Honoring Your Inner Winter for Rest and Repair

Medicine Woman and author Asha Frost brings a heart-centered voice and an Indigenous perspective to the rising call for rest, repair, and reconnection. Many view winter as a temporary retreat, but Asha reveals it as a lifelong companion for those living with chronic illness, grief, depression, or soul-weariness—a truth she knows intimately through her own lupus diagnosis. Through the lens of the Medicine Wheel and the turning of the seasons, Asha invites us to see our “inner winter” not as something to fix, but as something sacred to tend. 

Join Asha for a gentle, and deep conversation exploring healing that begins in the dark and roots you in wholeness. Sharing insights from her latest book, Inner Winter, Asha invites you to honor your inner winter by slowing down, listening deeply, and returning to the natural rhythm of the seasons. She shares how to embody each season: Spring as rebirth, Summer as growth, Fall as harvest, and Winter as rest. She discusses ancestral Ojibwe legends that support embodied teachings and practices for rest and healing.

For those who feel left behind in a light-chasing world of manifestation, productivity, and peak performance, Asha offers a path to come home to yourself—not by transcending or romanticizing your pain, but by honoring it as medicine. 

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Meet the Speaker

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Medicine Woman and author Asha Frost brings a heart-centered voice and an Indigenous perspective to the rising call for rest, repair, and reconnection. Many view winter as a temporary retreat, but Asha reveals it as a lifelong companion for those living with chronic illness, grief, depression, or soul-weariness—a truth she knows intimately through her own lupus diagnosis. Through the lens of the Medicine Wheel and the turning of the seasons, Asha invites us to see our “inner winter” not as something to fix, but as something sacred to tend. 

Join Asha and CIIS faculty Adrián Villasenor-Galarza for a gentle, and deep conversation exploring healing that begins in the dark and roots you in wholeness. Sharing insights from her latest book, Inner Winter Asha invites you to honor your inner winter by slowing down, listening deeply, and returning to the natural rhythm of the seasons. She shares how to embody each season: Spring as rebirth, Summer as growth, Fall as harvest, and Winter as rest. She discusses ancestral Ojibwe legends that support embodied teachings and practices for rest and healing.

For those who feel left behind in a light-chasing world of manifestation, productivity, and peak performance, Asha offers a path to come home to yourself—not by transcending or romanticizing your pain, but by honoring it as medicine. 

Asha Frost is an Indigenous Medicine Woman, and the international best-selling author of You are the Medicine, The Sacred Medicine Oracle, and The Animal Elders Oracle. She has guided thousands of people through profound and lasting transformation as a healer, homeopath and ceremonial guide and has become a prominent speaker in the field of Indigenous healing, garnering recognition on both local and international platforms.

Asha holds membership at Chippewas of Nawash First Nation and is a mama of two boys with whom she walks gently upon the earth. She loves sharing her Medicine in powerful ways through ceremonies, teachings, and speaking events. Through this work, she loves seeing people reclaim their roots, find their healing wisdom, and rise into their power. 

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Adrián Villasenor-Galarza is Core Faculty in the East-West Psychology Department at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and founder of the Bioalchemy Institute and Work That Reconnects Latin America. An integral and transpersonal ecopsychologist, international facilitator, ritualist, author, and contemplative teacher, he is passionate about human transformation in service of the living Earth.

His training spans contemplative psychotherapy (USA); transpersonal psychology and family constellations (Spain, USA, and Mexico); ritual and animist traditions (Mexico, USA, Peru, and Colombia); and contemplative traditions, particularly yoga and Tibetan Buddhism (USA, India, and China).

The lineages of beauty, wisdom, and compassion that Adrián has engaged with since adolescence continue to guide his life and work. His approach brings together Eastern and Western traditions of liberation, systemic-transpersonal perspectives, Earth-honoring wisdom, and ecopsychology, weaving them into an integrative framework for self-discovery, healing, transformation, and regenerative action. 

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