Our Mission
Our intention is to offer you a sense of calm and relaxation as well as lasting health benefits through the healing properties of the herbs in the most intimate way.
By experiencing herbal steam, we hope you feel recentered and at-home in your body and heart again – to thrive as a true version of yourself.
Meet Our Team
We are a team of three Japanese female therapists who are dedicated to serve the community through the whole-body herbal steaming and fermentation that are based on Japanese ancestral wisdom. We combine the steam therapy with a therapeutic massage to enhance both treatments at some occasions.
Fukiko Ostensen
Steam Therapist, Herbalist, Founder of Poca Poca, a DBA of Kannon Herbs and Steam LLC
Fukiko is an herbalist born and raised in the Japanese countryside, now based in the Catskill region nestled within pristine nature. Ever since she arrived in this region in 2018, she has been learning about medicinal properties of various plants through the Hudson Valley herbal community and earning her herbalist certification from Ecoversity.
After studying and earning a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Environmental Science in the United States and living abroad in Nepal for 4 years, Fukiko discovered her true passion in educating and working with other women to help heal from women’s physical and emotional issues that are often ignored, and preventing them from being the best and healthiest versions of themselves.
Utilizing wildcrafted and organically grown medicinal herbs combined with ancestral Japanese herbal steam practice, she supports women’s health and spiritual nourishment that can be accessible to all women as part of their self-care routine.
When she is not offering herbal steam service to clients, you can find her harvesting in nature, making plant medicines, spending quality time with her family and friends, and being engaged in community activities.
Mayumi Motoki
Steam Therapist and Hakko (fermentation) Advisor
Mami is a professional chef and fermentation specialist who is passionate about bringing Japanese heritage to the United States to help the wider community through her healing food and fermentation methods.
Her lifelong passion for cooking comes from growing up in the restaurant environment where she helped her parents run their multiple businesses, and found purpose in serving customers food that brought them health and joy. She has graduated from a fermentation university in Japan, and is certified with several licenses including Chinese medicinal cooking, vegetarian cooking, and as a fermentation instructor. Her curiosity for fermented food led her to meet a legendary master of fermentation in Kudaka Island in Okinawa where she was directly passed down the traditional techniques on how to make their local probiotic drink, Omiki, now served after every Poca Poca treatment.
She has applied her fermentation knowledge to the Poca Poca whole-body herbal steam treatment where mugwort is inoculated with healthy microorganisms to increase its potency, allowing the treatment to be even more effective. She now acts as the advisor of the Poca Poca team and strives to spread the benefit of fermentation through a myriad of creative vehicles.
Nao Powell
Massage Therapist
Nao Powell is a licensed massage therapist in the state of New York and New Jersey. She graduated from Swedish institute college of health and science in NYC in 2018. Her aim is to cater to individual needs by using a combination of techniques which include deep tissue, stretch, trigger point, myofascial release, mobilization, cupping and relaxation. She comes from a family lineage of healers who were respected for their ability of healing hands.
“Massage is my calling. First time I realized the power of massage was when I was hospitalized for threatened premature labor. I suffered very bad shoulder and neck pain which might have been due to the 24 hrs iv drop in my arm, anxiety and nervousness. A nurse who was in charge of me for one night offered me a massage. Her touch relieved not only the muscle tension but also the mental stress. I felt her compassion, love and dedication towards the patient through her touch and hands. This experience lit up my soul. I decided to be a massage therapist to pass this gift on to others."