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A place to practice, learn, make medicine & return to the plants.
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Tea • Folk Herbalism • Meditation • Ritual • Community
San Francisco, CA
Upcoming Schedule
Upcoming Schedule
Practice With Us Each Week
Whether you are brand new to herbalism or well on your herbal path, we would love to have you join our plant lover community! We gather multiple times each week for tea mediations, plant spirit journeys and monthly for medicine making workshops in person and virtually! We have a beautiful list of guest teachers as well!
We are so excited you are here and cant wait to meet you!
Our mycelium network of plant relations
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Tea meditation, grounding, plant contemplation, gentle movement, reflection and rest.
Featured:
Rooted
Plant Communion
Steeped SF
Steeped Virtual
Sunday Softening
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Monthly Classes, workshops, gatherings, & guest teachers
Golden Gate Park Plant Walks
Folk Medicine Making — SF
Folk Medicine Making — Virtual
Energetic Herbalism
Seasonal workshops.
Meet your teacher
I am Amaya, a ceremonialist, folk herbalist, grief tender and postpartum doula
For the past 16 years, I have been in personal relationship with herbal practice, plants, land, and the ceremonial ways we accompany ourselves through change.
Over nearly a decade, that relationship has also shaped my work in community — through creating ritual herbal care, making medicine, teaching, facilitating gatherings, and tending the thresholds of grief, birth, loss, remembrance, and becoming.
My work has been shaped not only through study and service, but through lived practice and my own ongoing ceremonies of ancestral reclamation, relationship with the natural world, remembrance, and return.
I do not teach practices simply because I have learned about them from the outside. I share what I have lived with, practiced, studied, tended, and returned to again and again.
My approach is trauma-informed, spiritually grounded, and rooted in the understanding that wellbeing is relational. We exist in relationship with our bodies, our ancestors, our communities, the land, the plants, and the conditions that shape our lives.
Through Root Mother, I create spaces to slow down, learn, make medicine, drink tea, move, listen, create ritual, and deepen our relationship with the living world.
There is nothing here to perfect.
You do not have to arrive transformed, healed, or certain.
You are invited to come curious, to learn through your senses and your hands, to build practices you can return to in ordinary life, and to remember that care can also be joyful, communal, creative, and deeply alive.
꩜ Client Reviews ꩜
"Amaya holds an immensely powerful container during plant spirit sessions. These sessions transmit plant medicine to a degree I have not regularly witnessed. This is a true calling. I am beyond grateful to experience and receive her plant magic"
~ Hannah, Santa Cruz, CA "Amaya's close relationship to plant guides benefited me greatly during a time of pain and confusion. She was able to call on allies and intuit what was needed for each session, coaching me through what we were doing and why. This ranged but consistently incorporated the use of medicinal plants. Through this work I have gained a stronger connection with the plant guides around me every day and feel heard and supported both by Amaya and the outside world.
I highly recommend Amaya's services to anyone looking to learn more about themselves, their connection to our plant family, and how that connection can benefit your life greatly."
"I feel like the session has been infusing… first of all it was such a great eye opener with regards to how sensitive my nervous system is and how this has to be my main health focus (checking how my nerves are and softening back into relaxed mode). I've made the rose oil but haven't used it yet, it's been infusing and it took me some time to make. I'll be able to use it soon. I sourced gorgeous rose buds, and have been drinking the tea as well. Not every day but whenever I felt the need or calling. I also introduced some friends to the rose, we drank the tea together, it was their first time drinking rose tea and they found it really pleasing. One major thing that has happened since our session is that I launched my herbal business - I found the strength to reveal myself, put myself naked in front of all. I feel my boundaries have greatly strengthened. I don't feel as vulnerable as I did a few months ago when we had our session. I have the rose and yourself to thank for this."
~ Melissa, San Francisco 
Monthly Rhythms ꩜
Each month we gather to deepen our relationships to the plants and ourselves. Join us in person or from the comfort of your home. October dates announced soon!
꩜ Plant Identification Walk + Tea Meditation in Golden Gate Park
꩜ Folk Herbalism Medicine Making Classes online + in person
꩜ Plants & Energy Medicine Class
Ritual Apothecary Offerings
Mugwort • Frankincense • Copal • Angelica Root • Rose
A handcrafted botanical oil for anointing, ritual, prayer, and intentional moments of transition.
RootMother’s Signature Ritual Oil brings together four plants and resins long associated with ceremony, protection, purification, and spiritual practice. Mugwort invites intuition and dreamwork; frankincense and copal offer their ancient aromatic presence to prayer and sacred space; and angelica root has long been carried in folk traditions connected with protection, blessing, and spiritual fortification.
The botanicals are slowly infused into a rich blend of castor and sunflower oils, creating a deeply grounding preparation intended to help mark the threshold between the ordinary and the sacred.
Use the oil to anoint the hands, heart, feet, altar tools, candles, petitions, or other ritual objects. A few drops can also be worked between the palms before meditation, divination, ancestral practice, or personal ceremony.
Ritual Uses: anointing • protection • clearing • prayer • dreamwork • divination • threshold rituals • altar tending • candle dressing
How to Use
Apply a small amount intentionally to the body or ritual objects while naming your prayer, petition, or desired quality. This is a concentrated ritual preparation—a little goes a long way.
Ingredients: organic Sunflower oil, organic castor oil, wild harvested mugwort, ethically sourced frankincense, copal, organic angelica root.
$55
For external use only. Patch test before applying to skin. Avoid use during pregnancy. Keep away from eyes and sensitive areas. Botanical preparations are offered for ritual and cosmetic use and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent disease.
Won the Award for Best C B D Product in Santa Cruz County, 2021!
A 2 oz ceremonial botanical balm for tending the womb, honoring your cyclical nature, and returning to the wisdom held within your body.
Womb Communion is an invitation to slow down, place your hands upon your lower belly, and listen.
This rich botanical balm was created to accompany monthly cycles, bodily transitions, and moments when your womb is asking for greater tenderness and attention. Wild yam, cramp bark, mugwort, ginger, and turmeric are slowly infused into nourishing coconut oil alongside C B D
Each plant was selected for its traditional relationship with womb tending, warmth, cyclical care, and embodied ritual. Together, they create an earthy and deeply grounding anointing balm that encourages you to meet your body through touch, presence, and reverence.
Massage Womb Communion into the lower belly, womb space, hips, lower back, or sacrum as part of your monthly ritual. Pair it with a warm bath, journal practice, altar offering, meditation, or a few quiet moments beneath a blanket.
This balm does not ask your body to be different. It invites you to become more intimate with its rhythms, messages, seasons, and thresholds.
Each 2-ounce jar is ceremonially crafted in small batches with intention, prayer, and reverence for the plants.
Featured Botanicals
Wild Yam — Dioscorea villosa
A deeply rooted vine traditionally associated with feminine and cyclical plant practices.
Cramp Bark — Viburnum opulus
A beloved folk-herbal ally with a longstanding relationship to monthly body tending.
Mugwort — Artemisia vulgaris
A visionary plant traditionally connected with dreams, intuition, thresholds, and the mysteries of the womb.
Ginger — Zingiber officinale
A warming root that brings movement, fire, and vitality to this ritual blend.
Turmeric — Curcuma longa
A golden root associated with warmth, protection, and traditional body-care practices.
Broad-Spectrum C B D — C a n n a b I s s a t I v a L. ( 0 T H C )
Organic hemp-derived cannabidiol woven into the formula in honor of cannabis’s longstanding relationship with rest, ritual, body awareness, and transitional care.
Ritual Use
Warm a small amount between your fingertips. Massage slowly into the lower belly, hips, lower back, or sacrum. Breathe deeply and allow your hands to remain upon your body for several moments.
Use throughout the month or whenever you feel called to reconnect with your womb space.
For external use only. Patch test before use. Do not apply to broken or irritated skin. Consult a qualified healthcare professional before use if pregnant, breastfeeding, taking medication, or receiving medical care. Keep out of reach of children.
A set of four small cups of cascarilla, a traditional spiritual cleansing material made from finely powdered eggshell.
Cascarilla is used in Afro-Caribbean and diasporic spiritual traditions for cleansing, protection, blessing, and the marking of sacred space. Its white color is often associated with purity, peace, clarity, and spiritual protection.
Use cascarilla to support your own ritual practice by marking thresholds, doorways, altar spaces, ritual objects, or the body according to your tradition and practice. It may also be incorporated into cleansing baths, floor washes, or protective workings where appropriate.
The four-piece set makes it easy to keep cascarilla in multiple ritual spaces, share with someone in your household or community, or reserve individual cups for different ceremonial uses.
Includes: 4 small cascarilla cups
For ritual and external use only. Not for consumption.
The chakra of the third eye, the center of psychic power and higher intuition. Your true self will attract unlimited resources, power, and compassion to realize your destiny.
Essential Oils: Lavender, Fir, and Chamomile.
Reciprocity
At Root Mother, care is not something we believe should move in only one direction.
Every gathering we hold is made possible by relationship — with the plants that teach and nourish us, the land beneath our feet, the communities we practice alongside, and the generations of people whose knowledge and tending have made our own work possible.
Our Reciprocal Care model is one small way we practice giving something back.
For every ticket purchased to a Root Mother class or gathering,
$3 is returned outward in reciprocal care:
$1 supports tree planting and ecological restoration through One Tree Planted.
$1 supports the Ramaytush Ohlone Land Trust, honoring and supporting the Indigenous people whose ancestral homeland we gather upon in San Francisco.
$1 supports Ancestral Wellspring Collective and its work toward creating accessible, community-rooted spaces for healing, creativity, education, and cultural practice.
This practice is intentionally simple.
It is a reminder that our individual wellbeing cannot be separated from the wellbeing of the land, our communities, or the wider ecosystems we belong to.
When we gather to drink tea, learn from plants, make medicine, create ritual, or simply rest together, we also participate in a larger web of relationship.
To receive is also an invitation to give.
To gather is also an opportunity to tend.
To practice care for ourselves is to remember our responsibility to care for what holds us.