I’m Bhakti, the heart behind Nurtured Mothers.

​I grew up surrounded by healing—my mother is a healer, and that world was always present in our home. I come from an artistic female line, and though I loved art, I felt more drawn to the healing it could bring. So instead of pursuing art school, I chose to study Art Therapy and Social and Cultural Anthropology in Vienna.

 

I knew early on that I wanted to work with people. I wanted to travel. I wanted to do something meaningful with my hands, close to the ground, connected to the earth. That’s when I found Thai Massage—and everything clicked. The touch, the grounding, the presence. It was healing made physical. In 2014, after my first Yoga Teacher and Thai Massage Trainings in Thailand and Turkey, I began working with others, guided by incredible teachers from around the world. One of them, Biff Mithoefer, taught me the power of silence and the deep, unseen places we touch through Yin Yoga. His teachings reminded me that healing often happens in stillness.

​Yin Yoga became a home for me: gentle, contemplative, spacious. It invited me into the emotional and spiritual realms in a way that felt natural and true.

 

And then—I became a mother.

It changed everything.

Motherhood became my deepest initiation. It consumed me, unraveled me, and asked me to surrender completely. I gave birth during the isolation of the pandemic. I stopped working. I burned out. I listened too much to others and not enough to my own body, my own baby, the present moment.

But something shifted after that. I realized I couldn’t pour from an empty cup. I began to understand that I matter—my needs, my joy, my desires. I found myself again, not as I was before, but someone new. A woman shaped by birth, by exhaustion, by the wild, raw beauty of raising a child. I learned that self-care isn’t a luxury—it’s the foundation of resilience.

And I realized how much support mothers truly need.

Even though I had all the knowledge—I knew about postpartum care, meal trains, doula work—I didn’t experience it in a real, embodied way. My partner and I were overwhelmed. We were alone. And I knew, deeply, that it shouldn’t be that way.
 

The idea for Nurtured Mothers had been growing inside me long before I became a mother. I have studied Pregnancy and Postpartum Yoga and completed a Doula Training with Dona. But it wasn’t until I lived the full arc of becoming, breaking, and rebuilding that I understood what it needed to be. Joining MotherCircle brought it all together. It gave me the framework and the final spark to bring this dream to life.

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Today, I live simply in the Portuguese countryside, in a yurt with my daughter and her father. Life is slow, close to the earth—and deeply nourishing.

Nurtured Mothers is my offering, my contribution. It’s a place for women to feel held, seen, and supported. A space that doesn’t ask you to be perfect or to “bounce back,” but invites you to arrive exactly as you are—in the mess, the magic, and everything in between.

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Because  your wellbeing is not optional - it's the foundation of everything.