Hello! Welcome! I am grateful you found your way here. My name is Katie Mayeux, I am a student of creation, in service to truth.

The past decade has been a journey of home coming, to myself, to life, to the path of service that feels like a full bodied yes. My path of healing and finding my way home to my body began in Dallas, Texas when I was 25. I was working in medical sales, making great money but my emotional well being and mental health were struggling. The masks and layers of suppressed trauma and fragmentation was begging to surface and I knew there was a different way to live. Thus began my path of studying yoga, as a forever student and eventually a teacher. My studies led me to quit my corporate job, move to the Caribbean to teach yoga and eventually open a paddle board studio (floating on the ocean) and a land based studio.

My commitment to my practice was also a commitment to life, it was a commitment to living in alignment with truth from a deeply embodied space. This is still an every day journey, a constant practice of slowing down, tuning in, listening, and finding compassion for the continual layers that surface on this journey home. At the time this path began, I realized I needed more support, more resources more tools more ELDERS who were holding WISDOM who had walked the path of unplugging from the conditioning we are born into and liberated themselves as authentic expressions of their unique essence.

I found my way to a small village in the Guatemalan highlands called San Marcos La Laguna, at the edges of Lake Atitlan. This Volcanic crater lake invoked and evoked a transformation within and around me that would re-direct the course of my life. It was here that I would find my teacher Mariu Gobbato, midwife, herbalist, ceremonialist, healer, and medicine woman. Through a divine unfolding I would end up studying, apprenticing, and co-creating with this woman who I believe is bridging wisdom across worlds. Together alongside a few other beautiful sisters we have created retreats focused on preconception and fertility, workshops, and most recently a wisdom exchange with a group of midwives from the US bridging practices, wisdom, and story with The Mayan Midwifery Project.

My studies and experience in Guatemala has greatly shaped and influenced the way that I tend birth and postpartum, as ceremony, as a rite of passage, as a sacred initiation that deserves to be tended by the village that is also receiving the gift of the birth of this family.

My time of slowing down in village life, living on and off the land brought me home to working with the elements as a way of finding my center, finding stillness, finding peace. Through this deepening into myself, I became open to communicating and communing with the elemental ones. It has been through this deepening relationship of the elements within and the elements around that I find profound power and transformation. Elemental by definition means “related to or embodying the powers of nature.” It is my belief that birth is an invitation into full embodied elemental power. My dreams began to communicate to birth a doula practice that focused on grounding birth back to Earth, bringing families back to the elements, the basics, the intuitive space deep within that knows, that trust, that sees.

I am forever grateful to all of my teachers, my teachers teachers and all those who have paved the path for me to be here now in service, in devotion to Creation.