WHO IS MOUN?
Moun D'Simone is a teacher, counsel, and the founder of The Dakini House, a global online community for women.
Her framework, The Dakini Method, weaves Tibetan Buddhism, parts work, somatics, creative expression and community into one path: making real contact with yourself and life instead of managing it.
For over a decade she has guided women through this work in retreats, group programs, and private counsel. Hundreds of women across the world have practiced with her.
My Story…
Long before I had a method, I had a role. I grew up moderating conflict in my family, finding the words and the ground on which two opposing sides could meet. I was building bridges before I knew that was a skill.
It’s still what I do. It is still what I do. Only now I help you build them between you and your loved ones, and between you and the parts of yourself that stopped speaking to each other long ago.
I immigrated to the US from Brazil at sixteen and worked as a house cleaner with my mother, until I moved to New York City at twenty two. I landed on a modeling TV competition show on Bravo TV, filmed every minute of the day. I was seen by everyone and felt seen by no one. That was my first real confrontation with unworthiness.
A modeling contract took me to Paris and London. The life looked beautiful from the outside. Inside, I was disappearing. Eating disorders, body dysmorphia, depression, a relationship that had quietly died. I was numb and performing aliveness.
One morning I woke up with a desperate knowing: there is more to life than this, and I have to find it myself.
I left everything and flew to India on a one way ticket.
What followed was years of practice. Meditation retreats, ashrams, and monasteries across India, Thailand, Indonesia, and the holy caves of Nepal. Vajrayana Buddhism. A yearlong contemplative psychotherapy program. Traditional Tantra yoga and Hatha yoga certifications. In the spring of 2022, I completed a three month silent retreat in Nepal that changed the ground I stand on. I came out with a trust in myself I had never known, and a certainty that there is a path for every woman to get free.
I have had the honor of studying with some of the great masters of our time, including His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, Ven. Robina Courtin, Ven. Sarah Thresher, Ven. Karin Valham, and Khadro-la. I carry their teachings with devotion, and I translate them for the lives we are actually living.
Then in 2023, my beloved mother, Patricia, died.
Everything I had practiced for nearly a decade was asked of me at once. Grief did not undo the path. It revealed what the path was for. Her death taught me what no retreat could: that life is unbearably precious, that love does not end where the body does, and that the only honest response to impermanence is to stop postponing your life.
She is in everything I teach now. When I sit with a woman in her pain, my mother is in the room. She is why I do not teach around difficulty. I teach through it.
My story has been and continues to be my greatest teacher. Everything I offer was earned in my own body first.
The Dakini Method
One framework. Every offering.
The Dakini Method is the spine of all of Moun's work. Whether you meet her in private counsel, a group program, a retreat, or inside Dakini House, you are practicing the same path.
It rests on four pillars: the Buddhist view that nothing in you needs to be exiled, psycholohy/parts work that lets you meet your protectors instead of fighting them, somatic practice that returns you to your body, creative expression as the voice of your sovereignty, and community where you are seen and met.
This is not self improvement. It’s self contact. The difference is everything.
Expression is your freedom.
We all carry stories that shaped us, and most of us were taught to manage them quietly. But a story held in silence runs your life from the dark. When you give it voice, in writing, in movement, in speech, in art, it stops running you and starts teaching you. This is the work: not to fix your story, but to express it until it becomes wisdom. The voice is where sovereignty lives.
Before I uncovered my spiritual heart, I was numb.
My spiritual practice brought me back to life, to who I really am.
Ways to Work Together
Private Counsel
One on one work for women ready to go deep. This is intimate, rigorous, and tailored entirely to you. We meet your story, your parts, and your patterns with precision and love. Spaces are limited.
Speaking, Teaching, and Partnerships
Moun speaks and teaches on sovereignty, Buddhist wisdom for modern life, parts work, and grief as a portal. She brings over a decade of Buddhist training, study with some of the great masters of our time, and ten years of teaching hundreds of women. She does not speak on anything she has not lived. She’s available for podcasts, panels, conferences, brand partnerships, and guest teaching for communities and organizations aligned with this work.
The Dakini House
A global online membership for women. Monthly themes, live practice, teachings, and a community of women doing the real work together.
Retreats
In person immersions where the work lands in the body. Held in New York City and beyond.
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Resources I don't share anywhere else
I write about once a week. Sometimes more when something real is moving. I'll tell you about a retreat, group, something you can join, but mostly I'm just writing as means to share what I care about and how I want to serve.
biglove x
Moun