What is Ascension School of Healing Arts?

ASHA is a transformative holistic healing school offering Reiki certifications, energy healing training, and spiritual wellness programs. We provide a safe space for self-healing journeys and professional healer certifications through ancient wisdom practices and modern understanding.

What certifications does ASHA offer?

ASHA offers Reiki Practitioner certifications, Ascension Healer certifications including Subconscious Reprogramming, Inner Child Healing, and Past Life Healing. We also provide 12-week transformative programs in Managing Your Energy, Intuitive Development, Self-Healing, and Energy Healing.

Who should attend ASHA programs?

ASHA programs are for anyone seeking profound personal growth, healing from trauma, improving mental health, or wishing to guide others in their healing journey. Our approach complements traditional mental health practices while opening new pathways to personal empowerment.

How does energy healing work?

Energy healing is a holistic practice that works with the body's natural energy systems to support emotional, spiritual, and physical wellness. Our approach bridges ancient wisdom with modern understanding, focusing on self-discovery and practical techniques that nurture the whole being.

How much does Reiki certification cost?

ASHA offers Usui Reiki I & II certification for $355. This includes both levels, attunements, manual, certificate, and lifetime support from your Reiki Master.

Can I take Reiki classes online?

Yes! ASHA offers both in-person classes in Ferndale, Michigan and live online classes via Zoom. Online students receive the same attunements and certification as in-person students.

How long does it take to become Reiki certified?

ASHA's Reiki I & II certification is completed in one weekend (2 days). You will be a certified Reiki practitioner ready to practice on yourself and others.

Healing Courses | Ascension School of Healing Arts

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.

Year One

Intuitive Healer Certification

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

Four 12-week courses that build on each other — clearing your energy, strengthening your intuition, and learning to work with energy in a grounded, embodied way for yourself and others. This is where you become the medicine.

Intuitive Healer Certification
Reiki Master Certification

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

Year Two · Advanced Ascension Healer Certification — Year Two advanced training at ASHA

Ascension Healer Certification

Advanced training — heal what holds you back

Deepen into subconscious reprogramming, inner child healing, ascension healing, and past-life work. Step fully into your calling as a certified Ascension Healer with the tools to hold space for others.

48Weeks

4Courses

4Certifications

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

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.

Managing Your Energy 12-week course cover

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.

$997or $357 × 3

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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.

$997or $357 × 3

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Intuitive Development 12-week course cover

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

$997or $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. From your first attunement to advanced mastery and specialty modalities.

Levels 1 & 2 · Foundation

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.

$357payment options available

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Levels 3 & 4 · Master / Teacher

Reiki Master Levels 3 & 4

Step into Master and Teacher level. Deepen your energy work with advanced techniques and the master symbols, and learn to pass attunements and teach Reiki to your own students.

Master Levelattunement & certification

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Specialty · Online

Acu Aroma Reiki Certification

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

$333or $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 Fairs Aura Photography Crystal Classes Sound Bath Experiences Cacao Ceremonies Tarot Readings Flower Essence Offerings Emotional Release Events Monthly Reiki Shares Healing 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.

Self-Study & Community

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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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 the power of connection and rejuvenate your soul with each meditative session.