Inner Sun & Moon is a sanctuary for sacred education and nature-rooted remembering.
It is a living container — shaped by cycles, nourished by devotion, and grounded in the ancient arts of Natural Therapeutics, Ayurveda, and alchemical self-care.
For over a decade, Inner Sun & Moon has served as a space for learning, healing, and soul-guided practice. It is especially known for its holistic trainings in postpartum care and subtle bodywork, offering teachings that honor the rhythm of the Earth and the wisdom of the body.
Now entering a new season, Inner Sun & Moon is evolving with gentleness and care — guided by beauty, slowness, and trust in what wants to emerge.
All that is offered here is rooted in reverence. May it serve your return to balance, soul, and sacred embodiment.
Meet Sarva
Sarah “Sarva” Blackwell is an artist of the sacred — a devotee of nature’s intelligence, a mother of many realms, and a vessel for beauty in its most healing, untamed forms. Her life’s work moves like water: sometimes a sanctuary, sometimes a current, always attuned to the deep pulse of Earth and spirit.
For twenty years, Sarva has tended the liminal — the first breaths of life, the soft ache of transformation, the quiet rituals that restore us to wholeness. Her offerings have emerged through seasons of birth work, herbal alchemy, temple life, and embodied motherhood. She is the co-founder of Inner Sun & Moon, a living archive of wisdom, care, and nature-rooted remembrance.
From 2019 to 2025, Sarva quietly led a globally respected Ayurvedic doula training called The Ayurvedic Doula — the first of its kind to root deeply in herbalism and ceremonial beauty, and to weave flower essences, ritual bathing, and Western plant allies into the sacred Ayurvedic postpartum arts as vital forms of nourishment and care. Rooted in devotion to her late teacher Ysha Oakes, this work honored a lineage interrupted too soon and gave it new ways to flower. Hundreds of initiates stepped through this portal, many of whom now carry the light of that training into their own communities, traditions, and ways of care.
Now, in a new cycle, Sarva is listening closely to that which wishes to bloom next.
She lives in the Pacific Northwest where forest, sea, and sky continue to guide her home.
Sarva Blackwell, co-founder of
Inner Sun & Moon
Follow Sarva on Instagram @ayurdoulaofthebotanic
Meet Madana
Max “Madana” Blackwell—also known as Madan the Alchemist—is a devoted student and teacher of Nature’s wisdom, with fifteen years experience in the healing arts. He began his journey with Reiki in 2010, becoming a Reiki Master by 2012, as well as graduating in 2013 from the New Mexico School of Natural Therapeutics. There he immersed himself in the philosophy and practice of Natural Therapeutics and Vitalism, then went on to complete all seven levels of Core Synchronism, deepening both his practical skill and philosophical understanding of subtle bodywork and the vital force.
Rooted in the traditions of Natural Therapeutics, Vitalism, and what he calls “Soul Science,” Madan’s work supports the reawakening of the body’s innate intelligence and a return to the rhythms and laws of Life. He believes true healing begins when we learn to relax and live in harmony with Nature—rather than in resistance to it.
Known for his warmth, clarity, and integrative presence, Madan weaves practical knowledge with spiritual depth, offering a bridge between ancient healing traditions and the modern seeker’s journey. He lives with his wife Sarva and their three young children in a home devoted to creativity, learning, and conscious living.
Madana Blackwell, co-founder of Inner Sun & Moon
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