Maya is a wife, mother, herbalist, classical homeopath, organic farmer and educator practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area. She studied herbal medicine at the California School of Herbal Studies in Northern California, completed four years of homeopathic medical school at the Institute of Classical Homeopathy in San Francisco, studied Afro Botany through the NCB School of Herbalism & Holistic Health as well as studies traditional Caribbean medicine in Portland, Jamaica.

Maya has been studying, practicing and making herbal medicine her whole life and brings to her practice an innate sensitivity, empathy and powerful intuition towards her clients. Some of her hobbies include organic gardening, animal husbandry, foraging for wild food, fermenting and canning, making herbal medicine, cheese making, and dying with plants. She currently spends most of her time making and selling her hand-crafted herbal medicine and cultivating her organic farm in El Sobrante where she lives with her husband and sons, chickens, bees, sheep and farm dogs.

Maya is also the founder and director of the Soul Flower Farm School of Earth Medicine for Herbal Studies and Permaculture Design and is currently most passionate about offering her seasonal Devas Daughters POC herbal apprenticeship. You can listen to Maya’s podcast at Medicinecypher.com.