"Maternal instinct is supreme and most indispensable for the growth and development of children."
​~ Bala Veda {Ayurvedic Pediatric Text}

Māyurveda {Mama Life Wisdom}
for Mama, Baby + the whole Fam!
Private Consultations + Online Client Resources + Shopping Lists and more
Consultations available in person and via phone or skype!
I’ve had the chance to work with Kaya, and can attest to her 'walking the talk' of yogic lifestyle, especially in a time period as important as creating a family. - Arianna Taboada, Maternal Health Specialist, Yoga Therapist
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For thousands of years, a specialized branch of Ayurveda has honored women's health as sacred. Ayurveda's profound and practical wisdom can imbue your pregnancy and children's future with great resilience and blessings! 

From the Ayurvedic perspective, the interface of our individual body-mind constitution + our life circumstances + our daily choices has a profound effect on our health and wellbeing from every cell, to every thought pattern. For Mama, this bares a particular responsibility as your cells become the food that feeds a new life!

The Vedic tradition is full of tales of the influence of mother constitution on the child.  Now, modern science is coming around with evidence of the truly intimate interconnectedness of even the brain cells of mother and child. Ayurveda has also had it's own language and practices for what is now known as "epigenetics", through it's emphasis on rejuvenative therapies during the postpartum period. 

Through our Māyurveda work together you can discover awe in both the complexity of your body as well as it's deep simplicity. Most importantly, you gain a framework to cultivate your own innate wisdom + trust in your ability to deeply take care of yourself and family. ~ Love, Kaya

Māyurveda consultations + online resources are designed according to your body-mind constitution, your stage of Mamahood. 

Preparing

If you are planning a pregnancy we prep you with personalized lifestyle, diet and awareness-based practices to align you with nature and prepare "the field" {your body, mind + reproductive organs} to open the doorway to a new being. 

Did you know you inherited your body-mind constitution from your parents, and that the constitution of your child is established in the moment of conception? How cool {and crazy!} is that? 

Pregnancy

If you are pregnant we work together through every stage to protect your health, energy levels, sleep, nutrition, and mental state while preparing your body, mind and spirit for a beautiful birth and a healthy and sacred postpartum time.  

Did you know that your individual body-mind constitution and the constitution of your baby influences the nature of your pregnancy, birth and postpartum?

Postpartum

Pregnancy and birth requires a great deal of fuel. Mama is naturally depleted during the postpartum time. Mother has given a great deal, and nature takes care of baby first. Mama needs a great deal of care and rejuvenation during the postpartum days. Your Māyurveda postpartum plan will be built around protecting you, rejuvenating you, nourishing you, and allowing for time and space for your transition into motherhood to be sacred + deeply supported. 

Of all of these stages, Āyurveda truly shines in it's gifts of mothering the mother during the postpartum period, now referred to by many proponents of Mama care as "the Fourth trimester. 

Petites

Gain skills that will clarify, enliven and protect your family's health, relationships and spiritual inclinations. A family-based consultation is amazing if you already have children and need some support + inspiration to better understand the different body-mind constitutions in your family for nature-aligned lifestyle, healthier eating {and digestion}, and freedom from the struggle of day-to-day doubt and decision making about health, wellness and food.

Your family is precious. Ayurveda is a means to deeper relationships within your household and of instilling in our children great self-understanding and choice-making skills. 

I create a personalized approach package that will work for your timeline, your individual needs, your family and whether you are local to me or at a distance. To get started, FILL OUT THIS FORM or contact me. Our approach can range from just one consultation all the way to monthly support.  I become part of your support team... a sister you can check in with {as much as you need!} and share all the the gory details when you need nature-based, tried + true wisdom that is based in your ever-deepening understanding of your body-mind constitution and how to nourish and support yourself and your growing family. 

Read about Kaya's postpartum experience

10 Free Postpartum Guidelines included!

Our sessions and your online support resources can include... 

  • Empowering understanding of your individual constitutional and how it effects your health, wellness, relationships, pregnancy and mothering style. 
  • Understanding of your family members' constitutions and how to navigate deeper relationships
  • SuperFood Recommendations for Your Constitution and Stage of Mamahood
  • Lists of Do's and Dont's for The Stages of Pregnancy {including superfoods, botanicals, and even shopping lists}
  • Lifestyle Self-care Therapies
  • Yoga Practices for Each Trimester
  • Monthly Check-ins throughout Pregnancy
  • Botanical + Aromatherapy recommendations for and your family
  • Birth preparation
  • An Ayurvedic Birth Plan + Postpartum Plan
  • Vedic Astrology and Hand Analysis for deeper self-understanding
  • Vedic Home Arrangement {Vāstu} for Improved Sleep, Relationships and Health
  • Seasonal recommendations for the whole family
  • TONS of resources ~ my favorite books, herbs, products, baby stuff, and support peeps. 

My Ayurvedic Pregnancy + Parenting


I was lucky to have been into yoga + ayurveda pre-pregnancy and to have studied with my dear teacher, a master of women's health and obstetrics in the Ayurveda tradition, Dr. Sarita Shreshtha of Nepal.  

My knowledge of yogic and Ayurvedic principles and practices {especially the postpartum regimen from Ayurveda} was an enormous boon for my pregnancy, birth, postpartum.

As a result, our toddler is very loving and empathetic, rarely sick {knock on wood!} and loves okra and lentils {don't believe me? check it out}. 

You can easily pick up the tools and teachings of Ayurveda + Yoga at any stage of a pregnancy, from planning to postpartum... the earlier the better, but it is never, ever to late to look to a longstanding tradition for assured guidance. 

During pregnancy and parenting our family has felt free from the modern socio-pressures we see in other parents. We feel an underlying foundation of support from a longstanding tradition, and free from the need to read every latest book, article and blog about the newest research or trends.

It is the same for the Mama's I have worked with through their conception, pregnancies and parenting.

We are soothed and guided when we consider... what would our ancestors do... how do long-standing cultures approach this... what is the tried and true wisdom... what is the timeless knowledge that has sustained humanity from mother to child, mother to child?

​As we cultivate knowledge of classical wisdom, and trust in our own innate inner wisdom, life becomes simple, and choices become natural. 

~ Love, Kaya
A few highlights {full bio here}
  • 2 Year Clinical Ayurveda Practitioner degree with Masters from India and Nepal
  • Ayurvedic Professional Practice since 2008 
  • Ayurveda for pregnancy, postpartum and women's health studies with Dr. Sarita Shrestha {Ayurvedic OB/Gyn}
  • Additional studies of natural labor and birth practices including Zen Birthing and Hypnobirthing with doulas and midwives during my pregnancy.
  • Direct pregnancy, natural birth, and parenting experience
  • Teaching Therapeutic Yoga for 14 years with approximately 2,000 hours Therapeutic Yoga Training {including Pregnancy Yoga training}
  • Master faculty for Therapeutic Pregnancy Yoga teacher training at SMC