
Asa Hershoff has practiced mindbody medicine and Vajrayana concurrently for 40 years. Completing the traditional three-year retreat under the auspices of Kalu Rinpoche, he was later ordained as a lay lama in Arunachal Pradesh. A pioneer in the Canadian holistic health movement, he is founder of the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine (1978) and author of three books published by Penguin-Random House. Asa has developed Elemental Psychology as an integration of Vajrayāna, humanistic psychology, bioenergy medicine, and a panglobal perspective on the five elements. This transformative methodology of self-healing, therapy and spiritual growth is represented in his current book projects, You: True & False and The Five Ways of Wisdom due out later this year. See also: www.the5wisdoms.com www.5eeh.com.
The Five Wisdoms is published bi-monthly.



Why Spirituality (Sometimes) Fails
Energy and activity in tantric practice

Trauma Dharma
The work of inner healing and emotional well-being


Purity, Impurity, and the Five Elements
Purification on the spiritual path

In Search of the Buddhist Body
Investigating the elemental body

The Mystery of the Five Elements
A tantric perspective on elemental expression

Science and the Rainbow Body, Part 10: When Three Becomes Four
The union of three as the means toward transformation

Light Body Practice: First Stages
Foundational practices in awareness

Science and the Rainbow Body, Part 9: Dying into Elemental Light
Transformation and dissolution

Chöd in the Time of Pandemic
Inner cultivation toward outer transformation