About Laura Dawn
LEADERS, ENTREPRENEURS, CREATIVES & VISIONARIES
WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM MY WORK
- If you resonate with the entrepreneurial, visionary or creative archetype (or aspire to)
- you have some big inner visions you’d like to anchor into reality to help contribute to a better planet;
- And you’re also interested in how psychedelics, sacred plant medicines or microdosing can be a a powerful tool for transformation, growth, healing and manifestation…
WHAT GUIDES MY WORK
ONE OF THE CENTRAL QUESTIONS THAT GUIDES MY WORK IS:
How can we mindfully and consciously leverage the power of psychedelics and sacred plant medicines so we can step into our creative power more fully, become more resilient in these times of rapid change and effectively anchor our inner visions into reality with a solution-oriented approach to solving some of the greatest challenges we face on the planet?
THIS IS WHAT REALLY STOKES MY FIRE
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Quantum physics
- Tibetan Buddhism and indigenous wisdom
- Evolutionary biology
- Peak performance/bio hacking
- Psychedelics & sacred plant medicines
- Microdosing
- Flow states
- Creativity
- Resilience
I SPEND THE MAJORITY OF MY TIME EXPLORING THE INTERSECTION OF THESE TOPICS...
Drawing upon these fields of study, I’ve created a unique Visionary framework (through my writing, online programs, as well as my AYA Visionary Retreats) to support you in radically expanding what you believe is possible to create with your life.
SHORT BIO SNAPSHOT
Author and international speaker, Laura Dawn has been leading transformational retreats for 10 years. After building a volcanic hot spring on the Big Island of Hawaii, she founded her new company AYA Visionary, offering a new retreat framework for exploring sacred plant medicines as powerful visionary tools for transformation and creative manifestation. She weaves together Eastern philosophy with the latest research in the fields of neuroscience, psychedelic studies and quantum physics to teach you how to become the visionary of your life, radically expand what you believe is possible and anchor your inner visions into reality.
A LITTLE BACKGROUND
- I built my first online brand to 1.5 million people on facebook that was solely focused on spreading positivity.
- I sold that brand to help fund a retreat center that my husband and I built from scratch. This project changed my life. We started with nothing but raw land and built a off-grid Volcanic Hot Spring Retreat Center we called Sacred Source Springs
- I’ve been leading transformational retreats for the better part of a decade.
- My last company was focused on health and wellness, helping people reconnect to the Earth and our natural food source.
- I’ve written two published books: one on food addiction and one for the Wiley brand; Mindful Eating for Dummies.
- After 5 years of pouring our lives into building our retreat center, the volcanic eruption forced us to evacuate and we chose to sell Sacred Source Springs.
- That year was what I consider one long dark night of the soul, and I received a crash course in grieving.
- It was a painful time but I knew had a purpose. With no more liability in the US, I choose to step out of the psychedelic closet in 2018 to share my story about how psychedelics changed my life, helping me heal from depression and addiction, and founded my new company AYA Visionary.
- The majority of my time is now dedicated to speaking, writing and teaching the Visionary framework I’ve developed (and continue to develop every day).
- I have been business coaching for company’s, entrepreneurs, online brands and businesses since I was about 20 years old.
- I now consult for aspiring retreat leaders, companies looking to step into the retreat space, retreat centers and visionaries looking to create retreat centers as a quarter-time focus.
Some other interesting and notable things about me:
- I was raised by two entrepreneurs and I’ve been an entrepreneur my entire life.
- I gave away everything I owned and left my hometown when I was in my early twenties with a backpack and never turned back.
- I had my first psychedelic journey with psilocybin when I was 15, which means I’ve been working with psychedelics for 21 years. I saw the healing potential for these medicines even as a teenager and intuitively started Microdosing about 2 decades ago when I went to school. Ayahuasca has been my primary plant teacher for a decade.
- Yes, I believe there is a time and place for safe, recreational use of psychedelics.