FOUNDER · REIKI PRACTITIONER · TEACHER
Diana Dodds
I learned early that some of life’s most important questions do not fit neatly into one way of knowing.
My life has moved between physics and neuroscience, meditation and spiritual practice, caregiving and loss, Reiki, technology, and an enduring curiosity about consciousness and what it means to live with greater awareness.
Today, I am the founder of Biofield Transformations and creator of Whispering Wings Wellbeing. I practice and teach Reiki, create meditation and wellbeing experiences, and continue to explore the places where personal experience, spiritual tradition, and scientific inquiry meet.
A Life Shaped by Inquiry
Questions have always mattered to me.
I studied physics at the University of Florida and completed senior work in experimental particle physics using data from the CLEO II detector. Later, I worked as a laboratory technician in neuroscience research at the University of Florida and became a coauthor on three peer-reviewed neuroscience publications.
Those experiences taught me to pay attention to evidence, uncertainty, patterns, and the difference between an interesting observation and a conclusion the available evidence can actually support.
But scientific inquiry was never the only kind of inquiry in my life.
Alongside my education and professional career, I was equally drawn to meditation, philosophy, spirituality, consciousness, and the nature of human experience.
An Inner Life Alongside the Outer One
My contemplative path began long before Reiki became part of my life.
I began practicing Vipassana meditation in 1997 and, over the years, explored yoga, Tai Chi, Qigong, martial arts, and other contemplative traditions. These practices gave me ways to observe the mind, work with attention, and become more aware of the relationship between inner experience and the life unfolding around me.
A particularly important influence during those years was Michael A. Singer.
After college, I worked at Medical Manager Corporation, the company he founded, and became part of the wider spiritual community around the Temple of the Universe in Alachua, Florida. His teachings on surrender, presence, letting go, and releasing the need to control life became a lasting influence on my own practice. Michael later officiated my wedding, a meaningful moment within a connection to those teachings that has continued across many years.
My meditation practice also sometimes opened into experiences that were difficult to fit within my ordinary understanding of myself and the world. Some were profound. Some were disorienting. Many took years to reflect on and integrate.
I have written about those experiences in deeply personal and spiritual terms. I do not present them as scientific proof of what consciousness is or how reality works. They are part of my lived experience—and part of what kept me asking questions.
When the Questions Became Personal
Some of the deepest lessons in my life did not come through laboratories, books, meditation retreats, or spiritual teachings.
They came through caregiving.
For many years, I walked alongside my mother as Alzheimer’s disease progressively changed her memory, language, independence, and experience of the world. Caring for her asked things of me that no intellectual framework could solve: patience, presence, surrender, grief, humor, compassion, and the willingness to remain in relationship even when so much of what had once defined that relationship was changing.
What stayed with me most was the experience that connection could still appear even when memory was fading. A familiar expression, a moment of recognition, a touch, a laugh, or simply sitting together could carry meaning beyond what words were able to hold.
That journey changed how I understand care.
It also changed my relationship with control.
Sometimes love cannot fix what is happening. Sometimes being present is the work.
The losses surrounding that period brought questions I had explored intellectually and spiritually into a much more immediate place: How do we remain open in grief? What remains when so much of what we identify with begins to change? What does it mean to serve another person when we cannot control the outcome?
I am now writing about that experience more fully in Journey Through Alzheimer’s, a personal account of the years my mother and I traveled through together.
When Reiki Entered the Story
Reiki entered my life during a period when grief had made many of those questions impossible to keep at a distance.
After the death of my sister, I received a Reiki session that affected me deeply. I remember experiencing a sense of lightness and space around grief that had felt very different before the session.
What stayed with me was not a certainty about why I had experienced that shift.
It was curiosity.
I wanted to understand the practice more deeply.
That curiosity led to Reiki training, personal practice, practice with others, and eventually to teaching.
Reiki also connected with something that had already been developing across decades of my life: attention, intention, presence, compassion, meditation, surrender, and the willingness to enter an experience without immediately deciding what it proves.
That is still how I approach Reiki today.
Practice, Teaching, and Responsibility
As Reiki became a larger part of my life, my relationship with it changed.
Personal practice eventually became practitioner work, and practitioner work eventually led me to teach. With teaching came a greater responsibility to be clear about what students are learning, what certification represents, and where the boundaries of Reiki practice belong.
I completed Reiki Level I (Shoden), Level II (Okuden), Level III (Shinpiden/Advanced Practitioner), and Master/Teacher (Shihan) training and certification within a documented Usui Reiki lineage. I am a certified Reiki Master/Teacher, and the Biofield Transformations training pathway I now teach is built around practice, reflection, ethical judgment, and demonstrated competency rather than simply completing lessons or receiving an attunement.
I want students to understand Reiki as a living practice.
Traditional teachings, personal experiences, intuition, ethics, practical skill, consent, reflection, and professional boundaries can all have a place in training. Unusual sensations or spiritual experiences are not required, and they are not measures of someone’s competence.
Training, Memberships, and Professional Standards
My training has also extended beyond Reiki. I have completed Star Magic Healing Facilitator Training Levels 1, 2, and 3—the highest level of its facilitator training pathway—and I maintain current membership in the Healing Touch Professional Association.
I value these experiences because each has contributed something to the way I think about practice, responsibility, and working with other people.
One aspect of Healing Touch that particularly resonates with me is its emphasis on professional ethics. Its Code of Ethics addresses informed consent, professional boundaries, accurate representation of credentials, respect for client autonomy, confidentiality, and working within appropriate scope of practice.
Those principles closely reflect the standards I want to bring to all of my work, regardless of the particular practice or setting.
REIKI
Certified Usui Reiki Master/Teacher
Completed Levels I, II, III, and Master/Teacher training within a documented Reiki lineage.
STAR MAGIC
Healing Facilitator Training Levels 1–3
Completed through the highest facilitator-training level.
HEALING TOUCH
Healing Touch Professional Association member
Current membership through September 2027.
Experience, Evidence, and the Space Between
My scientific background and my spiritual life have taught me something similar from very different directions:
Pay attention to what you actually know.
There are experiences in my life that I know personally. There are ideas I encounter through spiritual traditions. There are questions that can be investigated scientifically. And there are questions for which the evidence remains limited, mixed, emerging, or simply unable to resolve the meaning of an experience itself.
I don’t believe those categories need to be collapsed into one another.
A meaningful experience does not become meaningless because science has not explained it.
But personal meaning does not turn an experience into scientific proof either.
That distinction matters to me.
It is why I can take Reiki, meditation, consciousness, the biofield, sound, breathwork, and other areas of wellbeing seriously while still asking what research actually shows, what remains uncertain, and where a traditional or spiritual explanation should remain exactly that.
I try to stay curious enough to explore and disciplined enough to say, “We don’t know yet,” when that is the most accurate answer.
What I Am Building Now
Biofield Transformations grew from this long path of practice, questioning, teaching, caregiving, and exploration.
Today, my work includes Reiki education and sessions, complementary energy-practice work, public educational resources, research and evidence exploration, and free meditation and personal practices.
I also created Whispering Wings Wellbeing for the part of this work that happens between classes, sessions, and major moments of change: the ordinary days when practice becomes something we return to again and again.
Whispering Wings brings together meditation, breathwork, music, reflection, challenges, live experiences, and community. My goal is not to give people another system they need to follow perfectly. It is to create more opportunities to practice, explore, listen inwardly, and participate actively in their own wellbeing.
Biofield Transformations and Whispering Wings are different expressions of the work I am building.
And the story is still unfolding.
Continue Exploring
If something in my story brought you here, you don’t need to begin in the same place I did.
Begin with what interests you now.
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