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Ep: 109: Purpose Is a Feeling, Not a Project - Dan Spinner
Dan Spinner | Founder of Biofield Awareness, executive coach, author, and former CEO of the Deepak Chopra Foundation
What if your purpose is not something you think your way into, but something your body already knows?
In this episode of the Awaken Your Purpose Podcast, Zenka Caro speaks with Dan Spinner, founder of Biofield Awareness, executive and life coach, author, former CEO of the Deepak Chopra Foundation, and senior advisor to the Esalen Institute.
Dan shares how his understanding of purpose began not as a career plan, but as a feeling. As a child, he found comfort, love, and support in trees, nature, and the living field around him. Later, through Zen, Aikido, meditation, coaching, and decades of work with organizations and leaders, he began to recognize that purpose was not only an idea. It was a somatic signal. A coherence. A quiet North Star in the body.
✦ Guest Links ✦
🌐 Biofield Awareness: https://www.biofieldawareness.com/founder
✦ Holomovement Purpose Lab ✦
🔎 Search the archives: https://www.holomovement.net/purpose
🧭 Take the quiz + find your stage: https://www.lightnet.org/purpose/quiz
📝 Found your purpose? Add your data + insights: https://www.lightnet.org/labs/purpose?view=my-map
📚 Browse the research, books, tools + resources: https://www.lightnet.org/labs/purpose
🌊 Join us at the Holomovement Wave in Portugal: https://www.holomovement.net/wave
✦ ✦ ✦
In this conversation, Dan explores purpose as an embodied experience: the feeling of flow, renewal, connection, and deep knowing that tells us when we are aligned. He describes how forcing, pushing, and ignoring the body’s wisdom leads to exhaustion, while surrendering into what is truly calling us can bring unexpected energy and renewal.
Dan also speaks about Biofield Awareness, coherence, the energetic ripple effect of who we are, and why the tone of our being may matter even more than our words. He shares stories from childhood, his years studying Aikido, his work with nature, and his decision in his 70s to only follow what genuinely called him.
This episode is a beautiful invitation to trust your own experience, listen beneath the noise, return to stillness, and discover purpose not as pressure, but as a living current.
✦ About Dan Spinner ✦
Dan Spinner is the founder of Biofield Awareness and an executive and life coach working with clients across three continents. He has served as a senior executive with universities, hospitals, and NGOs, helped raise more than $300 million for charities and businesses, and served as CEO of the Deepak Chopra Foundation and senior advisor to the Esalen Institute.
His work bridges coaching, leadership, wellbeing, emotional intelligence, community building, and the emerging understanding of the biofield. Dan is a black belt in Aikido, a certified teacher in Light Body Meditation, and co-author of Wake Up Curious, the first book in the Wake Up Trilogy. He is also a co-founder of Mirabai Inc., creator of The Nursing Way wellness platform.
✦ Time Codes ✦
00:00 Purpose as a feeling, not an idea
01:47 Talking to trees as a child
03:40 Zen, Jesus, nature, and the beginning of a spiritual path
05:00 Aikido, life force energy, and learning to follow flow
06:20 How the body reveals what is on purpose
07:23 Riding the wave of flow
08:30 Renewal versus exhaustion
09:38 Purpose as inexhaustible energy
10:33 Choosing only what calls you
11:42 The challenges of following purpose
14:54 Longing as a doorway to self-trust
16:00 Finding the still place beyond words
17:12 The ripple effect of our energetic field
18:48 Biofield Awareness and the energy behind what we create
19:35 Science, ancient wisdom, and the shared biofield
21:16 A world where people live their purpose
22:01 Love as coherence and the path forward
✦ ✦ ✦
Thank you for joining us today. Our goal is to help you gather the courage to identify your passion and live your purpose for the sake of yourself and for the sake of us all.
The Awaken Your Purpose Podcast is a collaboration between Holomovement and LightNet. Through a multi-year research project and 100+ interviews, we are mapping the patterns, stages, and methods that help people discover and live their purpose.
✦ ✦ ✦
🎙️ Listen to the “Awaken Your Purpose” Podcast:
🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/awaken-your-purpose/id1746656881
🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1MfzpoYO4V0CvcohVNIhg4
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Dan Spinner | Founder of Biofield Awareness, executive coach, author, and former CEO of the Deepak Chopra Foundation
What if your purpose is not something you think your way into, but something your body already knows?
In this episode of the Awaken Your Purpose Podcast, Zenka Caro speaks with Dan Spinner, founder of Biofield Awareness, executive and life coach, author, former CEO of the Deepak Chopra Foundation, and senior advisor to the Esalen Institute.
Dan shares how his understanding of purpose began not as a career plan, but as a feeling. As a child, he found comfort, love, and support in trees, nature, and the living field around him. Later, through Zen, Aikido, meditation, coaching, and decades of work with organizations and leaders, he began to recognize that purpose was not only an idea. It was a somatic signal. A coherence. A quiet North Star in the body.
✦ Guest Links ✦
🌐 Biofield Awareness: https://www.biofieldawareness.com/founder
✦ Holomovement Purpose Lab ✦
🔎 Search the archives: https://www.holomovement.net/purpose
🧭 Take the quiz + find your stage: https://www.lightnet.org/purpose/quiz
📝 Found your purpose? Add your data + insights: https://www.lightnet.org/labs/purpose?view=my-map
📚 Browse the research, books, tools + resources: https://www.lightnet.org/labs/purpose
🌊 Join us at the Holomovement Wave in Portugal: https://www.holomovement.net/wave
✦ ✦ ✦
In this conversation, Dan explores purpose as an embodied experience: the feeling of flow, renewal, connection, and deep knowing that tells us when we are aligned. He describes how forcing, pushing, and ignoring the body’s wisdom leads to exhaustion, while surrendering into what is truly calling us can bring unexpected energy and renewal.
Dan also speaks about Biofield Awareness, coherence, the energetic ripple effect of who we are, and why the tone of our being may matter even more than our words. He shares stories from childhood, his years studying Aikido, his work with nature, and his decision in his 70s to only follow what genuinely called him.
This episode is a beautiful invitation to trust your own experience, listen beneath the noise, return to stillness, and discover purpose not as pressure, but as a living current.
✦ About Dan Spinner ✦
Dan Spinner is the founder of Biofield Awareness and an executive and life coach working with clients across three continents. He has served as a senior executive with universities, hospitals, and NGOs, helped raise more than $300 million for charities and businesses, and served as CEO of the Deepak Chopra Foundation and senior advisor to the Esalen Institute.
His work bridges coaching, leadership, wellbeing, emotional intelligence, community building, and the emerging understanding of the biofield. Dan is a black belt in Aikido, a certified teacher in Light Body Meditation, and co-author of Wake Up Curious, the first book in the Wake Up Trilogy. He is also a co-founder of Mirabai Inc., creator of The Nursing Way wellness platform.
✦ Time Codes ✦
00:00 Purpose as a feeling, not an idea
01:47 Talking to trees as a child
03:40 Zen, Jesus, nature, and the beginning of a spiritual path
05:00 Aikido, life force energy, and learning to follow flow
06:20 How the body reveals what is on purpose
07:23 Riding the wave of flow
08:30 Renewal versus exhaustion
09:38 Purpose as inexhaustible energy
10:33 Choosing only what calls you
11:42 The challenges of following purpose
14:54 Longing as a doorway to self-trust
16:00 Finding the still place beyond words
17:12 The ripple effect of our energetic field
18:48 Biofield Awareness and the energy behind what we create
19:35 Science, ancient wisdom, and the shared biofield
21:16 A world where people live their purpose
22:01 Love as coherence and the path forward
✦ ✦ ✦
Thank you for joining us today. Our goal is to help you gather the courage to identify your passion and live your purpose for the sake of yourself and for the sake of us all.
The Awaken Your Purpose Podcast is a collaboration between Holomovement and LightNet. Through a multi-year research project and 100+ interviews, we are mapping the patterns, stages, and methods that help people discover and live their purpose.
✦ ✦ ✦
🎙️ Listen to the “Awaken Your Purpose” Podcast:
🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/awaken-your-purpose/id1746656881
🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1MfzpoYO4V0CvcohVNIhg4
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