Alexander Dunlop
Co-Founder & Co-Director
Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner
Certified Health Coach
Quantum Healer
Spiritual Teacher
Meditation Instructor
Alexander is a graduate of Harvard University. He holds advanced degrees in Religion, Yoga, Healing, Spirituality, Health, and Nutrition.
Alexander’s passion for holistic health came from his own journey to self-healing. Diagnosed with Sciatica, Psoriasis, and Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), he was told by doctors that there were no known cures for these chronic diseases. Unwilling to accept this prognosis, however, he searched to find solutions until he completely healed himself. And, in the process, he changed careers. Now, his passion is to help people become fully healthy in both body and soul.
Alexander is a spiritual health coach who helps you to find the meaning of your life. His gift is to lead you into the sacred space of your own self.
Alexander's journey to the present moment began consciously at age 17 when he was unexpectedly flooded in the living pulse of Life. He was attending a Catholic school retreat when a simple prayer by a priest sent a wave of energy washing right through him. The experience catapulted him on a journey to know and understand What it was that had touched him.
Thus, Alexander was first trained in the Life language of a Catholic youth minister, then an Evangelical Protestant Minister and later as a Roman Catholic Priest. Meanwhile, Alexander graduated from Harvard with an honors degree in cultural philosophy. He worked in commercial construction as a Union laborer erecting scaffolding on skyscrapers to pay his way through graduate school. He enrolled in Weston Jesuit Seminary and graduated with a master's degree in Catholic Theology.
But then, with a head full of knowledge and a heart full of pieties, Alexander's journey shifted, necessarily. Moving to New York City for a job as an IT Consultant and later as Director of Marketing for a software company, his next Life trainings came, not just from the cubicles of Corporate America, but from the nightlife, the Bacchanalian rites of New York City's underground dance-music, and so-called, rave culture. For several years Alexander dove deeply into his own night-Life.
From there, his odyssey morphed again. And he journeyed to India, where, after intensive meditation, up to eight hours per day, he was initiated as a Swami in the Yogic language. While in India, he also met and studied with masters of crystal healing. From these masters, he received intimate knowledge of crystals and stones as healing friends. Returning to the US, Alexander undertook a two-year apprenticeship and was initiated as a Shamanic practitioner in the Native American Lakota way.
In addition to his fluency in these languages of Life, Alexander also knows and speaks other Life languages including Buddhism, Islam and Judaism.
Alexander's extraordinary journey led him to the simple, but profound conclusion that Life itself is alive. Life itself is pulsing with aliveness, creativity and consciousness. We can, with practice, learn to have a conscious, meaningful relationship with Life. Life asks things of us and we, in turn, can ask things of Life. In private practice, Alexander helps people create the authentic space necessary for a direct heart-to-heart, mind-to-mind and belly-to-belly dialogue with Life.
A chronological list of Alexander's most meaningful Life teachers, living and past, include: Fr. Skip, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Shane Harwell, Fr. Ricardo, Jesus, The Gospel of Mark, Professor Jordan Peterson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecstasy, Twilo, Cannabis, Osho, Baba Luca, Rumi, Hafiz, Burning Man, Rob Brezsny, Fasting, Kevin Shuker, Parashakti, Paramahansa Yogananda, Dr. Thomas Szulc, John of God, The Institute for Integrative Nutrition, Louise Hay, Gene Keys, Destiny Cards, Gabriel Cousens, Arul, and his two children Naturale Dominique and Seven Lightening.
Why did you become a priest and healer?
What’s your favorite thing about being a priest?
What’s your favorite food/meal?
What’s your favorite recipe?
What’s your favorite quote?
What’s your favorite book?
What’s your favorite movie?
Who has had the most influence on your life?
What do you do when you’re not at SanaVita?
Which supplements do you find indispensible in your own life?
How do you like to cleanse when you’re cleansing?
How do you like to indulge, when you do?
If you had to give only one piece of health advice, what would it be?
Basically, because I was touched and moved in such a way as to be compelled. It was not by forethought or preparation that my journey began, and hasn't stopped...
What’s your favorite thing about being a priest?
Being able to work, not just from my head, but also from my heart and being able to share What I love.
What’s your favorite food/meal?
It depends on the weather and on my exercise, but I love comfort foods that are also healthy. For example, I like to steam new potatoes and then add raw garlic, coconut oil, and sea salt and mix n’ mash it together for a chunky potato delight. I might even add some chopped fresh rosemary if I’m feelin' crazy.
What’s your favorite recipe?
I like to experiment in the kitchen. I will open the cabinets and let the spices, oils, seeds, condiments etc speak to me and tell me who wants to go into my belly.
What’s your favorite quote?
"We aeronauts of the spirit! All those brave birds which fly out into the distance, into the farthest distance—it is certain! somewhere or other they will be unable to go on and will perch down on a mast or a bare cliff-face—and they will even be thankful for this miserable accommodation! But who could venture to infer from that, that there was not an immense open space before them, that they had flown as far as one could fly! All our great teachers and predecessors have at last come to a stop... it will be the same with you and I. Other birds will fly farther! This insight and faith of ours vies with them in flying up and away; it rises above our heads and above our impotence into the heights and from there surveys the distance and sees before it the flocks of birds which, far stronger than we, still strive whither we have striven, and where everything is sea, sea, sea! And whither then would we go? Would we cross the sea? Whither does this mighty longing draw us, this longing that is worth more to us than any pleasure? Why just in this direction, thither where all the sons of humanity have hitherto gone down? Will it perhaps be said of us one day that we too, steering westward, hoped to reach an India—but that it was our fate to be wrecked against infinity? Or, my brothers. Or?" -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What’s your favorite book?
The book I go back to again and again is the book of my own poetry, 123 IB. These are the words of my heart. And, it’s so healing for me to go back again and again to these words of my own deepest stirrings.
What’s your favorite movie?
Oooo, that depends on what I’ve just seen. I tend to watch Indie films mostly though I do love Braveheart, the Matrix, Unforgiven and just about any movie that Clint Eastwood has directed… but I also love movies like Slingblade, movies of the heart
Who has had the most influence on your life?
I read in Bruce Lipton’s book, The Biology of Belief that at a cellular level, movement is propelled by positive and negative charges. In other words, cells are influenced to move by both positive and negative electric charges. So it is for me as a human cell, I have been influenced intensely by both the negative and positive energies in my life. I was dramatically influenced, for example, by the divorce of my parents when I was 8 years old. And, on the positive side, I have been greatly influenced by sports. I played any and all sports when I was growing up. If there was a sport to play, I was playing it.
What do you do when you’re not at SanaVita?
I’m with my children, Naturale and Seven.
Which supplements do you find indispensible in your own life?
(Not all on the same day or at the same time, but) Probiotics, Digestive Enzymes, OxyPowder, MediClear, GI Revive, MSM, and Green Juice Powder
How do you like to cleanse when you’re cleansing?
I like to do it gently. I used to fast in a “hard-core” way of doing 10 day strict juice cleanses. Now, I prefer to do milder cleanses that include some fruits and fresh vegetables during the cleanse. And, of course, colonics are the foundation of cleansing for me.
How do you like to indulge, when you do?
Well, I am Scottish / Irish, and I do enjoy me a pint o' Guinness and a good Single Malt from time to time…
If you had to give only one piece of health advice, what would it be?
Trust in your own healing potential. Do not take drugs to get healthy. Drugs will not make you healthy. Take food to get healthy. Cleanse the body of toxins to get healthy. The body can and will heal itself if we cleanse the old shit out of it and if we learn to put in the proper nutrients. Like any machine, the body needs the right inputs, the right maintenance and a good cleaning from time to time.
