Welcome to MANYA.
Step into a space of healing, awareness, and growth.
Hi, I'm glad you are here.
My name is Manja Herlt Podratz. I’m a cancer survivor, mother of three grown sons, and Amazon best-selling author.
I offer you my insights as a women’s hormone expert, gut-health and longevity advocate, and wellness retreat leader. I work with you to uncover the root cause of hormonal imbalances and take control of your wellbeing and purpose in life.
As for credentials, I’m a double board-certified Doctor of Natural Medicine (DNM/PhD), Amen Clinics-certified Brain Health Coach, hypnotherapist, and hold a Masters in Integrative Medicine. I am also an E-RYT 200 and a certified medical and legal interpreter (German/English).
In my early twenties, I got diagnosed with uterine cancer and my doctor suggested surgery. That didn’t go along with the vision I had for my life. I knew with certainty that I wanted to be a mom.
And that vision – seeing myself as a mom – became my big motivation.
I changed my life dramatically, started plant-based eating and mindful living. And I healed myself from cancer.
Throughout my life, failures met insights, tears met joy, trauma met healing including restoring my body after multiple fractures of my spine and overcoming PTSD after a severe physical assault. Learning how the physical, mental, vital energy, and spiritual bodies are connected and how to address them holistically, equipped me to help others on their healing journey.
I am here to help you make vitality and wellbeing your new way of life.
Books and Publications
“Wake Up. Miracles of Healing from Around the World,” (2021) – a collection of healing miracles shared by doctors, scientists, and healers including Joe Dispenza, Mariel Hemingway, and Patrick Porter. Amazon bestseller.
“An Anthology of Non-Conformism! Rebel Wom!n: Words, Ways & Wonders,” – this peer-reviewed anthology brings academics, artists, and researchers together to share both brave and beautiful contributions to womenhood in various cultures in today’s ever-changing world.
“Das Leben kennt den Weg,” (2006, Germany) – a book about plant-based eating, pregnancy, and natural childbirth. This book started a wave of feedback from women – moms, midwives, women with cancer, women with hormonal imbalances and fertility issues, and nurses – and let me to design retreats and wellness programs to help women live their best, healthy lives.
“Von mir aus … Bewegter Leib – Fluechtiger Raum,” (2008, Germany) – a study about the architectural movement space drawing on philosophies about movement, the makeup of the human body, and how we co-create and perceive the urban space taking historic concepts by Leonardo da Vinci, Le Corbusier, Oskar Schlemmer, and Mies van der Rohe into account.