Dana Williams
Teacher of the Rose Way Meditation
Author · Spiritual Hypnotherapist
Writings
Two Books
The Lord’s Prayer through the Seven Chakras and the Twelve Life Paths
A reading of the Lord’s Prayer drawn through the body’s subtle centers and the twelve archetypal paths of a life. East and West held in one frame.
The Rose Way Meditation
The meditation Dana studied under Joe Koperski and has taught for decades — a spiritual-psychic practice that opens to dreams, guides, energetic levels, healings, and intuitive knowing.
About
In Her Own Words
Early life and Joe
From childhood I had intuitive experiences and contacts with the other side. My dreaminess was not appreciated in my atheistic family, and for a few years finding my path was a struggle. Once I determined to put myself into God’s hands, doors began to open.
At seventeen I met my boyfriend, a gifted psychic in a hereditary line of psychics. Through him I came to study with Joe Koperski, the teacher of the Rose Way Meditation. Joe taught a form of spiritual-psychic meditation that included astrology, numerology, lucid dreaming, spiritual guides, past-life memories, energetic levels, channeling, healings, readings, and intuitive knowings.
Europe, Basel, Bender, Hugo Maier
When I was nineteen my boyfriend and I moved to Europe and studied music at the academy in Basel. I began to teach the Rose Way Meditation through the parapsychological society there, and three years later taught the same class in Freiburg, Germany, in the private home of Professor Hans Bender of the Parapsychological Institute. For several months when I was twenty-three, his aged sister gave me daily personal training in Zen meditation and eurythmic bodywork.
While hitchhiking in Germany I met a student of Hugo Maier, a guru in the lineage of the Tamil saint Ramana Maharshi. From the age of twenty-five and for the next eight years I had the honor of being in his presence and receiving his teaching. Hugo taught the opposite of what Joe had taught me: a non-dualistic meditation and philosophy in which dreams, guides, and lives past and future are all part of the illusion that dissolves into Self when the small ego-self dissolves into Self. In these same European years I also came into contact with Jungian psychology, Anthroposophy, yoga, and herbology through the people I met. But Joe and Hugo remained my two main teachers.
The resolution and the hypnotherapy bridge
For several years I felt torn between the two directions. Their goals seemed opposite, and yet each held its value. Slowly the tension resolved, and I no longer felt divided.
In 2013 I studied and certified in spiritual hypnotherapy with Rochelle Jaffe in Ashland, Oregon. Her teaching formed a bridge between dualism and non-dualism — between the ego-self, the unconscious, and the supra-conscious. I learned what it means to have an embodied, conscious experience and at the same time to know oneself within a kind of illusion or creation of mind, and I learned how to guide a student into these states and toward the understandings I had received from both Joe and Hugo. Since then I have practiced hypnotherapy as an adjunct to spiritual training.