Meet Katrina!
Katrina Martinez
Katrina is a holistic health practitioner focused on emotional wellbeing through flower essence therapy, herbal infusions, natural beauty and body products, workshops, and retreats. She is an intuitive energy healer & reader, trained as a homebirth & postpartum doula. Through her private practice, Radical Love Doula, Katrina’s work is guided by indigenous knowledge & healing systems applied towards living an intentional, content, & harmonious, modern lifestyle.
What wisdom lineages inform your practice?
A lot of the knowledge I honor comes from my ancestral island lineages through the Philippines and Puerto Rico, specifically in how my parents raised me and how I saw many similarities and differences in their cultures.
My experience being raised in a multicultural suburban oasis in the NYC metro area has also shaped the way I view the world, honoring diversity as a sacred privilege.
I honor my relationship with the Earth to the best of my ability and knowledge, with deep respect to the plant kingdom. My flower essence therapy work has evolved, with so much gratitude, through what I’ve learned with Lindsay Fauntleroy at the Spirit Seed both as a student and team member. I have had many teachers whose wisdom I honor in the ways that I can with as best integrity as possible including my parents Jimmy and Joyce Martinez, as well as Dr. Ani Kalayjian, Peeka Trenkle, Mei Jin Lu, and Chanel Porchia-Albert.
What brought you to healing work?
After an emergency brain surgery and then years later after the stillbirth of my daughter, I visited a flower essence practitioner who was able to shed light on how what I had gone through could be related to my lack of processing, expressing, or engaging with certain emotions. Her deep embodied wisdom and generous spirit regarding flower essences left a huge impression on me. This opened the door for me to take a holistic approach to health and wellness that I have been on for the last 13 years.
I have a down to earth approach where I feel like my sharp intuition helps point to the knowledge I’ve come across through courses, classes, workshops and self study around Afro-Indigenous approaches to wellness and our relationship with the Earth and the cosmos.
As a homebirth and postpartum doula, I love to work with mothers as well as those who mother. Flower essences can help mothers realize how valuable they are in their own lives, in their communities, and in our collective consciousness.