About Dianna Cuatto
My background
Dianna is passionate about helping people connect with nature through the Indigenous teachings of the Americas and the Web of Light that links all of Creation and excels at expressing this wisdom through shamanic oracle readings, teaching, writing, speaking, dance, and innovative creations like her oracle cards and choreography.
Dianna Cuatto, BA/MFA, is Medicine Woman, oracle, teacher, healer, writer, poet, mystic, and choreographer dedicated to bringing the ancestral wisdom of the Americas into everyday life to help people understand their past, heal their present, reclaim their Soul Purpose, and dream a new and better world into being for themselves and the next seven generations.
Dianna is a gifted channeler and Oracle who intuitively reads and interprets signs. She inherited these gifts from her Greek grandparents who taught her to love and respect the Earth and who sacrificed much to preserve and pass on the psychic gifts of their ancestors to their descendants.
Dianna is a Mesa Carrier and Medicine Woman after the Rainbow Lineage of the Andes under the tutelage of Puma Fredy Quispe SIngona with specialties in Shamanic Oracles and Planetary Healing. Dianna is a holder and teacher of the Munay-Ki Rites and has been a Crystal Healer and Reiki practitioner since 1993. She is a Peacekeeper with the Sunray Meditation Society, a Tsalagi Cherokee based organization after the Ywahoo Lineage. In addition, she has been reading and working with oracle cards since 1987 and is certified as an oracle card reader through Hay House. As a Planetary Healer, Dianna serves as a Gridworker, and Space Holder in Sedona Arizona and the Verde Valley where she brings clearing, codes, and activations to ley lines and power places throughout the world. She is currently working on the creation of The Sacred Circle: The Stone and Animal Guide Oracle Deck, which is being empowered by different vortex sites in and around Sedona and the Verde Valley.
INTERESTS
After travelling all over the Americas with her teaching, speaking, and dance careers, Dianna has followed the Path of the Sacred Circle with her husband to live near her heart song—Sedona, Arizona—a powerful vortex center for ancestral and cosmic spiritual energies. Here, she continues to pursue her Shamanic and oracle card work, her writing along with hiking, Gridwork and is an active supporter of the Nature Conservancy, the Sierra Club, Navajo Traditional Teachings, and the National Wildlife Federation.
In the dance world, her students referred to her as their “spiritual teacher and mentor”, because she helped them elevate the quality of their lives in addition to developing them into first rate artists.
Author/Writing Roots
Dianna has a BA in English in writing and literature and an MFA in Choreography and Dance from the University of Utah. Her poetry has been published in numerous anthologies, and she won the Editor’s Choice Award in 2002 for outstanding achievement in poetry from the Library of Poetry. Dianna has written short stories, plays, and original stories for over 100 ballets and theatrical productions—most to critical acclaim. She won Individual Artist awards for her original and adapted ballet stories, including Excalibur-Sword of truth and Light, An American Southwest Carmen, The Forgotten Path, Chichester Psalms, Primal Dreams, and Frontier: The War of 1812, to name a few. In 1992, her master’s thesis The Scarlet Letter: Transforming an American Literary Masterpiece into a Ballet, won outstanding paper from the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. Dianna served as a correspondent and critic for the Deseret Newspaper, a proofreader/Editor/Writer for American Buyers, and the first writer/choreographer to be inducted into the National League of American Pen Women where she was the keynote speaker for their national meeting in Washington D.C. Dianna is in the process of creating a series of oracle card decks and books based on the Indigenous wisdom of the Americas.
Teacher / Speaker
Dianna began teaching professionally in 1966 at the age of 16 for Ballet West at the University of Utah and has been teaching ever since. As a Spiritual Teacher, she has taught everything from the Path of the Sacred Circle or Medicine Wheel to How to Live a Spiritually Centered Life to the Book of Revelation in the Time of Transition at wellness centers and churches throughout Utah, Nevada, California, Virginia, and Maryland. As a professional dance instructor, she has taught ballet, jazz, modern, anatomy, injury prevention, drama, creativity, and rhythmic motor skills in universities, professional companies, and public and private schools from coast to coast. She has also taught movement wellness and alignment to seniors, football players, and ice skaters. As an artistic director/choreographer, she has spoken on television, radio, and podcasts as an advocate for the arts, education, and spirituality
Dianna is known for creating powerful, transformative works of art through writing and dance that have inspired others to stand in unity and become the best versions of themselves.
Choreographer
Dianna began her career as a professional dancer with Ballet West in 1963 and performed as a Principal Dancer with several national companies including Sacramento Ballet, Oklahoma Ballet, Berkeley Ballet Theatre, Capitol City Ballet, and the Sangre de Cristo Ballet Theatre. She also had a stint in Hollywood performing for the American Music Awards, Dick Clarke Productions, Disney, Fantasy Fare Productions, and with Carol Burnett’s Tapestry under the direction of Stan Majon. She choreographed the Wonderful World of the Waltz for National PBS, The Christmas Secret for CBS, an All-American Gershwin Concert, and 20 musicals including Hello Dolly, Mame, Carousel, and Pippin. Dianna also served as the choreographer’s assistant for the Shields and Yarnell Show. Of her many choreographies, Dianna is the proudest of her transformative works including Primal Dreams (based on the Sacred Circle), Wheels of Light (based on the Chakras), and Vortex (based on the vortexes of Sedona).
Other Awards and Qualifications
Dianna is the 2011 recipient of the prestigious “Annie Award” from the Anne Arundel County Arts Council honoring her lasting, significant, and inspiring contribution to the Performing Arts. The Maryland legislature awarded her a citation in 2014 for elevating the arts throughout Maryland. In 2014, she was also awarded the prestigious Friends of MAAPERD Award for her support of artists and teachers in developing interactive, creative, educational art programs for schools throughout Maryland. She is an active member of the Sunray Meditation Society, a Cherokee based global Peace Village organization; a supporter of Navajo Traditional Teachings and has studied with Puma Singona at NOQAN KANI Global in Peru, Grandmother Flordemayo, the Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo, The Four Winds Society, and others.