Meet the Founders — Nest + Bowl

Meet the Founders…

We’re **two mamas on a mission** to support mothers and their families to feel **supported + nourished** in postpartum…and beyond. We’re also Ayurvedic doulas who’ve served hundreds of families in preconception, pregnancy, birth and postpartum. We’ve combined our skills and training in motherhood, holistic nutrition, birth and labor support, reproductive education, and massage, to bring comprehensive, holistic resources to you, your family, and your postpartum care team.
Thank you for being here!
with love,
Priya + Kate

Meet kate…

Kate West is mama to four growing humans, a song carrier and weaver of words. She’s facilitated hundreds of women’s circles and knows the magic initiated when women gather with intention.

She studied holistic health and nutrition at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in 2005 and has been supporting women and families to recover wellness and balance in their lives for the past 18 years.

She’s a birth doula, minister, and ceremonialist, offering safe space for her community to remember wholeness through direct communion with the sacredness of life.

Kate is an Ayurvedic postpartum caregiver and chef, a homegrown herbalist and regenerative gardener, finding herself most at home when immersed in the natural world with her family and community. She facilitates ceremonies + song circles in the Austin area.

Meet PRIYA…

Priya Walton is a mother, full spectrum doula, childbirth educator, and community leader whose presence is steeped with her decades of world travel, meditation studies, and hands-on community service.

Her passion to serve and uplift women, specifically mothers and families, led her to become a doula in 2005. She has now held sacred space at over a hundred births, is a certified Ayurvedic postpartum caregiver and chef, and has also been offering healing bodywork since 2003.

Priya is an Ayurvedic chef who has studied internationally, and magically blends her love of flavor with her knowledge of nutrition and herbalism.

Priya leverages her privilege and empowered voice to advocate for underserved populations and survivors of violence. As a member of the Texas Governor’s Task Force for Sexual Assault and work as a Gynecological Teaching Associate, she is actively revolutionizing the way the medical system approaches survivors of assault and implementing trauma-informed reproductive care for all women.

Priya is an avid gardener, folk herbalist, alchemist, kitchen witch and most notably a student of life who is walking the path of motherhood as a way to transformation.