ashe danger phoenix is a Southern white, a graduate student in Clinical Psychology, and in a lifelong apprenticeship with grief.

She makes podcasts, and walks around Lake Merritt near her home in Oakland, California as often as the weather conditions will allow. She is the grateful member of a 12-step program of recovery, an incredibly dedicated sister to many, and is the auntie to several kids and teens, most of whom live on the east coast (broken heart emoji).  

Reach out to her if you want, she would love to hear your story. 

In her teachings, Jaya Ashmore integrates her own love of meditation—and of life—with deep experience in the traditions of Buddhism, yoga, Advaita (non-duality), Christianity and Hindu mysticism, as well as ecology, embodied movement, and the Japanese art of Jin Shin Jyutsu.

Born in the U.S, where she studied religion and art at Harvard, Ashmore began practicing meditation in 1985 and was authorized to teach in 1998. A gentle revolutionary, she has taught meditation through deep rest on silent, intensive retreats in a dozen countries. 

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She has spent most of her adult life living in India with her teachers, and her nonprofit Open Dharma has supported awakening in thousands of people from any and no religion since 1999.