Michele Ashley

Hello, I’m
Michele Ashley

A certified meditation, yoga nidra, and 500hr Hatha Yoga Teacher and trained Life Coach, Michele blends her professional skill sets and intuitive abilities to service communities, organizations and individuals in learning how to embody inclusivity to create equitable healing and learning spaces.

Her heart is devoted to creating sacred space for others to expand, explore and engage with their own inner wisdom as a path towards liberation, love and healing. Her ability to "hold space" allows those whom she's choses to work with greater clarity, deeper insight, and higher accountability for a life lived mindfully, authentically and with integrity to be in "right relationship" with others across lines of differences.

A native New Yorker, Michele identifies as a black, cis-gendered latina female. She is the Owner of Coeur Consulting LLC, established in 2009 in NYC, Founder of Heart, Hustle & Flow, an online wellness community for healing of mind, body & soul and Co-Founder of KULA Yoga Teacher Training, an inclusive and accessible yoga teacher training dedicated to the non-appropriated practice of yoga while committed to the work of social justice and racial equity. A strong believer that every life serves a purpose, it is the driving force for her passion and dedication.

As the former Vice-Chair of the Western North Carolina Diversity Engagement Coalition in Asheville NC and former Chair of WEST, Inc. [Women Of Excellence, Strength and Tenacity, Inc.], Michele is an active member of the community and remains committed to building bridges for real conversations, authentic connections, and inclusive communities great and small.

For information regarding Facilitation, Training, Speaking, Consultation and/or Equity Assessment, you can reach her via email or her website . Though she is based in Asheville, NC, she travels frequently to support others in their work of building equitable communities whether within organizations or neighborhoods.

Articles

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Yoga

A Renewal of Purpose, A Reigniting of the Soul

As the days grow hotter and the world looks to put itself back together again, finding the space and time to catch our breath has become one of the more daunting tasks. Much like Humpty Dumpty, who apparently had a great fall, according to our storybook time, so too do we look to renew and reclaim a sense of security and joy for life. As we each put the pieces of who believed ourselves to be in 2020 into a new way of moving forward in 2021, we find ourselves navigating life with a deeper awareness of our soft and cracked spaces that still feels all too raw.

Michele Ashley
Side view of a person practicing yoga at home
Yoga

Harnessing Our Power Through Yoga

Growing up in the “City That Never Sleeps”, I had always equated strength with energy. I always assumed the more “life” you brought to a relationship, project, idea or work, was always directly connected to how much drive you possessed. And, in order to get that “drive” or even maintain it one had to work hard; real hard.

Michele Ashley
Portrait of peaceful young black woman meditating indoors
Yoga

A Path to Liberation: Past, Present, and Future

In yoga, we learn this sacred practice is a practice toward the liberation of mind, body, and spirit. We learn that true liberation arises from the unification and embodiment of our true nature, the Self that exists beyond space and time, eternally connected to Divine Source Consciousness. And yet, as powerful as the practice of yoga may be, many of us can still feel restricted, unsafe, and many other things that do not quantify a sense of freedom.

Michele Ashley
Scenic aerial view of heterosexual walking on  pink salt lake
Personal Growth

The Rest and the Reckoning: A Call to the Divine Feminine

In a world that is constantly telling us who we should be, to hurry up and wait for the manifestation of that narrative, it is no wonder it took a pandemic to slow us down and provide us an invitation to become. It was, and has been, a harsh and yet necessary pause; a diversion in this road of life to bring to our attention what has been wholly out of balance and what is looking to be birthed, nurtured, and manifested in its place.

Michele Ashley