Dan Foley

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Hello, my name is Dan. I am very grateful that you’re giving me time to share a bit more about my personal story with you. As a co-founder of Pure Living Collective, I am deeply passionate about helping you and the global community enhance the quality of life for all people on our planet. I get really excited thinking about how to unlock potentials within humans and our world. I love movement and healing arts. I love exploring consciousness, meditating, and being in nature. I’ve been trained as a certified personal trainer, a behavior change specialist, a functional movement specialist, a MovNat level 3 trainer, a yoga instructor, and have been exposed to many martial arts including capoeria, systema, and the Fillipino/Malaysian arts. I love learning about mind-body medicine, environmental psychology, and the human-nature connection. Something I don’t like is watching loved ones suffer through cancer, chronic stress and disease. My mom has been living with cancer since 2008. An apparent remission for a time is followed by recurrence after confounded recurrence. While I’m super grateful she’s more or less winning, it often feels scary and like there’s no rest and release from it all. Since her diagnosis, we’ve focused on alternative and integrative ways to heal. Food, environment and emotions have come up as the critical components of her healing. We’ve found that not much cancer is genetic and that a lot has to do with lifestyle and environment. Chances are many of you have personal experience with cancer or another chronic disease. To me, I’ve got to do whatever I can to continue helping my mom on her healing journey as well as helping others to heal and prevent needless suffering. My journey now is leading me to connect flow activities with service to others. For me, this involves the interconnected relationship between health, lifestyle, and the environment. We can’t be healthy on a sick planet. However, we can design environments and products that sustainably improve the health and standard of living for all humans. I believe these “diseases of civilization” like cancer, diabetes, and obesity can, in large part, be prevented. Pure Living Collective is an opportunity for me, and all of us, to restore balance to our lives and our lovely Mother Earth. If our combined skill and cooperation is enough to meet these personal and global challenges of our time, we leave a powerful legacy for ourselves, our kids, and future generations. We avoid self sabotaging ourselves into destroying our only home planet. We create beautiful, health promoting homes and abundant communities. Furthermore, we have the health, lifestyle, and mindset to actually enjoy it all.