Awakening Vacations / Awakening Academy

Teen Personal Development & Mentorship

Virtual Coaching for Teens: Confidence, Identity & Family Support

“ I feel confident in my ability to calmly steer any situation towards harmony.”
— Tammy W -Maimi

Awakening Vacations offers personal development courses, mentorship, and body-awareness practices online, plus guided support during your vacation for teens, families, and adults. Our work helps you grow in self-awareness and self-acceptance so you can know and like who you truly are.

Asha Christiansen, founder of Awakening Vacations, standing indoors with greenery visible through a window.

I am here to walk beside you as you move beyond the stories of the mind and begin to understand what is truly happening within you. Together, you will learn to recognize what needs your attention and trust your own ability to respond.

I am internationally recognized for training holistic practitioners who choose to pursue a career in service to others. The courses I offer are educational and supportive in nature and are not a substitute for medical, psychological, or psychiatric care.

The Approach

This is not about fixing you or turning you into someone else. It is about loving who you truly are.

Thoughts, emotions, and pressures can feel difficult to understand. When we feel overwhelmed, we react without questioning why, which can take you further away from knowing what’s really happening within..

The Path of Infinite Potential offers practices to look within and discover more about what is happening inside you. This approach honors your thoughts, emotions, body, imagination, and enhances your natural abilities.

As your awareness grows, you recognize your unique qualities, gain clarity, self-trust, and confidence in your ability to articulate discomfort and bring yourself into harmony.

With virtual coaching, we can stay connected when challenges arise. Together, we will explore your inner world, bring awareness to what needs your attention, and strengthen your trust in your ability to support yourself.

Do you feel like you’re living in a cage, unsure of how to find your way out?

I can show you the way, but entering must be your choice.

I’ll be beside you—you’re not alone..

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How the Mind Creates Conflict

  • The mind is brilliant, but it can also become obsessive, repetitive, and controlling.

  • It seeks truth, yet it often creates stories and lies that feel real.

  • We need the mind—but we also need to teach it how to listen.

  • Many people feel their emotions deeply, but fewer understand how their thoughts shape those emotions and drive their reactions.

  • This coaching helps teenagers learn to notice their emotions, thoughts, and reactions so they can respond with clarity instead of reacting on autopilot.

Choose A Path

Guiding Teens and Supporting Parents

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This support is for teenagers and parents who want to shift current family dynamics—moving toward trust, clarity, and heart-led ways of communicating and supporting one another.

Parents & Teens are invited into gentle self-inquiry—asking themselves how they quiet the mind, how they feel about the way they’re managing their challenges, whether they’re open to discovering other ways to respond, and what their future might look like if they kept handling things the same way.

Simple practices support integration. Sessions are offered as one-to-one coaching, parent support, or small group interactions in a virtual space.

I believe in you-

INFINITE POTENTIAL AWAITS YOUR INTEREST

Having Presence with your heart is your pathway to knowing

Transform negative emotions into positive outcomes

It’s as simple as shining a light in the dark; once it’s visible, it no longer causes tension.

Distractions take you further away from yourself

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How Coaching Works

  • What is most important

We begin with a introduction call, to listen to your concerns and find out what you think you need. Afterward, we will guide you into the center of your heart to see what your heart says it needs from you. Then you’ll know this approach is for you.

  • The Heart Chooses

Belief has a very strong influence on progress. Belief can create and destroy. This is probably different from what you’re used to; when a person is curious of what they will discover, it is very successful.

  • Its Not Your Fault

The real challenge isn’t your teen; Once you understand how the mind works, you can begin to discover what thoughts cause emotional discomfort and why.

  • How are You Supported

This method is designed to empower you and grow your abilities. You might be surprised how quickly you can feel confident and tap into your innate wisdom. Virtual coaching keeps me available to support you anytime you need.

Explore Paths
A cartoon frog sitting on a lily pad in a pond, surrounded by tall grass and cattails, with a reflection of the frog in the water.

Just as the frog’s song creates ripples through the water, our inner state creates ripples through our lives. Becoming aware of what is happening within us helps us understand how our thoughts, emotions, and presence influence the world around us.

Follow a path of infinite potential

Consider taking a family vacation in Ecuador

  • Two people riding horses along a mountain trail under a partly cloudy sky.

    Experience life with innocence and wonder

  • A person wearing a white helmet, sunglasses, purple jacket, black shorts, and riding a mountain bike on a dirt trail with a scenic view of mountains and a valley in the background.

    Exploring Joyful Activities

  • Observing patterns and sounds

  • dancing shadows

    Self-Love Dance

  • A person standing on rocks at the base of a tall waterfall with water cascading down a rocky cliff.

    Silence the thoughts

  • A display of fresh vegetables in a supermarket, including lettuce, spinach, bell peppers, zucchini, yellow squash, and other greens.

    Gratitude for the time it took to grow

  • Close-up of a person's hands tending to plants in a garden, with green foliage and soil visible.

    Nurture Thy Nature

  • Person exactly cleaning a stainless steel cup in a kitchen sink, wearing a green wristwatch, holding a blue sponge.

    Sensory Observation

Parent and Teen Voices

  • “As a reactive single parent, I learned a lot about myself and my son just by feeling into the moment without words. Asha supported both of us; my son started to understand his own reactions better, and I found myself blaming less and trusting more.”

    Daniel - Father

  • I learned how to talk to myself to find out why I’m irritated. The moment I understood what the feeling was trying to tell me, it dissolved on its own

    Lizzy -Age 16

  • I enjoy life a lot more that I use to, its kinds like a game I look for things I like instead of focusing on what I don't like

    Sarah-Age 15

Change begins with you

Let’s get started by discussing your biggest concerns.

We’re here to personally support you and help explore the right path for both parent and adolescent at this time. Fill out the form below, and you will hear back from me within 24 -48 hours to schedule a complimentary consultation.‍ ‍