About

Bones Bugs and Botany is devoted to translating the pattern language of the earth and her people’s culinary and herbal genius into simple, safe and effective interventions in healing through cutting edge educational modalities.

Through seasonal healing immersions, dynamic educational experiences, powerful writing, partnerships and personal mentorship, Asia helps those seeking embodied earth healing, wisdom and connection to have all of that and more.

Bones, Bugs and Botany is a healing tradition that combines ancestral culinary wisdom with exquisite herbal insights to enable a practice of a people's medicine that is safe, simple and effective.

The name itself is the exact tool that Asia used to regenerate her own body, mind and spirit. The name itself are a set of relationships that have allowed Asia to not only share the pattern languages of the earth but to speak that language from embodied wisdom and experience.

Bones, Bugs and Botany are tools that you too can use to experience embodied liberation. A liberation that isn't dependent on a politic but on your relationship to self. And everything that it takes, mentally, physically and spiritually for you to reclaim the wholeness that you already, always are.

Bones Bugs and Botany uses experiential, project-based learning. Within a safe container, our students have the opportunity to embody regenerative principles and practices that demystify earth-based healing. This allows us to know our medicines with the wisdom of our own experience and the truth of our own bodies.

To deepen her awareness of ecological design, Asia traveled to Australia to become a certified permaculture teacher and apprenticed at The Permaculture Research Institute of Australia with Geoff Lawton. With her ecological design practice in hand she developed regenerative fertilization systems while studying indigenous seed saving and Indian culinary genius at Navdanya International in Uttarakhand, India.

Asia took her tools with her to Accra, Ghana, where she studied global nutrition, traditional cuisine and food systems helping her discern global patterns of wellness and the specific adaptations of her West African peoples. She learned the deepest parts of her practice, apprenticing and exploring the science of traditional food and nutrient-dense regenerative agriculture with her beloved mentor Kay Baxter at the Koanga Institute in New Zealand.

After applying ecological design and her hard won ancestral knowledge to her own body to heal her from years of depression though the power of bones and bugs or probiotics foods, Asia inherited the Five Points Fermentation Company and learned the art of fermentation from Jain Chef Milian Doshi in 2016.

Asia created a model of regenerative, cooperatively organized business to heal the dysbiosis of society and the microbiomes of her people for years. As an artisan, Asia handcrafted exquisite, locally sourced, traditionally fermented foods and brews for grocery stores, restaurants, bars and everyday families. She built powerful microbial allyships mastering the traditional art of fermentation along the way.

Asia became curious about plant medicines or botany after her customers started reporting drastic improvements in their health from the herbs she used to flavor her creations. She then had a first-hand experience of using a plant medicine so expertly crafted by her beloved Sarah Shavel that it resolved the anxiety she gained from running a business. Asia embodied the miraculous ways that herbs worked and she wanted to both learn more about them and spread their gospel.

Asia uplifted lead organizer Sheree Brown in establishing the Ancestral Herbalism Healing Collective bringing in diverse healers and teachers from around Colorado leading with the notion that everything we need is already here. This introduction led to years of mentorship with elder herbalist Susun Weed accumulating in an apprenticeship in 2021. That same year, Asia and her best friend Karina Desroses founded the Petty Herbalist Podcast.

In 2022, Asia with her beloved mentor Lynn Till and a cohort of radical herbalists, witches and midwives organized Project Iroko a reproductive justice and herbal healing mutual aid society.

Asia deepened her health work completing her yoga teacher training in 2015. In 2019, with her belief in the ability of workers cooperatives to heal our economic system, Asia co-founded the Satya Yoga Cooperative for People of Color. In 2021, Asia became a certified Yoga Nidra instructor with Kamini Desai of the Amrit Yoga Institute. She and Satya founder, Lakshmi Nair have since trained multiple cohorts of yoga students in this ancestral meditation practice with a framework of Rest as Reparations.

Asia began her work as an organizer in grade school with an organization called Earth Force where she coordinated other young people and facilitated trainings around youth voice and environmental justice across the nation. In university she became a Kingian Nonviolence facilitator and trainer through the Center for Nonviolence & Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island. She coordinated movement work around prison abolition, economic justice and food justice.

Asia was the Healing Justice Coordinator for the Grassroots Reparations Campaign in 2019 helping faith-based organizations remember their past, imagine new futures, and implement strategic efforts to heal the damage caused by racism.

As a reparationist, Asia has developed a reparations curriculum for reparations4slavery.com where she hosts the Healing Black Futures Podcast.

Asia has lectured and facilitated workshops at institutions such as Regis University, Denver University, University of Colorado at Boulder, The New School, The Denver Botanic Gardens, University of New Hampshire and many more. She is the organizer and facilitator of quirky and dope afrofuturist events like TimeCamp and is a proud collaborator of Black Quantum Futurism.

Asia has served on the board of Earth Force, Greenleaf Denver, Center for Community Wealth Building and the Denver Sustainable Food Policy Council.

Currently, Asia co-facilitates the Permaculture Design Course with the Regenerative Education Collective of Denver. To scale her impact, Asia brings all that she is, her professional experience and her knowledge the earth to her organizational consulting with Regenerate Change. She supports institutional change makers in building a more resilient food system. Asia weaves her various experiences into fun, practical toolkits, trainings and events that transform our relationship to our planet, our bodies and each other.