About Antarvita — a modern botanical apothecary for women
Ancient Herbal Wisdom. Personalized Modern Care. Real Women, Real Change.
Hi! I’m Katy, and I’m so glad you’re here!
I know how exhausting it can be to live in a body that feels unpredictable.
Since childhood, I’ve navigated several autoimmune conditions; rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, fibromyalgia, asthma, and on top of that: leaky gut, PCOS, and endometriosis—along with chronic constipation one week and hormonal diarrhea the next.
I also know the reality of heavy periods, hormonal acne, mood swings, unpredictable energy, and chronic inflammation that feels like a fire moving through the joints of my body—all while carrying the lasting effects of emotional, sexual, and physical abuse.
My journey toward Antarvita began in 2020, when I was devastated by the loss of my best friend to suicide. From that moment forward, I committed my life to helping women heal from the inside out.
I began with Sunflower Mind + Body Hypnotherapy and Life Coaching. Through that work, I discovered how powerful hypnotherapy and life coaching can be together. Hypnotherapy helped rewrite patterns created by trauma and abuse, while life coaching helped myself and others deeply understand how our emotions motivate us and shape our reality. I will always be grateful to my clients for their inspiration and the endless learning you brought me in every session, and endless strength and resilience and transformation you showed me. My clients, are the reason I wanted to improve my services - they are my continuous inspiration.
Yet, I knew there was still something missing.
I received my Reiki Levels I and II in 2021, and I kept searching for the biggest missing piece of the puzzle: the body - kinda funny when you think about it, the biggest clue was right in front of my face the whole time.
I wanted a deeper understanding of how our food, lifestyle habits, environments, emotions, and everyday choices physically influence our health and well-being. In 2022, I returned to school for Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine. Along the way, I also became a Reiki Master Teacher in 2024. (If you’re ever interested in becoming reiki certified let me know!)
In June 2025, I graduated from Maharishi International University with a 4.0 GPA and a Master of Science in Maharishi Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine.
Later that year, Antarvita was born from the ashes of Sunflower Mind + Body—bringing everything I had learned into one deeply personalized approach to women’s wellness.
Why Ayurveda?
What I’ve learned along the way: We are a complex system of systems and every aspect of it is a perfectly balanced symphony of intelligence beyond our understanding making the whole thing work in perfect harmony - until something cause the symphony to get out of tune, go out of balance and every healing modality has something valuable to offer to the whole symphony.
Energy healing feels amazing and, in my experience, works wonderfully even remotely. Hypnotherapy can be incredibly powerful, but it comes with a stigma that some clients struggle to overlook, and overcome which can back fire in the nervous system. Life coaching is great, but I found that it sometimes kept my clients and me trapped inside our heads, intellectualizing our emotions to death.
Ayurveda gave me the whole-person mind body spirit approach I had been searching for.
Ayurveda is a natural, 5,000-year-old life science rooted in ancient Indian traditions. I’ve often thought of it as a user manual for the human body, because it kinda is.
I fell in love with its rational simple explanations for how dis-ease forms in the body and the nature-based rhythms, and rituals that create cleansing, grounding and nourishment for all stages of life, and my favorite part: the understanding that no one body is ever treated with the exact same solution. Everyone is made of the elements but they’re all arranges a little differently at birth, and depending on the stage of life, balance or imbalance.
Ayurveda considers the entire woman, 100% individually—from her digestion, emotions, medicine, diet, and daily habits to her environment, stage of life, the changing seasons, and even the position of her bed while she sleeps at night. (more important than you would think!)
Maharishi Ayurveda is a modernized, consciousness-based approach to traditional Ayurveda introduced to the West by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in the 1970s.
It focuses on supporting the nervous system and deepening your connection to Self, health and vitality through personalized routines, nutrition, herbs, meditation, and lifestyle practices.
Rather than asking you to repeat positive affirmations in the mirror, complete another self-inquiry workbook, or continually revisit painful memories to "unpack them", this approach supports healing the body as one whole, connected system with natural protocols as individual as you are.
Your Personalized Digestive Protocol is designed to help heal your gut, create a personalized diet plan to support your goals, nourish depleted tissues, support your body’s natural cleansing processes, regulate your daily rhythms (eat, eliminate, sleep etc.), and help your nervous system feel safe enough to settle—and then to sizzle ;-)
Why Gut and Pelvic Health?
Throughout approximately 3,900 hours of graduate education and clinical training—along with managing a local in person wellness practice and working with only female clients — I began noticing the same pattern again and again.
Whether I was standing in line for the bathroom at a busy restaurant, talking with a client during a one-on-one call, or being quietly pulled aside by coworker after coworker, embarrassed by her body, these women wanted to talk to me about three very specific things:
They wanted vaginal lubrication.
They wanted better digestion.
And they wanted to feel connected to desire and libido again.
Lucky for me, these seemingly unrelated concerns are deeply connected through an Ayurvedic lens. Digestion, stress, tissue nourishment, vaginal lubrication, energy, and desire all influence one another, pretty directly.
This is why I created Antarvita!
We offer Personalized Digestive Protocols for women who want to address vaginal dryness and gut health together—because they belong together. Not siloed across various specialty offices, but in the same conversation at the same time.
Antarvita is proud to announce that we also have a blossoming botanical apothecary with expertly formulated herbal products created to support those specific concerns, naturally!
But taking herbs without first discovering the potential risks, side effects or medicine interactions or before identifying the exact causative factors depleting you can be a waste of your money. Herbs can offer beautiful support, but they cannot replace understanding what your individual body actually needs.
That’s why working with me one-on-one to create your Personalized Digestive Protocol is the recommended first step.
Ready to Take Your First Step?
Every journey starts with a first step. Take your first step toward better gut and pelvic health today.
Book your complimentary 30-minute Introduction Call, and let’s discover what your body has been trying to tell you.
Katy’s Education & Certifications
Master of Science in Maharishi Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine, 2025
Maharishi International University
Graduated with a 4.0 GPA
Reiki Master Teacher, 2024
Reiki Levels I & II, 2021
Hypnotherapy & Life Coaching, 2020
UK Hypnosis Academy
Bachelor of Fine Arts, 2015
Metropolitan State University