Born into a medical family, Asha Gozzelin (ze/zir) is a fifth-generation healer. Zirs great, great paternal grandmother, Marie Schroeder, was one of the first women to earn her medical degree from the New York Medical College for Women - in 1894! Ze also acknowledges the ancestral trauma of zir lineage when ze calls in Mary Este, an accused witch who was hung in Salem, MA.
Asha is a 200-hour experienced yoga guide (200 E-RYT). Ze has also received training and education in Restorative Yoga and Yoga Nidra, and has recently begun exploring ways to take zir yoga beyond the mat by holding space as a birth & death doula and attending trainings on Nonviolent Communication (M.K. Gandhi Institute), Race and Gender (with Michelle C. Johnson, author of Skill in Action) and Embodied Antiracism with Francesca Marguerite Maximé. Ze offers presentations, courses and continuing education opportunities on topics such as Mutual Liberation, Embracing the Beloved, Loving Beyond Duality, Maha Yogini: Liberating the Lunar, and Anthropos: balancing the masculine and feminine.
Much of zir work centers on personal identity, cultivating safety in the body, healing seeds of separation, creating nourishing boundaries, and nurturing the subtle. Ze identifies as a white, nonbinary queer, neurodivergent, mostly able-bodied person. While acknowledging these intersections to zir identity, ze is committed to recognizing zir's programming from Dominant culture. Decolonizing zirself and others mind/body is an active part of all Asha's work. Ze lives on the land of the Onöndowa’ga:’ - the Seneca nation, of the Haudenosaunee people. Ze enjoys relating to the Earth through regenerative perennial gardening, trekking through the Finger Lakes and talking to trees.