Meet the Team

  • Paulina

    Holistic Healing Practitioner | Reader - Paulina's wellness programs are a combination of spiritual guidance and professional assistance in the areas of dating and relationships, family, career, purpose, and whole-body wellness. She believes wellness exists on three levels: Internal, External, and Spiritual/Emotional.

  • Natalya

    Evolutionary Astrologer - A discipline that focuses on activating a client’s highest potential, through the lens of psychology mixed with the ancient study of the birth chart, as well as intuitive Tarot, to support the manifestation of one’s fulfillment. Natalya teaches personal empowerment and provides spiritual guidance using Astrological and Tarot insight.

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About Romani Holistic

- Paulina Stevens

I was raised within my Muchwaya Romani family’s fortune telling and wellness traditions. My parents owned spiritual shops throughout San Francisco and the central coast of California, and I was taught tarot, palmistry, Turkish coffee reading, energy healing, and how to work with teas and spices to balance the body and spirit. However, I needed to strike out personally and professionally on my own path. The holistic health movement inspired me, and in my own practice and in my work with clients, I focus on addressing the physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual components of health. Growing up poor, my mother would cook every day, and we would shop at the farmer’s markets in front of our store. From an early age, I was taught the benefit of eating whole foods, grown locally. In 2018, I earned a wellness coaching certificate and later began collaborating with nutritionists and herbalists to create comprehensive plans for clients that cater to body and soul. 

I offer one-on-one consultations and readings for tarot, palmistry, Turkish coffee reading, and wellness coaching. At Romani Holistic, we also offer house cleansings and are available for events.

I am the co-host of Romanistan Podcast, a podcast that celebrates and explores Romani culture. My hope for Romanistan Podcast is to educate and empower those who feel powerless, and hopefully give a voice to outcasts, rebels, and revolutionaries. There are countless aspects to this culture that I am truly in love with, including our language, cuisine, arts, music, and passion. Our traditions, we must fight, to keep, and some practices must come to an end. Romanistan is available on all podcast platforms, and you can support us on Ko-Fi and Patreon.

I am also featured on the LA Times podcast, Foretold, which tells the story of my decision to leave my arranged marriage and traditional community, and navigate a new life, walking between the Roma world, and non-Roma world. 

I am currently a student of biotechnology at Miracoasta College, and I love studying where science and spirituality meet.

Who are the Romani People?

Romani people are a diasporic ethnic group originally from India circa the 10th century. Roma are also known by the racial slur, “Gypsy,” but it’s not the preferred term for others to use (or appropriate), though Romani people may reclaim it. When Roma arrived in Europe between the 1300s-1400s, they were met with extreme persecution, which continues today. Roma were enslaved for 500 years in the Balkans, and targets of genocide, especially during the Holocaust. Throughout all this, Roma have retained their culture, language, and practices. Disproportionately, Roma experience poverty, police brutality, as well as housing, education, and employment discrimination. For the last several centuries, Roma were limited to traditional jobs that the early Roma brought with them from India and Western Asia, like fortune telling, metalworking, and performing. Though things are changing and you will find Roma in different careers today, many Romani people still work traditional jobs as well.

Tarot reading itself is a job created after the people left India between the 10th and 11th centuries, and arrived in Europe between the 1300s-1400s, they were. While playing cards existed in many other cultures across the world before tarot cards were created, and likely influenced the invention of tarot, Roma were the first to use the tarot as a divinatory tool. Roma also brought other divination practices with them, like palmistry, tea leaf and coffee reading, and other tools, and popularized them, particularly during the Victorian era. Roma today are too often left out of the discourse of divination, and left out of history, even though we are an enormous part of the story and keepers of ancient traditions. With my work, I seek to guide others using these age-old practices, and uplift other Romani people working these trades, as well as marginalized BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) working their spiritual traditions. 

To me, the Roma cause means being a part of something remarkable. Without my culture, my world is black and white. It also means having to fight. Innocent individuals are fighting for the right just to exist and we must come together.