Dr. Yvonne Kason MD, MEd, CCFP, FCFP is the President and Co-Founder of Spiritual Awakenings International.  She is an internationally renowned medical expert on Spiritually Transformative Experiences (STEs) who has had multiple STEs herself, including 5 Near-Death Experiences (NDEs).  She is a retired family physician and transpersonal MD-psychotherapist, who previously taught at the University of Toronto.  Propelled by a powerful Near-Death Experience in a 1979 airplane crash, she began to research NDEs, and in 1990 she became the first Canadian medical doctor to specialize their medical practice in the research and counseling of patients with NDEs and other STEs.

Dr. Kason is the Past-President and a previous board member of IANDS, the International Association for Near-Death Studies.  She is the Co-Leader and Co-Founder of Toronto Awakenings Sharing Group, and a member of ACISTE, the American Center for the Integration of Spiritually Transformative Experiences. Dr. Kason was also a Co-Founder of the Kundalini Research Network, was the Canadian Coordinator of the Spiritual Emergence Network, and Co-Founder of the Spirituality in Health-Care Network.

Dr. Yvonne Kason currently lives in Toronto, Canada, and enjoys being a snowbird each winter in Encinitas, California.  Yvonne is on demand as a keynote speaker and as a media resource, and was recently interviewed (2020) on the Dr. Oz Show and on Coast to Coast.  She has five published books, her most recent is, Touched by the Light: Exploring Spiritually Transformative Experiences, (2019). https://www.amazon.ca/Touched-by-the-Light