About Me
The journey truly began over a decade ago, when something awoke within me. It was a call to find something more meaningful in this life; there was no explanation; there was just life before, and life after.
I spent the next years learning, my journey started in the Dhammakaya Buddhist tradition, where I learnt meditation, and the teachings of this lineage of Buddhism. I began attending yoga classes, shamanic workshops, womb wisdom courses, and sacred sexuality teachings.
I travelled to Peru, experienced the power of plant medicines, and then returned months later to support a spiritual tour of sacred sites.
From there to the beaches of Goa to practice yoga. To Hawaii to embody womb wisdom…the whole landscape of my life began to change and shift, in all directions and in all ways.
There have been parts of this journey that didn’t unfold how one might expect, but they led to where I am now.
For all my teachers and guides, past and present, I am grateful for the blessings and lessons I have received.
I am a soul midwife, offering psychospiritual guidance to women as they navigate the sacred thresholds of motherhood.
I combine ancient wisdom traditions with a modern understanding of the motherhood experience to create containers where women reconnect with their inherent power.
After experiencing an emotionally tough pregnancy and birth, I felt so confused, much of the advice from people was “well, at least you’re both ok” and “now you just have to get on with it”.
In truth, none of the comments helped. They made me feel even more broken, more lost, more confused.
Now I am dedicated to ensuring no woman walks these threshold moments alone.
Birth is a portal, motherhood is a portal.
Where do we go when we are looking for a path forward?
A path that honours our spiritual nature, and the raw realities of motherhood as a deeply human experience.
My approach weaves together traditional talk therapy, somatic work, ancestral wisdom, and feminine spirituality, creating a unique pathway for women to reclaim their sovereignty as they navigate life's most profound transitions.
My own healing is ongoing, I am most definitely in the trenches with you, not above or beyond you, we do this work hand in hand, heart to heart and we build community, safety, and sisterhood as we traverse these seasons.
When not supporting women through soul midwifery, you'll find me outside enjoying nature with my children and husband at home in France, or snuggled up with a cup of Yorkshire Tea and a good book.
About Anima Maía
Birthing the new.
Anima (Latin) for soul,
Maía (Greek) for midwife/mother.
Who midwifes the mother?
The basis of my work is the response to this very question. After a mother is born, who midwives her? Who leads her through the journey of rediscovery?
Pregnancy and becoming a mother change us as women from the inside out. After babies are born, or if there is a loss, we can never go back to the person we were before. Once we have been pregnant (regardless of the outcome) we are forever marked, we are forever changed. This fact seems to be forgotten in our modern world.
While ancient ancestral wisdom holds a rich and empowering key to our transformation, we must birth new ways for the current times.
Moments of transition call us to birth new iterations of the self. Some may call this evolution, growth, healing, transformation, and any transition (a birth, death, new relationship, divorce, etc, etc, etc) asks us to birth the self in a way we weren't before, through our raw experience, we gain insight and depth that were not present or conscious previously.
Qualifications & Trainings
Existential Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (ongoing)
Innate Postpartum Training
MotherCircle Facilitator Training
Diploma in Counselling & Psychotherapy
Certificate in MindBody Therapy
RYT 200hr Yoga Training
RYT 200hr Yoga Training
Massage Diploma
Red Tent Facilitator Training
I believe the path forward requires us to birth the new, to do this we must honour the past, remain in the present moment, in reverence for the future. Before we lost connection to the land and community, we would go through rites of passage to initiate and support us through transitions. We had the support of initiated individuals around us who would usher us through such transitions.
In our modern world, we often miss these transitions and just "get on with it" as it's just a fact of life. Yet within the fabric of our beings, we can feel the desire for something more, something that runs through our veins and is stored in our cellular memory. We often deeply crave and yearn for some acknowledgment, ceremony, or ritual that supports us through a transitional process.
You can find that support here through a range of modalities, in a range of offerings, all to support your journey back to more of YOU.
Now I am not suggesting we give up all of who we were, but instead, how can we reckon with aspects of who we were, whilst we birth a new iteration of ourselves? There isn’t truly a simple answer, there is only inquiry, openness, desire, and forward motion.
Motherhood is the ultimate spiritual practice.
Mothers are the future.