A Charlottesville-based studio offering integrative bodywork and ritual care for nervous system restoration.
East Flora Wellness is a space for wellbeing, longevity, and wholeness, nestled in the heart of Charlottesville, Virginia. Created for those seeking regeneration, recuperation, and nourishment, East Flora offers an integrative approach to wellness, one that honors the body and mind as an inseparable whole.
Founded by Mochani Devi Gay, a third-generation health practitioner, East Flora is rooted in a lifelong relationship with healing. Born in Georgia, raised in Virginia, Mochani is the daughter of Afro-Caribbean parents devoted to the care of others, a Haitian physician father and a Guyanese nurse scholar mother—Mochani grew up witnessing health as both science and service. Her name, Mochani, means liberation, a meaning that quietly guides the spirit of this practice: healing as a return to freedom within the body, mind, and soul.
Drawing from ancient wellness philosophies and cultural healing traditions from around the world, East Flora blends bodywork, energy healing, and herbal therapies with thoughtfully handcrafted body care products. With a background in cultural studies and art history, Mochani approaches wellness as both an embodied practice and a living cultural lineage, one that honors shared wisdom across borders and traditions. At East Flora, healing is understood as something we learn from one another, as one earth family.
What sets East Flora apart is a deep commitment to authenticity and spiritual as well as physical transformation. Years of yogic study with a Hindu swami, along with a devotion to simplicity, stillness, and intentional living, shape a practice that moves slowly and with care. Here, healing is not about excess or escape, but about presence, creating space for the body’s natural intelligence to unfold.
East Flora Wellness is an invitation to soften, to reconnect, and to remember what it feels like to live freely and well-rooted, whole, and at ease.
A Natural Approach to a Life Well-Lived
Each session is fully customized.
Techniques are woven together intuitively,
drawing from bodywork, energy healing, and traditional practices,
to support release, regulation, and restoration.
Rather than addressing symptoms in isolation,
the body is approached as an integrated system.
Over time, this work creates space for deeper shifts to occur,
not through force, but through consistency, presence, and care.
A Living Body of Study
Mochani’s work is informed by ongoing study across both clinical and traditional systems:
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Massage Therapy & Native American Stone Medicine Bodywork
(Cedar Stone School of Massage, 757 hours — in progress)Pre & Postnatal Stone Therapy (Stone Medicine)
Full Spectrum Doula (Birth in Color)
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Ayurvedic Marma Therapy
(Ayurprana, with Vasant Lad)Yoga & Meditation (RYT 200)
(Satchidananda Ashram, with Swami Divyananda Saraswati)Restorative Yoga
(with Dr. Diane Malaspina)
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Reiki III Mastership
(with Robyn O’Boyle, LMT — Empowering Alchemy)Cranial Sacral (with Cedar Stone School of Massage)
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Herbalism & Ethnobotany
(Cornell University) -
Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies, World & Textiles Studies
Minor in Art History
(Virginia Commonwealth University)
There are moments in life that call for a return…
to the body, to stillness, to something more essential.
If you feel drawn to this work,
you are warmly invited to begin.
