Hi, I’m Ashley
anam cara
healing guide
sister
hype-woman
Sun: Aquarius in the 6th, Moon: Aries in the 8th, Rising: Virgo. Human Design: 6/2 Generator
My journey into expansion and embodied pleasure has been one of profound self-discovery.
My own personal spiritual journey began as a child when I stopped going to church and started seeking answers that felt more resonant.
Life felt really challenging for me as a sensitive child.
Now, in hindsight, I can see that while my experience as a child felt like survival most of the time (in spite of my family doing the best they could at the time), there were many little gifts from my higher self and God/Goddess along the way that helped me along.
All of the armoring I constructed to protect myself in my childhood and through my young adulthood has now turned out to be the clearest signposts for my healing journey in motherhood, pointing me to my true power, my deepest healing, and my highest ecstatic states of pleasure as a woman.
I’ve had many maxi and mini spiritual journeys and epiphanies (including three near death experiences!) in my life, but I really began diving deep into my personal and spiritual evolution in 2014 in preparation for my daughter’s conception and pregnancy. This began a long period of deep soul-level healing of ancestral and generational trauma, negative programming, and my then-fried nervous system.
NOW I USE MY LIFETIME OF LEARNING, MY STORY, AND MY OWN CONNECTION WITH MY HEART, MY WOMB, AND SOURCE… TO HELP WOMEN LIKE YOU.
In my effort to find my “why” and heal myself of my lifetime (and past lives) of trauma, abuse, rape, and disempowerment of all colors, I’ve studied human psychology, women’s empowerment, somatic embodiment, expansive relational dynamics, tantra, sacred sexuality, and mysticism with some of the highest-level teachers in my lineages.
These tools have not only reshaped my life and helped me to become the self-empowered, grounded, open-hearted woman I am today…
But have also empowered me to hold you in a deep, safe, and tender way as you embark on your own transformational journey to root deeply into your own power, passion, pleasure, and radiance.
It’s truly an honor to blend the science and the mystery, and weave collaboratively with women who desire to discover and illuminate their own unique pathways to sensual expression, expansive sexuality, personal power, nervous system regulation, embodiment, and spiritual evolution.
(I am a super proud mom of three kids: a girl born in 2016, and two boys born in 2019 and 2021. My soul mate husband and I have been together since 2010, married since 2016!)
FAVORITES:
Slow weekend mornings, solo beach walks with my pup, homemade elixirs in the afternoon, picnics at the local waterfall with mi familia, a babysitter so my husband and I can really go there ;) with each other, and sister time on a patio overlooking the pacific with my besties.
And honestly, what gives me so much life is the honor that I get to live, in this place, at this time, in this body… witnessing women like YOU owning their power, embodying their truths, connecting with their beautiful bodies, and experiencing the most mind-bending pleasure and connection to Source of their lives.
What a gift!
FAQs
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I have completed healing training in various different modalities with:
Anahata Ananda - Essentials for Empowerment and Awakening & Hands On Healing Modalities
James Pask - The Living Spirit 12 Month Program
Liana Shanti - Lemurian Mystery School & Healing The Mother Wound
Layla Martin - VITA Sex, Love, & Relationship Coaching Certification (in progress)
Freebirth Society - Blood Mysteries School
Whapio The Matrona - Holistic Homeopathy Practitioner Training
Indie Birth - The Indie Birth Midwifery School (2 year program)
Indie Birth - 2 Year Hands On In-Person One-on-One Midwifery Apprenticeship with Indie Birth founder Maryn Green
Practicing birth doula and home birth midwife for 6 years
Childbirth International (CBI) - Birth Doula Training
I also have undertaken personal healing journeys (I do at least one big healing program/experience per year now as upkeep and for continuous personal & spiritual growth) with the following teachers/guides who I owe a lot of my gratitude, perspective and transformation to:
Donna Maria Camps (Emotional Intelligence Workshop + 13 month 1-on-1 private mentorship)
Anam Cara Healing Retreats - My Shipibo ayahuasca maestros + facilitators Francesca Barone, Neils Poole, Kitty Normand, Zaia
My spirit guides, higher self, my partnership with my love Papa Forest, and the Divine
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Everyone is different, so your healing experience and the tools and techniques used will be tailored exactly to your needs with what will best serve your healing journey.
We will utilize tools and techniques like
breathwork
somatic experiencing
holographic/quantum healing
shamanic clearing
inner child work
family dynamic work/parts work/Internal Family Systems
archetypal perspectives and healing
emotional intelligence
non-violent communication
self-pleasure and self-love
mindset shifts
dream interpretation
embodiment work
spiritual frameworks such as Tantra and Taoism
talk therapy
chakra work
energy healing
connecting with nature
herbal and plant allies to support
and astrology/human design/gene keys.
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Yes! I was a midwife for a very short time (3 years in training and only 6 months in my own private community home-birth practice.
Prior to this I was a doula.
I discontinued my midwifery practice when I attended another midwife's birth and that baby passed, and then a couple weeks later one of my clients stillbirthed, and then my last client had a miscarriage within two weeks of that.
Three deaths in a row was a major sign for me to pause and re-evaluate. What became very clear for me after lots of therapy and some deep ceremony work, was that yes I was supposed to be a midwife for those specific babies and mamas, but I needed to pivot to a different sort of work.
It took about a year and a half of pausing, deep healing, listening, and being with my family for my new calling to bubble up from my own depths and become crystal clear to me.
Then came the training...
And now here we are... !
Spiritual somatic therapist. :)
At your service.
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As you can see from most of my website and social media photos, I am so blessed to live on the beach in Nosara, Costa Rica! We visited for 2 months in 2023 and fell in love, went home to Sedona, sold our house there, and moved back to Nosara full time in 2024.
Feeling like we are long-lost sisters? Let’s hang out. :)
Ahhh! I’m positively ECSTATIC that we will possibly weave together! I can’t wait to get in touch and learn more about you, your story, and the pleasure, radiance, and empowerment you’re craving in this moment. What does that look like for you? Let me know!