The Functionality of Your Eye Brain Connection with Dana Dean
Week of November 14, 2026
The Functionality of Your Eye Brain Connection Integrating Periphery and Affecting Balance and Movement
Vision is learned, and 75% of all sensory input is vision. Based on these two facts, learning how to use your eyes and brain together in a different conscious way will allow you to elevate and expand your learning potential and maintain your aging visual process. Come and experience hands on how you can expand the way you see, think and move, all inspired by enhancing your new found vision, and learn to integrate your eye-brain and conscious connection.
How to Expand Visual Memory for the Aging Brain: A Hands-on Experiential Class
As we become aware that vision is learned, our visual memory is what will support us during our aging years but only if we know what it is and how we can access it. We are surviving on rote learning which is not serving us. Come and learn how you can truly expand your visual memory capabilities that will serve you outside the Ranch and show you that as you tap more into the awareness of vision, your memory can expand and can support you more than you realized. Don’t wait to train your eyes and brain to have an enhanced visual memory.
Computer Vision & the Effects of Blue Light and Sleep
Come and learn how to enhance the comfort of your eyes in the ever-increasing world of computer exposure, the artificial light from screens, and the effects on our sleep. Enjoy an experiential lecture on learning how to increase comfort for your tired burning eyes, and how you can optimize good sleep during these times.
Visionary Health: Optic Intelligence – Feeding the Eyes to Fuel the Mind.
Hear about the Future of Sight with Dana Dean and Patti Milligan
In a world where digital strain, chronic inflammation, and nutrient deficiencies are silently eroding our visual health, it’s time for a paradigm shift. This talk explores how functional medicine can unlock the full potential of the human eye—going beyond symptom management to address root causes of visual decline. From macular resilience to optic nerve vitality, discover the cutting-edge nutritional strategies and lifestyle interventions that support optimal eye function across the lifespan. Join us as we trail blaze new territory in ocular health, where vision is not only preserved—but enhanced. Learn how supporting vision—from reducing digital eye strain to slowing age-related changes is the way of the future. Through a fresh lens of functional medicine, we’ll uncover how key nutrients, lifestyle choices, and root-cause thinking can transform the way we care for our eyes. Whether you’re staring at screens all day or simply want to protect your sight for the long haul, discover how to see the future more clearly—starting on your plate. Come treat your eyes to vision learning!
Dana Dean, OD, is a behavioral optometrist who specializes in holistic optometry and vision intelligence. Dr. Dean has had a private optometric practice in San Diego for the past 25 years. Originally from South Africa, she completed her studies in San Diego as well as attending the New England College of Optometry in Boston. She treats her patients holistically performing vision therapy on both children and adults. Her patients also include brain injuries, stroke victims and adults who want to achieve maximum success in life and reach their true potential. Not only does she see patients performing eye-brain-body connection and building visual efficiency, she also lectures on the topics of vision and brain integration, vision and the aging eyes, vision and spirituality, vision with balance and coordination, as well as vision intelligence. Dr. Dana Dean is also a passionate advocate for educating teachers on the importance of vision and learning in a school setting.