Let's Share our Roots 

Meet our Founder, Daniel Lucio

Daniel C S Lucio is a certified coach, consultant, educator, and healer committed to helping others achieve personal transformation and awakening. Daniel has dedicated his life to helping individuals live authentic lives by providing world-class coaching and consultancy services rooted in wellbeing, meditation, and alternative healing. Daniel's unique gift is being able to synthesize disparate knowledge streams into coherent and actionable wisdom for his students and clients. This includes practical, professional, academic, somatic, esoteric, and indigenous forms of knowing and being. This plurality of intelligences allows Daniel to swiftly move people toward their personal and professional goals.

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Education

Daniel began his path of wellbeing and self-exploration as a teenager. Daniel holds a Bachelor's in Religious (Buddhist) Studies from Naropa University, widely regarding as the pinnacle of buddhist scholarship in the West. Daniel has studied psychology at the graduate and doctoral level, including Organizational Psychology at Claremont Graduate University, Mind-Body Spirituality at Columbia University, and Psychedelic Medicines at UW-Madison. Daniel has a deep love of learning. He is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Organizational Management at the University of Arizona Global Campus.

Coaching, mindfulness training, and professional experience

Daniel began his coaching career at the Radiant, a wellness and bodywork studio in Brooklyn, NY, which he founded in 2010. Daniel holds various coaching certifications including in Positive Psychology, Self-Management and Behavioral Change, and Addiction Recovery. As an executive coach and consultant, Daniel has worked with companies and C-level leadership of companies such as IBM, Credit Suisse, Mastercard, Salesforce, American Airlines, Etihad Airways, and Microsoft.

Daniel's mindfulness training is rooted in the ancient traditions of zen and of Tibetan buddhism. He has over twenty years of experience as a meditator. A heart-student of buddhist pioneer, Chögyam Trungpa, Daniel currently studies with scholar and teacher, Reggie Ray. Daniel's teaching on meditation focuses on the body as the vehicle for true understanding. He seeks to make meditation more accessible to beginners by targeting the misconceptions which proliferate on social media and in pop-culture.

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World-travel and global perspectives

Daniel was born in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Growing up between Brazil and the US, Daniel has always felt at-home in international settings. His work has also been global in scope. Daniel has taught and directed projects in Costa Rica, Brazil, the United States, Germany, Austria, Viet Nam, and Kenya. A truly global-citizen, Daniel feels at ease in virtually any set or setting on Earth. A highly-adaptable traveler, Daniel speaks four languages and has been to over 75 countries on six continents. Traveling as a backpacker in local communities affords Daniel unvarnished insights into the lives of people around the world. These global perspectives form a key part of Daniel's approach as a coach and consultant. Daniel draws on themes of flexibility, communication, adaptability, humility, compassion, and diversity of thought to find novel perspectives in his work.

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Psychedelics and shamanic healing

In addition to his professional and academic achievements, Daniel is an experienced psychedelics guide. He facilitates medicine journeys with 5-MeO-DMT and the ayahuasca of his native Brazil. Through many years as a bodyworker and plant medicine guide, Daniel has cultivated abilities as a shamanic healer. He is able to heal physical pain, injuries, and energetic blockages, often in just one session. Given Daniel's unique expertise in psychedelics and coaching, in 2015 he was invited to head the program at Crossroads Treatment Center, a residential psychedelics retreat facility in México, where he breathed new life into the program as Therapeutic Director, dramatically improving patient outcomes and staff cohesion alike. Daniel continues to work as a psychedelics facilitator. He strikes a balance between empirical research and an emphasis that the mystical dimensions of entheogens constitute a crucial aspect of the psychedelic experience.

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Indigenous influences

Daniel values ancestral knowledge and indigenous cultures. He seeks out their perspectives whenever possible. He has been a guest on various tribal lands and has received blessings from tribes including the Blackfeet, Bitter-Salish, Maasai, Navajo, and others.

Spirit World U.

In May 2023, Daniel founded Spirit World U. (SWU), an online community dedicated to making wellbeing and spiritual practice more accessible in the lives of everyday people. SWU was founded on the idea that the current state of world devastation, censorship, and aggression can be overcome by each individual's commitment to the truth. SWU aims to create a global culture of brave, mindful, and caring truth-seekers.