Published in 2024
256 pages
Panquetzani (she/her) breathes life into ancestral traditions, offering time-tested wellness practices, honoring the 4,500 year-old traditions of her foremothers + integrating her lifetime of study into her private practice + daily life. Panquetzani comes from a matriarchal family of folk healers from the valley of Mexico (Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, y Tlaxcala), La Comarca Lagunera (Durango + Coahuila), and Zacatecas. Hearing family narratives of her tatarabuelas doctoring their comunidades, and experiencing the healing of her abuelas first-hand led Panquetzani to trust in the innate wisdom of ancestral healing. Use of Indigenous knowledge has transformed + forever impacted her personal, family, + community well-being.
In 2007, Panquetzani decided to take her practice outside of her own lineage to serve her community. As a traditional herbalist, healer, and birthkeeper, Panquetzani has touched over 3,000 wombs + bellies spread across three countries + two dozen cities in the last twelve years.
Since 2012, as the foundress of Indigemama: Ancestral Healing, she has taught over 100 live, in-person intensives and trainings, totaling more than 1,500 hours of live instruction on healing and countless hours of free + online education on womb wellness. Today, Panquetzani has ushered over 8,000 BIPOC members through her online school, Indigescuela. On her days off, you’ll find Panquetzani feeding friends + getting into mischief with her guapo + 4 semillas.
What is this book about?
An expert in ancestral healing shares traditional Indigenous wisdom for helping women thrive rather than survive the postpartum experience.
Though we now have more resources for ancestral birthing and self-care practices than ever, postpartum care is still largely stuck in an outdated, patriarchal paradigm that fails to serve mothers and newborns. “Slowing down, recovering fully, and giving your baby the best start isn’t a privilege—it’s a basic human need,” says Pānquetzani, a leading expert in Indigenous health care for women. In Thriving Postpartum, she shares the sacred ritual of la cuarentena (or quarantine) that honors, nurtures, and empowers a birthing person’s transition into their new life.Pānquetzani teaches this 40-day journey as a spiritual rite of passage, one that has endured colonization and supported women in Mesoamerican and Mexican communities. You’ll find everything you need—including ancestral recipes for lactation and replenishing; prayers and somatic practices for physical, emotional, and sexual recovery; and much more. Through traditional stories and practical guidance, she helps you engage your support network, become your own best advocate, and lay a healthy foundation for the years to come. “This wisdom has come from my familia and is a direct inheritance from our collective body of knowledge,” says Pānquetzani. Imparted with love, tenderness, and respect, here is an invitation to participate in a rich tradition that celebrates birth and motherhood as sacred acts of creation.
