A practicing artist, pelvic steam hydrotherapist (intern), and folk herbalist who offers pelvic steaming support with advanced steam plans via a consultation process, and herbal allies in the Botânica.

The incredible high cost of living in this Capitalist society requires me to work M-F in a Montessori school, as a classroom assistant/garden facilitator, with ages 3-6 (not a career choice for me just a skill I learned as parent volunteer when one of ours attended Montessori school).

I can relate to not being able to afford care. Due to this I am passionate about being able to offer mutual aid in the small way that I am able in the free pelvic steam clinic.

My lifelong engagement with plants continues as a mutual love story. I wholeheartedly nurture and protect them with the understanding I have, and they come to my aid consistently.

When working with plants for body care it is miraculous to discover that they support you in the physical realm (tissues, organs, fluids), they support you in the energetic realm (emotion, tension), and they support you in the spirit realm (connection, belonging). In this unseen realm, plants shift perception and open up a felt sense of being in communion with the earth, with them.

Steph’s Herbal Education:

  • the plants themselves are my teachers, mentors, family

  • 20+ years of herbal practice as a folk herbalist

  • book learning

  • workshops and classes with herbal teachers who have been studying and practicing with the plants longer than I have in the systems of Western Traditional Herbalism, Mexican Traditional Medicine - MTM + Traditional Chinese Medicine TCM (specifically for the female reproductive system), and various other ancestral herbal traditions from my native Brazilian roots.

  • Some recent entities and people I have learned from are Plantsman Chris Cosby, The School of Evolutionary Herbalism, Blue Otter School, Wild Current Herbalism, Pānquetzani of Indigescuela, Keli Garza of Steamy Chick, and the Healing Clinic Collective, Herbal Pregnancy Prevention with Midwife, Molly Dutton-Kenny.

  • I am a certified Peristeam Facilitator PFc and a Peristeam Hydrotherapist Intern working on my practicum to receive a Peristeam Hydrotherapist certification: PHc, through the Peristeam Hydrotherapy Institute. Peristeam Hydrotherapist and pelvic steam therapist are interchangeable terms.

Art

I was born into this world as Stephanie Camille dos Anjos native to a land colonized by the Portuguese who claimed it as Vitória, Espírito Santo. It was and still is the home of Guarani, but became cruelly populated by Europeans fighting for ownership. These invaders were responsible for forcefully bringing enslaved peoples from the various regions of the great continent known as Africa, to the land known as Brasil. I am a mix of these converging cultures and people…this is my father’s bloodline. My mother’s bloodline is Irish/English/French. (if ancestry interests you see my ancestral timeline here). My current work centers around the human body as land and water, and their liberation from colonizing forces. My work is also about caregiving because caregiving is an integral force in this liberation.