About Asia

My fascination with breathwork began when I was 18, when I discovered pranayama as a favourite practice among the eight limbs of yoga. Even through this early application of a sophisticated practice, I was able to better manage my daily struggles with anxiety and sleep. Years later, during my recovery from addiction and complex trauma, I encountered another facet of breathwork (high-ventillation) that was powerful and profound. I was enthralled and deeply inspired to learn everything possible. 

This practice showed me that there is so much happening beneath the surface of my conscious awareness. The beliefs, stories, patterns, wounds, and perspectives that shape how I live, act, and interact with myself, others, and the world at large. 

It helped me connect with my own truth beneath the stories I had inherited, including distortions, beliefs, and values that had been learned and indoctrinated from a young age. It helped me recognize that I had agency. I could question what I had been taught and begin to develop beliefs and ways of living that were more true to me. Through breathwork, these changes became more than something I understood cognitively. They became lived, felt, and embodied, creating greater congruence between my mind, body, heart, and spirit. I began to heal and rebuild my relationship with myself.

My background in nursing has given me a foundation in physiology, ethics, critical thinking, and caring for people through vulnerable moments. My training in breathwork, yoga, polyvagal theory, and somatic approaches, along with experience with contemplative practices, has expanded that perspective beyond what can be understood through an intellectual level alone. My ongoing learning about the politics of trauma, anti-racism, and the sociopolitical systems within which we are attempting to heal continues to shape the wider context of my work.

More than any training or credential, I bring a deep belief that there is nothing wrong with you and that you do not need to be fixed.

There may be patterns that are no longer working for you.
There may be conditioning worth examining.
There may be parts of yourself you’ve learned to silence or override.

You are a complex human living a layered and full-spectrum experience within systems and cultures that can disconnect us from our agency, creativity, and connection.

This work is an invitation to reconnect with yourself, strengthen your trust in your own inner knowing, and have the courage to bring a life of integrity into existence.