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1. 50 words (host intro)
Bronwyn Ayla, L.Ac., is a clinician of 28 years who teaches people how to come alive in their own healing - body, seasons, and spirit. Her practice moves between acupuncture, Rosen Method, Dagara divination, seasonal medicine, and Reiki, which she has taught since 1998 to more than 1,000 practitioners.
2. 150 words (show notes)
Bronwyn Ayla, L.Ac., is a clinician who has spent 28 years teaching people how to come alive in their own healing - body, seasons, and spirit. She holds a Master of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine, is a Certified Rosen Method Practitioner, and was initiated as a diviner in the Dagara lineage of Burkina Faso in 2021.
She founded the Holistic Medical Arts clinic in Berkeley, where she has practiced for 28 years. Reiki is one thread among several in her work: she has taught it since 1998, trained more than 1,000 practitioners, and wrote The Reiki Handbook: Beginner to Master Level. She now runs the Reiki Mystery School, a year-long apprenticeship for students who want to go deeper than a weekend certificate.
Bronwyn's stance across all of it is the same: you do not need anyone's permission to come alive in your own healing. You participate in it.
3. 300 words (press kit)
Bronwyn Ayla, L.Ac., is a licensed acupuncturist (California Acupuncture Board) and a clinician of 28 years who teaches people how to come alive in their own healing - body, seasons, and spirit. She holds a Master of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine and a Bachelor of Arts in Women's Studies from UC Berkeley. She is a Rosen Method Practitioner, a Axis Syllabus dance teacher, Hakomi practitioner, and was initiated as a diviner in the Dagara lineage of Burkina Faso.
She founded the Holistic Medical Arts clinic in Berkeley, CA where she has practiced for 28 years, working at the place where clinical medicine and energy medicine meet. Reiki is one instrument in that larger practice, not the whole of it: she has taught it since 1998, trained more than 1,000 practitioners, and is the author of The Reiki Handbook: Beginner to Master Level, a full-color, illustrated guide that carries a reader from first attunement through the Master level. She now runs the Reiki Mystery School, a 12-month apprenticeship for practitioners who want mentorship rather than a weekend certificate.
Bronwyn also teaches by the season. Her patients and students learn to live in accordance with the Taoist seasonal almanac, tending the body's rhythms rather than overriding them. And her self-sovereign stance runs through everything she teaches: an attunement, a treatment, a divination - none of it is a gate someone else stands in front of. It amplifies what is already in you.
She lives and works location-independently, traveling and teaching alongside her daughter, who learns as they go. Her tagline holds the whole of it: where medicine meets transformation.
Bronwyn is available for in person and online interviews.
Topic angles
Five conversations Bronwyn is glad to have. Each comes with questions a host can ask straight from the page.
1. What is healing, really?
Most people think healing means fixing what's broken and moving on. Bronwyn has spent 28 years in clinical practice and just as long teaching energy medicine, and her answer keeps landing somewhere different: healing is participation, not repair. It is staying in direct relationship with your own life instead of consuming it and waiting for someone else to hand you the fix.
Sample questions:
⊱ You've said healing is something you participate in, not something done to you. What changed how you saw it that way?
⊱ What is the difference between being treated and actually healing?
⊱ If someone is stuck waiting for a diagnosis or a doctor to tell them they're okay, where would you have them start?
2. The body's hidden code
Bronwyn has spent 28 years reading bodies in clinic, and what she keeps finding is that the body isn't fighting us, it's presenting us with the material of our own transformation. Symptoms and pathology aren't punishments - they point at something, often toward awakening. Her work with patients is less about correcting the body and more about re-templating: helping someone build a new pattern rather than force the old one back into place.
Sample questions:
⊱ You talk about the body presenting material rather than just malfunctioning. What does that shift in how you treat someone?
⊱ What do you mean when you say pathology can point toward awakening?
⊱ What does re-templating actually look like for a patient, in practice?
3. Come alive by the seasons
Bronwyn lives by an old seasonal almanac, not the calendar most of us inherited from work and school. It isn't about productivity, it's about recalibration: eating, resting, and moving in step with what a season is actually asking of the body. She teaches this as a way to come alive, not a wellness routine to check off.
Sample questions:
⊱ What is this old almanac you live by, and how is it different from the calendar most of us use?
⊱ You talk about the seasons as recalibration rather than productivity. What's the difference in practice?
⊱ What does the current season ask of the body, and how would someone even start listening for that?
4. Midlife as recalibration, not decline
After 28 years in clinical practice, much of it with women, Bronwyn has a clear read on midlife: it isn't a decline, it's a recalibration. The body isn't failing, it's asking for a different relationship. She talks plainly about what she's seen in the exam room and what it actually takes to meet that shift instead of fighting it.
Sample questions:
⊱ You call midlife a recalibration rather than a decline. What have you seen in 28 years of clinical practice that led you there?
⊱ What do women get wrong about what's happening to their bodies at this stage?
⊱ What would you tell someone who feels like they're falling apart right now?
5. The medicine of thresholds
Life brings its own initiations - losses, endings, the closing of one chapter before another opens. Bronwyn teaches that certain crossings - a season of silence, a red tent, a pilgrimage - let medicine come all the way in instead of being outrun in the middle of ordinary life. It isn't that healing can't happen at home. It's that a real threshold gives medicine room to land.
Sample questions:
⊱ What do you mean by a threshold, and how is it different from just going through something hard?
⊱ Why does a crossing like a pilgrimage or a season of silence let medicine land in a way daily life doesn't?
⊱ What would you say to someone who feels ready for a real initiation but doesn't know where to start?
Hear Bronwyn
Want a sense of her voice before you book? Listen to her podcast, Alchemy with Bronwyn, at bronwynayla.com/podcast
Press & Media Assets
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Contact
To invite Bronwyn on your show, email info@bronwynayla.com.