MEET ASHLEY!
After her father’s transition in 2019, Ashley York pulled something powerful from her grief: her purpose.
She realized that her father’s departure was his final gift to her. In his transition out of this world, where Ashley stood by him offering sound therapy, massage, reassurance, a compassionate ear, and much more, Ashley knew in her bones that by facing her worst fear and making it through to the other side, that there was a deep need for a more holistic approach to transition than hospice workers could offer. (This was something she already knew about birth work from her own experience in conceiving and birthing two children in a system fraught with capitalism and the monetization of humans with wombs.)
In the fall of 2019, Ashley began a path of spiritual re-awakening, plant work, getting back in touch with her intuition, getting to know her own shadow, integration, lots of coursework, cultivating her yoga practice, and clearing out her energetic/spiritual “goo” as her reiki master would call it. And by 2023, she decided to finally and fully step into her role to be of service to others.
As within, so without.
After two separate reiki practitioners, including her own reiki master mentioned hummingbirds during sessions, Ashley had to really think on hummingbird medicine because although she was unsure of why this came up at first, deep down, the metaphor for hummingbird really resonated. Ashley is a free-spirit, a quick thinker, one who flutters from place to place, is a seeker of the beautiful and the divine, loves finding and bringing joy to others, and quite literally, is also always humming or singing. Hummingbird is her medicine.
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Introductory Herbal Course
Herbal Self-Care for Stress Management
Botanical Skincare
Foraging
Intermediate Herbal Course
1. Herbal First Aid, Actions & Energetics
2. Side Effects and Safety
3. Food is the Foundation
4. The Digestive System
5. The Immune System
6. The Nervous System
7. Cardiovascular
8. The Liver
9. The Respiratory System
10. The Urinary System
11. Children
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Herbs for Personal Power
Herbs for the Otherworld
Herbs for the Heartgate
Intuitive Plant Medicine
Business as a Spiritual Journey
Writing the Earth’s Voice
How Stones Communicate
Multidimensional Vaginal Healing
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Botanical Constellations
Astro-Herbalism Mini Course
Recent Coursework
You and your loved ones deserve to birth without fear; live with love and peace; and die with integrity.
Hummingbird will help show you the way to an embodied life and transition and we cannot wait tend to you in liminality.
Healing takes time. We will work together to make sure that everything we work through is integrated in your life or transition and that you feel seen, heard, held, valid, and supported.
We are here to support you!
Hummingbird and its collective practitioners are a group of deeply devoted individuals in service to themselves and to others.
We offer this work out of pure love and from our heart centers!
FRIENDS OF HUMMINGBIRD
HEALING ARTS PRACTIONERS
HUMMINGBIRD IS CURRENTLY SEEKING BIRTH WORKERS, DEATH DOULAS, HERBALISTS, YOGA TEACHERS/MOVEMENT FACILITATORS, AND TRANS ADVOCATES TO JOIN OUR COLLECTIVE! PLEASE CONTACT US FOR AN INTERVIEW!
Meet the Collective
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Ashley York
FOUNDER
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Lauren K. Hickman
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Shilpa Sankaran
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Lindsey Bessy
SOUND HEALING/YOGA/REIKI