Dr. Yvonne Kason MD, MEd, CCFP, FCFP, is the President and co-founder of Spiritual Awakenings International. She is a retired family physician and transpersonal MD-psychotherapist previously on faculty at the University of Toronto. She is an internationally renowned medical expert on
Near-Death Experiences (NDEs), Kundalini Awakenings, and other Spiritually Transformative Experiences (STEs). Dr. Kason is the person who first coined the phrase “Spiritually Transformative Experiences” in 1994. She has had five Near-Death Experiences, two in her childhood and three in her adult life, as well as multiple STEs.
Dr. Kason has been a pioneer in the field of Spiritually Transformative Experiences for over 40 years. Propelled by her 1979 medevac plane crash NDE, she began to research spiritual experiences. In 1990, she became the first Canadian medical doctor to specialize her medical practice in the research and counseling of people with diverse types of STEs. In the 1990s, she co-founded the Kundalini Research Network (KRN), chaired the KRN Questionnaire Research Project, was Canadian Coordinator of the Spiritual Emergence Network, and founded the Spiritual Emergence Research and Referral Clinic. In 2000, she founded the Spirituality in Health-Care Network, and in 2002 chaired the University of Toronto’s first conference on Spirituality and Health-Care. Dr. Kason is the Past-President of IANDS, (2019-2020). In 2019, Dr. Kason also co-founded the Toronto Awakenings Sharing Group, (TASG), and continues to serve as TASG Group Leader. She co-founded and became President of Spiritual Awakenings international in 2020. Dr. Yvonne Kason has been recognized for her groundbreaking and pioneering STE work, including the coining of the term “Spiritually Transformative Experience”, as an Honoree on the Spiritual
Awakenings International Circle of Honor.
Dr. Yvonne Kason has six published books, her most recent, Soul Lessons From The Light; How Spiritually Transformative Experiences Changed My Life, (December, 2022), and Touched by the Light: Exploring Spiritually Transformative Experiences, (2019). Dr. Kason has been a keynote speaker at many conferences internationally, and has given hundreds of professional presentations and podcast interviews. Dr. Kason’s medevac plane-crash NDE has been re-enacted in 3 documentaries, and she has been an invited guest on many TV and radio talk shows,
including The Dr Oz Show (2020 and 2021), and Coast to Coast (2020).
Yvonne Kason lives in Toronto, Canada, and enjoys “snowbirding” during the winter months, in Encinitas, CA.
Websites:
www.dryvonnekason.com
www.spiritualawakeningsinternational.org
www.torontoawakenings.org