Danielle Denichaud

The first of her family born on Turtle Island, Danielle Denichaud is honoured to live, play and co-create on the Traditional Lands of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe, Huron-Wendat and Mississaugas of the Credit Peoples. Danielle enjoyed an eight-year professional dance career after her graduation from the Professional Program of the National Ballet of Canada, under the guidance of Lindsay Fischer, and concomitant training with Donna Krasnow and Bob McCullum at the Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre. She delighted in performing with Desrosiers Dance Theatre, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, ProArteDanza, ezdanza and Dreamwalker Dance Company.

Danielle’s life made an abrupt turn in her mid-twenties, as her career as an interpretive artist was interrupted by auto-immune conditions and a sacral dislocation. Fortunately, Danielle was graced with tenacity and access to stewards of diverse health knowledges; as such, her own needs for holistic recovery initiated a journey to become a Holistic Health Consultant. For nearly twenty years, Danielle has been studying, embodying and sharing languages and practices of regenerative health sciences, specializing in rehabilitative functional training, holistic nutrition, chronic disease recovery and compassionate mindfulness.

Following her complete recovery of mind-body-heart-spirit diseases and years of successful interventions with adults, Danielle returned to graduate school to contribute to conversations and aspirations for K-12 school health promotion. Currently a PhD candidate at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Danielle also cherishes her role as the researcher/knowledge mobilizer for Dreamwalker Dance Company, while deepening her now seven-year mentorship in Earth-stewardship at The Living Centre: Eco-Spiritual Education Sanctuary.