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I was born in central Mexico and have never been good at belonging to just one place. I’ve lived in Mexico City, Barcelona, San Francisco, Mendocino, Hawai’i, Montreal, Toronto, Rotterdam, Cannes and Lausanne, and I’m writing this from Puglia. My work follows the same wandering path: food, plants, music, water and the people who carry their traditions inside the modern world.

I’m drawn to what hides underneath things: who first fermented an ingredient, why a people eats what they eat, where a plant became medicine. For years I looked at all of it through a European lens. Returning to my Indigenous Mexican roots, including planting corn with my biodynamic teacher Michael and with Martin Prechtel, has been a slow and humbling reckoning, and it taught me what no book could.

I work in holistic care, drawing on Ayurveda and older, more elemental ways of understanding the body. I help women and children see themselves not as machines to be fixed but as living systems: rivers, really, that circulate, absorb, and can be depleted or restored. That is also why I care about clean beauty. What we use on our bodies eventually travels downstream, into our homes and our waters.

I care deeply about Indigenous rights and the return of bison to the land, and I make my home in the United States with the person I love.

Like any river, I am fed by many sources: the teachers, traditions and landscapes of Indigenous Mexico, India and the Mediterranean, and all the places in between, that have shaped my path.

Water is the oldest medicine and the first landscape. Everything I do begins there.

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Gratitude

With gratitude and full acknowledgment of those who have shaped my path over the past seven years: Nadine Artemis, Dra. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Bri. Maya Tiwari, Martin Prechtel, StarGazer Li, Dr. Vasant Lad, Dr. David Frawley, Dr. Vandana Shiva, Dr. Pratima Raichur, Guru Jagat, Tara Brach, Mar Sierra, Dhruva, Joshua Schrei, Hugo Durán, Michael Pollan, Sandor Katz, Pau Ustaran, Azaea, Martha Soffer and DeAnna Batdorff.

Thank you to each of you for shaping my research, refining my devotion, and deepening my personal and spiritual development.

With deep respect and gratitude to the traditions of India, which I have had the honor of experiencing through her ragas, her literature, her spices, and deities like Hanuman and Saraswati, and through my travels across that beautiful land.

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Formal Education (Forever a student)

  • 300 hr Ayurvedic Clinical Foundations Course + 50 hrs of Pancha Karma and Bodywork Techniques with 100 hours of in-person internships at the Lymphatic Community Clinic and Pancha Karma Practicums in Occidental, CA with DeAnna Batdorff, 2025

  • Modern Ayurveda for everyday life by Martha Soffer from Surya Spa, 2025

  • Yogic Beauty, Rama Yoga Institute, 2025

  • Clinical Aromatherapy with DeAnna Batdorff and Alice Encinas Duvernell, 2025

  • Botanical Skin Care and Business Herbal Course at The Herbal Academy, 2023 - 2024

  • Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Course with Tara Brach 2023

  • 760 hrs Integrative Nutrition and Holistic Health Coach at IIN 2020

  • Food & Beverage Management with an emphasis in Food Journalism and Human Resource + Culinary Arts at George Brown College

    With broad experience in leadership roles in avant culinary projects like: Forno Cultura + Bottega Sartoria, Cicatriz Cafe & Garden de Walo directly under Micaela Miguel + Jamileth de Melo, then GM at Pujol.

    to managing Yolitia Wellness Holisitic Center in Malinalco and transforming the kitchen to a medicinal ayurvedic kitchen.

    here in the United States working as a farm hand at The apple Farm with the founders of The French Laundry and the Mango Farm in Kelakekua Bay to Education Coordinator at dhyana Essentials taking lymphatic education through the Areola Tent at Spirit Weavers, Anima Mundi , Oshala Farm and the Northern California Herbal Woman Symposium taking this in person work and magic to more than 1000 people this year alone.

    I am an affiliate partner with Seed and Living Libations, two educational platforms that advocate for Botanical Beauty and Human Health. I am also very passionate about the work of the Weston A. Price Foundation and Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon Morell, which is the backbone of my health practice and philosophy.

    Visit my portafolio for short reflections on beauty, health, nature, Ayurveda, architecture, food, women, mythology, and the ways humans have designed the world.

    For collaborations, please email me at eka.maatai@gmail.com or DM me on Instagram at @majosanva.

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