Your Health is Your Wealth

As part of True Self Yoga’s mission to provide healthy holistic life options to the community, we are excited to share space with Soul Cafe and the wonderful caring providers at our Wellness Center. Whether you are looking for healthy food or wanting support for your growing family, you can find these at the True Self Yoga building.  
Soul Cafe owners, Prism and Devon, have over 20 years combined restaurant experience, and extensive awareness of food sensitivities. They want to make food that makes you feel good and tastes amazing regardless of how you eat! Check out their menu here and come in for delicious SOUL nourishment.

Providers at the Wellness Center

Carrie DiStefano

Carrie DiStefano

IBCLC

Olympia Lactation

Carrie has been supporting breastfeeding families since 2012 and is an IBCLC since 2015. She is passionate about assisting families with meeting their breastfeeding goals.

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Carrie can help parents get a comfortable latch or help with the weaning process – and everything in between, including milk supply, working with premature infants, reflux, pumping questions, introducing solid foods, and more.

She has extensive knowledge and training in tethered oral tissue (tongue tie), infant structure and function, maternal gut health, and feels prepared to support cases from the simple to the complex. She collaborates with providers in the community to provide thorough and integrative care to the families she has the honor of supporting.

She has three young daughters and became passionate about breastfeeding after working through many struggles with her first child more than 10 years ago.

She is based in Olympia WA, with a remote office in Montesano, and also offers virtual appointments to anyone, anywhere. She accepts many insurance as well as offers a sliding scale fee.

Dianne Medina

Dianne Medina

CD, PCD, ICCE

Dianne’s birth work extends through many years of volunteerism while living in foreign countries.  Her knowledge in the maternal/childbirth field stems not only from her own personal experiences,

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(Dianne is the mother of nine children and eight grandchildren!), but in her extensive work in this field. As a passionate supporter of pregnancy and birth, through being an educator and doula, Dianne gleans both from her past as well as current training and ongoing education, to support birthing families.

Her philosophy towards birth is to help nurture confidence in the innate ability present in birth givers to bring forth their babies. While birth is definitely a physiological experience, it also holds an aspect that is much more than just physical. Birth encompasses our total person. Understanding these components within us that influence the birthing process can assist birth givers in making decisions towards a satisfying, positive and powerful experience.

On a personal note, Dianne loves being around nature, fibers, reading and learning. She is fascinated by the ‘mystery of history.’ She speaks ‘a little’ of several languages, has lived in about 14 different countries and visited more than 35!

Laura Galati

Laura Galati

ND, LM

Spring Tide Family Health
springtidefamilyhealth.com

Dr. Laura Galati loves family practice medicine and creating research-based, holistic treatments to help individuals and families keep happy and healthy. She enjoys working with the entire family from birth to adulthood,

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following them as they grow, similar to how family doctors used to practice medicine. Dr. Laura’s patients have described her as kind and helpful with a gentle bedside manner. Her areas of interest are primary care, pediatrics, pregnancy, and postpartum support, and her favorite modalities are botanical medicine and nutrition. Her naturopathic practice Spring Tide Family Medicine is based in Olympia, with a satellite office in Hoquiam, and she is more widely available through telemedicine visits. In her free time, Dr. Laura enjoys spending time outdoors learning about the native flora and fauna, gardening, and cooking the food she harvests. To learn more, you can contact her at springtidefamilyhealth@gmail.com or visit her website springtidefamilyhealth.com

Rachael Hicks

Rachael Hicks

MINT Skin Care & Wax Studio
MINT founder, Rachael Hicks, provides a wide variety of services, facials, body waxing, lash lifts, tints & more with great care and professionalism.. Services can be modified for those with allergies or even pregnant or lactating mamas. By appointment only.
Book your next service at  Fresha.com or
call/text: 831-840-8822
Stefanie Anderson

Stefanie Anderson

IBCLC, CBE (she/her)

Foveo Birth & Baby, Owner
Stefanie is happy to provide hands-on, unbiased, evidence-based childbirth education and infant feeding classes. She has been working with new and expectant parents since 2013 as a certified birth and postpartum doula and childbirth educator

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and offering compassionate lactation support as a breastfeeding peer counselor since 2016 and as an IBCLC since 2018. She has first hand experience with various birthing and feeding scenarios, including complications and trials that parents may experience along the way. She became passionate about birth work following the doula assisted VBAC birth of her third child. She believes each pregnancy, birth, and baby is unique and feels strongly that parents should be informed of their options and supported in their choices surrounding pregnancy, birth, and feeding. More personally, Stefanie is married and a mother of 4 children. She works as an inpatient and NICU lactation consultant at St. Joseph Medical Center and volunteers her time by serving on the board of directors for Breastfeeding USA. Originally from California, she came to Washington in 2005. She is a continual student and loves learning so is often enrolled in one class or another. While not working with families she enjoys reading, walking outdoors on beautiful PNW trails, and Batdorf & Bronson coffee. 
2 Weeks for $30
2 Weeks for $30

What a magnificent studio oasis!

True Self is the best yoga studio in Olympia by far! Their variety of classes, from heated and regular, as well as their beautiful studio space, and the deeply passionate and knowledgeable owners all create a safe and supportive yoga community. - Sarah Burdette

They've created and hold space for their yogis so well that even the studio seems to have a sense of it's true self.

I've been a yogi in Olympia for about 10 years and True Self Yoga is the first studio that meets all of my yoga needs, and then some. When you visit True Self, you don't walk straight into a yoga room like most studios. - Camy Naasz

The heated room boasts a special heating system that you need to experience!

Beautiful space to practice with a variety of class offerings, great instructors, kombucha on tap and the latest yoga gear. Two studios: one heated and the other non-heated. Floors are always clean and they also have showers in the changing rooms, which is a must for hot yoga! - Rese Kim

With their combined yoga and meditation experiences and with deep roots in the Olympia community, husband-and-wife team, Vajra Romano and Christina Lagdameo, have established True Self Yoga with the mission to bring out your highest good.

Best yoga in Olympia.

- Adrienne L.

The best yoga experience I have ever had.

- Zac Jensen