ASCENSION SCHOOL OF HEALING ARTS · FERNDALE, MICHIGAN

Healing Courses

Welcome to Ascension School's comprehensive healing courses — transformative training in energy healing, intuitive abilities, and spiritual growth. Whether you're a wellness or mental-health professional or simply on your own healing journey, our courses help you process trauma, reprogram subconscious patterns, and master your energy through the mind–body connection.

THE CERTIFICATION PATH

Become a Certified Healer

A two-year journey led by Donna Lakes. Year One builds your foundation and makes you the medicine. Year Two is where you master it — attend in person in Ferndale or live online.

Intuitive Healer Certification — Year One at ASHA A two-year journey led by Donna Lakes. Year One builds your foundation and makes you the medicine. Year Two is where you master it — attend in person in Ferndale or live online.

Intuitive Healer Certification

A year of self-healing, energetic mastery & intuitive awakening

Four 12-week courses that build on each other — mastering your energy, self-healing, and intuitive development, then reclaiming your power, living from your heart space, and stepping into advanced energy healing and Reiki. This is where you become the medicine.

  • Reiki Master Certification

Prerequisite: Reiki I & II (take it with ASHA or bring your own certification).

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Ascension Healer Certification — Year Two advanced training at ASHA A two-year journey led by Donna Lakes. Year One builds your foundation and makes you the medicine. Year Two is where you master it — attend in person in Ferndale or live online.

Ascension Healer Certification

Advanced training — heal what holds you back

Go deeper into the shadow and subconscious — subconscious reprogramming, inner child healing and reparenting, womb healing, ancestral and past-life healing, nervous-system and forgiveness work, and dismantling and rewiring limiting beliefs. Step fully into your calling as a certified Ascension Healer.

48 Weeks · 4 Courses · 4 Certifications

Prerequisite: Reiki Master & Intuitive Healer Certification (Year One).

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STANDALONE COURSES

12-Week Courses

Focused, transformational courses you can take on their own — or as steps toward the full certification. Meet in person in Ferndale or live online, once a week.

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Managing Your Energy

Learn energy anatomy, grounding, and nervous-system regulation. Build strong energetic boundaries and daily tools for clarity — especially powerful for empaths and highly sensitive people.

$997 or $357 × 3

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Self-Healing

A deep dive into shadow work, emotional release, and recalibrating your nervous system. Come home to yourself, release what's been holding you back, and reclaim your power and sovereignty.

$997 or $357 × 3

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Intuitive Development

Strengthen your intuitive senses and learn your own language with the universe — mediumship, channeling, the Akashic records, spirit guides, and activating the third eye.

$997 or $357 × 3

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THE REIKI PATH

Reiki Certifications

Usui Master New Paradigm Reiki with Reiki Master/Teacher Donna Lakes — teaching since 1999. Begin with your Reiki I & II attunement; Reiki Master (Levels 3 & 4) is woven into our Year One Intuitive Healer certification.

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Reiki I & II Certification

Your personal attunement plus a 5-hour live class. Learn to perform self-healing, in-person healing, and distance healing, with lifetime portal access and monthly Reiki Shares. No experience needed.

$357 payment options available

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Acu Aroma Reiki Certification courseSpecialty · Online

Acu Aroma Reiki Certification

An online specialty blending Reiki, essential oils, and skin-zone therapy. Master applying oils to the chakras and reflex zones — with one-on-one Zoom sessions and case studies.

$333 or $111 × 3

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COMMUNITY & CONNECTION

Events & Workshops

Beyond our courses, ASHA hosts regular community gatherings and specialty workshops — open to students and the public alike. There's always something new to experience.

Psychic FairsAura PhotographyCrystal ClassesSound Bath ExperiencesCacao CeremoniesTarot ReadingsFlower Essence OfferingsEmotional Release EventsMonthly Reiki SharesHealing Circles

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LEARN AT YOUR OWN PACE

Self-Study Courses

Not ready for a live class, or prefer to move at your own rhythm? Study anytime, from anywhere, with lifetime access to many of our programs.

ASHA self-study and community courses

Deep inner work, on your own schedule

Self-paced versions of Reiki I & II, Self-Healing, Managing Your Energy, and Acu-Aroma Reiki — with video lessons, manuals, worksheets, and guided meditations you can revisit whenever deeper healing is needed.

  • Lifetime access — no deadlines, no pressure
  • Learn at your own rhythm and revisit modules anytime
  • Videos, manuals, worksheets & guided meditations
  • Community support for every student
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There is not a greater investment than into yourself.

Wherever you begin, the door is open. Attend in person at our Ferndale school or live online from anywhere in the world.

A FREE GIFT FOR YOU!

Energy Hook Up Meditation

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

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