I am so glad you found your way here. Nothing makes me happier than to know that another new or expecting mother has a real chance at avoiding all the complications that (all too often) go along with postpartum recovery and instead (dare I say) feel even better than before you were pregnant.

Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Ameya Duprey and I’m the Founder of Fully Healed Mama. I’m a board certified Ayurvedic practitioner, AyurDoula, CMT, author, teacher, and course creator, who has been helping postpartum mamas fully heal from birth for the last decade.

It is my mission to help postpartum mamas to fully heal from birth, so you can stop feeling exhausted all the time. I want nothing more than to empower you (and the countless other mamas out there) with the tools you need to not just “put yourself back together”, but completely recover from birth, so you can feel amazing again, and have all the energy you need to not only be present with your children and your partner, but also with yourself.

Being a mother is by nature being a giver. We give our bodies in order to create and sustain life. We give our hearts. We sacrifice…A LOT. Often too much for our own good.

One of the biggest mistakes we can make as new mamas is to ignore our own needs after birth. They are very real. Our bodies were just pushed to the max and have gone through a major transformation. Postpartum recovery is no small thing. We need time to heal, and above all, we need support.

Unfortunately for us mothers here in the West, postpartum care is virtually non-existent. Prenatal care and the birth are the focus, and once the baby is born, it’s all about the baby. Us mamas are expected to just “bounce back”, and when we don’t meet that horribly unrealistic expectation, we feel like there is something wrong with us.

The truth is, there is nothing wrong with you. What is wrong, is the lack of postpartum care resources and support available to us mamas.

I am here to change that.

My Story

It all started when I was 19 years old. I was on a spiritual quest and was living on the Big Island of Hawaii. One day, I pulled a book of Ayurveda off the shelf in my friend’s house. It was then that I was introduced to the concept of healing with food and using the spices in your kitchen as healing tools to achieve balance. I loved this concept and my interest in Ayurveda was piqued.

Less than a year later, I was living in Boulder, CO, and was introduced to who would become my Ayurveda teacher, as well as my first spiritual guide, Alakananda Ma (and her husband Sadananda). They operated a humble Ayurvedic Ashram, of which I quickly became an integral part. I was living at the ashram and studying Ayurveda. Alakananda taught me many things, including Ayurvedic cooking.

While I was in the middle of my training, at 21 years old,I became pregnant. Although I was quite young (I didn’t think so at the time, lol), I was excited to enter the next chapter of my life, motherhood. Most of my friends knew nothing of birth and beyond, including myself, so I was blissfully unaware of the struggles that awaited me during birth and postpartum. I just focused on prenatal care, the birth, and acquiring stuff for the baby (sound familiar?).

I ended up in labor for 72 hours, and to keep it short, it was hell. She was born at home and luckily, she was fine. Me on the other hand, was a different story. I lost a lot of blood, and I was totally drained. I didn’t even get out of bed for 3 weeks, except to go to the bathroom and try not to freak out from the pain, stitches, hemorrhoids and constipation.

Then at 3 weeks, the baby colic started.

I thought I knew a thing or two about digestion and eating well after birth…I was eating kitchari after all! But it turns out, I knew very little. And for the next 3 months, my baby was either eating, sleeping or screaming. I had entered into the second level of hell, and this time, me and my newborn were in it together.

The lesson I learned was that even if you know some Ayurveda, it doesn’t mean you know the intricacies of postpartum rejuvenation. And that, my friend, is something worth knowing.

When I was struggling with my recovery, a friend, who was an Ayurvedic postpartum doula, came over and offered me an Ayurvedic postpartum massage. It was absolutely heavenly. After the massage, she encouraged me to become an AyurDoula myself. At the time, I was too overwhelmed to seriously consider it, but I filed the suggestion in my brain for a later date. After taking a year off of Ayurveda school to bond with my baby, I graduated as a Pancha Karma Therapist and started helping people cleanse their bodies through Ayurvedic bodywork and detoxification practices. I became a certified massage therapist in 2005, in order to complement my Ayurvedic bodywork practice.

It wasn’t until 2011, after I had made my home in Nevada City, CA, that I shifted my focus to Ayurvedic postpartum care.

All around me there were new mamas struggling to feel good again after birth. I felt their pain. I knew it wasn’t natural for so many mamas to suffer from anxiety, postpartum depression, low milk supply, crazy mood swings, and be exhausted all the time. I had friends confiding in me that their relationships were falling apart, and they were worried that they would never feel like themselves again.

I knew how they felt and I knew that it wasn’t natural. I wanted to be part of the solution and I knew where I could find it.

Personal Interests

I really started to learn how to cook for myself when I was a teenager. I became a vegetarian when I was 15 and my parents told me I needed to cook for myself. Granted, I really didn’t know how to be a healthy vegetarian until I started learning Ayurvedic cooking 5 years later (I ate way too much tofu!), but my love for vegetarian cooking started early.

I’ve always been drawn to Indian arts and spirituality since I first learned about yoga in my teens. Not only did I learn yoga and Ayurveda, but over the last 20+ years, I’ve immersed myself in meditation, mantra, puja, and most significantly Odissi Indian Classical dance.

I LOVE Odissi dance. It makes my soul so happy. Dancing for the Divine is my jam. I feel like we all need something in our lives that is our THING. Something that feeds our spirit and lights up our internal world. That is what Odissi does for me. It’s also a bonus that because it is an international dance form from India, I’ve gotten to travel around the world. I’ve studied and performed in India, Greece, France, Italy, and at various temples in the United States, including Hawaii. When I’m not helping mamas recover from birth, I’m dancing!

Speaking of travel, that is another thing that I love to do. I get so antsy if I’m home for more than a few months. And most of all, I love traveling to the tropics, especially tropical islands. I LOVE the ocean, and never get tired of it. The sea is my happy place. The place where I feel like everything is how it should be, and my soul is at peace.

I love nature and rural living. I love plants and animals. I love my family. And most of all, I am grateful for the gift of life.

Thank you for taking the time to get to know me and my story. I look forward to getting to know yours.