About Katia

Clinical Ayurvedic Practitioner specializing in Women’s health 

Ceremonialist | Woman’s Circle Facilitator | Birth Consultant & Childbirth Educator | Bodyworker

Herbalist | Womb Continuum Practitioner | Birth & Postpartum Doula | Mother 

Katia Winter founder of Womb Ways

Katia is a Clinical Ayurvedic Practitioner specializing in Streeroga and Prasooti Tantra (Women’s Health and Maternal Care). She supports her clients through one-on-one womb healing, preconception, pregnancy, birth, postpartum & beyond. She also offers mentorship and training for birth workers, women’s circles, ceremonial support through the childbearing continuum, and womb rites of passage.

Katia is a childbirth educator, herbalist, birth worker, Ayurvedic postpartum specialist, bodyworker and ceremonialst. She works holistically, with an emphasis on emotional healing, womb healing, somatics and the nervous system. She spent many years working in the field of birth & postpartum as an ayurvedic practitioner and doula. After becoming a mother, she is more passionate and inspired than ever to share about how the wisdom of Ayurveda can support families from preconception through postpartum.

She has had the opportunity to travel and study in India, and has studied with teachers such as Dr. Vasant Lad, Dr. Sarita Shresta Ayurvedic Midwife and OB/GYN, and Dr. Rucha Kelkar. She spent 4 years at the Mount Madonna Institute studying in the Ayurvedic Practitioner program, and worked and trained under master Ayurvedic doctors and Panchakarma specialists, where she learned and practiced in depth traditional Ayurvedic bodywork. She then went on to deepen her knowledge in Ayurvedic women’s health, completing a masters level internship in Ayurvedic Obstetrics with Dr. Amrutha Athale. 

She practices with gratitude to her teachers, reverence for this ancient wisdom and devotion to the wombs and mothers of this world.

Certifications,Trainings and Qualifications

  • Somatic Trauma Therapy Training for Professionals; Manuela Mischke-Reeds

  • Masters Immersion in Ayurvedic Obstetrics; Amrita Athale

  • Integrative Pelvic Therapy Mentorship & Certification; DR. Kathryn Kloos

  • Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner; Mt. Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda

  • Certified Ayurvedic Health Counselor; Mt. Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda

  • Somatic Pre and Perinatal Psychology Course 

  • Certified Birth Doula; The Matrona

  • Certified Postpartum Doula

  • Postpartum Abdominal Massage & Belly Binding Course; La Matriz

  • Holistic Childbirth Education; The Matrona

  • Panchakarma Internship at Living Ayurveda 

  • Panchakarma Therapist at Ayurvedic Healing 

  • Ayurvedic Bodywork intensive; MMI 

  • Assistant Teacher for Ayurvedic Bodywork Classes at MMI

  • Assistant Teacher for Ayurvedic Health Counselor Class at MMI

I honor and acknowledge that many of the practices and modalities I offer are rooted in ancient and sacred cultures. It is with deep reverence that I share these modalities, and with Immense gratitude to the Nepali and Indian teachers who have lovingly passed down their wisdom. May these practices and traditions continue to flourish, and may they nourish, empower and heal the wombs and mothers of this world.