For Birthworkers, Doulas, Herbalists, Farmers, Natural Health Chefs, and Caregivers
Food, Nourishment, Rituals, Botanicals, Pleasure,
Rejuvenation, Digestion, Warmth, Ancestral Connection, Grief, Trauma-Informed Care
WHY Ancestral Post Partum Kitchen
At Marigolde, we believe that food is the ultimate love language. Cooking food for another is a sign of deep care, especially during vulnerable times such as illness or after birth.
The Postpartum Ancestral Kitchen Apprenticeship was created with birthworkers, doulas, herbalists, farmers, natural health chefs, and caregivers in mind. This apprenticeship will deepen and enhance the care you offer to your clients.
Rooted in Ayurvedic theory and traditional wisdom around postpartum care, we take a deep dive into our own ancestral foods and traditions, learning to customize recipes to any food culture in the world.
Here is what you can expect from the Postpartum Ancestral Kitchen Apprenticeship:
Weekly meetings exploring Immunity, Ojas, Nourishing the Bones, Hormonal Balance, Lactation, Grief, the Six Tastes, the Ancestral Cultural Blueprint, and Seasonal and Global Comfort Foods and more.
Expert talks on supporting digestion, building vitality with medicinal healing broths, stews, porridge, herbal teas, snacks, crafting your own medicinal, herbal ghee, puddings, herbal oils and food for rejuvenation
An online course portal which houses all the course material, lectures, and supplemental materials
A beautiful recipe guide filled with traditional postpartum meals
A workbook to help you understand and integrate the objectives of each module
Live cooking demos – Cook along with us!
Access to our private Ancestral Kitchen Facebook group
Mentorship calls where we can support you with content, exploring your ancestral foods, and dreaming up how you will implement what you learn in your own business.
Certificate upon completion of final project: a 5 day meal plan with food and herbal preparation for your potential client based on the principles taught in the course.
Ongoing support from the Marigolde team
Optional possibility to join a hands on retreat in Mallorca, Spain
What People Are Saying
“Although I am down to the wire with the content and project- it feels like the perfect time in my life to be creating these recipes. I have been processing so much complex family grief and have only been able to let go to a place where I now have space in my life in the last week or so. The opportunity to bring all this food medicine and healing to me and my partner and children as an offering for standing by me during this time is so special and adds a closure to the past twelve months that is so needed as a marking of time and growth. So I guess I hadn't thought of food as a processing tool for grief and transition- more to mark celebrations and this has given me the context of food as an embodiment and releasing of emotions- so grateful”
— Lia Pa'apa'a
I learned so much about principles of Ayurveda that could be applied using ingredients from my culture. I was able to immediately put these teachings into practice each week. I highly recommend this apprenticeship to new and seasoned birthworkers alike!
— marina Sáenz
This course has been vital in reflecting on my lineage and the way food is used as a supportive tool in the postpartum period. Roshni curated this course with her mom that was both informative and practical. She laid out all the information and then got us to reflect on what it is that I grew up/is in my lineage that is the equivalent to what we are talking about and how I could make it my own. I am very selective of who my teachers are and how the teaching is done and I am glad this course came into my purview because the teachings and the teachers were very informative and great guides to how to implement everything according to my ancestral teachings. They had reflection questions before and after the teachings that got us thinking about those ancestral teachings and how those knowledge can be applied to the knowledge being learnt. One thing that was very helpful was Roshni’s guide on how to take the information and really focus on my ancestral/lineage plants, herbs, spices and foods that would be supportive during the postpartum period. This course has prompted me to talk to elders and collect information that has led me to really approach my postpartum support with my own gifts, knowledge, and support.
— J, Daima Doula
A truly radical, essential training for anyone interested in becoming a confident and mission-centered postpartum caregiver. We cannot heal and recover when we are disconnected from our roots. Our roots connect us to our resiliency. The postpartum window is a liminal space, spanning past and future. This training connects you to your intuitive inner sense for cooking and caregiving for those in the postpartum window.
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Ayurveda, Digestion and Post Partum Recovery. Blueprint for recovery based on our unique profiles. Exploring our individual ancestral lineages and traditions. Power of sharing stories, reclaiming cultural loss, and cultivating connection to our roots.
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The Tissue System in Ayurveda: The Seven Dhatus, Immunity & Ojas, Fertility & Hormonal Balance, Postpartum Immunity, Hormones & Rejuvenation. Ghee School
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Lactation as an Expression of Ojas, Supporting Lactation: Adaptogens for Rejuvenation, Lactation and Bone Health, Meat, Ayurveda and Politics
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The Six Tastes and Food Combination, The 20 Attributes in Ayurveda: The Gunas, How to craft an ancestral recovery plan that is in congruence to your unique make up. Bodies, Land, DNA and Ancestral Codes of Wellness, Ayurveda principles for Global Comfort Foods
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Pleasure, Abhyanga and Cocoon of Rest, The science and art of rest. Rose medicine for tending to the heart and spirit.
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Ceremonial Rituals and Flower Bath, Daily & Seasonal Rituals to Pacify Vata, Dinacharya and Ratricharya, Creating Rituals for honoring, celebrating joy and grief.
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Grief in the Post Partum Window, Post Partum Ayurveda for Pregnancy Loss, Birth Loss and Abortion, Cultural practices and physiology of Grief, Ayurveda Post Partum Care in the NICU
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Certification Project, Integration, Food Memory Journaling Exercise, Entrepreneurship as Ancestral Healing and Best Practices
Join Marigolde for an immersive apprenticeship in cooking nourishing recipes for the Postpartum Window for healing, rebuilding and cultivating foundational vitality.
Learn how to use Ayurveda wisdom to cook from your own ancestral background and customize recipes to any food culture in the world.
Classical Indian recipes meets global comfort food
Learn how to make Ghee from scratch, warming meat and lentil broths, energy dense laddoos (bliss balls), grain bowls and heirloom flatbreads, nourishing sweets and desserts, cooking with spices, herbal teas, crafting botanical oils and medicinal lattes.
In this exploration of foods, rituals, storytelling, ancestral healing, you will learn about navigating cultures with humility, intersectional activism, and postpartum justice rooted in pleasure and sensuality. Join like minded Postpartum Caregivers to create a new language of care and help heal new parents through nourishing food, nutrition and botanical medicine.
Taught by Roshni Kavate and Rebecca Servoss, birthworkers, nurses, Ayurvedic counselors, and grief experts who are passionate about the intersection of food and cultural care. We are excited to share with you our years of experience in postpartum care and our unique approach to postpartum healing.
Course platform and more information on modules here
Investment: $1597, Payment plans: 4 monthly payments of $405 or 6 monthly payments of $280
Class Timings and Dates: 10 weekly sessions, Tuesdays Feb 27- April 30, 11 am- 1 pm PST, All calls will be recorded on ZOOM
OUR TEACHING FACULTY
Roshni is an Artist, Nurse, Post Partum Ayurveda and Grief Expert with a degree in Nutrition from UC Berkeley and Nursing from NYU with over 12 years of experience. She is a guest instructor and student advisor at Sacred Window Studies. Usha Divate, born and raised in India is an accomplished artist, medicinal home cook with over 50 years of cooking traditional ayurveda recipes and making herbal medicine.
Fifi Servoss, born in China during the Communist takeover, she escaped to Jakarta, Indonesia with her family at 9 months old in 1949. She is an avid cook and keeper of family recipes.
Rebecca Servoss is a NICU nurse, Certified Nurse Coach, and Ayurvedic Health Counselor. She is the author of Navigating the NICU for Post Partum Parents, a poet and mother to three children. Rebecca has certifications from Sacred Window Studies and Shakti Ayurveda School.
What People Are Saying
“My takeaway was that food is so much more than a means to meet nutritional requirements & without the connection we lose so much of what the experience could be.”
“It makes me think of my job here where there is so much focus on nutrition, but not a lot of connection to culture. I would like here for us to be working toward a better understanding of different cultural nutrition values, as you said everyone does not need to eat the same food to receive the same nourishment.”
“This has helped me remember why I'm here. thank you so very much.”
“Connecting to my ancestral lineage is a bit difficult - my family line was disrupted by the Transatlantic Slave Trade. My family's knowledge of the family tree only goes back as far as my great grandmother who was "owned" by a German family.Because of that - the foods that are most nourishing to me are those made with love”
“Thank you so much for this! I am health focused chef and I feel so inspired from this conversation since I am deeply influenced by my Abuelitas cooking growing up and she did it with such love and intention and that made the food so pleasureable.”
I’m always searching for postpartum nutrition classes, I’m glad I attended this. Thank you! It makes me happy there is a community that focuses on healing with nutrition.”
“Thank you. I loved the stories—they connect us in such a profound way.”
