Ashley Nguyen

Ashley Nguyen is a yoga and meditation teacher, astrologer and Human Design guide based in Honolulu, Hawaii, who works under the name Awake In Wellness. Before turning to this work she spent more than ten years as a software engineer, latterly at Disney and LinkedIn, and she often speaks about leaving that career and what helped her make the change. She holds a 200-hour yoga teacher certification and also plays crystal singing bowls for sound baths.

Her approach pairs chart work with practices done in the body. In readings and coaching she uses a person's birth chart and Human Design as a shared language for their temperament and choices, while stressing that the chart is a lens rather than a verdict and that clients remain their own authority. Sessions open and close with a short meditation, and her longer coaching programme, aimed mainly at professionals weighing a career change, adds yoga, breath and somatic practice. In Honolulu she leads yin yoga and sound bath classes, yoga nidra evenings and community events, and she teaches online through one-to-one sessions, guided meditations for each moon sign and Human Design type, a podcast and her Insight Timer library.