An Invitation To Remember The Old Ways

The postpartum window is a tender, transformative, and often underserved threshold.

It’s a time when a mother’s body is reweaving itself, her heart is wide open, and her spirit is integrating the immensity of birth.

This apprenticeship was created to help you learn how to truly tend that space.

The Botanical Postpartum Apprenticeship is a three-month journey into herbal postpartum care — rooted in Ayurveda, Western herbalism, ancestral wisdom, and your own lived relationship with plants.

You’ll work with herbs as allies, listening to the stories and energetics of each plant; and you’ll learn how to bring that medicine into the hands, hearts, and homes of postpartum mothers in a way that is grounded, ethical, and deeply felt.

What You’ll Receive

This apprenticeship is a living, hands-on container during which you’ll learn how to practice postpartum herbal care with clarity and confidence.

By the end of the program, you’ll be able to offer professional herbal support for postpartum mothers, addressing physical recovery, emotional integration, and common post-birth challenges for both mother and baby.

You’ll leave with:

• A full postpartum apothecary of 10 herbal allies you know how to work deeply with

• Confidence in making + utilizing teas, oils, essences, tinctures, foods, rituals, and more

• A deeper, embodied understanding of plant energetics

• Real postpartum care skills you can bring into doula work, clinical practice, or your personal offerings

This program is based on Ayurveda, Western and elemental herbalism, and your own lineage. Each apprentice will also work with one ancestral plant and one local ally — bringing your personal heritage and local land into the heart of your practice.

✴︎ 21 Live Classes over Three Months

Classes are held in Zoom and move through alternating cycles of focused learning followed by hands on practice and medicine making.

Each cycle alternates teaching, demonstrations, and guided herbal work with time to make medicine and embody what you’re learning.

By the end of our three months, you will be able to—

• Confidently craft and apply herbal remedies for postpartum healing

• Design holistic postpartum care rooted in both Ayurvedic and Western herbal frameworks

• Deepen your intuitive relationship with plants

• Build a grounded, integrity-based herbal practice that grows through trust and word of mouth

Recordings will be available if you can’t attend live.

✴︎ Personal Mentorship & Supervision

Receive direct guidance from Sarva throughout the program during live sessions and inside our private community.

This support helps you—

• Refine your herbal formulas

• Receive feedback on your apothecary creations

• Integrate herbal work into your unique path as a doula or practitioner

Your questions, desires, and personal needs shape the apprenticeship.

✴︎ Herbal Education

Explore the medicine, mythology, energetics, and spirit of plants.

You’ll learn to—

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

• Work with flower essences and essential oils

• Understand how plants can support postpartum recovery physically, emotionally, and spiritually

You’ll gain technical skill and an embodied relationship with each herb.

✴︎ Apothecary Creation & Guidance

Build a postpartum apothecary of ten plant allies — chosen through intuition, resonance, and need.

You’ll graduate with:

• A complete postpartum herbal apothecary + development of your signature formulas

• Confidence in applying herbs for physical & emotional care

• Recipes and formulas from Sarva’s decade of postpartum practice

• A foundation for offering herbal support professionally

✴︎ Postpartum Wisdom through Ayurveda & Elemental Understanding

Study the postpartum window through classical Ayurvedic principles and elemental frameworks, learning how to—

• Restore prana, ojas, and vitality

• Read the energetic patterns of imbalance

• Craft care plans that support body, mind, and spirit

These teachings give you precision and clarity in your work with mothers.

✴︎ Flower Essence Immersion

Learn how to navigate the subtle realms of emotional and spiritual healing.

You’ll learn to—

• Create custom flower essence blends

• Support emotional processing and birth integration

• Work with essences for nervous system repair

✴︎ Guest Teachings with Joan Ngo of Dakeeni

NAMA-certified Ayurvedic practitioner Joan Ngo joins as guest teacher, sharing her beloved botanicals from Southeast Asia, Mexico, and Mesoamerica — with rituals, formulas, and embodied practice that expand the depth of your care.

✴︎ Ancestral & Local Plant Connection

You’ll work intimately with—

• One plant from your ancestral lineage

• One plant native to your current land

You’ll create—

• Two postpartum herbal blends inspired by these allies

• A rooted connection to your lineage and ecosystem

✴︎ Community & Reflection Space

Be held within a small, intimate circle of herbalists and birth workers.

You’ll find—

• Shared mentorship

• Accountability

• A place to grow your intuition, practice, and voice

✴︎ Certificate of Completion

Receive a Certificate of Completion detailing the total hours you’ve spent in live classes, mentorship, and hands-on herbal practice.

This program is Phase 1 of the three-part Botanical AyurDoula Certification Pathway—

• Phase 2: Botanical Postpartum Bodywork, arriving late Spring 2026

• Phase 3: Postpartum Cooking & Nourishment, coming Fall 2026

Each phase can be taken on its own, or completed together for the full Botanical AyurDoula certification.

Each cohort receives a unique combination of plant teachings based on the energy of the apprentices that join and the plants that feel called to be worked with.

We will be working with the following herbs in addition to others chosen uniquely for the Winter 2025 Cohort—

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

With Joan: Lotus, Copal, Marigold, Lemongrass, Kaffir Lime, and more.

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

Sarva Blackwell is an herbalist, bodyworker, Ayurvedic postpartum doula, and natural therapeutic specialist who has spent much of her life listening to plants and tending to babies & mothers.

Her work lives where earth medicine, nervous system care, and soul restoration meet — supporting those who feel called to remember the old, embodied ways of tending life.

She has spent over twenty years caring for newborns and families, thirteen years practicing with herbs, and the last decade serving as an Ayurvedic postpartum doula. Since 2019, she has led Inner Sun & Moon’s Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula Training, guiding hundreds of students in the art of slow, reverent postpartum care.

Sarva teaches from lived experience — from the plants she has apprenticed herself to, the mothers she has served, and the quiet wisdom gathered from years of walking with birth, postpartum, and the healing work in between.

Who This Is For

This apprenticeship is for anyone who feels a genuine call to bring plant medicine into postpartum care by building true relationship, skill, and confidence with herbs.

It’s designed for—

✴︎ Postpartum Doulas, Herbalists & Birthworkers

who want to deepen their practice with herbal care that supports the physical, emotional, and spiritual recovery of mothers after birth, as well as newborn care.

✴︎ Students & Graduates of Inner Sun & Moon

who want to continue their education through hands-on plant work, advanced formulation, and guided apprenticeship. (Alumni tuition options available.)

✴︎ Aspiring Birth Workers & New Herbalists

who feel the call to plant medicine or postpartum care and want grounded, foundational skills with real-time mentorship.

✴︎ Holistic Healing Practitioners

such as massage therapists, energy workers, somatic practitioners, or holistic nutritionists — anyone wishing to weave herbal and Ayurvedic wisdom into their offerings.

✴︎ Those Devoted to Remembering

who feel an ancestral or land-based pull toward certain plants and want to rebuild a living relationship with them in service to mothers and the threshold of postpartum healing.

This apprenticeship is a mentored, living container as opposed to a static course. It’s for those ready to develop embodied skill, confidence, and genuine connection in their work with postpartum mothers and plant medicine.

Deposit for The Botanical Postpartum Apprenticeship

$333

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

Session times will rotate to honor the time zones and availability of the apprentices in each cohort, and all sessions will be recorded for days you aren’t able to join us live.

The content of each session will be based on the needs of the apprentices — we’ll be following the pace and needs of the apprentices rather than a rigid, pre-set syllabus.

Guest teacher Joan’s schedule may vary slightly from what is listed below.

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
Includes 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

Final session times will be set once apprentice time zones are gathered.

Each class will be 1 - 2.5 hours.

All sessions are recorded and yours to keep.

Can’t wait to start walking the sacred path of the Botanical AyurDoula (herbal postpartum keeper) with you!

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