“The first 42 days after birth set the stage
for the next 42 years.”

-Ysha Oaks

The Sacred Window

The postpartum period is revered and respectfully tended in many cultures all over the world. According to Ayurveda, the 42 days following a birth are a pivotal time when a mother’s tissues and systems are fragile and malleable, creating an environment for deep reset and transformation.

When proper care is in place, the postpartum window can be a time of deep healing for the birther, restoring the body completely after the birth experience, and even transforming the body to be healthier than it was before pregnancy. If the support, nourishment quietude and container are not present, there is opportunity for more imbalance to occur, leading to greater health complications later in life. In this way, postpartum care can be seen as preventative health care, and is a vital part of the short and long term balance of the mother, as well as the entire ecosystem of the family and community. As Ysha Oaks, founder of The Sacred Window: Ayurveda for Pregnancy, Childbirth and Postpartum Care wisely says,
“The first 42 days after birth set the stage for her next 42 years.”

“What does it take to help the expanded winter melon-sized uterus return to its normal pear-like size? The dramatic changes in the body of a new mother have to be nurtured slowly back to its prenatal form. If the new mother does not take care during this time, the roots of various ailments will establish themselves and lay dormant in her body, surfacing in her middle age… Proper postnatal care, rest and diet will rebuild a more mature, yet beautiful, body for the new mother.” 

-NG Siong Mui, The Chinese Pregnancy & Confinement Cookbook

Benefits of Postpartum Care

  • Alleviate common postpartum complications for the birther including:

    ~postpartum depression, anxiety and mood disorders

    ~digestive issues

    ~hormonal imbalance

    ~lactation issues, blocked milk ducts or mastitis

    ~prolonged bleeding, perineum and bottom healing

    ~painful sexual intercourse

    ~family bonding issues

    ~and many more

  • Help to relieve common digestive, sleep and feeding issues for baby

  • Improve relationship dynamics with family and co-parenting partnerships

  • Extended and strengthened bonding between caretakers and baby

  • Emotional support and grounding

  • Stress reduction, knowing that family, home, birther and baby are well tended. Any questions or concerns that come up around health and care for mama and/or baby can be answered and solved quickly. Support is always at your back

  • Feeling more deeply relaxed, cared for and nourished, so that healing may happen more efficiently and easefully

  • Potential reversal and prevention of common ailments, setting the body and mind up for a future with fewer health complications and overall enhanced well-being

What is an ayurdoula?

An Ayurdoula is a postpartum and/or birth doula who is trained in Ayurvedic medicine (a 5,000-year-old medical system from India). Families hire an Ayurdoula to support a pregnancy, birth and/or give comprehensive care during the postpartum period. As a postpartum Ayurdoula, Sara offers nourishing and balanced food preparation, specialized postpartum massage for mother and baby, Ayurvedic consultation, herbal support, lactation counsel, light housework and baby care, and attuned emotional support and guidance for a new family in learning how to best care for mother and baby post birth.

TESTIMONIALS

  • “I worked with Sara for six weeks as my Ayurvedic postpartum doula, and her care was beyond anything I could have imagined. Twice a week, she arrived like a calm breeze—bringing abhyanga massage, an herbal bath, and the most gorgeous nourishing Ayurvedic meals, teas, chai, and desserts. But what she offers goes so far beyond the physical care. Sara brings a grounding, wise, deeply loving presence shaped by years of study, intuition, and craft. She carries a mission to give women the level of healing and restoration that is so often missing in postpartum care—but that she believes every woman deserves. She sees your needs before you do, holds your whole family in her care, and gently charts a path forward that helps you feel steady, resilient, and whole as a new mom. In a world that moves fast and too often overlooks the immense needs of postpartum women, Sara creates a sanctuary. Her support changed my experience of early motherhood in profound ways. I can’t recommend her highly enough, and I’m forever grateful for this chapter of care with her.”

    Kyle W.

  • “Sara intuitively and attentively created a safe container for me to experience the transition into motherhood, heal, and bond with my baby. She assessed my needs each morning through a mini-Ayurvedic consultation in order to create the flow and food for the day. I honestly have never felt so cared for and nourished in my life. From the abhyanga mother and baby massage instruction, herbal and emotional support, nourishing and dosha-balancing meals to the help tidying and overall easing of household stress, what was the most impactful and impressive was Sara’s ability to navigate and attend to my and my family’s needs and energy during such a vulnerable and intense time. Sara is an incredible person and healer.”

    Lexy A.

  • “Sara was a godsend! The day before we met with her, we had gone to a class on postpartum depression and were worried and overwhelmed about the possibility of it. At our first meeting, Sara talked to us about the power of ayurvedic foods and massage in preventing this and wow was that true. I felt nourished and pampered and remember laying in bed after an oil massage and bath, reveling in the luxury of it. Sara helped make my postpartum experience so different from how I imagined it would be. My body healed quickly, my digestion was great, my stress levels were low and my milk supply was abundant! She came several mornings a week and would start with a consult and check in, then make me some delicious food, do an oil massage and a bath with herbs then leave us with some lunch. She also taught our families how to take care of me in terms of food and really encouraged me to let people take care of me while we were taking care of our little one.”

    Rachel G.

The Packages

Ananda Mama

TWO visits per week for the first six weeks postpartum (can be adjusted for more or less weeks, as needed)

Each visit includes:

  • Daily Ayurvedic digestive + health assessment with consultation to determine where support is most needed (Mama’s health + healing, infant care, lactation, sleep, emotional, relational, home care, etc)

  • Nourishing and delicious Ayurvedic meals freshly prepared with organic and local ingredients, and catered to the specific constitutional and nutritional needs of the birther. These meals are designed and created to restore digestive capabilities and offer optimum healing and rejuvenation post birth (each meal service includes enough for two adults: lunch/dinner for 3 meals, breakfast for 2 meals, snacks/dessert, milk tonic and herbal teas for mama)

  • 90-minute warm herb-infused oil massage (abhyanga) for mother, specifically designed to calm the nervous system and support in post-birth healing

  • Massage instruction for baby

  • Mayan abdominal massage and womb care

  • Healing herbal baths (as well as sitz baths for bottom healing)

  • Belly binding for consistent abdominal healing

  • Lactation support, as well as support with bottle feeding and pumping

  • Herbal support

  • Newborn care education (including baby wearing, swaddling, bathing, sleeping, digestion, daily rhythms, etc.)

  • Additional housekeeping duties as needed (laundry, cleaning, etc.)

  • Meal train set up and support

  • Resource list for extra support from your local area, Postpartum preparation lists (including home prep, packing for the birth, and grocery/shopping lists) for feeling extra prepared for birth and postpartum

  • Each visit is 4-5 hours, and will leave mama relaxed, wrapped, served warm food with her family and tucked in well

Investment: $750/week

Extra products, herbal preparations and prenatal consultation visit NOT included
A travel fee will be added if outside Boulder, Longmont or Lyons

Devi Mama

ONE visit per week for the first six weeks postpartum (can be adjusted for more or less weeks, as needed)

Each visit includes:

  • Daily Ayurvedic digestive + health assessment with consultation to determine where support is most needed (Mama’s health + healing, infant care, lactation, sleep, emotional, relational, home care, etc)

  • Nourishing and delicious Ayurvedic meals freshly prepared with organic and local ingredients, and catered to the specific constitutional and nutritional needs of the birther. These meals are designed and created to restore digestive capabilities and offer optimum healing and rejuvenation post birth (each meal service includes enough for two adults: lunch/dinner for 3 meals, breakfast for 2 meals, snacks/dessert, milk tonic and herbal teas for mama)

  • 90-minute warm herb-infused oil massage (abhyanga) for mother, specifically designed to calm the nervous system and support in post-birth healing

  • Massage instruction for baby

  • Mayan abdominal massage and womb care

  • Healing herbal baths (as well as sitz baths for bottom healing)

  • Belly binding for consistent abdominal healing

  • Lactation support, as well as support with bottle feeding and pumping

  • Herbal support

  • Newborn care education (including baby wearing, swaddling, bathing, sleeping, digestion, daily rhythms, etc.)

  • Additional housekeeping duties as needed (laundry, cleaning, etc.)

  • Meal train set up and support

  • Resource list for extra support from your local area, Postpartum preparation lists (including home prep, packing for the birth, and grocery/shopping lists) for feeling extra prepared for birth and postpartum

  • Each visit is 4-5 hours, and will leave mama relaxed, wrapped, served warm food with her family and tucked in well

Investment: $380/week

Extra products, herbal preparations and prenatal consultation visit NOT included
A travel fee will be added if outside Boulder, Longmont or Lyons

Set up a free 30-minute discovery call with Sara

Shakti Mama

One day of Ayurvedic nourishment, massage, pampering + education.

This package is ideal if you have a lot of caretakers to support you, but the supporters need some guidance as to how they can best help you. Sara will come into your home and give you a full day of services, while guiding caretaker(s) and educating on the most beneficial and nourishing mama/baby care.
Recommended within the first three weeks postpartum.

This visit includes:

  • Full ayurvedic health and digestion assessment + helpful recommendations to keep you in balance during your sacred window

  • Nourishing and delicious Ayurvedic meals freshly prepared with organic and local ingredients, and catered to the specific constitutional and nutritional needs of the birther. These meals are designed and created to restore digestive capabilities and offer optimum healing and rejuvenation post birth (each meal service includes enough for two adults: lunch/dinner for 3 meals, breakfast for 2 meals, snacks/dessert, milk tonic and herbal teas for mama)

  • 90-minute warm herb-infused oil massage (abhyanga) for mother, specifically designed to calm the nervous system and support in post-birth healing. Massage instruction fro caregivers can be provided as well, if desired

  • Massage instruction for baby

  • Mayan abdominal massage and womb care

  • Healing herbal baths (as well as sitz baths for bottom healing)

  • Belly binding for consistent abdominal healing

  • Lactation support, as well as support with bottle feeding and pumping

  • Herbal support

  • Newborn care education (including baby wearing, swaddling, bathing, sleeping, digestion, daily rhythms, etc.)

  • Additional housekeeping duties as needed (laundry, cleaning, etc.)

  • Meal train set up and support

  • Resource list for extra support from your local area, Postpartum preparation lists (including home prep, packing for the birth, and grocery/shopping lists) for feeling extra prepared for birth and postpartum

  • Each visit is 4-5 hours, and will leave mama relaxed, wrapped, served warm food with her family and tucked in well

  • This package also includes a “Sacred Window Goodie Basket” with a lactation tea, postpartum chai, sitz bath herbs, digestive chewing mix, and organic ghee ($150 value!)

Investment: $500


A travel fee will be added if outside Boulder, Longmont or Lyons

Individual services available

  • Ayurvedic Postpartum Consultation, Assessment + Education Session (supply + grocery preparation lists, resource packet included)

  • Nourishing Restorative Postpartum meal delivery (For 2 adults: lunch/dinner for 3 meals, breakfast for 2 meals, snacks/dessert and milk tonic)

  • Abhyanga Massage (with or without instruction) for Birther and/or Baby: This traditional ayurvedic massage uses warm, herb-infused oil and combines light to medium pressure with methodical, rhythmic strokes. This treatment has an incredible ability to calm the mind and nervous system while deeply nourishing the tissues of the body.

  • Maya abdominal massage and belly bind ceremony

  • Herbal Support Goodie Basket: Includes lactation herbal tea, postpartum chai mix, herbal sitz bath, digestive support spiced chewing mix, and homemade ghee

    -Herbal products can be purchased individually as well.

Let's talk about how to create the most supportive postpartum for you

The Products

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Delicious medicines for new mamas. Can be purchased individually, or as a bundle in a beautiful basket. Now offering:

  • herbal lactation tea

  • postpartum chai mix

  • natural sitz bath

  • digestive spice mix

  • digestive post-meal herbal chewing mix

  • organic ghee

  • herbal medicated (panchakola) ghee

Contact for product inquiries and orders

In Ayurveda, Rasa is defined as the Mother of all bodily tissues; that which nourishes Herself first, then all others.
It is of great importance to serve and respect Rasa, for it is She that gives birth to all life.

*A note about inclusion of every body: While the terms “mother” and “mama” are used throughout this page in feminine reference, Sara serves all gender identifying bodies and sexual orientations. This is a discrimination-free business.