ABOUT ME

Warm greetings, I’m Ashlyn, welcome to this space!  Life has carried me through many experiences, some challenging, others easeful, and a lot of in-between.  I’ve suffered from digestive struggles, hormonal dysregulation, loneliness, anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem at various points in my life and occasionally still do.  My childhood was one of shyness, love, lack, curiosity, and lots of time in nature, my teen years were rebellious and lonely, rooted in a longing to be accepted and forgetting myself in order to do so, and my early adulthood was plagued with anxiety, confusion, and fear that underscored digestive discomfort, hormonal imbalance, and intense self-doubt.  It wasn’t until I found alternative ways of being through yoga, ayurveda, spirituality, holistic medicine, somatic intelligence, eco-psychology, and decolonizing work that I began to grow, heal, and transform past previous limitations into more expansive, aligned ways of being.  And this evolutionary journey is still going, in fact, I believe it will be until the day I leave this earthly body.  What I’ve come to realize is that this journey of being human, which involves suffering, is also one of so much inherent goodness, support, and love when we learn how to tune back in with our true nature and nature itself, tend to our well-being holistically, embrace not just our earthly expression but also our eternal essence, and remember the precious medicine our souls came here to experience and share.  And I would be honored to share with you what I have learned from my experiences and the amazing teachers who have blessed my path if you are feeling the call to embrace a wiser, wider, wilder way of being.

Medicine Woman
  • CONNECT

    Consciously connect with your compassionate wise self and the living world to restore dynamic health, harmony, and homeostasis.

  • COMMUNE

    Commune with your innate intelligence and intuitive knowing for guidance, grace, and empowerment on your soul journey.

  • CREATE

    Create a life aligned with your highest good and widest potential for deeper meaning, purpose, resiliency, and well-being.

My why.

This work has been my saving grace and continues to support me as I shift, grow, and evolve.

My journey began after years of crippling anxiety, digestive issues, hormonal imbalances, confusion, self-doubt, stuckness, and a numb life.

These experiences nudged me in the direction of alternative medicine and ancient wisdom where I found a wealth of healing; a deep reservoir of inner knowing and empowerment.

And the understanding that life is sacred, life is tragically beautiful, life is always here to support us, and every one of us has access to this medicine.  

It is my intention to share and honor the medicine that has crossed my path, weaving wiser, wider, wilder ways of being to dismantle unsupportive systems and beliefs and fragmented approaches to what it means to be alive and well.

BACK-GROUND

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCES:

  • INTEGRATIVE SOMATIC TRAUMA THERAPY- EMBODY LAB (ONGOING)

  • MSW CANDIDATE- WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY

  • SOMATIC STRESS RELEASE (LEVELS 1,2,3)- EMBODY LAB (ONGOING)

  • PRACTICAL SHAMANISM- OTTER DANCE SCHOOL OF EARTH MEDICINE

  • KRIYA YOGA WITH RYAN KURCZAK (ONGOING)

  • THE RESILIENT HEART: TRAUMA-SENSITIVE HEARTMATH

  • THE LIVING VITALITY OF YOUR AUTHENTIC SELF WITH SHANTI SHANTI KAUR KHALSA

  • APPLIED AYURVEDIC STUDIES WITH INDU ARORA

  • INNER PEACE YOGA THERAPY 300-hr (RYT-500)

  • LIVNG AYURVEDA INTERNSHIP- BANYAN BOTANICALS

  • YOGA ALLIANCE EDUCATION PROVIDER (YACEP)

  • AYURVEDIC CLINICAL MENTORSHIP WITH VISHNU DASS

  • THE AYURVEDIC ART OF HEALTH & HEALING SEMINAR WITH DR. LAD AT ANANDA ASHRAM

  • BOARD CERTIFIED AYURVEDA COUNSELOR (AHC)- ASHEVILLE SCHOOL OF MASSAGE & YOGA

  • USUI REIKI LEVEL 1 CERTIFIED

  • FROG LOTUS YOGA INTERNATIONAL 200-hr TEACHER TRAINING (ERYT-200)

  • BACHELOR OF ARTS- WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY

  • BACHELOR OF SCIENCE- WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY

AREAS OF INTEREST:

  • MENTAL/EMOTIONAL HEALTH

  • RESILIENCE

  • TRAUMA

  • STRESS & ANXIETY

  • NERVOUS SYSTEM SUPPORT

  • GUT HEALTH

  • WOMEN’S HEALTH

  • SOMATIC INTELLIGENCE

  • SPIRITUALITY

  • SOUL ACTUALIZATION

  • CREATIVE EXPRESSION

  • ECO-PSYCHOLOGY

  • DECOLONIZING

  • HEALTH EQUITY

AREAS OF study in Yoga:

  • Yoga for Grief

  • Yoga for Anxiety & Depression

  • Yoga for Recovery

  • Yoga for Cancer

  • Ayurveda Yoga Therapy

  • Yoga for Chronic Pain

  • Functional Yoga Therapy

  • Laya Yoga of Chakras

  • Marma Points in Yoga

  • Yoga Nidra Level 1

  • Kriya Yoga

  • Neuroscience & Yoga

  • Mantra & Mudra

  • Yoga Anatomy

  • Sequencing with a Purpose

  • Kriya Yoga Meditation

WELL-BEING COMES FROM WITHIN—

AND I’M HERE TO SUPPORT you IN UNCOVERING IT.


QUESTIONS? LET’S connect.

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