Miniya Nefertari (she/her), pronounced Min-e-ah is a Waawiyatanong (Detroit) based full-spectrum doula, somatic storyteller, facilitator, and grassroots herbalist. She is the founder of Mind Body Soulstice (est. 2021), an initiative devoted to supporting the health and well-being of BIPOC women through holistic, culturally rooted care.
Her work centers embodiment, storytelling, and health justice. Through curated workshops, retreats, and collaborative programs, she creates spaces that invite more relational, culturally responsive approaches to care across individuals, communities, and organizations.
Rooted in an interdisciplinary practice, Miniya draws from African diasporic and Indigenous spiritual traditions, with a focus on ancestral somatic practices and holistic well-being. Working at the intersection of narrative medicine, philosophy, and anthropology, she explores how lived experience, identity, and cultural memory shape health narratives and clinical encounters.
She is a recipient of the Narrative Medicine Postgraduate Fellowship for her project, Birthwrite: (Re)claiming Embodied Birth & Postpartum Healing through Integrative Narrative Medicine and Somatic Abolitionist Practices. Birthwrite is a collaborative workshop series that centers narrative and somatic practices within birthwork, supporting individuals across the perinatal journey. Through storytelling, movement, and community, it creates space for reconnection with the body while honoring birth as a profound narrative and relational transition.
Beyond her formal roles, Miniya is a devoted solo mother, creative, healer, and activist. She enjoys spending time with her son crafting herbal remedies and cooking in the kitchenβeveryday rituals that reflect her commitment to care, nourishment, and intergenerational healing. Her work is guided by a deep commitment to honoring the body, reclaiming story, and cultivating spaces where healing can be experienced as both personal and collective, grounded in relationship to self, community, and the natural world.
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