Heemali

Hey, I’m Heemali. I’m a full spectrum and abortion doula, pre and perinatal educator, trauma-informed somatic yoga facilitator, and women’s holistic health practitioner. I work with women through pregnancy, birth, loss, termination, grief, and all the complicated, unwitnessed experiences that fall in between.

I came to this work through my own body. I’ve been through a termination, and I know the particular loneliness of going through something enormous while the world carries on around you. I’ve had hyperemesis gravidarum — the kind that makes you wonder how you’ll get through the next hour, let alone the next week. I couldn’t find the care I needed, so I became it.

My specialisms are HG support, abortion doula care, miscarriage, and recurrent pregnancy loss. I also support women through antenatal and postnatal experiences, birth trauma, and the full emotional landscape that comes with any pregnancy outcome. In my practice, no experience is ranked above another. A termination, a birth, a loss, each one deserves the same presence, the same care, the same tenderness.

I am passionate about equal birthing rights and I actively advocate for women of colour, who continue to face serious disparities in maternity and reproductive healthcare. This isn’t something I do on the side. It runs through everything I do.

My practice draws on science and on South Asian ancestral wisdom. Yoga has lived in my family for generations and I’ve been practising since as long as I can remember. I bring Ayurvedic principles, somatic movement, and nervous system tools into my work alongside evidence-based care, because the whole of you deserves to be held.

I work online, which means I can be with you wherever you are. My hope is always that when we finish working together, you feel more at home in your own body, more informed, and a little less alone in whatever you’ve been carrying.