Whoever you are and whatever brought you here, you're welcome.

I'm Margarita. I run a practice rooted in my Caribbean lineage and community knowledge. Birth support, end-of-life care, spiritual services, and botanical self care. Based in New Haven. Made for those who care deeply.

My Roots

I grew up inside Espiritismo. Not as something I was taught from a distance but as something I lived. The rituals, the prayers, the understanding that the body and spirit move together. It was never separate from daily life. It still isn't.

Caribbean sun. Island soil. Knowledge that passed through the hands of women who never needed a label for what they knew. I carry that memory. It would not leave me alone.

My Approach

I remove more than I add. Not for aesthetics but because everything here has to actually work.

I'm chronically ill. I have spent years looking for things that hold up past the novelty, past the story on the label. If an ingredient does not serve your body it does not belong here. I am not interested in impressive. I am interested in what you feel three weeks in, when the only thing left is whether it works.

My Process

I've been in the room at births and at deaths. I've lost people I loved deeply, within just a few years of each other. That kind of grief changes how you understand time and care and what it means to really show up for someone.

I didn't come to this work from a place of having everything figured out. I came because I needed it too. If it reaches you, it has already been lived in. You deserve to know that.

Gatherings

La mesa is where we learn together.

I host small community gatherings focused on herbalism, plant medicine, and death education. These are not classes. They are conversations. The kind where questions are welcome, where what your grandmother did in the kitchen counts as knowledge, and where nothing has to be dressed up to belong.

This is information that should not be hard to access. Plants, how to use them, how to prepare them, what they have been used for in Caribbean tradition. How to talk about death. How to sit with someone who is dying. How to grieve without being rushed through it.

You do not need a background in any of this. You just need to want to know.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Atabey Obsidiana is a botanical care studio offering plant-based self care products, full spectrum doula services, and Botánica offerings. Our work is rooted in earth connection, Puerto Rican and Afro-Caribbean tradition, Espiritismo, and Curanderismo.

  • Atabey Obsidiana provides care for the body, spirit, and everyday life. We offer botanical self care products, doula support for life transitions, and spiritual goods for cleansing, protection, peace, and intention.

  • Our core values are earth connection, cultural respect, spiritual care, honest self care, and community-rooted support. We center BIPOC people, Caribbean traditions, and ancestral ways of caring that have survived colonialism, racism, and disconnection. Our work is about helping people reconnect with their body, spirit, plants, and lineage.