Hi, I’m Diana Egizi…
I offer myself as a vocal embodiment guide, sacred vocalist, songstress and cacao ceremonialist devoted to awakening transformative Love in service to personal and collective healing.
As a vocal embodiment guide, I primarily help heart-centered women empower their authentic, intuitive soul voice as a sacred instrument. On our journey of vocal rooting and blossoming, I support them to nurture self-love so they can confidently embody their unique sound, re-weave their Wholeness and reclaim their Divine Creative Power.
Weaving my background in performance with the mystical and healing arts, my offerings are imbued with the potency of courageous self-exploration, radical self-love and reverence for the sacred within and all around.
My offerings are also informed by my own vocal empowerment journey…
In my early 20’s, I hit rock bottom due to crippling, self-destructive shame and self-criticism. Even though I had been singing most of my life, my voice had seemed to disappear. I did not sing anymore. I felt completely estranged from myself, from my creativity, and from Love. It took a big initiation of pain and suffering to show me just how much I’d abandoned myself and let critical, self-judging stories shut down my soul song. The way I have come to resurrect love for myself and my voice is central to what I offer to other women. The journey continues to this day as I continue to learn, grow and courageously step into ever-unfolding layers of myself and my path.
As a sacred vocalist and songstress, I offer my voice as an instrument for healing in ceremonial and ritual spaces, kirtans (devotional mantra chanting), as well as through my original devotional music. My soul-songs serve as an invitation into the heart and an offering of Divine Love, in alignment with my soul purpose to embody and serve Love with all that I am.
LINEAGE OF TEACHINGS
I am so grateful for the many ways I have been privileged to learn and grow. I count all of my experiences as valuable, influential gifts that weave into what and how I offer my work.
Here are some of the teachers and teachings that have influenced me:
STUDIES / TRAININGS
Various singing lessons (from age 16)
BFA in Drama, NYU Tisch School of the Arts
(Playwrights Horizons Theater School - multidisciplinary)
Usui Reiki Levels 1 & 2
Firefly Society of NYC
Thai Massage Foundations
Permaculture Design Certificate
200-hr Hatha Yoga Teacher Training
with Awakened Spirit Yoga (teachers: Julia Forest & Hayley Saraswati)
Yoga of Sound & Chocolate
Residential Mystery School in Lago Atitlán, Guatemala
Sobada Mayan Abdominal Massage
Maria Eugenia Gobbato & Doña Dominga
Restorative & Yin YTT + Art of Breath (Advanced Yogic Breathwork)
with Awakened Spirit Yoga
ThetaSoma Guide Training
(A trauma-informed, intuitive, healing technique that integrates tools from yoga, dreamwork and ancestral healing for bio-psycho-somatic-spiritual integration)
with Alexandra Carelli & Anthony West
Somatic Plant Medicine Integration Program (trauma-informed integration, certification in-process)
with Atira Tan, Aya Healing Retreats
INFLUENTIAL TEACHERS / TEACHINGS
Plant & fungi medicine teachers
Tarot of the Spirit & teachings of Kabbalah
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Toko-pa Turner, Ram Dass, Krishna Das, Pema Chödrön, Francis Weller, Michael Meade, Bayo Akomolafe, Sri Ramana Maharshi, Mātā Amritānandamayī (Amma), Joanna Macy, Adyashanti, Lyla June, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Miranda MacPherson, Martín Prechtel… (to name a few)
Various Indigenous wisdom keepers & wise elders whom I’ve had the honor to sit with or hear from, such as Tata Pedro & Nana Marina (Tzutujil Mayan)
Ancestral healing explorations: Southern Italian Folk Herbalism with Lisa Fazio of The Root Circle; Singing the Bones with Lydia Violet & Leah Song (to name a couple)
Non-violent communication + consent
The “Wise Woman” way of healing & herbalism
12-Step recovery
The Artist’s Way (Julia Cameron)
Various teachings on decolonization & the ever-ongoing journey of doing that work
the many children I’ve met
the courageous, loving women of this world
The gifts of music & mantra
The global, mystical traditions of sacred sound
The shadow work that comes with being human
The experience of being in a cis-gendered female body
…and so much more… constantly learning & growing…
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”