Meet Annie ♥
I’ve raised four kids across four decades, and spent twenty years helping mothers raise theirs.
come sit at my table, mama
I’ve been a mother since I was 17 years old, and motherhood has shaped every part of my life’s work. Today I’m parenting across four decades, with children ages 2, 16, 22 and 27, two of them grown women, and I’m Meema to my oldest daughter’s 10 month old.
I’m Annie, a clinical vitalist herbalist, yoga and pelvic floor therapist, educator, and founder of Primal Vinyasa® and Primal Medicine. For more than twenty years I’ve worked with women and families, bringing together traditional herbal medicine, ancestral nourishment, therapeutic movement, nervous system education, child development and family wellness coaching.
Everything I’ve trained in, I’ve trained in for you and your children. The Primal Child™ is where I’ve brought it all together, and this is where you and I can work one to one.
Why mothers come to me ♥
From first foods to the first day of school, this is the whole of raising a child.
Mothers come to me for all of it, the baby who won’t sleep and the toddler who won’t stop, the first foods and the iron gaps that hide behind a picky eater, the potty learning that started as a plan and turned into a standoff, the fits that are bigger than the moment, the gut that keeps flaring, the fevers and coughs you’d rather handle at home, and the climbing, crawling and outdoor play a growing brain needs. Underneath all of it is your own nervous system, because your child borrows yours long before they build their own.
Here’s what I’ve learned in twenty years of this work. None of these are separate problems. The gut, the brain, the nervous system, the food, the sleep and the movement are one living system, and when we look at your child that way the answers get a whole lot simpler. You stop chasing symptoms one at a time and start raising a whole human.
How I know this works ♥
My firstborn son is the reason this work exists.
Tabor, my first son, had a simple cough and was given albuterol, and after that his body broke out in hives that would not stop, followed by an anxiety so big it swallowed him. My bright, wild little boy could not settle in his own skin, and every answer we were given treated the surface and never touched the root.
So I pulled the emergency lever. I healed and sealed his gut with the GAPS protocol, we worked with Chinese and Western herbs, and I studied pediatric Shonishin with Bob Quinn, one of the best in the world. Then we left the city, moved to the country and put him in a farm school so his nervous system could finally exhale. And he healed, truly healed, not managed and not coping.
That’s where it all clicked for me. The gut is tied to the brain, the brain is tied to the nervous system, and food, movement and regulation were never separate things. He’s sixteen now and one of the most grounded humans I know, and every mother I work with gets what I learned in those years.
My training ♥
Two decades of deep study with some of the best teachers in the world.
I’ve spent two decades of my life studying holistic living, and when I ran my yoga studio in Portland we brought in some of the best teachers in the world for workshops and trainings, so I learned from them year after year, in the room, not from a screen. All of it is pointed at your family now.
- Clinical family herbalist in the vitalist tradition for almost twenty years
- Pelvic floor therapist, trained with Tami Lynn Kent in Holistic Pelvic Care
- Functional nutritionist, grounded in Weston A. Price and ancestral nourishment
- Somatic practitioner
- Yoga therapist
- Nervous system educator
- Pediatric Shonishin with Bob Quinn
- The GAPS protocol for healing and sealing the gut
- Homeopathy and anthroposophical medicine
- Earth Medicine traditions with Pixie Lighthorse
- Fifteen years certified in Anusara yoga, with training in Alexander Technique, fascia and anatomy
- Co-founded and ran Yoga Union Community Wellness Center in Portland for nearly twenty years
- Founder of four trademarked methods: Primal Child™, Primal Potty Training™, Primal Medicine™ and Primal Vinyasa®
- Primal Potty Training™ was reviewed and endorsed by Doman International, and all four of my children were out of diapers before their first birthday
I’ve also been the one who was afraid. For two years I had tremors I was told would never stop, and I was a go-go-go adrenaline girl who thought chamomile tea was for boring people, so that crisis forced me to learn the nervous system from the inside. I healed it completely with homeopathy, nervous system work, movement and time, which means that when you sit across from me depleted and scared, I’m not guessing what that feels like. I know the way out.
Primal Parenting ♥
Let’s look at your child together.
This is my one to one work, for the gut that keeps flaring, the fits that are bigger than the moment, the fevers you want to handle at home, the potty learning that has turned into a battle, the sleep that won’t settle, and the first foods that set up everything that comes after. You book a call, we look at your child and your home as one picture, and you leave with a plan you can run in your own kitchen tonight.
And we look at you too, mama, because a depleted mother can’t hold a hard week no matter how much she knows. Whether it’s postpartum, perimenopause or the nutrition gaps that leave you running on fumes, your nervous system is the one your child borrows, so we fill you up first.
If you’d rather be in a room full of mothers with me in it every month, come inside the Collective. Either way, you won’t be left in the weeds.
from the mothers I work with
What happens when we sit down together
“When my son was chronically ill nothing the doctors did helped. I reached out to Annie and when I started implementing everything she told me in addition to Chinese herbs, my son’s health has made a huge transformation, thank goodness.”
Felicia Keene, mother of Simon ♥
“Annie’s work helped me understand that we are not just raising kids, we are creating a container for humans to grow in a way that feels supportive, respectful, and honoring of who they are meant to be. That shift alone transformed our family dynamic, our health, and even our potty training journey.”
Katie, mother of 3 ♥
Protecting the childhood many of us remember, and helping families reclaim it for the next generation.
With rhythm and trust,
Annie Adamson