A Meditative State of Mind
Bengaluru Chronicle, May 25th 2013
Danijela is enriching many lives and making them happier with the power of hypnotherapy and meditation, finds out Nanita Gupta
I am now in a position to give back, be it through humanitarian work, spreading awareness about spirituality or helping people.
She has come a long way and answered her true calling. The trauma of the ethnic war that started in former Yugoslavia in 1991 was a blessing in disguise for Danijela Radonic. Born a Serb and brought up in Croatia, the war made her emerge as a stronger person. Today, she takes hypnotherapy and meditation sessions in the city.
Before and now
Danijela or Dana as she is referred to by close friends is a woman of substance. Talking about her journey, she reveals, “After my medical school, I worked at a dental clinic, but I always wanted to study alternative medicine. So after leaving Serbia and moving eastwards in 2005 (Dubai, Nepal and India), I enrolled in programmes related to holistic healing, even while managing one of the biggest holistic centres in Nepal and continued to conduct yoga and meditation workshops. I joined the Indian Institute for Alternative Medicine and thereafter studied Clinical Hypnotherapy from the California Hypnosis Institute.”
She adds with a smile that radiates her entire face, “I moved to Bengaluru and set up my home clinic, which will hopefully grow into holistic centre soon. I conduct weekly Power of Purity meditation that is open to all, free of cost.”
The turning point
Being a child refugee, who had lost everything overnight, and was dependent on the good will of others to receive sustenance through donation, Dana now feels it’s time to give back to society. “I am now in a position to give back, be it through humanitarian work, spreading awareness and knowledge about spirituality or helping people through my work as a clinical hypnotherapist.” Dana had acute arthritis and refused to take allopathic medicines, instead choosing holistic healing. “After getting cured myself, I knew this was one more sign for me to give back and share my experience, moving them from illness to wellness without any side effects.”
Adventure junkie
Finding fun in small things in life, Dana gets chatty as the child in her emerges. “My biggest passion is scuba diving for that meditative state when you are underwater and the amazing world opens up before your eyes. I also love different dance forms like salsa, jazz ballet and zumba. Being a vegetarian, non-smoker and a teetotaler, it is rather strange that I am married to a hotelier (she is married to Ranvir Bhandari, VP South, ITC Hotels) because of which I attend social funkctions,” she quips, confessing, “if you see a glass of white wine in my hand, it’s not wine but chilled green tea instead.”
Spiritual quotient
Her spiritual quest started with reading Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse while she was in primary school and meditating through her 20s. “It was in helping others heal that I reached the most beautiful destination that we all seek to arrive at – the divine self. As a clinical hypnotherapist, I work with past lives, present lives and karma issues which keep us trapped in the cycle of birth and rebirth,” she says with poise.
