About Us

Our mission is to give our guests an experience of a lifetime by providing a safe space to dive deeper into one’s spirituality through transformative practices of our expert healing facilitators. Tools will be given and used to aid in the continuation of nourishing one’s soul and to understand its divine calling

Meet Your Hosts

Brittany Dunbar & Deanna Merlino

Brittany and Deanna were brought together by fate and have been best friends for over 17 years. Through all of the stages of their lives so far, they have continuously grown together; sharing their experiences and learnings with one another. After finding out they were going through spiritual awakenings simultaneously, they set out to use their calling of helping others by creating a safe space where people can heal and awaken their own divine talents! Co-hosting these retreats has become some of their favorite moments together.

 Brittany (Left) & Deanna (Right)
Photo By: Jillian Barrile Photography

Who Are We?

  • Hi! I’m Brittany, and I am obsessed with everything health, wellness, and spirituality. Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve always known that I’ve wanted to help people. I remember writing a letter in 5th grade to my older self-saying that I wanted to become a doctor to help heal people. And then somewhere in my late teens I got lost in the chaos of life, forgetting what gives me joy, following everyone else, and not being the leader of my own life. That definitely hit me while in college at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles when my father had a life changing accident that left him paralyzed and left me broken inside. From there on, I knew I had to pick up the pieces, find who I truly was, and what my purpose was because life was too short to not live it to my fullest potential.

    Since then, I’ve gotten certified through The Egoscue Method and became a posture alignment specialist, helping people every day that suffer from misalignment, and chronic/acute pain. I am certified in Reiki level 1 and 2 as well. I have tried almost every alternative and holistic modality under the sun to heal myself from multiple health issues and symptoms that I was dealing with for years, but through all this self-exploration I started to get a pull to share it with others. I had gained all this knowledge from my healing journey- how could I not share it? I want to make it easier for people to go within and to heal themselves, and to give them the tools to do it. I have finally found myself again, and that it is my souls’ true purpose to nurture and help others.


  • Hi friends! I’m Deanna and it has become my goal to be a literal one stop shop for anyone and everyone! There’s quite a bit of backstory to this; as I have experienced a lot of adversity and abuse in my lifetime, but always knew deep in my bones that I was meant for a "larger than average" life. Addicted to learning and always striving for more, things really started when I began my personal development journey in 2017 and soon realized that having a boss or working a typical 9-5 was something that just was no longer serving me. Fast forward after a couple years of building an exit strategy through my growing business as a social selling professional; constantly jumping from job to job feeling unfulfilled and realizing nothing was going to fix this longing for more, I finally decided to permanently become my own boss and jump headfirst into the world of entrepreneurship. Little did I know that two weeks later, the world was going to completely shut down due to the Covid 19 Pandemic. After a brief moment of panic about the new unknown, a spiritual awakening occurred leading to my decision to adapt with the changing times and shifting my focus back to controlling what I could by continuing to improve myself, expand my knowledge with additional certifications and go virtual with everything that I had to offer others. Everything changed in June of 2019 when I gave birth to my first and only child, only to lose my dad unexpectedly on September 11th just a few short months later. With a pivotal decision to make, I chose to continue pushing forward and focused on healing, continuing to work hard to give myself and my family the life I’d dreamed of, and have now made it a life mission to reach back and help others do the same, in hopes of helping to make the world a better place, one healed heart at a time.

    As a multi-passionate Entrepreneur, I am an Elite Personal Trainer by trade, specializing in Sports Nutrition and as a Transformation Specialist, offering an exercise app called DM Fit and branded exercise equipment. Host of EmpowereD w/ Deanna Merlino Podcast, Vacation/Event Rental Property Owner, a Spiritual life coach, and an Advanced Reiki Master Teacher. I am proudly an International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine Qualified Executive Accredited Therapist and Founder of the Worldwide Accredited Executive Training Provider: The Empowered Academy. I have specialties in modalities like Quantum Healing, Emotional Freedom Technique “Tapping”, Master Neuro-Linguistic Practitioner, Meditation guide, Advanced Chakra Healer, Abundance/Money Mindset & Manifestation Coach, Cacao Facilitation, Breathwork and many others! With 25 certifications (and counting!) I humbly pride myself in providing the most powerful and effective, multi-dimensional healing and coaching sessions possible. It is always my intention for every person I have the honor of crossing expansion paths with, leave fully changed and impacted to the core, in all the best ways possible! Because hurt people, hurt people, but healed people, help people.