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Nalaya, smiling in a straw hat, holding her daughter in the Sacred Valley of Peru
Nalaya Chakana

Mother, homemaker, maker of slow things.

Tending a home, a family and a few quiet projects in the mountains of Peru.

A little about me
About

Hi, I’m Nalaya

Home is the centre of everything I do. Making it warm, beautiful and nourishing for the people I love is the work I feel most made for.

I’ve spent more than fifteen years living between India and Peru, immersed in traditions that treat daily life as sacred: how food is prepared, how a space is kept, how people are touched and spoken to. That way of seeing shapes how I mother, how I keep house, and everything I make with my hands.

For many years I worked as an intimacy and relationship coach, walking with women through the patterns that keep love at arm’s length. I still take on a small number of clients, but my centre of gravity has shifted toward home, motherhood and the slower crafts that have been calling me for a long time.

This page is simply a place to find me, and to follow what grows from here.

Coaching

Intimacy & relationship work

I still work one-to-one with a few women at a time, by invitation and application only.

If this is what brought you here, the book is the place to start. It holds the heart of what I teach, and it’s where every woman I work with begins.

Start with the book →
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In the making

Things I’m tending

A few projects growing quietly alongside family life. None of them are in a hurry. When each is ready to share, it will appear here first.

Chakana Skincare

Small-batch skincare made from plants I trust, with recipes that began in my own kitchen for my own family.

Coming

Natural Perfume

Botanical scent, blended by hand from resins, flowers and woods. Slow to make, slow to unfold on the skin.

Coming

Interior Design

Warm, natural, lived-in spaces. Helping a home feel like the people who live in it. Details to come.

Coming
Contact

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