"In my research, I investigate the relationships between mind and body. The experience of Destiny is one way to explore this relationship.
"It's always amazing to me how many people want peace but seek it outside of themselves. Peace is always found within and Destiny simply provides the opportunity to go within oneself and discover it.
"I came from a high profile and fast paced career before just showing up at Destiny. After being out of the country for ten years and then teaching at Marist College in New York, I was ready to find my way home.
"My experience was magical. I was surrounded by the beautiful and ancient scenery of the Sedona red rocks and felt immediately relaxed and calm.
"My path of becoming a Medical Anthropologist and being of service to the world now meet within the peace of mind I am practicing as a facilitator for Destiny."
M. Diane Hardgrave is a special healer, bringing an international flavor to Destiny! We are so blessed to have her with us. Diane lived in Africa for 10 years working for Save the Children. She is our sixth facilitator and multi-talented. Currently, she is working on her doctorate in Medical Anthropology at UNLV. You can hear her singing and reading poetry at Destiny! |
"Although I have walked many paths they have all led me here. For most of my life I have been in the protection role, be it in service to the country or in private sector security.
"I know that for people to allow peace inside there has to be a level of safety. I believe this is why the ancestors led me to my wife and to Destiny.
"It is important to take time out of our lives and consider what is really important to us. As a boy, I would spend long hours on the reservation listening to the elders talk and tell stories, I learned the value of listening. At Destiny you get to listen to your heart and work from there."
Glen has traveled extensively throughout the world and brings a Native understanding and wisdom to Destiny. He is a broker in the trucking industry, and the author of the popular novel, The Day America Stopped. Check out his book on www.freewebs.com/hardgrave . Glen is also one of our newest breath facilitators. |
| David Donovan - October 6, 1969 - July 4, 2007 |
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David was a founding member of Destiny Retreats. He had a long history of motivational speaking. He co-wrote one of the most beautiful meditations preformed at Destiny Retreats, Remember Love.
David freely offered his spiritual energy to everyone! David continued to study many forms of healing and had a goal of reforestation of the planet! Look at his other web page by clicking here.
David will be long remembered for his devotion to bringing love to the planet. We will miss you David and will always love you.
The Destiny Staff
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Wouldn't you love to find that connection you have to the rest of creation?
"When I started out in the work of becoming a therapist, I was looking for the deeper layers of reality. As humans we get so caught up in our ordinary way of looking at the life around us. Our minds are picking and choosing according to our programming only those parts of what we will or won't see.
"How limiting the mind can be! But I never dreamed back then that I would find a connection to a greater reality, one in which it seems everything around me is communicating. In fact, I might have thought it sounded a little crazy if someone had told me about meeting the head shaman of the Inca nation and learning the ways of seeing energy.
"Whether you are interested in personal expansion of consciousness or to attain more skills for relaxation and peace of mind for yourself or your own healing practice with others, Destiny can provide you information through the experiential journey of our retreat.
"Beyond the wealth of knowledge you can acquire with this experience, you may just find that you make contact with the greater reality beyond the filters of the mind and somewhere among the stars of unlimited personal creativity."
Diane Donovan-Vaughn says that she created Destiny one day while blowing her hair dry before work. "It was channeled through the blow dryer," she jokes. Many people thank that hair dryer! Diane is also creator of Being Peace, Angel Training, co-writer of Finding Your Way Home, a talented licensed marriage and family therapist and substance abuse counselor, the former relationship expert on Fox 5 News in Las Vegas on Wednesday mornings, former co-star of Shrink Rap, a live television show and an Inca initiate! What's an Inca initiate? Come to Destiny and ask her when you are sitting under the stars by a fire! She might just tell you what the flames are saying to you!
Be sure to check out the weekly Destiny e-zine that is published by Diane every Wednesday.
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"Being part of Destiny has been the most powerful turning point in my life.
"Having a rather busy life that includes being a mother and working three jobs, facilitating destiny has added a deep spiritual dimension to my life.
"Sometimes we define our life in terms of the roles we play. Destiny defines the meaning or purpose to my life. It continuously gives me a feeling of peacefulness and an expanded state of love that emanates from my heart and spills out to include all of humanity.
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When you hear me at Destiny and your eyes are closed, I am sending you my heart through my voice and I am sending you the peace I have found.?
You can order the CD, Finding Your Way Home and hear some of Destiny now.
Cheryl Cornelius jokes that she doesn't know why she is with Destiny. It is where the path has led her and she keeps devoting her time and energy holding her special angelic energy for others! Everyone says that Cheryl is an angel! She is the co-writer of Finding Your Way Home and the voice on the CD! She is also an excellent marriage and family therapist, substance abuse counselor, social worker, counselor College of Southern Nevada and former co-star of Shrink Rap, a live television show.
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