Inner Sun & Moon is devoted to the preservation and transmission of ancient and nature-based healing modalities, the knowledge of how to tend the human body, through plants, natural therapeutics, and devotional practice.
Founded in 2013 by Sarva and Madana Blackwell, Inner Sun & Moon was built on a shared conviction that the ancient knowledge of how to tend the human body through plants, natural therapeutics, and devotional practice is worth protecting, practicing, and passing on. That this wisdom, if we stop teaching it, if we stop living it, will be lost.
For 15+ years, each of them has gone deep in their own lane. Sarva into the sacred threshold of motherhood and postpartum care, where The Rosewater School of Botanical Postpartum Care now lives. Madana into The Conscious Natural Lifestyle, Core Synchronism, and the philosophy of vitalism and soul science. Two branches of the same root.
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Sarva Blackwell, The Rosewater School
Sarah “Sarva” Blackwell is a postpartum doula, herbalist, bodyworker, and teacher with more than twenty years of practice in the care of newborns, mothers, and the thresholds of human life.
She came to postpartum care as someone who could see clearly what was missing. She had spent years caring for newborns and infants, had trained in bodywork, natural therapeutics, and herbalism, and kept looking for a place that brought all of that knowledge together, specifically for mothers, babies, and the postpartum threshold. That place didn't exist. So she has been building it.
Her path weaves together postpartum doula care, Ayurveda, herbalism, bodywork, flower essences, natural therapeutics, and motherhood — including the profound reorientation of raising a child with a rare genetic syndrome whose pace and gifts have asked her to unlearn everything she thought she knew about life. Each thread has deepened her understanding of what true nourishment actually requires.
She trained with Ysha Oakes, one of the foremost teachers of Ayurvedic postpartum care, and for 7 years stewarded The Ayurvedic Doula, a globally respected training that helped redefine postpartum care by weaving classical Ayurveda with Western herbalism, ritual bathing, flower essences, and beauty as medicine. Through that training, she certified hundreds of practitioners across the world who carry this lineage into the families they serve and the students they teach today.
Sarva is now birthing The Rosewater School of Botanical Postpartum Care — home to The Art of New Mother Care, her 18-month online Botanical Postpartum Doula Certification, and to in-person immersions offered in Portland, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. It is the evolution of her teachings, and the culmination of everything that brought her here.
She lives in the Pacific Northwest with Madana and their three children.
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Madana Blackwell, The Conscious Natural Lifestyle
Max “Madana” Blackwell is a teacher and practitioner of natural therapeutics, subtle bodywork, and what he calls soul science, the understanding that the laws governing nature govern us too, and that remembering this is itself a return to health.
His path began with Reiki in 2010 and deepened through formal training at the New Mexico School of Natural Therapeutics, where he immersed himself in the philosophy and practice of vitalism. He went on to study Core Synchronism, a subtle bodywork practice that works directly with the body's innate intelligence and vital force, and has spent more than sixteen years weaving these traditions into a coherent body of teaching he calls The Conscious Natural Lifestyle.
He is also a yurt builder, taught by his great uncle, an elder of the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Oregon. He carries that craft as both a practical skill and a living relationship with the land and the people who have tended it longest.
Madana is known for the clarity and warmth he brings to complex territory, making ancient frameworks feel immediately useful without stripping them of their depth. His work is for people who sense there is another way to live in this body, on this earth, and are ready to find it.
He lives in the Pacific Northwest with Sarva and their three children, in a home devoted to learning, craft, and the slow work of building something that lasts.
Together, Sarva & Madana are deepening their roots in the Pacific Northwest, cultivating the plants, the land, and the living knowledge that has always been at the heart of this work.