Healing Hearts Across Communities — LPH Volunteer Spotlight: Dominique Luu
In communities across California, one Love Peace Harmony Volunteer is quietly creating waves of compassion, calm, and connection. Dominique Luu, a dedicated Love Peace Harmony Volunteer, has been bringing meditation, mindfulness, and heart-centered practices to seniors, residents, families, and wellness communities—touching lives in profound and meaningful ways.
Through her Love Peace Harmony sessions, she has offered thousands of moments of peace to participants aged six to ninety-nine. Her programs support people experiencing physical pain, emotional trauma, loneliness, and everyday stress—demonstrating just how powerful gentle, heart-based tools can be when shared with sincerity and love.
The need for calm, emotional support, and connection has never been greater. Anxiety, loneliness, and chronic stress are affecting seniors and adults at unprecedented levels. Many older adults live with mobility issues, grief, cognitive challenges, or isolation—yet research consistently shows that simple practices like breathwork, meditation, community connection, and loving presence can dramatically improve well-being, sleep, mood, and resilience.
Dominique’s service delivers all of that—and more.
Let’s take a glimpse into her growing impact across four locations—and maybe you’ll find inspiration of how to benefit your own communities!
At Life’s Garden, an affordable housing independent living community for seniors – where she once worked as the Life Enrichment Coordinator – Dominique’s Love Peace Harmony sessions have become a cherished part of the community’s monthly wellness calendar. Though no longer an employee, she continues to return faithfully every month to lead group sessions, as well as individual sessions on an as-needed basis—guided entirely by heart and service.
Her sessions serve elders ages 62 – 99, as well as staff, ages 27 – 53, in groups of 6 – 24 participants, and include:
Love Peace Harmony Calligraphy tracing (hand, body, and writing with our LPH water mat)
Breathwork
Affirmations and visualization
Mindfulness activities
Aromatherapy and meditation tea time events
Walking meditation
Emotional support and heart-opening conversations
Many seniors arrive with physical discomfort, anxiety, loneliness, or grief. Through simple, accessible practices, participants often experience decreased pain, calmer breathing, improved sleep, and an increased sense of gratitude and connection.
Community feedback has been remarkable with those who have shared expressing how they felt loved, peaceful, calm, and lighter. Others expressed how their stress and anxiety decreased, while gratitude increased. Some have ever reported physical transformation, including better sleep after consistently participating in the sessions, improvement in breathing, and even areas where pain and tension decreased after the session – including knees, shoulders, hips, head, heart, arms and joints.
A 93-year-old participant tearfully shared:
“Never before in all my years have I felt my heart this open and light. So much love, I’m so grateful.”
Residents and staff report more harmony, patience, and kindness throughout the community—a ripple effect born from consistent heart-centered practice.
Dominique expanded her service to Morgan Hill Senior Housing, a sister community to Life’s Garden, after recognizing a shared need for emotional wellness support. Her monthly sessions mirror the compassionate, accessible nature of Life’s Garden, offering meditation, calligraphy tracing, breathwork, visualization, and mindfulness, serving elders ages 62 – 94, as well as staff, ages 24 – 58, in groups of 8 – 18 participants.
The feedback from participants has been overall positive and transformative, with many expressing how their well-being, joy and happiness have increased, as well as feeling safe, supported and heart-nourished.
One elderly woman initialed B.A. joyously shared, “I’m feeling so good, happy and my heart is so light, before arriving to meditation, I was irritable and angry, and now I want to sit in regular chair not my wheelchair at our next meditation. Thank you. Thank you. I can’t wait for the next one. I’m so at peace and light, I feel so wonderful. I didn’t want the session to be over.”
A staff member shared, “I’ve practiced meditation decades ago. My heart and mind needed this today. I’m so grateful. Please send my appreciation and love to Love Peace Harmony, and please tell them to continue their mission because we, humanity, need them!”
As in her other location, Dominique witnesses consistent improvements in sleep, emotional regulation, gratitude, and community harmony.
When she felt guided to deepen her personal healing journey, Dominique opened “The Zen Den” in her residential building—a community meditation space now hosting bi-weekly sessions and individual support, serving residents, friends, and family members of the building.
Participants include adults carrying workplace stress, and residents with physical or mental health challenges.
Feedback is consistently powerful:
Stress, worry, anxiety, and grief decrease
Sleep improves
Pain reduces
Participants report calmer workdays and clearer minds
Community connection increases
This space has become a sanctuary of peace for many, lovingly supported by her husband, who helps set up the LPH banner each session—a quiet reminder that service is often a family act.
Through curiosity and support for community businesses, Dominique attended the grand opening of Flora Haven—a beautifully designed event and floral space serving floral retailers and event organizers (for corporate, weddings, community, wellness events, and more) — which led her to meeting the owner, and beginning to regularly lead the openings of the wellness retreats hosted by the venue twice monthly.
Participants from ages 6 — 70 express feelings of peace, joy, hope, lighter breathing and decreased stress after her sessions. These gatherings attract people from diverse backgrounds—corporate teams, wedding vendors, wellness seekers, and community members—showing just how universal the need for emotional grounding and spiritual nourishment truly is.
In a world where stress, loneliness, and disconnection are affecting people across all ages, Dominique’s service is a living reminder that:
✨ A calmer world begins with calmer hearts.
✨ Small acts of compassion can transform entire communities.
✨ Gentle tools like meditation, breathwork, and calligraphy can create profound emotional healing.
✨ Every person deserves to feel seen, supported, and connected.
Her sessions offer much more than relaxation—they rebuild confidence, reduce pain, soothe trauma, and strengthen bonds between residents, families, and staff. She is bringing love, peace, harmony, and emotional safety into communities that deeply need it.
Most of all, Dominique demonstrates what the Love Peace Harmony mission looks like in action:
one heart at a time, one session at a time, creating a ripple effect of healing across communities.
Author: Love Peace Harmony Volunteer Dominique Luu, in her own words: “I am a blessed wife and mother of one, and the middle of twelve siblings. I live in beautiful Northern California, surrounded by nature that inspires me every day. I love caring for my plants, meditating, reading, hiking through the hills, and taking peaceful walks. The beach and the water always call to me—they’re where I feel most at home. Traveling, serving, and connecting with nature are some of my greatest joys. My heart is excited for the adventures ahead, with Vietnam, Cambodia, Bali, China, and Tibet at the top of my travel list. Life continues to be a beautiful journey of love, gratitude, and discovery.”