Hona Om |Who we are
Hona Om is a sanctuary to return to yourself. Come as you are, to honor the rhythm of Nature and cycles of the cosmos. The path of remembrance is amplified by each of us.
Here, healing is a journey of reconnection. As we reconnect with our true essence, ou innate gifts naturally awaken. We learn to relate with ourselves and others in a healthy way, from wholeness and truth. Life shifts from survival to play, from seeking to co-creating, from effort to flow.
Rooted in ancient wisdom and lived experience, we weave practical with mystical — somatics, energy work, ancestral remembering, and sacred joy. We explore darkness and light, mind and heart, stillness and celebration.
This space invites you to gather, sing the inner heart song, and return to the intelligence of the heart. Your path is uniquely yours, yet we walk together, cultivating community, worthiness, openness, and wonder in all.
Come home to love. Reconvene with the Self. Life is filled with infinite exploration.
Together We Rise.
Hona Om Founder | Akasha Yi
Student, Teacher, Medicine Woman
Hello and welcome to Hona Om.
I am Akasha, born Brenda Wong, from Chinese parents who grew up in Myanmar, formerly Burma.
Life has been my greatest teacher…birth in each moment, death in each moment, to remember all is one. Through loss, illness, ancestral wounds, and deep transformation, I’ve discovered healing, growth, and co-creating as a devotional path.
Unraveling lifetimes of conditioning has revealed the subtle realms of energy alchemy and sensuality, connecting to Source, Mother Nature.
When I was young, I persistently sought answers to existential questions; namely, “What am I here for?” I craved direction, knowing my purpose, & to live feeling gratified, yet was floating in a dark, empty void for years. I was seemingly a happy-go-lucky child living a secret life in confusion, unaware of just how tormented I was.
I come from generations of medicine men and women who crossed lands through war and displacement. Sensitivity has become my compass and guiding light. In 2015, a vision made the choice clear: leave this body and begin again — or stay and change everything. I chose to live. To heal. To Listen.
My journey has carried me from small-town roots to jungles, mountains, temples, and silent forests — studying nature, consciousness, the nervous system, mind, and soul. What I share is what I continue to live: practices of meditation, energy work, breath, sound, somatic awareness, the Nature self, pattern recognition, and Vedic wisdom.
Where there is dis-ease there is the potential for growth and healing. The past decade has been devoted to being…in a state of love, and witness when that love state is contracted. All challenges become foundations and pillars to explore what gifts they invoke from within, revealing pathways to coming back to the self, coming back to love.
Debilitating low self-esteem, instability, chronic illness, and overwhelm have evolved into joyful purpose, fulfillment, connection, and cosmic play.
From a tiny town in Delaware to NYC & LA, I was guided to the coastlines and mountainous jungles of Costa Rica to the Himalayas of India and Nepal. I now reside in the mountain of Chirripó, Costa Rica, where I am surrounded by plush nature that reminds me each day of the abundance that lives within. I enjoy learning about and planting medicinal plants and food, singing, playing instruments, writing, and connecting with community.
The Dharmic path continues to unfold as playful ceremony. I am ever-grateful and humbled.
From my heart to yours. Thank you for being here on this precious Soul Journey.
— Akasha