I'm thrilled to have you here with me!

Allow me to introduce myself; I am Naomi Amaya Love, a Medicine Woman, Ceremonialist, and Folk Herbalist.

As far as my ancestral roots trace back, they lead to Northwest Europe, Malta, and Haiti.

In the realm of numerology, I am a 9, and my astrological profile includes being a 5/1 Manifesting Generator, Hermit, and the Moon in tarot.

I'm a Gemini Sun, Libra Rising, and Virgo Moon in Western astrology, with a Leo moon in Vedic astrology.

My greatest joy comes from guiding you on transformative journeys, helping you reshape your relationship with both yourself and the world around you through the art of living life as ceremony.

My work is deeply rooted in earth-centered shamanism. With over three decades of experience as a community Medicine Woman, I've had the privilege of serving clients from around the world throughout the various stages of life, from preconception to the afterlife. My approach is holistic, addressing all aspects of your lived experience—the mind, body, and spirit.

Most days, you'll find me weaving offerings amidst the whispers of nature, delving into the enigmas of the universe, sharing sacred moments with flora and fauna, conjuring herbal elixirs, crafting culinary delights, reclining by the tranquil river's edge, singing to the ocean, or journeying through mystical realms.

It is both my privilege and honor to accompany you on the ever-unfolding spiral journey of life.

With Grace, Naomi Amaya Love

 Began with a Rose

Before I was born my father planted a rose bush in my honor. I was born Frank Breech at home on a Wednesday in May of 1977.

I had a very unique childhood, I never felt a sense of home with anyone, or anywhere I lived. I didn’t experience the gift some children have of stability or consistency, but what was always there for me was nature. I have very few memories of my youth but the ones I do have are of me playing in nature.

I found refuge with the trees, the plant friends, and the animals.

When I was nine years old I met this magical dwarf-like troll fellow who became my dear friend. He gave me a gift I hadn’t yet experienced, he saw me.

He bought me art supplies and would take me to museums and book stores, letting me choose any books I wanted, so then began my studies…

Of course, I chose all the witchy books on spells, herbal magic, and massage therapy.

As I continued to grow up, my love and affinity for the natural world only grew stronger.

In 1994 I had dropped out of high school, was on my own scraping buy until I saved up enough to purchase a cute yellow VW bus.

My love at the time and I traveled in it for six months exploring the west coast, cold plunging in the glacier lakes and rivers and frolicking through forests. It was the best…

When I came home from that epic adventure I began working at the vegetarian market where I met Brigitte Mars.

Brigitte became my first in-person herbal medicine teacher. She is an elder of Western herbalism, an author, and a magical fairy grandmother.

Studying with her inspired me in every way. I felt right at home learning about herbal remedies for all that ails you while sitting in her luxurious living room with thick soft green carpet and delicious herbal-infused foods to snack on.

While studying with her, I had a dream I went to India to meet the blue god. So I began saving for this epic adventure. At six dollars an hour, it took me some time to gather up the savings to make my trek across the globe into the unknown.

I finally saved enough money and made my way to India. I put what I learned from herbal medicine into practice while traveling and living throughout the country for six months. I didn't have any shots and brought my own herbal medicine first aid kit to keep me from getting sick.

During my time in India, I pilgrimaged to many of the sites where the Buddha had traveled to share his teachings. I sat for a six-week silent retreat where I received the transmissions of Medicine Buddha.

To complete the silent retreat we did an all-night full moon meditation under the Bodhi Tree where Buddha attained enlightenment.

At dawn, I placed my forehead to the trunk of this Sacred tree, and a leaf fell to my feet. I felt connected and blessed to have such a beautiful relationship with nature, and this was my sign that the feeling was mutual.

While in India, I began my studies in Ayurvedic medicine learning from the masters. I found myself volunteering in a clinic where I helped administer healing treatments for children with polio to help relieve their pain and suffering.

Having identified so much with my struggles as a child with trauma and abuse, I was deeply touched by seeing these children still smiling and being in their joy despite all the pain they were in.

This trip taught me so much. One of the core teachings was that although I had struggled and been through many hardships, it didn’t have to define me. I could still celebrate the magic and live life in gratitude.

While in India, I also had the honor of working with a seventh-generation Reiki Master and receiving my initiation as a Level Three Reiki Master. This initiation was powerful for me, I felt his work deeply, and for that, I was again, grateful.

My trip to India forever changed me, it was deeply challenging and totally magical.

Two opposing truths can live simultaneously.

When I returned to the States, I landed in Oregon where I began my apprenticeship at the Herb Pharm in Williams.

Living in community, apprenticing with amazing practitioners of herbal medicine while learning more about the plants, permaculture farming, biodynamic farming, gardening, cultivation, and so much more.

The plants taught me how to tend to what they needed in order to thrive and how to be a true steward for the Earth. When my apprenticeship was over, I made a little tent home in the poison ivy forest and continued to work and play with the plants until I found another opportunity to work and live on a flower farm.

Each day I would wake up before the sun and wander into the gardens to harvest the flowers that were ready to be put into bouquets to then sell at the farmers market.

The people I lived with were homesteaders, so I learned how to brew beer, make soy milk, and eat from the land.

I was now ready to commit to attending herb school, so I returned to my hometown of Boulder, CO. I moved into a teepee where I lived for almost three years while I attended the Rocky Mountain Center for Botanical Studies.

I loved every moment of my three years at herb school studying flower essences, aromatherapy, folk herbalism, clinical herbalism, medicine making, shamanic healing, and spiritual uses of plants and so much more with Master Herbalists and Teachers from around the world. I graduated as a Certified Clinical Herbalist/Nutritionist.

Dancing around fires, singing with the plants, learning the clinical and folk application of herbal medicines, and making medicine with like-minded people brought me so much joy. To this day, some of my fondest memories are from this plant-infused time of life.

After graduating I was asked to become an Instructor which is when my teaching career began.

While attending herb school I was also apprenticing with Jyoti Wind, Shamanic Healer and Astrologer & Ann Drucker Earth-Centered Shamanic Healer.

Jyoti is a gem and truly an amazing spirit, and studying with her had a deep influence on me. Learning astrology gave me a deeper understanding of the general blueprint we each come into this world with, and how the plants and the cosmos affect our lives on a very intrinsic level.

Ann is a dynamic teacher and healer and has been a deep inspiration to my work in the world. I apprenticed with her for five years and later on continued to assist her shamanic herbal & Maya healing classes.

Learning about the unseen worlds, helping spirits, and the spiritual uses for plants from an earth-centered, wise-woman, Shamanic tradition, helped me understand the world as I had always experienced it.

Shamanism is the foundation of the work I offer in the world and was honestly how I began healing from all the traumas I had experienced.

When I was a teen I read the book, Sastun, My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer, by Rosita Arvigo. After reading that book I remember saying, I wish I could study with her. Years later, I had the opportunity to.

Ann was good friends with Rosita and inspired me to travel to Belize and immerse myself in the Maya tradition of Spiritual & Womb healing.

We learned the womb massage, sacred Maya rituals, ceremonies, and modalities that indigenous Maya healers had used for thousands of years.

I studied at Rosita’s school for years and became a teacher of her body of work. Over time, the infrastructure of the school no longer resonated and I resigned from the school.

I also had the opportunity to study with Miss Beatrice Waight and Miss Granny Hortense, from whom I continued to learn Maya Abdominal Massage and Spiritual Healing from the Maya tradition.

I traveled to Belize, Mexico, and Guatemala many times and was invited to bring groups down to study with Maya Shaman and Womb healer Miss Beatrice.

The Maya lineage was very close to my heart for years. I love and cherish my dear teachers. I will forever thank them and those who taught me these foundations and inspired me into this path.

While I was staying at Rosita’s home in Belize, I was sleeping in the Ixchel room. One night I had a dream that I moved to Hawaii to study bodywork.

I decided it was a dream worth bringing into reality, and a year later I moved to Maui, Hawaii having never been there before and knowing no one…

My intention when I moved to Hawaii was to attend a local massage school, but after being enrolled for a month I realized it wasn’t a match for me.

I decided to seek a more personally resonant experience and found an amazing woman to apprentice with, Shari Sunshine, an internationally respected Master Bodyworker and Healer.

She had created her own style of bodywork called Syntropy, a brilliant synthesis of all her years of hands-on healing experience, woven into an amazing, gentle style of bodywork.

As part of my apprenticeship, I joined Shari and a few other students on a pilgrimage to India. We spent months receiving intense transmissions from His Holiness and we had the chance to sit with the Dalai Lama’s oracle, his medicine man, his teacher, and also the Karmapa.

We made our way to the warmth of Southern India to study, rest, study, and experience Ayurvedic treatments.

The last part of our five-month journey led us to Bali, where Shari and I volunteered at Bumi Sehat clinic for a month assisting births and helping in any way that was needed. I truly loved being useful and learning from the amazing women there.

When I returned to Maui in late 2005, I had the chance to study with Hawaiian Kumu, Maka’ala Yates, during a three-week Hawaiian Lomi Lomi intensive. This became the foundation from which I shared sacred touch.

This intensive program helped deepen my relationship with the spirits and plant medicines of the islands. It was also where I received the transmission of Ho’oponopono, a forgiveness ritual that has profoundly influenced my own healing journey and been woven into my work. 

My first official employment as a licensed massage therapist was at the Four Seasons Resort on the island of Lanai, Hawaii.

I considered this time as clinical hours, like a residency, a place to gain valuable visceral experience. I had the opportunity to work with literally thousands of clients over the five years I was there.

In many ways, it was hard on my heart to work there, but the views of the Pacific Ocean, the rainbows, dolphins, and whales in the distance made it all worth it.

While living on Maui I studied Somatic Movement. Similar to Syntropy, this technique combines the Feldenkrais Method and the Alexander Technique to support the recalibration of the nervous system, brain, and muscle connections.

It does so through slow movements that work to bypass the sensory-motor cortex of the brain, thus reestablishing functional calibration and movement of the muscles. This work has influenced my hands-on healing and yoga teachings in a profound way and is a modality I weave into everything I do.

In 2009, I returned to India for the fourth time on a solo mission of daily meditation, panchakarma, intensive investigative self-inquiry, and personal growth.

I received daily treatments and studied with a seventh-generation Ayurvedic Doctor. This trip wasn’t easy on me, but as usual, I learned a lot.

I have extensively studied the art of cleansing and have tried many of the popular cleanses and detoxes. I have been leading cleansing programs for over fifteen years now. I offer Ritual Cleanses and invite the community to join in.

I left Maui in 2010 to expand my education bandwidth and landed in my sweet town of Boulder, Colorado. I was hungry for education after living on a small island for years and craved community and inspiration. While taking classes in the area, I was also managing my very FULL practice. 

I wanted to be of the greatest service to my community and thought I should learn all that I can… AND I am also a Gemini and get bored if I am always doing the same thing. 

My next step was to receive Certification as a Birth and Postpartum Doula. I already had experience with birth and working with the womb, so it was a natural fit to gain a deeper knowledge of birth work and caring for a postpartum family. I have attended thirty births in my career and have helped hundreds of folks through the fertility journey helping these beautiful women conceive through my womb work.

My dear teacher Paul Bergner invited me to take his last course in Clinical Nutrition from his school, North American Institute of Medical Herbalism. Because I had taken this course with him in Herb School and it changed my life, I was hoping I could once again be inspired into healthy eating and living while also meeting new friends in the community. I became a teacher for the school, teaching in the advanced and clinical programs.

I was also invited to join a few yoga teacher trainings, totaling over 1800 hours where I learned the yoga styles of Hatha, Hot Vinyasa, Anjali Restorative Yoga, and Bhava Vinyasa. 

I also studied Prenatal Yoga which helped me to know what specific poses would help my pregnant clients, enabling me to be of even more support through the duration of pregnancy.

In 2012 I decided to attend yet another program on Nutrition through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, making me a Certified Health Coach.

I LOVE helping clients navigate healthy eating and was also hoping it would inspire me in my own life as well.

I had many friends who attended the school and loved it. If you haven’t noticed already, I really like knowing the many different sides of something, and this gave me a little nudge into creating a more simplified way of working with nutrition.

In 2013 I attended level one and two CranioSacral Therapy with the Upledger Institute. I really wanted to receive cranial sacral therapy, so in my own Naomi-fashion, I just signed up for the training.

It seems that I am able to receive more profoundly when I understand the philosophy behind what is being offered. I am grateful to my amazing teachers and truly needed this training to hone my skills of listening through a softer touch.

I have also taken an Herbal Medicine Course for Women’s Health with Aviva Romm, Master Herbalist, Midwife, and MD.

In June of 2013, I wanted to receive lymphatic massage, so once again I attended a training in it.

The lymphatic system plays a huge role in our overall health, and I loved learning this modality and still implement this technique into my own self-care practices.

I also wanted to explore my love of Psychology more deeply but never was called to attend college and do so through the academic trajectory.

I was feeling a void in my practice working with people because so much came back to the emotions and the mind.

I felt that I needed more tangible skills in order to truly support people in clearing the blocks I kept witnessing in the way of eating well, receiving touch, or simply breathing.

In October of 2013, I attended an intensive seminar with John DeMartini, Human Behavioral Specialist. This work truly shifted things for me and became a foundational way I started to understand the world through the lenses of mental and emotional processing.

In September of 2014, I attended SomatoEmotional Release (Level Three Craniosacral) with the Upledger Institute. I find it helpful to keep studying to stay fresh and inspired and to receive reflections from other students.

Being a geek for food and cooking, I took a few Raw Food & Fermenting Preparation courses, as well as a Raw Food Nutrition Program. As a Nutritional Therapist and food educator I think it is important to be educated in the many philosophies and schools of thought so that I cannot insert an agenda onto my clients’ lives of what they should or shouldn’t do.

Rather I want to truly be able to see from a place of objectivity and deep listening. The more we are educated, the more we are able to truly listen and give the appropriate prescription.

In early 2015 I studied with Sandra Ingerman, a world-renowned Shamanic Practitioner.

In May of 2015, I attended a Hakomi workshop. A body-based psychotherapy technique that uses loving presence and somatic awareness to assist one in dropping into an inner awareness that supports deep and profound healing. I found this work to be a version of shamanic soul retrieval and wove it beautifully into my own personal healing journey and into my work.

That year I was studying with an amazing Energy Medicine Healer, Intuitive, Seer, and Psychic. This profoundly influenced my work, gave me an understanding into working with some of my own superpowers, and supported my ability to trust myself even more deeply.

I also studied with one of my favorite teachers and healers – David Crow, Founder and Creator of Floracopeia Essential Oil company.  The class was Medicine Plants and Spiritual Evolution. He is an amazing teacher who speaks my language and I love geeking out on all things plant-oriented with him.

In June 2015, I went to the Flower Essence Society’s Flower Essence Training in California. I LOVE flower essences and already was a certified practitioner, however, I love studying and playing with plants. This was an epic time spent in Nevada City,  playing with flowers and totally geeking out! I have made a lot of flower essences in my day and use them in my healing practice on a regular basis with profound results.

In late 2015 I was called to do a 9-month apprenticeship called The Path of the Universal Shaman + Advanced Intensive with Don Oscar Miro-Quesada. I felt drawn to him because he has a very special way of being in presence. He taught me more about indigenous shamanic healing from South America, and I found it inspiring and supporting, deepening my work both personally and professionally. 

In August of 2015, I completed my Ixchel priestess initiation with Ann Drucker.

Ixchel ceremonies are a beautiful experience for women to gather and connect with the divine feminine, promoting a deep connection to the earth and community. Together we honor Ixchel and prepare ourselves in specific ways to receive healing from her. I have had amazing insights during these ceremonies, as well as deep personal healing. 

Although I am an initiated priestess for Ixchel, it has manifested differently in how I work with the deities and goddesses.

Cacao called to me as a plant person, as someone who listens to the plants, and asked me to begin facilitating trainings on how to be in divine partnership with its medicine. This is why I share the Cacao Facilitator Initiation. It wasn’t my choice, it was a direct request from the plant spirit itself.

In 2015 I was called to immerse myself in sacred sexuality. Most of us have an uncomfortable relationship with our bodies and sexuality, and we haven’t had great role models or conditioning around beauty, sex, or arousal. I witnessed this as a deep fear of true intimacy and vulnerability, and this fear keeps us from authentically connecting with one another. 

So, I decided my theme for this year was connecting more intimately to the sensual aspect of the Divine Feminine & Sacred Sexuality. I attended a month-long teacher training in April of 2016 in Bali, with a specific focus on the Sacred Feminine and Tao Tantric Arts. 

This was both an amazing and challenging experience. How teachers hold the space is so important for this type of work, so I did have some struggles arise while in training. I am grateful for the transmission of what came into my bones, and am forever changed.

In September of 2016, I also did a training in Holistic Pelvic Care ™ with Tami Kent. This is an internal “massage” supporting the pelvic floor and womb health for womxn. I found the training to leave much to be desired, but it did introduce me to working internally with womxn. I only offer Holistic Pelvic Care in my Womb Healing & Yoni Activation Ceremonies.

The Bali trip was such a profound healing for me that I was invited to attend again as an assistant for the Tao Tantra training in Thailand. Although I had some struggles, I wanted to see if I could mend these places within myself that had been activated in Bali but hadn’t healed.

March of 2017 I went to Thailand for 8 weeks to assist the Tao Tantra course and offer healing sessions to the participants. It was pretty intense, to say the least. I was given the opportunity to heal some wounds, and to make some new ones! I say that because there is a great story I tell here to my students… But we shall save that for another time.

While in Thailand I went to The Sanctuary, to visit a dear friend Tantric goddess, Cacao Facilitator Daisy Kaye. She had invited me to assist with her Breath Medicine Workshop and Five Element Dance Cacao Ceremony.

It was SOOO amazing to co-teach with her and to have the chance to teach my own work while I was there too.

I returned to Maui in April of 2017, I was in the process of legally changing my name when I felt the distress of my ancestors around this process.

I felt I needed to have someone else hold space for me to explore working with them in a way I hadn’t explored before, so I did a training with Daniel Foor for learning about and working with the Ancestors and with Animism.

In 2018 I went on my first teaching tour, beginning in Nevada City after I attended a Kundalini Immersion with Jai Dev. I continued on throughout the USA, teaching and offering sessions. I loved this journey so much that I decided to do it again the following year.

In 2019 on my teaching tour, I traveled 8500 miles by car and 4704 miles by plane, worked over 600 hours with 180 clients, stayed in 38 places, and cared for 27 animals over the course of 9 months.

I have offered Ceremonies, sessions, and classes around the globe, including; England, Italy, Canada, Thailand, Bali, India, Sri Lanka, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and the USA.

Throughout my educational journey, I was also working with clients and teaching. I have worked with over 60,000 clients worldwide and trained over 150 practitioners.

Over the last few years, I have stepped away from taking classes to focus on my work and weaving all I have learned and embodied into my offerings.

In 2022, I received a call that a long-time client had died by suicide and had left me without consent in charge of tending to her afterlife both as a ceremonialist, but also as a co-executor

This began my death initiation apprenticeship. I cannot express the exhaustion that came with the level of chaos that was left behind, and I know she trusted me immensely to carry out her wishes.

Through this journey, I stepped into the final big imitation of my life related to my education and studies. I have studied preconception to postpartum. I learned the sacred ways to live life in divine partnership with the land, plant medicines, and foods to heal. I supported tens of thousands of clients around the world. I have tended to folks’ psychology, to their spirit. I have worked on and with folks of all ages and stages of life… But till now, I hadn’t really worked with death.

I felt like death was protecting me from it, until now. Now it is the obvious next step in my educational journey..

I facilitated ceremonies for her friends and chosen family. I navigated the ill will being sent by those she was estranged from. I gracefully navigated telling her death story as she desired me to share it. And tended to every aspect of her afterlife until it was complete. Until the chaos that was left was cleaned up.

I performed a closing postmortem ceremony over her frozen body. Not knowing what to expect and going into ceremony as I do, I went and listened. I was guided through every aspect of what needed to happen. She and the wise ones showed me the way. And honestly, that ceremony was one of the most important ones I have ever performed. It dissolved pain bodies and attachments to the struggle from her life here, to uproot all that wasn’t well and send it into the heart of the divine mother of the universe.

Honestly, it was heartbreaking and beautiful. The process took all I had to carry out the tasks at hand. The afterlife became an entity of its own because there was so much that needed tending that I felt it engulfing me at times. It was through shamanic healing that I was able to remove this entity and continue to send her off to her ancestors to be guided home.

I will never say yes to that process again… but I am grateful for all I learned on the journey. This experience will forever inspire me to continue sharing my work.

Living Life As Ceremony changes the filter from which you live your life and weaves threads of intentionality into every action and choice you make - so when it’s time to leave this life, you can do so with grace.

It would be my honor to connect with you, and share this work with you, if it lights you up, please reach out.

With Grace, Naomi Love

 …  IN LOVING GRATITUDE & APPRECIATION …

I would like to give thanks and honor to all of my teachers, healers, and masters who have shared their medicine and gifts with me over my lifetime. 

I honor the Native American, Hawaiian, Hindu, Buddhist, Hoodoo, Maya, Tao, Zen, Celtic, Norse, and Druid lineages and teachings all of which have deeply influenced my work and life.

To the seen and unseen that have supported me along my journey, I thank you.

I give thanks to my Ascended Masters.. to the ones in the shadows… to the grandmothers and grandfathers, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, sons, daughters & lovers..  to the truth seekers, wisdom keepers, and stewards of the Earth…

I honor Mother Earth, Father Sky, Grandmother Moon,  the Four Directions, the Elementals, the Plant, Insect and Animal & Winged Kingdoms, the Primordial Mother…

I bow in reverence to you Mother Earth, Great Mystery, Great Spirit...

I dedicate this work in loving honor to the awakening and remembrance for all.

With Grace, Naomi Amaya Love