Cultivating Connections offers pathways for intentional connection and embodied transformation. Supporting you in returning to center, releasing stress, and reclaiming clarity and connection.
I am Dallas McKenzie, the heart behind Cultivating Connections. I feel grateful every day for the opportunity to share my authentic self, and to turn my own journey of healing into a path of service. What began as a desire for re-connection to self has become a life devoted to transformation. Like many of you, I arrived here through lived experiences that were both beautiful, and some, extremely challenging. And while not arriving unscathed, those moments shaped me and my path became a journey of soulful remembering.
Sound: My First Bridge to Spirit
After a period of deep disconnection to myself, I engaged in self-harm, and sought to escape this life through substance abuse. After going through this for years I was introduced to the didgeridoo and it became my lifeline. Its vibrations ran through my body creating new pathways of awareness and it became my first conscious bridge back to wholeness. I had grown up simply and close to the land, spending my childhood under oak trees with my horse while listening and learning from the unseen world in nature. As I entered my teen-age years however, life unfolded in ways that, for so many of us, cause trauma severing our own connections as we experience grief, loss, and family hardships.
The didgeridoo reawakened my connections to nature and myself. Its sounds grounded me, opened my heart, and eventually in time, led me to study vibrational healing at the Globe Institute in San Francisco which led me to begin facilitating sound baths and ceremonies to share that same medicine of resonance and remembrance.
Plant Medicine: My Second Bridge
In my teens, plant medicine was the spark that first reminded me of my own magic, revealing that my self-destructive choices were not my truth but rather the weight of pain I had been carrying. They helped me step away from self-harm and narcotics. My initial foray with plant medicine was short due to my lack of coherence and balance in my life at the time, but what I learned continued to live in me. Years later, when I became an adult, plant medicine found me again this time with more reverence and responsibility. In combination with breathwork and with the addition of ceremony, they became a sacred tool for deeper healing and remembrance of a simpler time and my authentic self.
Breathwork: My Third Bridge
In my 20s, I left a long and abusive relationship that had stripped me of my joy and connection to Spirit. Trauma-release and conscious, connected breathwork became the tool that brought me back to my center. Through this breathwork, I was able to release old pain, reclaim my body, and meet my limiting ancestral stories and lineage with compassion. Breathwork showed me what was mine to carry, what I could finally set aside, and how to return to my authentic, grounded self. This practice became both my personal medicine and the foundation of the ceremonial breathwork journeys I hold today.
These three bridges - sound, breath, and the wisdom of the plants - have brought me back to my authentic self over and over again. They have taught me that life can be lived as a ceremony, and that the tools for healing and transformation are already within and around us.
Today, through Cultivating Connections, I offer breathwork ceremonies, sound journeys, private coaching, and community workshops to guide others in rediscovering their authentic self. My work with plant medicine education and intentional microdosing is aimed at supporting others to approach these tools with reverence and responsibility, as doorways to self-awareness and heart-centered living.
My deepest joy is helping people come home to their grounded center with a vibrant clarity that reconnects them to the thriving, authentic life that lives in their heart.
In this work, you are invited to reconnect with your inner rhythm and the wisdom of the natural world, empower your choices with grounded tools and sacred practices for everyday wellbeing, and embark on a journey of inner alchemy—where breath meets intention and transformation takes root.
In a world that often pulls us away from our essence, we offer pathways back to the center. Through intentional breathwork, herbal ceremonies, small group workshops, and immersive coaching programs, we help you transmute overwhelm into insight and rediscover the power and magic within.
Grounded in both natural wisdom and modern science, our work helps rewire the neural pathways shaped by stress and trauma supporting nervous system regulation and lasting shifts in thought, emotion, and embodied presence.
