Hey there! It’s me, Zaria. The curator of this site. Akasha is one part healing arts studio, one part mystic arts and sciences school! 100% my offering!

New students and client inquiries are welcome!

In Person Classes in Iowa City! Tuesdays 5:30p & Thursdays 6p at Public Space One Close House! publicspaceone.com/yoga

Akasha Integral Healing Arts

So let’s think of this place as a playground for

Yoga Education - Yoga Therapy - Ayurveda - Vedic Astrology - Sound Healing - Vedic Counseling - Psychedelic Healing - Ritual & Ceremonial Offerings

Trauma Informed & Anti-Oppressive Paradigms of Care, think Yogic, Dharmic, Karmic, and Ecological Remedies for Personal, Community, and Planetary Healing

Guided Study | Private Sessions | Workshops | Programs | Classes | Trainings | YTTs

Weekly Classes

  • Tuesday 9am - Hosted Here Virtually!

    Tuesdays 9am CT

    Explore the many paths of yoga through the lens of yoga therapy! Join in community weekly for contemplation on a yogic concept, sound, breath, movement, and meditation practice.

    Join a single class, a monthly membership for weekly classes or a yoga therapy membership for private sessions and weekly classes.

    Register for Class

  • Thursday 12pm - Ayurvedic Self Care Group

    Come for the Luxury, stay because you fell asleep! Each week we will discuss principles and practices from Ayurveda connecting self care with ecosystem harmony. We will explore Ayurvedic self care practices, elemental meditations, and intuitive explorations. All are welcome!

    Purchase this pass for a drop in or go to the Membership or Yoga Pass Options!

    Register for Class

Offerings

Working with paradigms of Yogic Therapy, Counseling and Coaching. Utilizing all yogic paths with Ayurveda, Vedic Astrology, and Vedic Wisdom to help you find healing, purpose, intuition, and joyful living through an ecological healing lens.

  • This offering consists of ongoing sessions with Zaria. Together you will explore what your personal goals are and will design a personal practice that will support your journey of transformation. Whether you'd like a yoga or meditation practice, to learn more about Ayurveda and yoga health habits, or to discover your role in being an agent of change and your purpose in the world, we will work together to establish a practice that suits your lifestyle, comfort level, interests, and capacity! This is my favorite way to work with folks.

    These sessions are designed to support you and your goals, whatever they may be, informed by Vedic wisdom and practices of Yoga, Ayurveda, & Vedic Astrology.

    Are you looking to start or deepen your yoga or meditation practice and study? Are you seeking guidance on your purpose or path? Perhaps you need some help with basic life organization and creating a supportive routine or maybe you are seeking to develop your intuition and explore the spiritual path. If we have not met before, please begin with a free 15-minute consultation!

  • This offering is for folks that have a yoga practice but are seeking to deepen their relationship with yoga. Zaria helps guide you through the vast world of yoga philosophy, the various paths of yoga, and the history and modern implications of yoga in the western world.

  • As a social justice, inclusion, and sacred activism educator, Zaria is passionate about integrating intersectionality and anti-oppressive frameworks within the healing arts spheres.

    Zaria offers modules and courses independently and for yoga teacher trainings that include yogic activism, queer and trans inclusion, and intersectional education.

  • In these sessions, we work specifically with sound healing tools to address any discomforts, chronic stress, and imbalances.

    Sound Healing is an incredibly nourishing modality!

    Offerings are available for groups or private sessions.

  • Yoga Therapy, Ayurvedic wellness & self care programs designed for you and your team or Trauma Informed Yoga programming for your the people you serve that may benefit from yoga.

    Zaria has worked in rehabilitation home settings, within disability services, with formerly incarcerated folks, and individuals recovering from trauma and chronic mental illness as well as with NGOs that support folks in refugee camps around the world.

    She is passionate about providing yoga for social workers, activists, and those who work in helping professions as well as service industry workers and those that are adjacent. She would love to support your team!

    Reach out today for inquiries.

Book a Class or Yoga Therapy Session

I am now accepting new clients and would love to explore how working together may support you!

Weekly Yoga Meditation Class Tuesdays 9am CT

Weekly Ayurvedic Self Care Class

Thursdays 12pm CT

  • Join weekly classes with a single pass or join a monthly subscription for weekly yoga therapy class charged monthly

  • Akasha Monthly Memberships for access to weekly classes plus weekly, biweekly, or monthly private yoga therapy/intuitive counseling/sound healing sessions

  • All rates are open to discussion based on your personal situation and my capacity, please do not hesitate to reach out to discuss your needs and interests

  • If you can donate or tip, more folks will be able to receive services at a lower cost

Zaria James

(She/Her)

Intuitive Healer, Yoga Meditation Teacher & Integral Sound Healer

Practitioner of Yogic Therapy, Counseling, Consulting and Coaching

Ayurvedic Yoga Therapist in Training

Pooja

“I attended Zaria’s queer and trans yoga workshop at YogaCon and was so happy I did. Zaria provided a compassionate and open space for LGBTQ+ people to move, reflect, and interact as ourselves, individually and as a community. They held space for journaling, meditation, and discussion around our relationships with yoga and provided us a place to connect and heal. Thank you Zaria!”

Harper

“Zaria’s QT module generously demonstrated how and why folks in yoga communities should intentionally cultivate inclusive spaces. Their clear teaching gave everyone in the room the opportunity to learn about and understand how gender shows up in yoga practice, regardless of the knowledge they had at the start. The easy integration of yoga philosophy and using inclusive, affirming language in Zaria’s module made the connection seem so natural and intuitive that I can’t imagine doing things otherwise. It was a pleasure to learn from them! ”

Some Feedback

Michelle

“Zaria has been instrumental in beginning my yoga journey. They are well read and practiced, and caters their guidance to my needs, within both the moment and overall. Our practice of meditation, breath work, movement, and philosophy bring me peace, energy, and introspection. I feel so fortunate to have found them”.


Love Fiercely

This space is a space that offers practices and experiences that help guide people’s awareness inward. Here, I offer private sessions, courses and classes that cover various therapeutic, spiritual, and contemplative approaches to healing, living, and being.

Various memberships and opportunities to engage with Zaria are available.

This space has been inspired by the wisdom of Vedic, Yogic, Shamanic, and Global Ancestral Wisdom Traditions. My work is curated with the foundational belief that healing ourselves and engaging in fiercely compassionate introspection and contemplative practice is the key to igniting the inner revolution in each person that will make outer transformation possible, thus aiding in the project of dismantling all systems of harm and oppression and to lessen suffering on Planet Earth. Everyone has the spark of the Divine inside of them and the goal of the work done here is to assist folks in unleashing this Cosmic Force on the Planet in their Self-Guided way. I intend to hold space for others and offer support as this journey unfolds.

 
 

Liberation is the goal. Life is the curriculum. Love fiercely on the journey.