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traditional medicine~Wellbeing-surf
with
Ashley Gwyneth Imonetti

Ashley Gwyneth has spent more than 25 years living throughout Latin America and the Hawaiian Islands, including in rural and traditional communities. These experiences shaped her understanding of different cultural approaches to health, the body, and movement. Her years in the surf industry and ocean rescue further shaped her knowledge of the body, health, and recovery.

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Ash's own experience with significant injury and chronic health challenges gave her a firsthand understanding of recovery, ongoing symptoms, and the challenges of navigating modern medical systems. This led her to explore traditional and natural approaches to health and their place alongside modern medicine. Ash pursued post-secondary studies in anthropology, language, and translation in Hawaii, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Canada. Her academic work deepened her interest in the ways culture, language, and traditional knowledge shape how we understand health and wellbeing. Today, her method draws from both traditional and modern perspectives, with an emphasis on whole-person care. 

The ocean and surfing have been her meditation and respite since her childhood, leading to a life of teaching surfing to all walks of life in the USA, Canada, Costa Rica, Hawaii, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. The transition from teaching surfing to providing traditional healing happened organically over the years as she began to see her students needing not only surfing technique instruction but also health and life guidance, injury support, and acceptance.

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ZenBot Studio's private practice was launched in the flower district of Manhattan, New York, and evolved to St. Augustine, where she became an adjunct instructor in the Continuing Education program at Flagler College, up to Canada for a Women and Indigenous Peoples grant, and is now based in Montauk, New York.