Meet the Founder

Photo by: Tityana Shuqom

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This path is not mine alone. It is a braid, a sacred weaving, of earth, lineage, and spirit, held with humility and great care.

I live and practice on the ancestral lands of the Pomo and Coast Miwok peoples, land that continues to teach me through her winds, her waters, her lush and wild wonder.

I bow to the original stewards of this place and to the lineages that have held rituals, ceremonies, stewardship, and earth connection as sacred since time immemorial.

I give deepest thanks to the Indigenous Lakota, Andean, Amazonian, and Indian teachers who have shaped me
— human and more-than-human — and to the ancient lineage holders who carry memory in their bones.

Through the body, may we listen.

Through the earth, may we remember.

Through the cosmos, may we return.

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CERTIFICATIONS & LINEAGE STUDIES

Madhya Way School of Ayurveda (2025-2026)

Mentored by Anjali Deva

600-Hour Comprehensive Integrative Ayurvedic Wellness Counselor Training

A trauma-informed, integrative approach to Ayurveda, focusing on traditional

study while incorporating western herbalism, meditation, yoga, and self-

compassion practices.

Plant Spirit Talk Studies + Apprenticeship (2018–2026)

Mentored by Francisca Santibanez

Ongoing study and apprenticeship in South American Folk Medicine, Plant

Spirit Initiations (Dietas), Peruvian Vegetalismo, and Andean Cosmology.

Satya Collective 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training (2021-2022)

Mentored by Lakshmi Nair

Colorado, USA

The Womb School: Somatic Womb Practitioner Certification (2023-2024)

Mentored by Jeevan Singh

Nine-month immersion in womb cycles, TCM, and Ayurvedic frameworks for

holistic healing.

Nanametzli Escuela de Alquimia (Winter 2022)

Cali, Colombia

Mentored by Ximena Mejia

Intensive training in folk medicine from the Pacífico region, focused on

chakra healing, somatic dance, transpersonal leadership, and plant consciousness

Unity Space Contact Beyond Contact Facilitator Training (Winter 2023)

Lake Atítlan, Guatemala

Mentored by Vangelis Legakis

Training in movement-based healing, trauma-informed facilitation, and

energetic attunement for global community work.

Each thread in my path has taught me how to listen more deeply—to my body,

to the land, to my ancestors, and to the spirit of the future that lives in

each of us, waiting to be midwifed into form.

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Asha Kohli is a movement artist, ceremonialist, and folk medicine practitioner.

She is a daughter of immigrants, of Punjabi and Colombian descent, born into a lineage of artists and spiritual seekers. Ceremony was never separate from ordinary life in Asha's family; it was the container everything else happened inside of. She grew up singing, praying, and dancing around sacred fire, where the elements were always honored as living, and where movement was never treated as performance, but as devotion.

Dance itself came even earlier. Asha was moving before she had language for why, drawn instinctively toward choreography, rhythm, and the stage. For years, she understood this simply as a craft, something to train in, refine, and perform. It wasn't until she began her own ancestral healing journey, years later, that she recognized the practice she'd been building her entire life had always been asking for something more.

That recognition arrived slowly. As Asha deepened into ancestral reclamation work, she began to notice her body doing things choreography had never taught it: moving toward old grief before her mind caught up to it, holding shapes that felt inherited rather than chosen, releasing what she later understood as memory rather than emotion. She began to see the body not as an instrument for expression alone, but as a portal, a place where emotional healing, memory, and inherited wisdom are stored, waiting to be accessed with intention rather than performed on command.

This became the foundation of her work. Asha has spent the years since as a devoted student and steward of ancestral technologies, most significantly through a decade long apprenticeship in Andean and Amazonian folk medicine, alongside study in Ayurveda and ceremonial traditions carried by elder teachers across lineages. She reclaimed her own right to this inherited wisdom, understanding it not as something separate from her artistic training, but as its true root.

Asha founded Way of Nitara to offer others what she found for herself: a way back into the body as a place of safety, nurturance, and infinite wisdom, and a reminder that belonging is not something we have to earn. It is a birthright that returns the moment we become willing to tend to our bodies as channels of the divine, observing our own movement closely enough to hear what it has been trying to tell us all along.

Way of Nitara works at the axis of body, lineage, and earth-based wisdom, holding space for those who sense there is more available to them than the life they've been living, and who are ready to find out what that means.

This work honors one truth above all: your body holds knowledge that your mind hasn't caught up to yet. The answers you are seeking are not out there. They are already inside you. Her role is to help you find your way back to them.

Asha lives and holds space for this work in an intentional community in Northern California, where she continues to root her practice in daily relationship with land, lineage, and ceremony.

For more, visit my Instagram: @way.of.nitara & subscribe to my

Substack: Notes from the Nido.

Contact: asha.kohlibri@gmail.com