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WORK TITLE: The Five Elements
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PERSONAL
Daughter of Donna Eden; children: one son.
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CAREER
Writer, pubic speaker, dancer, and actress; former teacher at Eden Energy Medicine Certification Program, Phoenix, AZ, and Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, Rhinebeck, NY.
MEMBER:Screen Actors Guild.
AWARDS:“Outstanding Speaker in the Nation” award; chosen to join “The Belly Dance Superstars” professional dance troupe on international tour; named “Belly Dancer of the Universe,” 2000.
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SIDELIGHTS
Dondi Dahlin is the daughter of noted intuitive healer Donna Eden, with whom she has written two books on the subject of energy medicine. Dahlin is also a dancer, public speaker, teacher, and actress. Since childhood, she has appeared on stage and done television work, including acting, voice-overs, and dance. She is a renowned specialist in belly dancing, and in 2000 was named “Belly Dancer of the Universe.” In addition, Dahlin is the author of The Five Elements: Understand Yourself and Enhance Your Relationships with the Wisdom of the World’s Oldest Personality Type System.
The Little Book of Energy Medicine
Written with Eden, The Little Book of Energy Medicine: The Essential Guide to Balancing Your Body’s Energies offers an overview of energy medicine and its benefits, followed by recommended exercises for common ailments, including anxiety, insomnia, headache, nausea, fear, memory loss, immune system dysfunction, depression, fatigue, tension, joint stiffness, and hot flashes. The book concludes with a section describing a Five-Minute Daily Energy Routine designed to enhance alertness and well-being, and to minimize anxiety.
The Little Book of Energy Medicine encourages readers to improve their stamina and immune systems by developing habits that boost energy and create energy balance. The authors explain concepts in clear, simple language and structure the book as an easy-to-use guide.
The Five Elements
In The Five Elements Dahlin draws on traditional Chinese ideas to explain how individual health, emotions, and behaviors are affected by the five basic elements and the personality types associated with them. She discusses the attributes and personality traits of each type and provides advice on how various personalities can better interact with each other.
Water personalities, writes Dahlin, are playful and often childlike, but are also deep thinkers who can be moody. Many poets, writers, musicians, and philosophers are water personalities, and their interest in deep thinking can make them susceptible to depression. Dahlin cites actors Nicholas Cage and Kevin Costner, as well as musicians Curt Cobain, Stevie Nicks, and Janis Joplin as some examples of water personalities.
Wood personalities, as Dahlin explains, are often seen as tough or intimidating, but this facade masks their essential kindness. Like trees, wood personalities are strong and stable; they are independent, logical, and decisive, as well as fair-minded. Firm in their convictions, wood personalities can be quick to anger, and it can be difficult for them to learn patience and empathy. The pop singer Pink and television personality Simon Cowell are among Dahlin’s examples of wood personalities.
Fire personalities, according to Dahlin, are people who always appear joyful and happy. What is more, they have a natural ability to draw others out of depression or other negative states. But fire personalities can also lose interest when something or someone is no longer exciting or fun; according to the author, they are often serial monogamists. As examples, Dahlin names comedic actor Jim Carrey and television host Ellen DeGeneres.
Earth personalities, exemplified by children’s television personality Mr. Rogers and by Pope Francis, are simple, loving individuals who see only the good in others. Earth personalities are usually parents, but even when they do not have children of their own, they pour significant energies into nurturing others. As givers, earth people yearn to receive love; when their love is not reciprocated, they can feel abandoned and dejected. As Dahlin explains, earth people can fall into cycles of emotional codependency. They can also struggle with risk and change, wanting to hold onto the past.
Metal people, Dahlin writes, have the ability to master life’s challenges with aplomb. They tend not to become entangled in the messy details of existence; they calmly rise above such things, even if it means breaking off a relationship that is no longer in sync with their own spiritual path. Among Dahlin’s examples of metal people are actress Angelina Jolie, fashion designer Victoria Beckham, and President Barack Obama.
The Five Elements also includes a personality-assessment quiz to help readers identify their dominant element. In the book’s final chapter, the author explains how a deeper understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of these personality types can facilitate social interactions and reduce stress in family relationships. This information can also show how and why particular elements may or may not be compatible with others, and can help individuals maintain physical, spiritual, and emotional balance or return to a state of balance after a period of trauma. The book received high praise in Publishers Weekly, where a contributor noted the clarity and ease of Dahlin’s writing and the fascinating quality of her examples. The reviewer concluded that readers with an interest in this kind of approach to psychology and wellbeing, and who wonder what influences human behavior, “will have their questions answered many times over” in this engaging book.
BIOCRIT
PERIODICALS
Publishers Weekly, August 8, 2016, review of The Five Elements: Understand Yourself and Enhance Your Relationships with the Wisdom of the World’s Oldest Personality Type System.
ONLINE
Learn the Five Elements, http://learnthefiveelements.com/ (May 15, 2017), author profile.
Dondi Dahlin Bio
Dondi Dahlin grew up in the world of Energy Medicine. She co-authored The Little Book of Energy Medicine with her mom Donna Eden, and her book The Five Elements was released by Tarcher in 2016. www.LearnTheFiveElements.com
Dondi is the creator of “The Wednesday Energy Minutes” which are 60-second clips based on Energy Medicine techniques and filmed at locations across the globe. Dondi travels with her Mom, spreading Eden Energy Medicine and the Five Elements through international workshops, and she is a sought-after speaker and MC for conventions and conferences.
Along with Energy Medicine, Dondi also grew up in the world of show business. She is a member of the Screen Actors Guild, and won the titles of both “Belly Dancer of the Universe” and “Outstanding Speaker in the Nation.” She has been seen in over 100 commercials, performed in over 30 countries, and is one of the few American dancers to have had a successful career in the Middle East.
Dondi’s home-base is California where she homeschools her son and lives in a 1904 house, which she fought for two years to get historically designated by the city of San Diego.
Meet Dondi
Dondi is a published author, award-winning public speaker, and internationally-acclaimed dancer, actress, and teacher. She co-wrote The Little Book of Energy Medicine (Tarcher, 2012) with her mother, Donna Eden, and heads the “Teach the Teacher” program at The Eden Energy Medicine Certification Program in Phoenix, Arizona, where she also teaches teachers public speaking.From 2001-2008 Dondi taught the Five Elements at the renowned Feathered Pipe Ranch in Montana. She has been teaching the Five Elements for 13 years at OMEGA Institute in New York and at various Eden Energy Medicine workshops around the world since the 1990s.
Dondi has been on stage and in television, film and radio since she was a little girl doing acting, dance, voice-overs, and public speaking. She is at home in front of cameras and audiences after performing for over three decades and in over 30 countries. As a college student, she received the coveted, “Outstanding Speaker in the Nation” award and is currently a member of The Screen Actors Guild. As a touring dancer, she was chosen to be the main radio and TV spokesperson for Miles Copeland and “The Belly Dance Superstars,” a 14-person professional dance troupe that performed in over 10 countries and 20 states.
Dondi’s Dance Performances
Performing on The Queen MaryDondi is considered one of best middle-eastern dancers in the world, garnering the title of “Belly Dancer of the Universe” in 2000, and having performed for Omar Sharif, Angie Dickinson, Peter Fonda, Amr Diab and Jimmy Buffet. She was an original member of “The Belly Dance Superstars” in 2004 and has performed in over 25 countries. Dondi and was the first Middle Eastern Dance teacher ever contracted to teach in Iceland and has taught at OMEGA Institute with her sister, Titanya Dahlin for 14 years. You can read more about Dondi’s dance career at www.DondiDahlin.com
Dondi And Her Family
Dondi Dahlin and FamilySee more about Dondi and her family. Also listen to an interview with Dondi and her mom, Donna Eden as she talks about her childhood, having a healer as a mother, and growing up with Energy Medicine as a part of her life.
http://innersource.net/em/about/next-generation.html
Dondi introducing Dr. Oz’s Ayurveda expert, Dr. Kulreet Chaudhary at the International Gathering of Eden Energy Medicine.
The Five Elements: Understand Yourself and Enhance Your Relationships with the Wisdom of the World’s Oldest Personality Type System
Dondi Dahlin. TarcherPerigee, $16 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-17629-6
Acclaimed dancer, teacher, and speaker Dahlin (The Little Book of Energy Medicine) proposes that human behavior, emotions, and health are influenced by the five elements—earth, fire, metal, water, and wood—and that personalities can be distinguished by them. What do Angelina Jolie and Barack Obama have in common? They both possess the metal personality type, according to the Five Elements Personality Type System. Dahlin credits this Chinese system for strengthening her ability to get along with others and helping her negotiate tricky situations in work and uncomfortable phases in relationships. In this study of the human experience, Dahlin encourages readers to reexamine and expand what they think they know about themselves and others by studying the traits of the different five elements. Each chapter focuses on one of the five elements, describing the attributes of each, such as the fact that earth personalities are drawn to people in need, fire personalities are impulsive, and water personalities live to eat. The fun personality-assessment quiz included in each chapter allows each reader to easily identify his or her dominant element, and the last chapter delves into how each element interacts with the others. Readers who are open to these teachings and wonder why people do what they do will have their questions answered many times over. (Oct.)
DETAILS
Reviewed on: 08/08/2016
Release date: 09/27/2016