In Conversation With Paula, Mujer Naturaleza
Coach, Herbalist and Facilitator of Sacred Feminine, Womb Healing, Tantra and Sacred Sexuality
Based in Nairobi | 6 Years of Practice
As the energy builds toward the Kilifi Wellness Festival, we sit down with Paula, known to many as Mujer Naturaleza. Coach, herbalist and facilitator of Sacred Feminine work, womb healing, Tantra and sacred sexuality, Paula’s presence is grounded, direct and deeply reflective.
Her work is layered. Political. Personal. Spiritual. Embodied. And as she tells us early in the conversation, it is not something you simply explain. It is something you experience.
Here is our full conversation.
For readers encountering your work for the first time, how do you describe your practice and the need it responds to?
“My practice is normally difficult to explain because it is an experience,” Paula begins. “But with context, it can be better understood.”
She describes the world we live in as deeply polarised by what she calls the wounded masculine. A world centred around action, competition, productivity and strength, often at the expense of emotional expression, care, rest, pleasure, cyclical wisdom, spirituality and connection with nature.
“All of us, no matter our gender, have learned to repress parts of ourselves associated with the feminine,” she explains. “We have been conditioned to disconnect from our bodies, emotions and from Nature.”
She speaks about how sexuality, expression, relationships and even personal desires are often shaped by external expectations rather than internal truth. Fear becomes the driver instead of rhythm.
“We are unconsciously fighting with ourselves,” she says. “Fighting with the parts that want to be seen, integrated and loved again.”
For Paula, everything in the world is duality. Feminine and masculine. Yin and yang. When one becomes extreme and polarised, imbalance follows internally and collectively.
Her work is about reintegration.
“I accompany people in journeys of self-knowledge and healing,” she explains. “Processes that allow us to remember and reintegrate our feminine nature, wisdom and qualities. To embody ourselves as whole and complete.”
Her practice integrates meditation, archetypal wisdom, embodiment, breathwork, movement, dance, yoni eggs, medicinal herbs, oracle cards and more. She facilitates one-to-one sessions, courses, workshops, women’s circles, organisational programs and transformational retreats. She also participates in national and international wellness festivals including the Kilifi Wellness Festival, Lamu Yoga Festival, Festival Cíclica, and she is one of the main organisers of Kisima Festival.
What personal or professional journey led you into this work?
“For as long as I can remember, I have been a feminist and activist,” Paula says.
With more than 12 years of experience in social intervention and international cooperation, her early life was dedicated to collective change, justice and equality. But in that pursuit, she became disconnected from her own body and nature.
“My decisions were made from my mind and ideology,” she reflects. “Not from a real connection with my body.”
The result was repeated burnout, mental and physical symptoms and exhaustion. Her body was signalling imbalance.
Thirteen years ago, she felt the call of Nature again. In 2019, she made a decisive shift. She left her work in international cooperation and gave herself time to listen.
“That external fight I was involved in was also a reflection of my internal fight,” she says.
In reconnecting with her body, cycles, femininity and sexuality, she began healing her relationship with herself. Teachers appeared along the way. She became certified as a Life Coach, trained as a Menstrual and Integral Masculine Cyclicality Therapist, certified in Ovarian Breathing, Feminine Alchemy and Alchemical Breathing, Sacred Sexuality. She trained in Uterine Memories Healing and studied medicinal plants.
Tantra became central to her path.
“For me, Tantra defines integration,” she explains. “It is the dissolution of duality. The remembrance that I am one with myself, with Nature and with the Whole.”
Through reconnecting with feminine energy, she says she was able to soften, bring back compassion and heal her wounded masculine. After more than nine years of self-development and healing work, she understood that sustainable social transformation requires individual responsibility and integration.
Almost six years ago, she began accompanying others on similar journeys.
How has your work evolved over time?
Paula began by sharing tools that supported her, mostly with women. As her work deepened into ovarian breathing, feminine alchemy, uterine memory healing, medicinal herbs and menstrual therapy, more women sought her out.
Many came with fertility challenges, trauma around sexuality, physical symptoms such as endometriosis and polycystic ovaries, as well as anxiety, burnout, depression and a feeling of being lost.
As she integrated Tantra and worked more consciously with both feminine and masculine energies, men also began approaching her.
“Currently, couples are also coming,” she says. “To explore growth and healing together.”
What does a typical session with you involve?
“No session is the same,” Paula says firmly.
Her one-to-one sessions are intuitive and responsive. She does not position herself as someone with answers. Instead, she holds space for clients to access their own truth.
Sessions usually begin with grounding meditation. There is space for sharing, followed by experiential practices that may include alchemical breathwork, visualisation, movement or dance. Sometimes medicinal herbs accompany the process.
Group workshops, retreats and festival sessions follow a similar structure but are themed and lightly planned, while remaining adaptable to the needs of the group.
Her practice is trauma-informed. Everything is an invitation. Nothing is compulsory.
“The most important thing is not what we do,” she says. “But how we do it.”
For many, that shift from a forceful, wounded masculine approach to a loving, feminine way of doing is transformative.
Who is your work most effective for?
“My work is most effective for those who resonate with what I do and how I do it,” she explains.
It requires responsibility, surrender and willingness to engage a process rather than seek quick answers.
“It is not suitable for people looking for magical pills,” she says. “The shifts are something you feel before you see.”
Internal changes eventually manifest externally, but not always in the way one expects.
How do you define wellness, particularly within an African or Kenyan context?
Paula pauses before answering.
“I feel the word wellness does not fully represent what it is,” she says. “In Western contexts it has become something to consume.”
She reflects on how Westernisation has created shame around ancestral wisdom and devalued what is cyclical, organic and spiritual.
“In Kenya and across Africa, wellness is deeply connected to community, the land, ancestors and spirituality.”
For her, powerful healing happens in circles. In connection with Earth and ancestral wisdom. Wellness is the capacity to listen, regulate, honour rhythms and live in coherence with inner truth rather than external pressure.
“It is not about being free from pain,” she adds. “It is about having tools, awareness and support to navigate it.”
She also notes that wellness cannot be discussed without acknowledging access to basic needs. Spiritual connection, however, has always existed within culture.
How does your practice support local communities?
Paula speaks passionately about the land.
“In this country is where I found myself,” she says. “Where I remembered the feminine.”
She has organised women’s circles in Nairobi for more than three years on a pay-what-you-wish basis. As one of the organisers of Kisima Festival, she works to ensure that 25 percent of tickets are offered free to community members wanting to explore wellness spaces.
She organises community gatherings under Kisima’s framework, offers one or two scholarship spots in her courses and is currently seeking ways to support grassroots feminist organisations and organisations working with survivors of gender-based violence and sexual abuse to access her programmes.
What common misconceptions do people have about your work?
One is that her work is only for women.
“Every human being is made of feminine and masculine energy,” she says. “Everyone needs integration.”
Another misconception is that Tantra is about sex.
“Tantra is so much more,” she explains. “It is a mystical path of integration. The dissolution of duality. Love and presence. It includes sexuality because sexual energy is vital energy, but it is not limited to that.”
Tantra, for Paula, is the death of everything we are not, and the surrender into who we truly are.
What shifts have you observed in people over time?
The changes vary according to each person’s commitment. But she consistently observes:
More loving and compassionate relationships with self and others.
Integration of cyclicality and acceptance of constant change.
Confidence in returning to oneself after losing balance.
The courage to express hidden parts of the self.
Integration of shadow aspects previously shamed.
Healthier relationships with sexuality, pleasure, menstruation and the body.
In some cases, improved fertility and resolution of certain physical imbalances.
“It creates peace,” she says. “And confidence within.”
For someone beginning their wellness journey, where should they start?
“Breathe into your body,” she says softly. “And ask yourself, how am I today? What do I need?”
Even without immediate answers, the act of asking builds awareness and connection.
“It is a possibility to start doing things in a different way.”
She smiles.
“Anything else? See you in Kilifi.”
At the Kilifi Wellness Festival, Paula will be offering:
Conscious Feminine Leadership: To survive and prove our capacity to lead as women, we have learned to lead “like men” and embrace “masculine wounded qualities”, repressing and undervaluing the feminine ones. This is an invitation to remember how it would be to lead, integrating our feminine qualities and embracing all that we are within: collaboration, emotional intelligence, nutrition, care, intuition, cyclicality… In this workshop, we are not only gonna reflect on it but to experience that integration of our feminine side in leadership.
Tantra: Love & Presence: We have lost the presence as we live in a rush, checking things off our to-do lists, without truly living each moment. We have polarized into a wounded masculine energy, living from fears, conditionings and patterns, choosing and prioritizing what keep us disconnected from ourselves and others. And all that we desire is Love and connection… it is to feel complete… Tantra is Love and Presence, Tantra is coming back to ourselves.
Finally, she will be presenting the Cacao Ceremony: Cacao is a plant medicine experience to connect with the sacred plant of cacao, to open our hearts and deepen the connection between ourselves and nature.
To learn more about Paula and her work visit her official website www.mujernaturaleza.com where you can also sign up for her newsletter.
You can also connect with Paula on Instagram (@mujernaturalezapau) and Facebook (@MujerNaturalezaPau)