Maranda Gaines

Dr. Maranda Gaines is a holistic medical doctor, herbalist, and movement teacher. After a decade of training and working in conventional medicine, she walked away to pursue a more vibrant, peaceful, and fulfilling practice and life. Her work now is re-imagining and building spaces and systems where people can rest, heal, love, and be courageously themselves together.

Her background in western medicine and over a decade of asana practice have given her a foundation in anatomy and physiology. For years she has also studied and practiced herbal and energetic therapies as a gentle, restorative, natural approach to her own healing. She blends these modalities in a practice that aims to make wellness more approachable, more intuitive, and more sustainable.

Maranda offers embodied care: private, personalized sessions for individuals, groups, and organizations that combine somatic work, guided inquiry, and integrative and herbal support to foster reconnection, clarity, and grounding. She also creates workshops and series that bring conventional medical knowledge together with holistic and integrative philosophy, with themes including nervous system regulation and support, hormone balance, burnout and disconnect recovery, and sustainability in highly demanding lifestyles.

She also works as a consultant, drawing on her experience as a medical doctor in a large health system, her work as a qualitative researcher and health equity strategist, and immersive studies in community-rooted healing spaces. She designs care models that are more sustainable, relational, and beautiful, and is interested in collaborations across women's health, community health, narrative medicine, and care design.