An Invitation To Remember The Old Ways

The postpartum window is a threshold — sacred, profound, and too often overlooked.

It is a time of deep unfolding, of vulnerability and transformation, of reweaving the body, the heart, the spirit.

It is a time that calls for presence, for rest, for nourishment, for the nurturing care of plants and their ancient wisdom.

The Botanical Postpartum Apprenticeship is a three-month journey into becoming an herbal caregiver in this tender, sacred space.

Together, we will explore the art and spirit of herbal postpartum care — through Ayurveda, western herbalism and beyond; through elemental and energetic understanding; through medicine making, plant mythology, and the quiet language of plant spirits — weaving these threads into a grounded, holistic practice of support, healing, and integration.

Here, plants are not tools. They are allies — sentient companions who teach us the art of tending thresholds, of guiding new mothers through the post-birth rite of passage, helping them emerge into their next chapter with grace, strength, and embodied presence.

What You’ll Receive

This three-month apprenticeship is a living container that bridges the physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of postpartum care — guiding you into the ancient and evolving art of working with herbs to deeply support mothers in post-birth healing.

By the end of this program, you will be able to offer professional herbal support for postpartum mothers — tending to physical recovery, emotional reintegration, and common post-birth ailments for both mother and baby through botanical care.

You’ll graduate with your own handcrafted postpartum apothecary of ten herbs you know intimately — and the knowledge, confidence, and skill to weave them into teas, oils, tinctures, essences, foods, and rituals that nourish the whole being.

This apprenticeship draws from Ayurveda, Western herbalism, and elemental herbalism, while honoring your own lineage. Each apprentice will additionally journey with one ancestral herb and one local plant ally of their choice, learning to bring their personal ancestral wisdom into their postpartum apothecary.

✴︎ 21 Live Classes over Three Months

A rhythm of learning, practice, and integration. We meet over Zoom for 21 live sessions that combine teaching, demonstration, and mentorship, alternating with weeks of hands-on practice, medicine making, and fieldwork.

Each cycle invites you to learn, create, and embody — cultivating herbal skill, intuition, and confidence. Class times will rotate to meet the needs of apprentices across time zones, and all sessions will be recorded for flexible access.

By the end of our 3 months together you will:

• Confidently craft and apply herbal preparations to bring deep postpartum healing to your clients — expanding the quality, depth, and impact of your care

• Design holistic postpartum experiences rooted in both Ayurvedic and Western herbal traditions — setting yourself apart as a deeply knowledgeable and trusted practitioner

• Deepen your intuitive and relational understanding of plants as living allies — allowing your work to carry an authenticity and potency that clients can feel and remember

• Carry forward your own apothecary and body of work, rooted in integrity, reverence, and embodied practice — growing a magnetic, word-of-mouth-driven business that reflects your true essence

✴︎ Personal Mentorship & Supervision

Throughout the apprenticeship, you’ll receive direct mentorship and supervision from Sarva — both in our live group sessions and within our private online community space.

This guidance will help you:

• Refine your formulations and product development with expert eyes

• Receive personalized feedback on your apothecary creations

• Integrate herbal work into your unique path as a practitioner or doula — in ways that feel natural, ethical, and true to your medicine

This is where the apprenticeship becomes alive — shaped in real time by the needs, questions, and visions of those who join.

✴︎ Herbal Education from Seed to Spirit

Study the mythology, energetics, and medicine of plants from root to flower — exploring how they work through body, mind, and spirit.

You’ll learn how to:

• Craft tinctures, oils, decoctions, poultices, herbal foods, and MUCH more

• Work with flower essences and essential oils

• Attune to the spirit of each plant and understand how to prepare and offer it

You’ll gain not just technical skill, but a living relationship with the plant world — deepening the authenticity and depth of your care.

✴︎ Apothecary Creation & Guidance

Throughout the program, you’ll build your own postpartum apothecary — a collection of ten postpartum botanical allies chosen through intuition and resonance.

You’ll learn to make medicines with each in multiple forms and graduate with:

• A complete postpartum herbal apothecary of your own creations

• Confidence in applying your herbs to meet mothers’ physical, emotional, and energetic needs

• Recipes and formulations from Sarva’s personal postpartum practice developed over the past decade

• A foundation for offering your herbal care as part of your professional services or product line

✴︎ Postpartum Wisdom through Ayurveda & Elemental Understanding

Explore the sacred postpartum window through Ayurvedic and traditional frameworks — learning to recognize imbalance and tailor herbal support accordingly.

You’ll understand:

• How to restore prana, ojas, and vitality through plant-based care

• The elemental principles that guide postpartum healing

• How to design and deliver holistic care plans that nurture body, mind, and spirit — strengthening your ability to support clients with clarity and precision

✴︎ Flower Essence Immersion

Deepen into the subtle realms of plant consciousness and vibrational healing.

You’ll learn to:

• Create and apply custom flower essence blends to support emotional and spiritual integration after birth

• Help mothers process their birth experience with gentleness and depth

• Bring emotional healing and nervous system restoration into your herbal and postpartum care

✴︎ Guest Teachings with Joan Ngo of Dakeeni

NAMA-certified Ayurvedic practitioner Joan Ngo joins as guest teacher, sharing her wisdom in elemental postpartum foundations and her beloved botanicals from Southeast Asia and Mesoamerica — through formulas, rituals, and embodied practice that expand the cultural richness of your care.

✴︎ Ancestral & Local Plant Connection

You’ll journey with two special plant allies — one from your ancestral lineage and one native to your current land — learning to listen, commune, and translate their wisdom into your herbal care.

By the end, you will have created:

• Two postpartum herbal blends inspired by these plant allies

• A deepened relationship with the land and your own herbal lineage — grounding your work in authenticity and connection

✴︎ Community & Reflection Space

A warm, intimate circle of herbalists and birth workers gathered from around the world — a space for reflection, sharing, and integration.

You’ll find:

• Confidence through shared mentorship and collective learning

• Belonging and accountability as you grow your practice

• A supportive field where your intuition, herbal wisdom, and leadership can flourish — expanding the reach and resonance of your work

We will be sharing with you the postpartum-supportive botanical allies we have worked with most intimately — our formulas, preparation, and application.

Each cohort is meant to be a unique, living, breathing community of postpartum keepers — therefore, many of the plants we explore will be chosen in response to the energies and callings of those present.

But among them, you can expect to learn to work with —

Himalayan Cedar (Devadaru), Magnolia, Rose, Frankincense, Tulsi, Sea Moss & Seaweeds and many more (with Sarva).

Lotus, Copal, Marigold, Lemongrass, Kaffir Lime and many more (with Joan).

Each apprentice will also journey with one herb local to their land and one ancestral plant ally supportive of postpartum healing.

The rest of the plants we’ll work with will be revealed as the circle of apprentices is formed.

Sarva Blackwell is an herbalist, bodyworker, Ayurvedic postpartum doula, natural therapeutic specialist, and keeper of plant wisdom — a guide devoted to reawakening the sacred, living relationship between humans and the botanical world.

Her work lives at the intersection of earth medicine, nervous system attunement, and soul restoration, holding space for mothers, healers, and those who long to remember the art of tending both body and spirit.

For over two decades, she has been tending newborns and the families around them; for the last 13 years she has been walking with herbs and the intelligence of plants; and for the last 10 she has served as an Ayurvedic postpartum doula.

Since 2019, she has led Inner Sun & Moon’s Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula Training, guiding hundreds of students in the practice of attentive, sacred care.

Sarva brings the depth of her own lived practice, the devotion of her apprenticeship with plants, and the quiet authority of one who has walked deeply in service to the divinity of birth, postpartum, and the alchemy of healing.

Who This Is For

This apprenticeship is for those who feel called to bring the healing intelligence of plants into postpartum care — who want to move beyond following recipes into true relationship and skilled application of botanical medicine.

It is designed for:

✴︎ Postpartum Doulas, Herbalists & Birthkeepers
who are ready to deepen their practice and expand their professional toolkit with herbal care that supports the physical, emotional, and spiritual healing of mothers after birth.

✴︎ Students & Graduates of Inner Sun & Moon’s Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula Certification
who wish to continue their studies through hands-on plant work, advanced formulation, and embodied apprenticeship (alumni tuition options available).

✴︎ Aspiring Birth Workers & New Herbalists
who are newer to postpartum care or plant medicine but feel a clear call to this path — to learn foundational and practical herbal skills while being mentored in real-time.

✴︎ Practitioners of Holistic Healing
such as massage therapists, energy workers, or holistic nutritionists seeking to integrate herbal and Ayurvedic wisdom into their client work and postpartum offerings.

✴︎ Those Devoted to Remembering
who feel the whisper of ancestral or local plants calling them home — who wish to rebuild relationship with the green world and offer their medicine in service to mothers and the reweaving of life after transformation.

This is for you if you’re ready to walk a path of embodied learning, sacred service, and living connection — to yourself, your community, and the land that sustains you.

This apprenticeship is a living, mentored container rather than a fixed course — designed for those ready to develop real skill and confidence in supporting postpartum mothers with herbal medicine.

Deposit for The Botanical Postpartum Apprenticeship

$333

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December 2, 2025 — February 27, 2026
Online & Remote | Apprenticeship Circle

This apprenticeship unfolds in rhythm — a living, flowing journey of learning, practicing, and integrating.

Classes rotate to honor time zones and the unique presence of each cohort, and all sessions will be recorded so you can revisit the teachings.

Guest teacher Joan’s schedule may differ slightly from the outline below.

The content of each session will emerge from the needs of the group — we follow the living pulse of the apprentices, rather than a rigid pre-assigned syllabus.

Session 1 — Tuesday, December 2
Session 2 — Friday, December 5
Session 3 — Monday, December 8
Session 4 — Tuesday, December 9
Session 5 — Friday, December 12

Integration, Medicine-making, & Fieldwork Projects 1 — December 13–20

Winter Break — December 20–28

Session 6 — Monday, December 29
Session 7 — Tuesday, December 30

New Year Holiday — December 31–January 4

Session 8 — Monday, January 5
Session 9 — Tuesday, January 6
Session 10 — Friday, January 9

Integration, Medicine-making, & Fieldwork Projects 2 — January 10–22
Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday — January 19

Session 11 — Friday, January 23
Session 12 — Monday, January 26
Session 13 — Tuesday, January 27
Session 14 — Friday, January 30

Session 15 — Monday, February 2
Session 16 — Tuesday, February 3
Session 17 — Friday, February 6

Integration, Medicine-making, & Fieldwork Projects 3 — February 7–19

Session 18 — Friday, February 20
Session 19 — Monday, February 23
Session 20 — Tuesday, February 24
Session 21 — Friday, February 27

Official class times will be determined once we know the time zones of all apprentices.

Sessions will range from 1 to 2.5 hours in duration each.

All sessions are recorded & yours to revisit.