About Ganaia

For over a decade, Ganaia has been empowering clients to access the innate wisdom held within their own bodies — supporting the intelligence of the body to remember its own natural flow, while bringing soft awareness to the places that seek it most. Her 1:1 sessions and group containers create transformational healing.

Ganaia is a passionate women’s space holder and bodyworker. Owner of Held in Wholeness LLC, she has been involved in the healing arts for 15 years. Trained in numerous modalities of energy healing, Ganaia was led to womb massage though her own journey of reproductive discomfort. For years she experienced painful menstruation and it was questionably becoming a chronic condition.

Learning Arvigo® self-care womb massage was a life-changing catalyst on her journey. The self-care massage became a safe & direct access point to consciously dialogue with the wisdom of her body. With healing intention & using the beneficial strokes of the massage, her womb began to de congest & realign itself. Her own loving connection was a powerful key to bringing the healing balm she sought.

Ganaia's pain subsided and this newfound connection within her womb blossomed outward. She has never been able to look back & forever inspired in the transformational power that women hold.

Since traveling to to the heart of Belize in 2016 to study Mayan abdominal massage, she has trained in LomiLomi Hawaiian pregnancy massage and Tami Lynn Kent’s Holistic Pelvic Care™. Along with receiving birth doula certifications through The Matrona & DONA International, she co-founded Healthy Birth Hawaii, a collective of women on the Big Island of Hawaii and specialized in supporting fertility clients at a holistic health center.

For five years she extensively studied and apprenticed with feminine mystery school The Fountain of Life, — founded by Seren & Dr. Azra Bertrand, authors of “Womb Awakening” and “Magdalene Mysteries” — participating as a mentor and assisting retreats in supporting others on their journey of womb awakening.

In addition to being a mother, Ganaia most enjoys spending time in nature with her frame drum; discovering and deepening into connection of her own inner and outer landscapes.

She discovered the ancient art of frame drumming 12 years ago, following the passing of her father. Her feminine soul deeply recognized its unique sound and she was magnetized to discover the ancient language speaking through it’s pulse, which felt both timeless and also of this world. 

The frame drum became a bridge of connection within her journey of feminine embodiment and ancestral healing, as she deepened into communion with the living songlines of Gaia and the songlines within her own being. The drum as mirror and familiar to the creatrix pulse of her own womb - anchoring the spiritual power and currents of her soul’s calling.

Since then, Ganaia has studied with a handful of mistress frame drummers and tambourine players and deepened her path in the lineage of women frame drummers that the late Layne Redmond writes about in “When the Drummers Were Women”. She gathers circles of women in rhythm, facilitating ritual prayerformances and weaving her love of women’s mysteries with the ancient technology of the frame drum.