HI, I’M ASIA
TRUSTED GUIDE.
MOVEMENT CREATIVE.
TEACHER'S TEACHER.
Certified Joint & Movement Specialist (FRCMS, FRA, FRSC (strength coach) & Kinstretch)
Creator of The Movement Life & TML method
E-RYT 500 Yoga Instructor & Creator of RYS 200 Pranalife Yoga Teacher Training
20+ years of teaching packed classes & certifying the best teachers
Trekkest (you heard me), gym junkie, mountain lover, whiskey lover, writer
It’s possible to feel better than ever, consistently — and it’s your turn to experience it.
I’m a joint-focused movement specialist who helps you create space and strength where you feel pain or limitation, so you can live with more freedom.
For over a decade I was a gym-loving hardcore Ashtanga ("Power") Yoga teacher. If you wanted to push your limits and sweat ‘till you dropped, you wanted in my classes. My yoga teacher training course was filled with enthusiastic movers who couldn’t wait to lead their own hot n sweaty classes. Then, in 2011 I had a major low back injury, and everything changed.
It was devastating. I was in intense, chronic pain. I started losing my connection to yoga and working out, and my sense of self as a capable, healthy person. After cycles of trying to go back to how I moved and trained before, only to re-injure my back, I knew I needed to figure out a new way to take care of myself. I was tired of fearing I would be in pain forever, being less and less active, and beating my body up. It was time to heal.
That’s when I began working with back pain specialist Dr. Stu McGill, and became a multiple-certified movement specialist with Functional Range Systems (FRS). After years of investment, research, collaboration and experience, I transformed how I moved - and how I taught. And the results were beyond what I expected.
My clients started to see the same positive changes I did:
their joints felt better,
aches and pain went away, and
they felt stable and strong.
They could pick up their kids without fear, or get back to an activity they thought they had to leave behind.
And so can you.
Move CONFIDENTLY
I use my energy, experience, and expertise to help you build a strong, healthy, stress-free body for life.
Asia’s journey from injury to insight
“Going from being an advanced level Ashtanga yogi to the movement expert I am now was a real-life transition from innocence through experience …”
Movement expert Asia Nelson talks with Michelle Svartsjo on The Martini Glass podcast about how her major back injury was the door to going from ass-kicking classes to teaching with wisdom and creativity focused on healing and strengthening, and based in science:
There is a third way to live your life that’s neither burning out nor fading away.
The approach to true strength and health is different now. It’s less about throwing ourselves into things and taking the hits, and more about knowing what we want, and building on our strengths.
You know — being wiser.
The Movement Life is a journey of transformation that heals and strengthens our whole selves, beginning with our bodies and flowing into our entire lives. It’s shifting from caring about things like how you look to how you feel and what you can do.
I want you to move confidently for decades.
Build strong joints, in delicious flows, with just enough stretching to leave you feeling amazing. Each class I teach now is full of secrets I’ve mined from my own healing, and from successfully supporting hundreds of clients in their journeys back to the active lives they love to live.
Move now to move well past 80.
Make your own movement life:
When you’re ready to create your own movement with movement, you’re ready for The Movement Life Method certification course.
Change lives, starting with your own —
“Your classes have always been my favourite. I’m a huge desk jockey and I get the best relief with you, while gaining a better understanding of my body; you just don’t get that anywhere else.”
— Jessica Michael