About Me

Born in Denver, Colorado I recently relocated to Scottsdale, Arizona with my loving partner Sarah and legendary border collie Wuki in February of 2025.

For you to get a better understanding of who I am, I’d like to share a bit about my past.

My life’s path took a big turn when I was in my early 30’s after spending over a decade in the nightlife + entertainment industry. Feeling unfulfilled and that there was a deeper meaning to my life, I began to seek shamanic wisdom and teachings that led to leaving a stressful corporate career and ending an unhealthy relationship to focus on my healing.

Spurred by a life altering Ayahuasca Ceremony in the Hawaiian jungle in 2013, it was made clear to me that my spiritual awakening had just begun. Over the next 10 years, I experienced a multitude of modalities that piece by piece allowed me to put together and see the bigger picture of the puzzle that was my reality.

My biggest obstacle was overcoming depression that began at the age of 13 years old and progressed overtime coupled with crippling anxiety into my early 30’s. It wasn’t until finding my first therapist that I realized how much I emotional pain I was carrying and what I was holding onto. Learning ways of letting go while accepting and managing my emotions allowed me to begin venturing towards men’s work, medicine work, and other personal and spiritual development practices.

At the capstone of this decade of healing was when I began to incorporate microdosing psilocybin medicine in conjunct with my personal development work. The profound awareness and breakthroughs I encountered helped me integrate the many meaningful lessons and experiences I cultivated over the previous years and began to quiet the noise in my nervous system and bring peace to my heart and soul.

My life’s work comes from the embodiment of these experiences, lessons, and trainings. Creating an integrated approach to Body + Mind healing through Transformational Bodywork + Breakthrough Coaching is what I have discovered to by my purpose and feel immense gratitude and blessed to pass onto others who are seeking a change in their life.

PAQO

Term originating from the Incan Medicine people of the Peruvian Andes that has meaning similar to “shaman” or “mystic”. Also pertaining to “Andean Priest” or one that “is to be of service, both to the great beings of Nature and the Cosmos and to the community. This service is always performed within the context of ‘Ayni’, the Andean principle of reciprocity, where giving is balanced by receiving , and receiving is balance by giving.”

KANA

Hawaiian name for ‘Dan’ (my birth name), also from the root word Kana’i’ meaning to “have a deep inner desire to inspire others in a higher cause, and to share their own strongly held views on spiritual matters.”

About Me

Personal Mission: To facilitate healing and the expansion of consciousness through sharing the gifts of wisdom + medicine.

Who I Work With: I specialize in working with those who are seeking fulfillment and clarity on their purpose + mission in life while overcoming the challenges of limitations in their body + mind.

Follow me on Instagram to Learn More: @paqokana


I bring a grounded approach to my offerings by living + embodying what I what I teach. Having participated in many healing ceremonies, men’s circles, and leadership programs for over a decade I create a safe space and container for those seeking deeper healing and wellbeing. Offering guidance through support + accountability, those that work with me can expect honesty, transparency, compassion, and understanding on their path towards change and transformation.

My Approach

:: Credentials ::

4th Level Shaman Priest & Wisdomkeeper

  • Sacred Ways - Swissvale, CO

  • Peruvian Incan Tradition of the Andes

  • Full Mesa Carrier

  • Initiated 2012

Level 3 Fascial Stretch Specialist

  • Stretch to Win Institute - Tempe, AZ

  • Fascia Stretch Therapy (FST)

  • Certified 2015, Re-Certified 2022

BS Business Marketing

  • University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Minor in Entrepreneurship

  • Graduated 2003

PSI Seminars

  • Denver Basic Seminar - 2018

  • PSI-7 Life Success Course Class 573

  • Denver PLD Team 83

  • Men’s Leadership Seminar, MLS C-108

Mankind Project USA

  • JCC Ranch - Elbert, CO

  • New Warrior Training Adventure

  • Leader Body - Primary Integration Training (PIT)

  • Initiated 2016


“I can only show you the door, you’re the one that has to walk through it.”

— Morpheus, The Matrix