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Meet Daniela Hess

As Co-Founder of Great Energy, Daniela shapes the tone, integrity, and rhythm of all offerings while holding the long-term vision for the work.

🌟 Daniela Hess, MSEd, RYT500 🌟

Co-Founder, Spiritual Director & Lead Educator

Daniela Hess is the Co-Founder, Spiritual Director, and Lead Educator of Great Energy, which she leads with her partner in life and partner in business, Christopher Grant. Great Energy is a modern educational home for conscious living, healing, embodied practice, and the integration of body, heart, mind, and daily life.

For over two decades, Daniela has guided thousands of students worldwide through practices and teachings that integrate healing for the body, heart, and mind. Her work brings spiritual practice into daily life with steadiness, simplicity, and care.

People often describe feeling deeply seen, settled, and more themselves in her presence.

Daniela’s approach is grounded in a few clear commitments:

  • No urgency

  • No bypassing

  • Choice always

She prioritizes direct experience over ideology and integration over insight alone. Her work centers nervous system safety, lived Wisdom, and change that unfolds steadily and holds.

Who She Serves

Daniela works primarily with:

  • Midlife women

  • Generation Z Women

  • Healers

  • Yoga teachers

  • Educators

  • Leaders

Most clients and students arrive during a time of transition, healing, or a desire to live with greater clarity, integrity, and alignment.

Ways to Work With Daniela

Speaking, Keynotes & Interviews

Daniela offers grounded, presence-based talks for conferences, retreats, podcasts, and summits on conscious living, embodied leadership, spiritual practice, and nervous system safety.

Educational Consulting

She supports organizations and educators with curriculum development, ethical teaching frameworks, trauma-informed structures, and program design that honors safety, pacing, and real integration.

Personal Offerings

1:1 Work

• Autoimmune-informed coaching

• Midlife-aware

• Relationship guidance

• Grief work 

• One-on-one mentorship

Sacred Sunday™ – a free monthly spiritual practice

The Keys for Inspired Living™ – a foundation for steady daily practice

Background & Credentials

• Master of Science in Health Education (MSEd)

• Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT500)

• Qigong & Meditation Teacher

• Spiritual Director and Coach Trainer (CTACC)

• Certified Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) Coach

• Functional Nutrition Coaching

• Certified Grief Coach

Daniela brings both lived experience and professional training into every space she leads.

Selected Reflections from Students

Featured Conversations & Teachings

REMEMBER WHAT YOU ARE - playing the game of life with Daniela (10 mins)

Why You Came Here! Cliff notes about life from Daniela (7 mins)

You Are More Than Your Personality | A Sacred Sunday Journey into Embodied Truth (6 mins)

Intending, 'Power of 8', Embodied Prayer overview with Daniela (6 mins)

Your Entire Life is a Created Life - here's how.... (9 mins)

Returning to Yourself – A Sacred Sunday Reflection on Presence & Truth (5 mins)

Daniela’s presence extends into recorded conversations and guided sessions exploring:

How do I connect with Daniela?

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02 Sacred Sunday

Join Daniela for Sacred Sunday- a monthly free online experience

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Scope & Orientation

Daniela’s work is educational, experiential, and supportive.

She does not position herself as a medical provider or guru.

She stands alongside people, offering tools, practices, and perspective rooted in integrity, self-trust, and choice.