Meet Dina Love
Depth.
Delight.
A whole human life.
I’m interested in what helps us
live more freely.
My work as a psychotherapist and movement teacher has brought me into close contact with the complexity, courage, and creativity of being human.
Psychotherapy practice since 2002.
Over 35,000 individual and couples counseling sessions facilitated.A life dedicated to movement.
I’m a Nia Black Belt–trained dance guide with 25 years of experience. Although I’m no longer Nia-certified, my ten-year education in The Body’s Way and The Joy of Movement continues to inform how I guide.
For nearly two decades, I taught four classes a week on the same dance floor. Returning to practice with a community, through all the contrasts of real life, was both humbling and emboldening. It refined my leadership and deepened my capacity to hold space for transformation.
That history lives in the work today: warmth, discernment, playfulness, and the pleasure of creating together.
Curiosity, grounded in practice
What informs
the work.
I return to a practical question: how does what we discover change the way we live?
My psychotherapy work, alongside my study of the Enneagram and Internal Family Systems, helps me understand patterns, listen to the different parts of us, and make room for choice.
Movement and mindfulness bring inquiry into the body: what we feel, how we respond, and what becomes possible when we pay attention.
Symbolic and contemplative traditions offer other ways to explore meaning. I approach them with curiosity and discernment, returning to lived experience.
Teachers, traditions & ongoing studies
- The Enneagram
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Mindfulness
- Gene Keys
- Tibetan Buddhism
- Hawaiian wisdom
- Tarot
- Astrology
- The teachings of Angeles Arrien
Selected Press & Recognition
Movement, inquiry, and service are all part of what I bring to this work.
Movement & joy
Seattle Met recognized my Nia Underground classes in Best of the City, under “Fitness Trend,” describing students leaving “healthier, happier, and creatively turned on.”
Read the feature →
Wisdom through experience
Susan Rhodes’s “The Enneagram as a Living Process” offers a participant’s perspective on my workshop.
Read the workshop profile →
In the Seattle community
My work has been featured in The Seattle Times on multiple occasions.
Partnership Award · inaugural recipient
The Partnership Award was created for me during my service as Assistant Director of Disaster Services for the American Red Cross of Greater New York in New York City.
Living Wisdom Arts
Wisdom we can live.
Living Wisdom Arts brings these threads into music, movement, reflective practices, and conversation.
I care about what happens after the insight: how we speak to someone we love, meet a difficult feeling, or choose what comes next.
I hope you leave with something you can use—and more trust in your capacity to meet your own life.
With love, Dina
