{"id":149,"date":"2020-03-19T10:14:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T10:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itsrising.com\/danayoga\/?p=149"},"modified":"2025-03-16T13:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T13:03:13","slug":"a-meditative-state-of-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danaveda.com\/sr\/a-meditative-state-of-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"A Meditative State of Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bengaluru Chronicle, May 25th<\/sup> 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Danijela is enriching many lives and making them happier with the power of hypnotherapy and meditation, finds out Nanita Gupta<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am now in a position to give back, be it through humanitarian work, spreading awareness about spirituality or helping people.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before and now<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Danijela or Dana as she is referred to by close friends is a woman of substance. Talking about her journey, she reveals, \u201cAfter 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She adds with a smile that radiates her entire face, \u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The turning point<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019s time to give back to society. \u201cI 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.\u201d Dana had acute arthritis and refused to take allopathic medicines, instead choosing holistic healing. \u201cAfter 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adventure junkie<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finding fun in small things in life, Dana gets chatty as the child in her emerges. \u201cMy 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,\u201d she quips, confessing, \u201cif you see a glass of white wine in my hand, it\u2019s not wine but chilled green tea instead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spiritual quotient<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her spiritual quest started with reading Siddhartha<\/em> by Hermann Hesse while she was in primary school and meditating through her 20s. \u201cIt was in helping others heal that I reached the most beautiful destination that we all seek to arrive at \u2013 the divine self. As a clinical hypnotherapist, I work with past lives, present lives and karma<\/em> issues which keep us trapped in the cycle of birth and rebirth,\u201d she says with poise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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