11/20/2025
Closing of a 2 year postpartum care season 🌀
I moved back to the desert in 2023 to start a new journey as an Ayurvedic postpartum doula in my hometown after living in my birth country Aotearoa New Zealand for 7 years. I moved home to find more groundings as a mother with more family support while I dove head first into my goals & visions.
The desert served me, it also tested & burned me beyond measures. The extreme heat is so difficult for me, my car caught on fire from it, and burned my postpartum care belongings, my massage table, etc. It reminded me of the lessons of Agni, the power of Agni, the fire god. Fire requires transformation & purification, and reveals what can no longer stay.
I arrived praying that my work would be received with openness, and I leave overflowing with gratitude. The way this 2 year season unfolded allowed me so serve so many mothers. Mothers I grew up around, mothers who poured so much trust into me, mothers sharing word of mouth about this body of work, and getting to meet many magical humans along the way. Mothers & fathers that will be my soul family for life.
To all of the mothers, the fathers, the sisters, the babies, the daughters, the sons, who welcomed me into their homes with open arms, to feed, tend, witness, celebrate, ground and serve these homes… thank you thank you thank you.
In this city I found my feet, I found my way of speaking my truth and most importantly, I discovered that there is not a single mother who doesn’t need unconditional devotion after birth.
I birthed a school here, a school built on devotion, reciprocity & service to mothers. In service to the Great Mother.
You’ll find me and my daughter now dancing closer to water in Northern California, and returning to Aotearoa each year.
Bless this life. Thank you to the wisdom of the heat and the desert, I’m so ready for a lunar chapter now, a slower pace, and a deeper presence in my heart to dharma.
Jai Devi maa
My heart is so, so full
