demands.

HOW WE CAN

WORK TOGETHER

Wellness Program Consulting

I design the strategy and the program architecture for brands ready to add wellness to what they already do. This is for companies with a clear need and a timeline.

Perfect for:

  • Hospitality groups expanding into retreats

  • Fitness studios diversifying into holistic programming

  • Residential and real estate developments adding wellness amenities

  • Membership clubs building out a wellness vertical

  • Existing wellness brands ready to professionalize their programming

  • Multi-location or franchise brands standardizing wellness across sites

  • HR teams building a wellness strategy from scratch

Founding Strategic Partner

I take on a deeper, longer-term role with select startups, safari companies, and women-led businesses. This is advisory or equity-based work for founders who want an operator in the room, not just an outside opinion.

Ideal for:

  • Early-stage wellness startups

  • Boutique hotel and resort founders

  • Safari and travel company owners

  • Women-led business founders

  • Menopause and longevity brand founders

  • Neuro-wellness tech or app founders

  • Retreat center owners just getting started

  • Founders raising capital who need an operator on the team, not just an advisor

Wellness Center Development

End to end. From vision and program design to staffing, operations, and launch. I've done this before, and I know where it breaks

PERFECT FOR:

  • Hotels building a dedicated spa or wellness wing

  • Medical practices adding an integrative wellness arm

  • Real estate developers building wellness-anchored communities

  • Retreat centers starting from raw land or an empty building

  • Corporate campuses adding an onsite wellness facility

  • Universities or institutions launching a wellness center

  • Private clubs building a member wellness space

  • Entrepreneurs opening their first physical location

Corporate Wellness

Programs grounded in real nervous system science. Not a yoga class bolted onto a benefits package. Something your people will actually use.

Ideal for:

  • HR and People teams building benefits people actually use

  • Executive teams facing chronic stress and burnout

  • Women's employee resource groups

  • Leadership teams navigating a major transition

  • Sales and client-facing teams under constant pressure

  • Founders and executive teams at high-growth startups

  • Companies with turnover tied to burnout

  • Organizations rolling out a new wellbeing initiative and need it to land

WHO THIS IS FOR ...

  • You're a corporation trying to build employee wellness people actually show up for.

  • You're a woman-led business ready to add a wellness offering that reflects your brand, not a generic template.

  • You're a safari or travel company that wants to build embodiment and retreat experiences into what you already offer.

  • You're a start up wellness facility founder who needs someone who has already built this, not someone learning as they go.

WHY ORGANIZATIONS CHOOSE DANA

You don't need another expert with a slide deck.

You need someone who has actually built this before.

I've spent 25 years turning wellness into something people feel in their bodies. And I understand the difference between an experience people politely enjoy and one they carry with them.

My work sits at the intersection of ancient practice and modern nervous system science. That combination isn't a gimmick. It's the reason the work holds up under real pressure, in a boardroom or on a retreat.

I don't hand you a template. I build for your people, your goals, and the outcome you're actually trying to create. Some organizations need restoration. Some need their leaders to think clearly again. Some just need permission to slow down long enough to hear themselves think.

Whatever the need, I've likely already built something close to it. That's the part most people are paying for, whether they say it out loud or not.

ABOUT DANA

For 25 years, I've built wellness from the ground up. Retreats on four continents. A yoga school that's trained over 500 teachers. Breathwork, nervous system regulation, meditation, sound immersion — I've spent my career turning these into experiences people actually change because of.

I believe transformation starts in the body, not on the calendar.

When someone learns to regulate their nervous system and lead from presence instead of pressure, everything else follows. Better leadership. Better teams. Better decisions. But underneath all of that, something simpler happens first: they become a healthier human being.

That's the work.
everything else is the outcome.

Let's Build Something Real.

Every partnership starts with one conversation. Tell me about your team, your brand, or your vision, and we'll figure out where I can support co-creating your vision.

Let's Create Something Meaningful

Whether you're planning a leadership retreat, conference, wellness initiative, or executive offsite, I'd love to help create an experience your team will remember long after the event ends.