About
East Flora Wellness has evolved slowly over many years of study, hands-on practice, and caring for bodies. At some point, I realized most people are simply trying to feel better, yet are often handed a long menu of modalities and expected to know what their body needs before they have even arrived. So over time, the work became simpler.
Rather than choosing a treatment, clients simply choose the amount of time they would like to receive. Each session is guided intuitively through a blend of restorative bodywork therapies. My work is especially centered around nervous system support, women’s health, and creating treatments that feel both therapeutic and deeply comforting. Warm stones, heated oils, tea on arrival, and quiet attention to detail are woven throughout the experience.
Many clients come initially for relaxation. What they often discover is something more restorative than they expected, a calmer nervous system, deeper sleep, less pain, and a softer relationship with their body. Sometimes even the feeling of wanting to reorganize their whole life afterward. This work is less about fixing and more about creating enough safety for the body to soften on its own.
Before arrival.
Founder
I’m Mochani Devi, founder of East Flora Wellness in Charlottesville.
I am a third-generation health practitioner. My father, a Haitian physician, and my mother, a Guyanese doctor of nursing and professor, were my first teachers in understanding care, presence, and the body’s capacity to heal.
My background in art history and cultural studies deepened my understanding of healing as something that has always been carried through ritual, through image, through the gentle transmission of knowledge across generations and cultures. It taught me to look at the body not only as biology but as a site of history, memory, and meaning. It is a lens I bring to every session.
Much of my work was shaped through six years living and serving in a traditional agamic Hindu temple under the guidance of a Swami, where healing was understood as both practice and devotion.
What brought me to bodywork itself was being on the table. The first time I received bodywork that truly listened, something in me changed, and I knew this was what I wanted to offer.
I believe the body speaks long before we have words for it, and that most people arrive carrying more than they say. So every session begins with listening, and you set the pace, the pressure, and what is touched.
Overtime, I sought more teachings and a formal massage training that could hold the same reverence. My bodywork education was founded by a Medicine Woman of Native American healing and spirituality, and Dakota Sioux stone medicine was woven throughout our training not as a technique, but as a method for healing mind, body and spirit and a philosophy for how to be with the body, with the earth, and with the person in front of you.
East Flora exists somewhere within the meeting place of those worlds, clinical and intuitive, structured and deeply human.
Over the years, my work has taken place across private practice, healing centers, retreats, universities, and wellness spaces throughout Virginia.
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Study & Training
Massage Therapy & Stone Medicine Bodywork
Cedar Stone School of Massage — 757 hrs (in progress)
Birth & Postpartum Doula
Birth in Color
Arvigo Maya Abdominal Therapy (in progress)
with Rosita Arvigo
Abdominal & Pelvic Moxibustion
Red Tent Wellness
Mother/Baby Dyad Craniosacral Therapy
with Lori Hendrickson
Infant Craniosacral Therapy & Fascial Release
with Lori Hendrickson
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
with Janet Evergreen
Ayurvedic Marma Therapy
with Vasant Lad
Yoga & Meditation, RYT 200
Satchidananda Ashram
Restorative Yoga
with Diane Malaspina
Reiki Mastership
with Robyn O’Boyle
Certificate in Herbalism & Ethnobotany
Cornell University
B.I.S. in World & Textiles Studies
Minor in Art History
Virginia Commonwealth University
Begin
If you are looking for a place to relax, you will feel at home here. If you are looking for something deeper, this work was designed for that.
A place to return, again and again.