Born in Honolulu & raised on Lihue, Kauai- Kailani comes from a rich lineage of native Hawaiians and Asian immigrants who served the Aina (land) through politics, preserving native practices and culture.  She is the oldest of 6 siblings, where birth, postpartum, and newborns were a normal occurrence. 

After the birth of her second baby 5 years ago, Kailani followed in the footsteps of her maternal lineage of indigenous healers, herbalists, and birth workers. She began professionally practicing as a full spectrum doula, serving mothers in every stage of their fertility journey. In 2021 she began offering postpartum mothers confinement care and supporting them daily throughout their recovery. This is where she experienced a wide range of supporting various postpartum complications, learning the postpartum body- how it changes everyday, what it best responds to, and problem solving for complicated cases. 

During this time, there was not a lot of available information about complex postpartum recovery. Many practicing doulas, midwives, and doctors, therapists, etc would regurgitate the same information & approach to postpartum recovery-fitting a wide range of mothers into one box. Postpartum care is not limited to a one size fits all approach. In her experience, this has made postpartum mothers experience feelings of failure due to their bodies not responding well to the recommendations. Many mothers were dismissed and told this was the “right way to heal” or left with no answers. Kailani’s mission is to eliminate these beliefs rooted in colonization.

Kailani spent many years independently studying, researching, practicing through trial & error, consulting with her mother (who is a birthkeeper), learning/apprenticing hands on with herbalists, midwives, indigenous practitioners, and elders all over the country in order to curate the methods and services she provides today. She is a proud indigenous Kanaka bodyworker, generational herbalist, and student of traditional midwifery.

Kailani now lives between DC and Baltimore. A mom of 3 boys (2 born at home with midwives and 1 freebirth at home), she now specializes in intensive postpartum care using traditional healing modalities that support womb & perineal recovery after birth. Kailani believes in harnessing the strength of each woman’s unique ancestral roots. Following the specific DNA map that makes up every individual has a profound effect on their healing during the postpartum period.

She has additionally studied & apprenticed with PA Amish midwives at HERBAL, trained with Indigenous Malay postpartum practitioner Salwa Salim, studied folk Herbalism - hands on - at Wild Ginger & the Green pharmacy, and she continues to travel & learn from holistic health pioneers across the country.