Galactic Spiritual Informers Conference
October 2022, Orlando Florida

Asha presented on the subject of Yok'hah Maya at the ground-breaking GSIC Conference.
A few months prior to the conference, this interview was recorded with organizer Dani Henderson.

Tom Campbell, My Big TOE

2017 - present

Asha continues her studies related to the expansion of consiousness  with NASA physicist and consciousness expert, Tom Campbell, author of My Big TOE (Theory Of Everything).  His theory forms the basis of her current working model of reality based on the principle of love and cooperation as the driving force behind our evolution. 

Through the application of Tom's work, Asha has found new opportunities to expand her journey within the larger consciousness system,  to lower her entropy and evolve into a more loving, compassionate human being.

Today, Asha offers training programs related to the development of Personal Frequency applying the Seven Centers of Power as a roadmap to help sincere seekers make meaning of their lives and their purpose for being. Recently Asha created the program, Raise Your Frequency, for spiritual teachers, influencers and seekers to tap into the power of personal vibration so they can show up powerfully in the world and lead the way into the next phase of human evolution which some call the ascension into 5D and others may call the Golden Age.

We are fundamentally beings of consciousness living this temporary experience as human beings. Frequency is the basis of our reality and the medium through which our world is made manifest. Mastering frequency will be necessary to evolve into our next step as a human race. It is both our greatest challenge and our salvation.

Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, Lenox, Massachusetts

1992-2001

In 1992, thanks to one of Asha's fitness students who had become a yoga devotee, she was gifted with an opportunity to study yoga at Kripalu Center. With the development of her yoga skills, her original fitness studio morphed into a fitness and yoga centre. The yoga offered an opportunity to bring the group experience into a more refined version of resonance - a deep, inward journey into altered states of consciousness.

Asha spent about 10 years commuting between her home in Winnipeg and Kripalu Center, one of America's largest yoga retreat centers. She completed Level 1 and Level 2 teacher training and was subsequently invited to become part of the yoga teacher training staff, first as a volunteer and later as a program director on staff. 

In the '80's and '90's Kripalu was a traditional yoga ashram in the Shaivite tradition led by guru, Amrit Desai, with a residential community of more than 100 dedicated yogis. 

At Kripalu Asha had a brief experience with the guru/disciple relationship and also learned from the multitude of master teachers who passed through Kripalu's doors:  a young Deepak Chopra, Bikram Choudry, John Gray, Caroline Myss, Beryl Birch Bender, Judith Lasater, Barbara Hand Clow and so many more. Asha's natural skill as a yoga teacher was refined and integrated into classes at her quickly yoga studio back home, making the studio an important hub within the community.

Asha was privileged to be one of a handful of teachers who were mentored as a director of the Kripalu's teacher training program. Through these month-long residential  programs she learned the skill of holding space for deep, transformational experiences and to facilitate groups of 40-60 students or more.

Through her experienced of prana yoga practiced at Kripalu she gained the experience to lead others into deep meditative states of consciousness which expaded her preception of what is possible in terms of human frequency.

Yucatan Sac Be, Mexico

1995-2008

Alongside her yoga education, Asha also embarked on a series of shamanic initiations in Mexico with Maya Elder, Hunbatz Men as well as other shamanic teachers: Don Alejandro Cerillo Perez of Guatemala, Maya/Aztec Shaman, Quetza-sha, and Cherokee teacher, Barbara Hand Clow. She participated in tours of the pyramids in the Yucatan peninsula and Central America and participated in ceremonies and initiatic excercises with spiritual seekers from around the world. Within these journeys she discovered new multi-dimensional approaches to spirituality and an entirely new cosmology.

During one of the ceremonies Asha experienced a shift in personal frequency that had a profound effect on her life. Today she understands this to have been a Solar Initiation. Under the guidance of Hunbatz Men, she also discovered that kundalini yoga and the energy centers known as the chakras were not unique to India. They were also found in ancient Mexico within the system of Yok'hah Maya. This later led her to the discovery that the seven centers of power were universal in nature and to be found in ancient Egypt, within esoteric Christianity and Native American traditions like the Cherokee. This added further inspiration to her quest for the deeper meaning of life and the process of enlightenment.

2004-2012

Asha pioneered one of the first yoga teacher training programs in the Vancouver area in the 2000's and certified hundreds of yoga teachers through her yoga academy. Nirvana School of Yoga  which operated out of locations like the popular Open Door Yoga Studio, Semperviva Yoga and the Pacific Inn in South Surrey.

These trainings also went on the road to Mexico in the form of learning vacations. Asha was also one of the pioneers of yoga destination-retreats beginning in the mid-nineties and continuing through this period.

1998-2001

While pursuing her yoga studies at Kripalu Centre, Asha ran a yoga studio in Winnipeg called Heartland Yoga. She also hosted a popular public access TV show called Discovering Yoga. Through these two popular ventres Asha became a wellknown figure within the Winnipeg spiritual community. This business ended prematurely when Asha became pregnant with twins and chose to live nearer the babies' father in Mexico.

For a couple of years in the early 2000's Asha taught yoga in the Mexican city of Playa Del Carmen and, although it was short-lived, opened one of the first yoga studios in the area called Maya Yoga Del Caribe on Calle Corazon.

Work-out Instructor - A Crash Course in Resonance

Prior to her yoga career, and making a quick career change from fashion to fitness, Asha became one of the Winnipeg's leading fitness instructors with a company called Bodyworks and later with her own fitness studio called the Westminster Workout: Where Your Body Will Come Alive, Your Spirit Will Soar, and Your Socks Don't Have to Match. It was an immediate hit and a thriving community hub for a number of years. Asha led high intensity 'pump-it-up' kinds of classes, all the rage back then, but the classes that gave her the most satisfaction from were her own style of yoga-stretch class foreshadowing her yoga career.

These classes were an entryway into the world of vibration and resonance. Workout classes were a modern, high energy version of tribal dance where the community gathered together to shake and move to the same beat. The sweaty 'high' experience during a work-out was a form of brain entrainment and vibrational resonance that was very satisfying. 

Peace Activist, Canada

1982-1988

Asha was an active participant in the massive demonstrations that took place around the world in response to the threat of annihilation during the nuclear ams race. She was a board member of the Winnipeg Coordinating Committee for Disarmament which planned the annual Walk for Peace and other events.

In the mid 80's massive citizen protests were organized in every major city in North America and around the world, generally called the Walk for Peace, as ordinary citizens awakened to the threat of nuclear annihilation. In 1984, approximately 100,000 citizens took to the streets in New York City, and in Winnipeg 40-50,000 hit the streets from all walks of life. A major inspiration at this time was the work of Dr. Helen Caldicott, featured in the documentary,  'If You Love This Planet'.

Asha also served as a Winnipeg representative to the Canadian Peace Alliance, travelling internationally to attend peace conferences in the former Soviet Union, Greece, the UK, Germany and Czechoslovakia. This provided an excellent geopolitical education and direct insight into the manipulation of the mainstream media coverage of such events worldwide.

Asha's career began in fashion began when she caught the eye of acclaimed Vancouver fashion figure, Monique Gabin, who hired her as her Assistant Buyer at the ripe age of twenty for her chain of womens' fashion stores. Monique mentored Asha in business and modelled how to be a heart-centered and powerful woman.

The two also shared an interest in spirituality. Monique introduced her to psychic medium, David Young. This was a life-changing encounter that provided Asha with irrefutable proof of an afterlife. This confirmation of life after death initiated a deep spiritual exploration of spirituality and metaphysics that would become the hallmark of her life.

From ages eight to eighteen Asha received classical music  lessons on the pipe organ which provided an intensive immersion into the world of frequency and vibration. The discipline of practicing for many hours while sitting on an organ bench was excellent preparation for her later meditation practice. 

Coming from a Dutch Protestant family where the pipe organ was revered. Asha logged many long hours of practice with her mother's kitchen timer set to keep it real, keeping beat alongside the metronome. At the age of 18 she completed my Grade 10 Western Board exam and won first prize in the Manitoba Music Festival in the pipe organ category (Photo: third from the right). 

Into her twenties, Asha served as a church organist for the Gloria Dei Lutheran and St. Ignatius parishes in Winnipeg.