Ayurvedic Postpartum Training

Learn how to support new mothers in the first 42 days after birth with Ayurveda and the wise woman tradition of healing and join a community of other Ayurvedic postpartum caregivers.

Through this in person, experiential training you will understand how to support mamas through pregnancy, birth and postpartum.

We will learn about abhyanga, womb massage, nourishing foods, herbal support, medicinal oils, ayurvedic postpartum rituals and practice bodywork therapies for postpartum healing.

Module 1 Ayurvedic Foundations and the 4 Pillars of Postpartum Healing

  • Foundations of Ayurveda and the Wise Woman Tradition. 

  • Agni (digestion), Ama (toxicity), Dhatus (bodily tissues), Doshas and Gunas (qualities)

  • Overview of the four pillars of postpartum healing

     

Module 2 Pre-Conception, Conception and Pregnancy 

  • Ayurveda's recommendations for preconception, including dietary and lifestyle practices to support fertility

  • Learn about what nourishes mamas and their growing baby throughout pregnancy and the role that the doshas play. 

  • pregnancy imbalances and how to treat them from an ayurvedic perspective, as well as specific things to do in each month of pregnancy to support baby’s nourishment and development. 

  • Ancient Ayurvedic rituals to support conscious conception 

Module 3 Ayurvedic Labor Support & Lactation 

  • Understand the doshas role during labor & birth

  • Ayurvedic approach to labor support 

  • Stanya vidyam- breastfeeding

  • Ayurvedic treatments for low milk supply 

  • Understand the root causes of imbalances in the postpartum time from an Ayurvedic perspective and how to balance them 

Module 4 Building Ojas and Tending Agni

  • Establishing healthy agni (digestive fire)

  • Ayurvedic postpartum nutrition & nourishment 

  • Learn how to prepare Ayurvedic herbal medicine for the postpartum time 

  • Learn about Rasayana for postpartum 

  • Understand the postpartum window as a portal of healing and how to support a sacred container for the postpartum family to thrive

Module 5 Bodywork Therapies 

  • Learn and practice hands-on therapies for postpartum healing

  • Practice Abhyanga oil treatment, use of oils, herbs, and traditional techniques

  • Abdominal womb massage

  • Marma therapy

Module 6 Ayurvedic Rituals & Somatic Practices for Postpartum 

  • Ayurvedic belly wrapping 

  • Learn the art of postpartum herbal bath rituals

  • Learn somatic practices to support nervous system regulation in the postpartum time

  • Postpartum pelvic steams, when and when not, and what herbs to use

  • Baby Abhyanga

What people are saying

I loved the post-partum Ayuredic training with Katia. Her teaching style honors Ayurvedic oral traditions as well as other ancestral and communal wisdom. Her classes feel like a real departure from the patriarchal, academic way of learning and instead the information is conveyed in a far more holistic and feminine way. 

Katia is also extremely knowledgeable in all things Ayurveda and she has an answer or line of thought for every question you could possibly pose. 

I left the training feeling like I had access to a new healing modality/philosophy to offer my clients and myself. I also left with an increased curiosity to learn more about Ayurveda in general. Also, the class on womb massage felt life changing in and of itself...I highly recommend!

-Katie Simpson

Being able to learn from Katia in her Ayurvedic Postpartum Care course was such an honor. She approaches teaching with so much love, respect, and care and it translates into classes that are engaging and inspiring. 

The course content was well paced, digestible, and highly applicable.

In addition to the actual material, Katia’s ability to hold a safe container for learning, growing, and exploring Ayurvedic care was invaluable. Her nurturing presence not only created a sense of community but allowed us to deeply immerse ourselves into these ancient teachings.

I am so inspired and excited to incorporate Katia’s teaching into my own life, as well as into the care I offer to new mamas. I can’t wait for more opportunities to deepen my Ayurvedic knowledge with this wise woman! -Clara Miller 

I have benefited so much from your Ayurvedic Postpartum Training! Learning how to nourish my body during my second pregnancy and understanding the tools needed to have a healing postpartum period has been a gift from the universe. Your humbling power and knowledge is inspiring. You have a wealth of knowledge and are able to present it in a way that’s approachable and fun, allowing one to be able to fully receive it in a way that makes sense and can be applied to their life; whether it be as a mama, expecting mama, or a birth worker. Thank you with all my heart for being the authentic woman and mama that you are. 

-Lauren Egavian

I had the honor of being a part of Katia’s Ayurvedic Postpartum Training. Throughout the course, Katia shared her deep wisdom knowledge, and passion for Ayurveda in the realm of preconception, conception, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. It was my first time learning about Ayurveda and I am beyond happy that I did. I gained so much rich information that I get to apply to my own health journey, as well as with current and future birth/postpartum clients. It was just the postpartum course that I had been craving ever since I started working with new families.

I truly am so glad I took the course. I would be really excited for your next offering! 

-Chloe Pena

Katia’s Ayurvedic postpartum training was a beautiful transformative experience, consisting of the sharing of deep knowledge, heartfelt emotion, personal narratives, and lighthearted laughter. Every class sparked so much new curiosity and revelation, and Katia’s knowledge and teaching was such a gift to be received. Moving forward I’m so inspired to continue my journey of learning from Katia, and feel empowered to put to practice the work that was so lovingly and intentionally demonstrated. 

-Aleah Rosaria

Who is this for?

For birthworkers, mamas, doulas, Ayurvedic counselors or practitioners, and anyone preparing for their own experience of bringing a baby into the world or wanting to learn how to nourish and support families in the sacred postpartum time with Ayurveda.


Why Ayurveda for the postpartum time?

Ayurveda is an ancient holistic medical system that originated in India over 5,000 years ago. Like any medical system, it has a clear, documented way of understanding the body, both physically and psychologically. Known as the science of life, ayurveda teaches that the elements that exist in nature, also exist in us, and play an important role in maintaining the health of our bodies and minds. Ayurveda offers a profound approach to tending postpartum, full of ancient wisdom and love.

The postpartum wisdom of how to support mamas and new families has been forgotten, in our modern culture the word postpartum is synonymous with postpartum depression and many of the disorders that arise are actually a symptom of lack of support and dishonoring of the motherbaby dyad. Ayurveda recognizes this postpartum is a time when the mothers health and physiology is as delicate as her newborn baby. With the right support, postpartum can be an incredibly healing time. The postpartum window requires a specific container of trust and nourishment to hold the newborn parents as they transform. Respecting and centering the motherbaby dyad opens up possibilities to heal generational trauma.

.After experiencing my own healing postpartum portal I am more passionate than ever about sharing the wisdom of how to tend and support this incredibly sacred, vulnerable, challenging, intense and miraculous time.

The health of this world begins with nourished mothers and thriving families.
As we tend to the postpartum portal,
the entire web is strengthened

Email me to get on the waitlist for the next class, or to receive 1:1 Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula mentorship!