Northstar Unplugged #021. Deana Zabaldo: trekking and cultural guide in Himalayas, somatic coach
Deana Zabaldo is a certified coach and a professional guide. She supports inner journeys exploring mind, body, and soul and also leads adventures through the Himalayas.
An award-winning trekking and cultural guide, Deana has more than 20 years of hands-on experience in the Himalayas and a passion for its culture and peoples. She designed and led Outside Magazine’s Best Himalayan Trip in 2012 and won first place in the 2013 World Guide Awards based on her service, knowledge, and ethical travel standards. She continues to lead in-depth cultural, spiritual, and trekking journeys in Nepal and Bhutan.
As a somatic coach, Deana specializes in helping people to map and bridge the inner territories of their felt experience, intuition, and aspirations and then apply that whole-body intelligence in their professional and personal lives. With pragmatic wisdom, Deana inspires and supports people to discover, value, and cultivate their inner compass — an approach clients report has enabled them to forge their own unique paths toward self-awareness and happier, more fulfilling lives.
Deana’s wide-ranging interests have led her to conduct productivity training for businesses, launch and direct cultural exchange programs, design and deliver training in manufacturing facilities, and teach university psychology courses. She also founded and continues to direct Changing Lives Nepal, a nonprofit that catalyzes sustainable, effective change and alleviates poverty through local leadership and grassroots development. Through small, targeted funding and long-term commitment, CLN continues to improve the lives of thousands of people in remote villages of Nepal.
Deana resides in Marin County, CA and has lived in rural Nepal as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer. She has travelled across the U.S. and more than 25 countries in her explorations of spirit, soul, nature, and embodied awareness.
Resources:
Parahamsa
Upcoming journeys:
Snowman Trek (Bhutan, Oct 2021)
Spiritual Journey (Bhutan, Nov 2021)
Outside Magazine’s Best Himalayan Trip
Info about Deana’s coaching + 2021 trips:
info@parahamsa.com
Deana’s book recommendations:
How to Not Always Be Working (Marlee Grace)
Inward (Yung Pueblo)
The New Silk Roads (Peter Frankopan)
Deana’s podcast recommendations:
Jay Shetty (on Rich Roll)
Rangan Chatterjee (on Rich Roll)
Michael Singer (on Tony Robbin podcast)|
The Moth podcast