Coaching · Hypnotherapy · Natural Intelligence

The world got faster. Your nervous system didn't. There's a way back.

Not through more productivity. Not through another system or program.

Through something older and quieter — the natural intelligence that lived in you before the world told you who to be

You followed the trail others built. It made sense at the time. But somewhere along the way the trail stopped feeling like yours. Not broken. Not lost. Just a growing distance between the life you're living and the life you know is possible. Some are ready to find their way.

Some are already off trail- learning to navigate and looking for bearings.

This is about your authentic path, and the skills to navigate it.

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Natural Intelligence

You were born with an intelligence no technology can replicate — a knowing that lives in your body, your history, your stillness, and the natural world around you.

It was never lost. It has simply been unattended.

Your first intelligence was natural.

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This work finds people who...

Have mastered the science of achievement, and are working on the art of fulfillment.

Are standing at a crossroads that no GPS can navigate — a career transition, a loss, a quiet but persistent sense that the next chapter asks something fundamentally different.

Have done the work — therapy, coaching, leadership development — and still feel like the deepest layer hasn't been touched.

Are drawn to depth over distraction. The kind of quiet that nature provides and modern life rarely does.

Know the answers aren't out there — and are ready to look within.

Learning to listen to your wild heart

WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER

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Individual Sessions

Coaching

Hypnotherapy

Spiritual Hypnotherapy

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The Inner Compass Journey

Three Months

one-on-one

The full experience

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The Compass Course

Online course and live in person

coming 2026/2027

The guide

I'm Dusty Sylvanson. Carpenter. Wilderness educator. Wilderness medicine instructor. Natural builder. Mindfulness teacher. Certified life coach, Ikigai coach, and Spiritual Transpersonal Hypnotherapist. Over two decades in recovery. General Contractor. President of S-Corp. Exec. Director of a Non Profit. Real Estate Investor.

All of it — built by hand, the mountains, the losses, the rebuilding, the long slow returns, the calculated ROI’s, the wilds, the board rooms, the retreat, the quiet spaces — is all what I bring into this space.

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Before the world told you who to be

There was an authentic knowing that was yours.

Sylvanheart is where you learn to listen to the one who has been with you all along.

To become your own best friend on this journey of life.