About Me
For the last decade, I've been involved in the world of spirituality and self-development. I've been a student of many modalities during this time, including massage, yoga, feminine mysteries, somatic embodiment, sacred sexuality, doula training, and psychotherapy.
After my daughter was born life became unrecognisable, so many things fell away. I felt lost, and alone, and dove into a deep depression. This is when the journey home to myself really began. I started working with a Jungian Analyst and I started to untangle so much pain from the years gone by. Through this process, I began to gain more clarity.
Motherhood became the ultimate awakening and death - motherhood is the ultimate spiritual practice. Fast forward to having my second daughter, immense clarity came to me.
I credit both my children for bringing me to the place I am. My first for changing the landscape of my life, the second for planting the seeds that are now growing into my work in the world.
I believe mothers are the future, and I believe we are forgotten in many ways in our modern society.
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 which were not present or conscious previously.
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.