Romani Wild Roots

Rooted in many places. Made to bring us home.

My family story was carried across borders by travelers. Its deepest inheritance is simple: care can be made by hand and shared with anyone.

My Romani roots hold the memory of many places, with a Galician thread among them. What was passed down was less a map than a way of caring: working with plants, listening to the body, honoring intuition, and carrying practical knowledge from one generation to the next.

The women before me were remembered in our family as “granny witches,” midwives, and herbalists. Their spirituality lived in what they gathered, made, and offered to others. They understood wellness as a relationship between body, earth, spirit, and community.

I began by blending and bottling every oil by hand, then worked with a dermatologist as I refined the collection. Esma Soma brings those worlds together: inherited botanical craft and thoughtful modern formulation, divine feminine warmth and dark feminine depth. It is an invitation for people from every walk of life to slow down, ground, and feel at home in their bodies.