Asyia has always been larger than life. Growing up in her family's Chinese
Restaurant in New York, she learned how presentation makes all the
difference. Her father was a local celebrity and threw elaborate Chinese
New Years and New Years parties as well as weekly Karaoke nights to a
packed house.

Always attracted to anything creating a commotion, she heard that people
were sword fighting and quickly joined up. Society for Creative
Anachronisms (SCA) introduced her to more than dueling rapiers, it was
through their events that she discovered her true passions: Belly Dance and
Poi.

Upon graduating college with a degree in Communications and Media, Asyia
set out to London. Eager to learn more belly dance, she enrolled in classes
from the internationally known Josephine Wise, Director of JWAAD
(Josephine Wise Academy of the Art of Dance). Watching dance, theater,
buskers and other street performers were her favorite activities.
After living in London and back packing around Europe and China, she returned
home and studied with a variety of instructors. New York was cold and it
snowed too much, so Asyia moved to the land of sun and beaches, Florida!

In Florida, she continued taking dance classes with Na'ila and performed in her troupe, The Belly dance and Hula Connection, as well as performing in Restaurants. She took teacher certification from Tamalyn Dallal. Asyia started teaching a beginner belly dance class, which was so successful that the class advanced into a mixed level ongoing belly dance class and a separate class for absolute beginners.

To improve the knowledge and understanding of Mid Eastern music to her students, she started holding drum circles to teach the rhythms used in belly dance.

Asyia took advantage of the location of Naples to visit Miami, weekly, to study under belly dance greats: Bozenka, Marilyn & Ansuya. She has completed Teacher Training with Tamalyn Dallal, Intensive Training with Bozenka and holds an Elite Certification from Ansuya. She had also worked as an Assistant at Ansuya Productions.