ASHA is a community of holistic health pioneers, a School of Massage, a Wellness Center, a Student Clinic, and a Natural Pharmacy.  ASHA is a friendly, nurturing environment designed to develop a world of compassionate, healthy people working together towards self-actualization. We are a community where students, instructors and staff are truly passionate about their mission and purpose—to not only treat illnesses that can be helped by massage but also to assist people to develop optimal health and wellness.  The combination of illness care and wellness care is what it will take to improve the health of our nation and curb the crisis of runaway costs for health care that threaten our nation’s economic well being.  We are committed to shifting the world's view of health care from treating illness to creating wellness.

Our Healing Arts Massage School is based in the Atlanta area. It started and still operates with a clinically based focus on deep structural massage therapy with our core passion being holistic health for individuals as well as the world in which we live.  ASHA is an acronym for Academy of Somatic Healing Arts.  We are now expanding our Healing Arts trainings to include a cutting edge Wellness Coaching Program that allows graduates to coach Doctor’s patients to live a healthier lifestyle and get paid by insurance companies.  This program enables our graduates to help doctors develop a wellness aspect to what they can offer their patients.  It also enables our graduates to broaden their ability to educate their clients about optimal health.

ASHA’s holistic health orientation recognizes the interdependence of spirit, mind and body and bases everything we offer on this integrative approach.  Many of our expert healing arts teachers work together in our Wellness Center with this vital understanding of the interdependence of every aspect of the spirit-mind-body system for the establishment and maintenance of optimal health.   At the ASHA Wellness Center, any practitioner you start with will lead you to your overall health goals. Come and join our ASHA community.

The backbone of ASHA and our Executive Director/Owner is Dr. Stan Dawson. He has been a pioneer in the wellness field for over 35 years.  He is trained as a Chiropractor, Ayurvedic Doctor, Neuromuscular Therapist, Polarity Therapist, Massage Therapist, Body-centered Psychotherapist and health educator. In the mid 70’s, he recognized the common ground of Eastern and Western systems of health care and health philosophies.  He was the first Chiropractor in the Southeast to work with an MD, psychotherapists, massage therapists, Polarity Therapists, a nutritional counselor, a Rolfer and a team of health educators all in one practice.  He has continually brought the healing arts professions together through his deep understanding of the interdependence of all aspects of the spirit-mind-body system for individual, national and global health.