Empower Me Program

at the Ascension School of Healing Arts

Alchemize Trauma. Reclaim Your Voice. Step Into Your Power.

Empower Me is a self-transformational program designed to help you alchemize trauma, emotional wounds, and shadow behaviors into a new, empowered version of yourself — one rooted in self-love, grounded in self-respect, and aligned with your highest truth.

This journey supports you in releasing what no longer serves you, reclaiming your voice, stepping fully into your power, and learning to live from your heart space with confidence, clarity, and inner peace.

Through deep healing, subconscious rewiring, emotional release, nervous system support, and conscious self-development, you begin to embody the version of you that was always there beneath the pain — whole, worthy, powerful, and free.

Next Session Starts: May 27th, 2026

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A Year of Self-Healing, Energetic Mastery, and Intuitive Awakening

Heal Yourself. Rebuild From Within. Rise Into a New Way of Being.

There is no greater investment than into yourself.

Empower Me is a year-long healing and self-development program for those who are ready to stop repeating old patterns and begin creating a life rooted in self-love, emotional maturity, energetic mastery, and personal power.

Some students enter this program purely for personal healing and transformation. Others join to expand their spiritual gifts, deepen their existing wellness practice, or move toward certification as an Intuitive Healer. Wherever you are on your path, this program meets you there.

Has Talk Therapy Helped You Understand… But Not Truly Change?

Have you gained awareness of your patterns, yet still feel stuck repeating them?

Do you struggle with anxiety, depression, PTSD, emotional overwhelm, or nervous system dysregulation?

Are you moving through a dark night of the soul or a spiritual awakening that feels confusing, isolating, or intense?

Have you experienced trauma?

Do you find yourself people-pleasing, abandoning yourself, or allowing others to walk all over you?

Do you attract narcissistic, unavailable, or unhealthy relationships?

Are you tired of repeating the same painful cycles?

Do you feel stuck, powerless, or unable to create the life you know you truly want and deserve?

Have you outgrown old ways of thinking, living, and being — but don’t yet know how to step into the new?

If so, there is a better way.

ASHA presents the Empower Me Program — a transformational journey designed to help you heal, rebuild, and rise.

Wisdom Earned

Upon completion, students will come away with:

Intuitive Healer Training

Reiki Master Training

A Year of Self-Healing, Energetic Mastery, and Inner Transformation

Empower Me is a full year devoted to clearing your energy, healing emotional wounds, strengthening your intuition, and learning to work with your body, mind, and energy in a grounded, embodied way.

This year is as much about who you become as what you learn.

Inside the Empower Me Program, you will build a healthy, loving, supportive relationship with yourself. You will learn how to reprogram limiting beliefs, release trauma patterns, regulate your nervous system, and rebuild a new foundation from within.

Because when your relationship with yourself changes, your relationships with others begin to change too.

The Empower Me Program Includes Four 12-Week Courses

Each course supports a different layer of your transformation — from energetic stability, to emotional healing, to intuitive development, to advanced healing skills.

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Managing Your Energy

Learn all about energy, anatomy, and how to master your energy and care for yourself energetically. You will develop energetic boundaries, nervous system awareness, and daily tools for stability and clarity.

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Self Healing

A deep dive into shadow work emotional release and recalibrating your nervous system as you come home to yourself and reclaim your power and sovereignty.

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Intuitive Development

Strengthen or discover your intuitive senses, learn your own unique language with the universe. Learn guidance for yourself and others. Akasha records, Mediumship, channeling and more. We work with all forms of intuitive development.

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Advanced Energy Healing

Expand your energy healing skills, learn to apply your intuition to guide you during healings, channel messages of guidance, and become a master manifester.

Important note about Reiki:

Reiki one and two are strongly advised for the best results for the Empower Me program.

You can purchase Reiki I&II from ASHA or certifications gained through other teachers will be accepted as prerequisite fulfillment for Reiki I&II requirement, if you can show proof of certification.

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This program is for you if you are…

  • A social worker looking to deepen your healing tool kit
  • A life coach ready to add energetic intuitive skills to your practice
  • A nurse seeking holistic approaches to complement your skills
  • A massage therapist wanting to expand into energy healing
  • A holistic practitioner wanting to add to their toolkit
  • A Reiki practitioner looking to deepen their practice
  • Anyone on a personal healing journey looking for real tools and support
  • Anyone wanting to become an intuitive healer
  • any professional wanting to advance their skills
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Or If You Are Working Through...

  • Inner Child
  • Anxiety & Depression
  • Trauma
  • Life Changes
  • Releasing Patterns
  • Attachment Style Issues
  • Clearing Energy
  • Releasing Cords
  • Twin Flame Journey's
  • Empathic Issues
  • Children's Issues
  • Dark Night of the Soul
  • Ascension Symptoms
  • Kundalini Awakening
  • Injuries, Conditions, & Disease
  • Consciousness
  • Fears & Phobias
  • Spiritual Issues
  • Blocks
  • Grounding Issues
  • Transformation
  • Abandonment Issues
  • Chakra Balancing
  • Dismantling & Rewiring Beliefs
  • DNA Activation
  • Healing Relationships
  • Grief Healing
  • Sexual, Physical, Mental & Emotional Abuse
  • Physical Injuries & Diseases
  • Energetic Cords
  • Parenting Issues
  • Highly Sensitive Individuals

Empower Me Is for You If You Are Ready To…

  • Stop abandoning yourself
  • Break destructive cycles and repeated patterns
  • Heal emotional wounds and stored trauma
  • Move beyond people-pleasing and self-betrayal
  • Reclaim your voice and personal power
  • Build self-love, self-respect, and self-trust
  • Regulate your nervous system and feel safer in your body
  • Step into a more empowered version of yourself
  • Deepen your intuition and energetic awareness
  • Begin living from your heart space with confidence and clarity
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What to Expect

When you enroll, here is what your year looks like:

  • Weekly live classes for 1.5 hours (attend in person at ASHA in Ferndale, MI or via Zoom)
  • Four 12-week courses that build on each other throughout the year
  • Access to your online student portal with video lessons, manuals, and meditations
  • Monthly healing sessions
  • Homejoy sheets, self-care sheets, and hands-outs
  • A student support community to connect with fellow students
  • Monthly Reiki Shares for continued practice
  • Student activities and event opportunities throughout the year
  • 4 vacation weeks built into the schedule
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How the Courses Work

  1. Get access to your student portal.
  2. Watch your weekly portal videos and audio teachings.
  3. Attend each weekly live class for 1.5 hours (in person or Zoom).
  4. Weekly Class recordings available if class is missed.
  5. Ask questions, practice exercises, and engage with your community.
  6. Complete weekly homejoy sheet, and self-care sheet.
  7. Get a monthly healing or service.
  8. Practical exam at end of year to earn your ascension.
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Investment

There is not a greater investment than into yourself.

The Intuitive Healer Program is available with and without an additional ASHA Reiki Training.

Both options include: all four 12-week courses, 10 personal healing sessions, Two Spiritual First Aid Kits, portal video and audio teachings, student manuals, guided meditations, Reiki Master certification, Intuitive Healer Certification, monthly Reiki Shares, student support community, class recordings, homejoy sheets, and self-care sheets.

Please Note: A Reiki I&II certification is required to complete this Intuitive Healer Certification. You have the option to take Reiki with ASHA (led by Donna Lakes) or to "Bring Your Own Certification" provided the certification meets ASHA standards.

Intuitive HealerTraining

This pathway is for those who have already received Reiki I & II attunements and are ready to deepen into Master-level work and Intuitive Healer certification.

You’ll receive the full year of courses, 10 healing sessions, Spiritual First Aid Kits, and ongoing guidance within the same supportive container.

Pay in Full

  • $3999 one-time payment
  • Save $285 compared to monthly plan

Monthly Payment Plan

  • $357 per month for 12 months
  • Total investment: $4,284

Additional Payment Support

  • Klarna & AfterPay available for custom payment options
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Intuitive Healer Training plus Reiki I&II Certification

This path includes Reiki I & II initiation within the sacred container of the year, allowing you to receive your Reiki Master and Intuitive Healer certifications as your readiness unfolds.

You’ll receive the full year of courses, 10 healing sessions, Spiritual First Aid Kits, and ongoing guidance within the same supportive container.

Pay in Full

  • $4,357 one-time payment
  • Save $284 compared to monthly plan

Monthly Payment Plan

  • $357 per month for 13 months
  • Total investment: $4,641

Additional Payment Support

  • Klarna & AfterPay available for custom payment options
Enroll Today!

What Is Included (Beyond Classes)

This is where the value truly expands.

In addition to weekly live training (in person or Zoom), your tuition includes:

  • Portal video and audio teachings for self-paced learning between live sessions
  • Student manuals (9 manuals for Self-Healing alone, plus manuals for each of the other 3 courses)
  • 10 personal healing sessions during the year
  • Guided meditations and healings for ongoing energetic support
  • Intuitive Healer Certification upon completion
  • Two Spiritual First Aid Kits, created and curated by Donna, including two custom aura sprays and one flower essence tincture
  • Reiki I, II, and Master certifications earned throughout the year
  • Monthly Reiki Shares for ongoing practice and community
  • Student support community to connect with fellow students
  • Testing and certification support through ASHA
  • Student activities and event opportunities
  • Discounted access to Donna's workshops and special events
  • Class recordings so you never miss a lesson
  • Homejoy sheets, and self-care sheets
  • Universal Belief Healing Audios
  • 4 vacation weeks built into the schedule
  • Instructional exercise videos in your student portal

On a Deeper Level, You Can Expect To

  • Gently and safely explore your shadow self further
  • Cultivate forgiveness for yourself and others
  • Release emotional heaviness, stored stress, and old trauma patterns
  • Learn nervous system regulation tools you can use for life
  • Develop grounding, stabilization, and self-soothing skills
  • Create sustainable self-care habits that support your ongoing evolution
  • Build self-love, self-trust, and inner safety
  • Break old patterns and step into new ways of being
  • Experience real transformation — not insight alone, but lasting change
  • Reclaim your inner child
  • Integrate and embodiment all aspects of yourself and techniques learned

Skills You Will Develop

  • Intuitively receive messages and spiritual guidance for yourself and others
  • Identify limiting beliefs in yourself and others in a grounded, ethical way
  • Apply physical healing skills aligned with the body and nervous system
  • Channel guidance and develop your unique channeling abilities
  • Manage, protect, and work with your energy field with confidence
  • Advance your intuitive and psychic abilities in a safe, supported way
  • Removal of energetic cords
  • Activate the DNA
  • Repair the aura
  • Remove entities
  • Reconnective Healing
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Online or In-Person Training

Choose the learning format that fits your life best each week — attend virtually from anywhere or experience immersive, hands-on training at the school in a supportive community setting.

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Integrated, Multi-Modal Approach

Blending energy work, somatic awareness, trauma informed healing, neurological rewiring, intuitive development, and spiritual principles, this training expands your toolkit in a grounded and healing way.

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Deep Personal Transformation

This program prioritizes your own healing and energetic alignment first, ensuring you embody the work before guiding others through meaningful and lasting transformation.

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Clear Path to Ascension Healing

Whether for personal growth or professional practice, this training provides a foundation for confidently stepping into advanced Ascension-level healing work.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need Reiki certification before enrolling?
Reiki I&II are prerequisites for the completing the certification program. You can purchase Reiki I&II from ASHA or certifications gained through other teachers will be accepted as prerequisite fulfillment for Reiki I&II requirement, if you can show proof of certification. If you already hold Reiki I and II certification from another accredited Reiki Teacher, your certificates are accepted as the prerequisite.
What certifications do I receive?
Intuitive Healer Certification and Reiki Master Certification upon completing requirements.
How much does the program cost?
The certification program has two purchasing options: with and without an additional Reiki certification. The standard package is $3,999 paid in full, or $350 per month for 12 months. The with Reiki package is $4357 paid in full, or $357 per month for 13 months. AfterPay and Klarna payment options are available, offering custom payment options for the those seeking the 'paid-in-full' option.
Do I have to become a healer to take this program?
Becoming a healer is not required. Some students complete the program purely for personal healing, spiritual development, or to deepen their relationship with intuition and energy. Certification is an option, not a requirement.
What is included in the cost beyond classes?
Tuition includes weekly live training (in person or Zoom), portal video and audio teachings, 10 personal healing sessions, Two Spiritual First Aid Kits (aura sprays and flower essence tincture), student manuals (9 for Self-Healing alone, plus manuals for the other 3 courses), guided meditations, class recordings, monthly Reiki Shares, student support community, certification testing and support, and discounted access to Donna's events and workshops.
Can I attend online, or do I need to be in person?
You may complete the program either in person at ASHA in Ferndale, MI or live online via Zoom. You are free to choose each week which format suits you best. All students receive full access to the same classes, healings (completed anywhere in the world), materials, and certification opportunities.
What is the time commitment?
Classes meet weekly for 1.5 hours. Students also have portal videos, homejoy sheets, and self-care worksheets that take about 2 additional hours per week. The program is designed to work alongside real life. Many students successfully balance the training with work, family, and existing practices. 4 vacation weeks are built into the schedule.
Is this program medical or therapeutic?
No. These are ancient healing practices. This is not a medical program. ASHA focuses on self-development and mindfulness practices, emotional release, trauma-informed approaches, kundalini practices, and energy healing and energy medicine. Students are taught ethical practice, energetic boundaries, and appropriate referrals when needed.
What happens if I miss a class?
All live classes are recorded and made available to students. While live attendance is encouraged, recordings allow you to stay connected if you need flexibility.
How do I know if this is right for me?
If your focus is self-healing, intuitive development, and energetic mastery, this program is for you. If you are unsure, you are welcome to reach out and we will help you determine the best fit.

Still Not Sure?

Questions for the Moment Before You Say Yes

What if I do not trust myself enough yet?
You do not need perfect self-trust to begin. The program is designed to build trust through practice, embodiment, and direct experience.
What certifications do I receive?
Upon completion, students receive Intuitive Healer Certification and Reiki Master Certification. Certification is earned through participation, practice, and assessment.
What if I am worried I am not spiritual enough?
There is no spiritual threshold to cross. If you are listening, curious, and open, you belong here.
What if I am afraid of opening too much or going too deep?
Depth is approached gently and with support. You are never forced, rushed, or pushed beyond what your nervous system can integrate...
What if I am already a healer?
There are also skills you have not yet learned that go beyond Reiki. Many experienced practitioners join because they want refinement, clarity, and coherence. This program supports energetic maturity and deeper embodiment, which naturally elevates your work..
What if I am not sure I want to work with clients afterward?
That is completely okay. Certification is an option, not a requirement. Some students complete the program purely for personal healing and spiritual development.
What if my life feels too busy right now?
There is never a perfect time. The program is structured to support integration alongside real life. Many students find that the work actually helps ground and support them, bringing more clarity and ease into their daily lives.
How will I know if this is truly right for me?
If something in you keeps returning here, reading, reflecting, feeling, that is worth listening to. You do not need full certainty. You only need resonance.
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Immerse yourself in the transformative essence of the Tree Meditation – a practice designed to anchor, shield, and unite your being. This guided meditation serves as a catalyst for unlocking your intuitive prowess and expanding your spiritual senses. Embrace the divine feminine energy of receptivity, creativity, nurturing, and unwavering faith as you delve into this empowering experience. Strengthen your energy field, elevate your vibration, and welcome larger reserves of cosmic energy into your existence. Best of all, this FREE AUDIO MEDITATION is available for your daily enrichment. Harness the power of connection and rejuvenate your soul with each meditative session.