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About Dyana Wells
Dyana has been studying Tibetan Buddhadharma for the past 30 years, in the lineage of Canadian Namygal Rinpoche. She regularly embarks on long retreats to deepen her understanding of meditation, the nature of mind and the purpose of life.
She has sailed the Pacific ocean and travelled for retreats, workshops and life-learnings in Canada, Thailand, China and New Zealand. Dyana lives in a small seaside village overlooking the Hauraki Gulf, where she writes and gardens, and has three children and four grandchildren.
The focus of all Dyana's investigating and avid questioning has been to understand life and how to live well. She has a BSc majoring in Botany and Zoology, MA (Hons) in Philosophy; MCW (Hons) in Creative Writing, Dip Yoga Therapy from Wellpark College, and a Cert Counselling.
The Yoga of Sailing is the debut autobiographical novel in Dyana's trilogy Anchors in an Open Sea. Buddha and a Boat continues the story. The third book, My True Names, is due for publication in January 2017.
She has sailed the Pacific ocean and travelled for retreats, workshops and life-learnings in Canada, Thailand, China and New Zealand. Dyana lives in a small seaside village overlooking the Hauraki Gulf, where she writes and gardens, and has three children and four grandchildren.
The focus of all Dyana's investigating and avid questioning has been to understand life and how to live well. She has a BSc majoring in Botany and Zoology, MA (Hons) in Philosophy; MCW (Hons) in Creative Writing, Dip Yoga Therapy from Wellpark College, and a Cert Counselling.
The Yoga of Sailing is the debut autobiographical novel in Dyana's trilogy Anchors in an Open Sea. Buddha and a Boat continues the story. The third book, My True Names, is due for publication in January 2017.
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Books By Dyana Wells
The Yoga of Sailing (Anchors in an Open Sea Book 1)
Oct 27, 2016
by
Dyana Wells
$6.50
The Yoga of Sailing is Book One of the Anchors in an Open Sea trilogy.
"Sailing into the full catastrophe of living"
Have you ever wondered what it is like to be driven, most of your life, by an overwhelming desire for spiritual experience?
Explore with Alice through thirty tumultuous years, cycling, tramping, sailing, making love, sitting through spiritual retreats, teaching and raising a family. Taste life through mystical eyes, experience being raised to heaven, experience the torment of being plunged to earth when the heart fails.
Endlessly curious about life and the human journey, Alice throws herself with abandon into the natural world, rough and raw, creating heroic confusion while plunging deeply into the mystery of mind. What she discovers at the end is not what she expected.
This is your chance to travel with her and come to understand why her desire for spiritual experience was so overwhelming and why she found it so hard to make peace with ordinary living.
The autobiographical honesty and poetical language make this story compelling. Hang on as you sail off with her into the ocean of stunning sunsets and wild waves.
A romp with Alice, her daughter Emily and father Roger, on an adventure through the Pacific. Sailing is the protagonist of the story – the sails, the sea, the winds, the islands and the sea-sickness.
Alice journeys into nature, leaping to freedom, caught in a mystery she doesn’t understand. She knows her wondrous mystical experiences don’t last, they don’t solve anything, but she’s stuck. Ordinary life seems mediocre and unfulfilling. She can’t let any of it go.
While Emily is missing her boyfriend, Alice is falling in love with her mystical beloved – that is until she falls in love with a man. The confusions multiply. Alice spins fantasy and reality, the mystical and sexual into an all-consuming romance.
Alice embraces the sailing, exploring, cycling, backpacking – capturing the detail, the beauty, the poignant conflict. She is searching but she doesn’t know what she is searching for, what is driving her, so she questions it all, frustrating everyone around her. She is careening full steam towards something, be it disaster or salvation.
"Sailing into the full catastrophe of living"
Have you ever wondered what it is like to be driven, most of your life, by an overwhelming desire for spiritual experience?
Explore with Alice through thirty tumultuous years, cycling, tramping, sailing, making love, sitting through spiritual retreats, teaching and raising a family. Taste life through mystical eyes, experience being raised to heaven, experience the torment of being plunged to earth when the heart fails.
Endlessly curious about life and the human journey, Alice throws herself with abandon into the natural world, rough and raw, creating heroic confusion while plunging deeply into the mystery of mind. What she discovers at the end is not what she expected.
This is your chance to travel with her and come to understand why her desire for spiritual experience was so overwhelming and why she found it so hard to make peace with ordinary living.
The autobiographical honesty and poetical language make this story compelling. Hang on as you sail off with her into the ocean of stunning sunsets and wild waves.
A romp with Alice, her daughter Emily and father Roger, on an adventure through the Pacific. Sailing is the protagonist of the story – the sails, the sea, the winds, the islands and the sea-sickness.
Alice journeys into nature, leaping to freedom, caught in a mystery she doesn’t understand. She knows her wondrous mystical experiences don’t last, they don’t solve anything, but she’s stuck. Ordinary life seems mediocre and unfulfilling. She can’t let any of it go.
While Emily is missing her boyfriend, Alice is falling in love with her mystical beloved – that is until she falls in love with a man. The confusions multiply. Alice spins fantasy and reality, the mystical and sexual into an all-consuming romance.
Alice embraces the sailing, exploring, cycling, backpacking – capturing the detail, the beauty, the poignant conflict. She is searching but she doesn’t know what she is searching for, what is driving her, so she questions it all, frustrating everyone around her. She is careening full steam towards something, be it disaster or salvation.
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Buddha and a Boat (Anchors in an Open Sea Book 2)
Nov 16, 2016
by
Dyana Wells
$6.50
Buddha and a Boat is the second autobiographical novel in the Anchors in An Open Sea trilogy by Dyana Wells.
Alice and family return to their sailing, cycling and back-packing adventures through Vanuatu, New Caledonia and back to New Zealand. This time there are life-defining intersections to be navigated.
Three days out of Vanuatu, the wind turns back to the south-east, a broad reach, and Dream-maker is surfing. The pencil crosses on the chart leap-frog the distance to New Caledonia.
What drives the desire for mystical experience?
What is this human life?
These are some of the questions explored by Alice and her family.
Dyana Wells trained in the natural sciences before changing direction to Western philosophy and then, in her early thirties, she met her first spiritual teacher and dived deeply into meditation and Eastern perspectives. She is a keen lover of the natural world and many of her deepest insights about life have come while journeying in nature.
Alice and family return to their sailing, cycling and back-packing adventures through Vanuatu, New Caledonia and back to New Zealand. This time there are life-defining intersections to be navigated.
Three days out of Vanuatu, the wind turns back to the south-east, a broad reach, and Dream-maker is surfing. The pencil crosses on the chart leap-frog the distance to New Caledonia.
What drives the desire for mystical experience?
What is this human life?
These are some of the questions explored by Alice and her family.
Dyana Wells trained in the natural sciences before changing direction to Western philosophy and then, in her early thirties, she met her first spiritual teacher and dived deeply into meditation and Eastern perspectives. She is a keen lover of the natural world and many of her deepest insights about life have come while journeying in nature.
Other Formats:
Paperback
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