About Divine Nectar
Divine Nectar is a feminine mystery school and temple of Earth magic rooted in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina.
Through retreats, seasonal gatherings and immersive practice, we weave embodied herbalism, plant spirit medicine, yoga, somatic practice and ritual into deeper relationship with the body, the plants and the living world.
At the heart of this work is the art of receiving: cultivating the capacity to slow down, listen deeply and become more available to the nourishment, vitality, beauty and connection life is already offering.
Divine Nectar is part of Golden Mother Collective, a land-based community initiative devoted to reciprocal relationship with the land and to cultivating more life-honoring ways of gathering, leading and living.
Hello! I’m Mina.
I created Divine Nectar from the practices that brought me into deeper relationship with my body and the living world. For much of my life, I was searching for a particular feeling: connection, vitality, openness, bliss.
Like many of us, I first looked for it outside myself—in relationships, achievement, intensity and substances. Over time, the practices of yoga, plant spirit medicine and earth-based ritual began to reveal that the states I had been seeking could also arise through deeper presence: breath and movement, rest, relationship with plants, beauty, nourishment and belonging.
Why “Divine Nectar”?
Long before I decided to name my business after it, I kept encountering the image of a sacred nectar across different traditions.
In the Vedic hymns, there is soma. In Tantric traditions, amrita—often translated as the nectar of bliss and immortality that arises in states of deep meditation. In the Zoroastrian tradition, there is haoma, a sacred plant preparation offered and shared in ceremony, with particular resonance for me through my Persian ancestry.
Later, I learned the word sami from my teachers in the Andean mystical tradition, which is often described as a refined, life-giving energy available through relationship with the living cosmos.
These concepts are not interchangeable, and each belongs to its own cultural and spiritual context. But together they helped give language to something I had begun to understand through experience: Life continually offers us sources of nourishment, vitality and connection. The practice is becoming receptive to them.
For me, the “divine nectar” is found in the vitality carried by plants. In the pleasure of movement and breath. Sunlight, mineral-rich food and clean water. Deep rest. Meaningful relationship. Beautiful landscapes. Ritual, reverence and a felt sense of belonging to the living world.
The divine nectar flows when we slow down enough to fully receive the beauty and wholeness that is already here.
A path of restoring relationship
Much of my own path has been about restoring relationships that had become fragmented: relationship with my body, with place, with ancestry and with the more-than-human world. That path has led me into more than two decades of study and practice in yoga, somatic work and holistic health, as well as training in vitalist herbalism, classical Tantra, Ayurveda, birth work and Andean nature mysticism. I hold these traditions with gratitude for the ways they have shaped my understanding of embodiment, healing and relationship with the earth.
My work has also been deeply shaped by pregnancy, birth and motherhood. I am a trained doula and birthkeeper, a registered prenatal yoga teacher, and I continue to be fascinated by the feminine mysteries—the thresholds and cycles through which women continually change, create, release and become.
My curiosity remains especially alive around plants, water, sound, nervous system regulation, vibrational practices and the conditions that allow vitality to flourish.
Rooted in place
I live with my partner and our two boys on a 33-acre homestead in the mountains of Western North Carolina, alongside cats, dogs, chickens, ducks, gardens, forests and an ever-changing community of wild plants. This land has become one of my most important teachers.
Living close to the seasons continually reminds me that life does not move in a straight line. There are times for flowering and expression, and times for pulling inward. Times for effort and times for rest. Times for reaching outward and times for receiving. That rhythm shapes the way I understand wellness and the way I create retreats.
I am less interested in constant self-improvement than I am in helping create the conditions in which people can feel more alive: nourishment, movement, rest, relationship, pleasure, time outdoors and meaningful connection.
The work of Divine Nectar
At the heart of my work with retreats, herbs and embodied practice is a simple intention: to help women restore access to the sources of nourishment and vitality that allow life to be more fully received.
Divine Nectar is an invitation to come back into relationship with what sustains you—to inhabit your body more fully, deepen your relationship with the living earth and cultivate greater capacity for pleasure, connection, rest and aliveness.