Welcome to my website. I have been engaged in spiritual inquiry for over fifty years as a practitioner, poet, professor and spiritual counselor. I am an academic, a meditation teacher and the author or co-editor of numerous books, book chapters and articles. Since 1980 I have also been facilitating workshops and courses that support an intuitive exploration of the self through meditation and imagination, bringing the richness of Eastern tantric traditions to contemporary experience.
My focus has been on integrating the wisdom of these traditions with Western transpersonal and psychological thought to facilitate an awakening of the spiritual Heart—in Sanskrit, hrdaya— that encompasses body, mind, emotion and spirit. My aesthetic perspective draws on the creative resources of metaphor and imagery to facilitate this awakening.
This approach embraces our individual humanness as precious and sacred rather than as something to disown, abandon, or dissolve in the search for spiritual enlightenment. It is one that dissolves dualistic choices between supposed opposites such as spirit and matter, transcendent and immanent, self and Self, and instead embraces the richness of their interconnection and interdependence. And it encourages all aspects of our humanity to thrive while celebrating the paradox of being simultaneously separate and One.
I invite you to join me in finding an ever-deepening fullness within our own inner nature and in our communion with the world that surrounds us all.
Diana’s University of Waterloo Faculty Website can be found here:
https://uwaterloo.ca/communication-arts/profiles/diana-denton
Books by Diana
In "Holistic Learning and Spirituality in Education: Breaking New Ground," scholars from around the globe address the theory, practice, and poetics of holistic education. Some of the topics explored include educating the soul; partnership education; nourishing adolescents' spirituality; education and the modern assault on being human; the Eros of teaching; personal creativity as soul work; pedagogies of compassion; and meditation, masculinity, and meaningful life."
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"Spirituality, Action, & Pedagogy: Teaching From The Heart" invites the reader to participate in a personal exploration of what it means to consciously seek the heart of education. The authors in this collection - practitioners in higher education and teaching in such diverse areas as educational foundations, communication, theater, sociology, reading and literacy, and performance studies - respond to this challenge by striking the most personal chords of their lived experience. As they relate their tales of spirituality and teaching, the reader will be coaxed into confronting the question of what it means to teach. "Spirituality, Action & Pedagogy" addresses the integration of spirituality into pedagogical practice by providing cutting-edge examples of applications in classroom settings.
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Spirituality, Ethnography, & Teaching is dedicated to the journey to the heart of teaching and learning. Each chapter reveals that spirituality, ethnography, and teaching are linked concretely in our experience of and desire for freedom. This collection of stories invites the reader to share in a way of knowing that discloses a radical union in which freedom, communication, and spirit coalesce. This ethnography of spirit calls upon the reader to dwell more deeply in the humanness of life and vocation and to let love flow.
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