My mom (and my Grandma)
….would take care of people, and when they’d die, she'd stick to that last moment. She was one of the first End of Life Doulas I ever knew. She'd look stunning and so full of love, compassion, and love and not a hint of fear. I know this, because I was there, and I was not only learning about my mom but I was also learning about my own path. I'll be forever thankful she'd drag me to these moments.
Like my mom would say, "you show up for your people", and this has translated so beautifully on being there for the one being born, the unborn or the not yet time to being born, and the dying one, or being born to another dimension. No school would have given me this better than my mom. And for that I'll always be grateful.
Gracias Mami!”
GENDER TRANSITION MONITRICE CARE
We offer caregiver and companionship to the expansive spectrum of Gender Affirming Transition including hormone, surgical, non-medical, and herbal transitions — for people who are queer, trans, gender non conforming, nonbinary or otherwise seeking gender-affirming care. We provide support, advocacy, and education to clients going through their gender transitions.
Providing comprehensive resources and referrals in their communities that center QTGNCNB+ health care.
Attending/ training hormone shots with folks in order to help or support them during self-injections.
Helping people before and after surgical procedures.
Being a trauma-informed, compassion-centered caregiver to QTGNCNB+ folks in need of nourishment, wellness, and recovery support.
ADOPTION ADAPTATION SUPPORT: THE OTHER POSTPARTUM
We can work in conjunction with every member of the adoption team, and lend our hand to help ensure a smooth transition for the baby, birthing parent or the adopting one. Some frequent service requests are: how to adapt to a new baby and bond, and learning to become a parent the first “postpartum” nights.We also support families in process of Adoption Loss, providing the emotional guidance for healing success.
TRANSITION OF LIFE (END OF LIFE)
When we were kids, our mom will drag us to support and assist a dying neighbors and their loved ones before, during and after death. We continue the practice providing emotional and physical support, education about the dying process, preparation for what’s to come and guidance while you’re grieving. We utilize comfort and soothing measures to release the stress from the body and rituals to sooth the soul of the ones remaining. Our support is not palliative care, it complements it. Our model of care combines the emotional, physical, and spiritual needs this process takes.
MENOPAUSE MONITRICE SUPPORT
The medical industry creates a lot of confusion around menopause management and often natural paths that are evidence based are ignored. Instead many people are being forced to hormonal replacement therapy without understanding the effect in their bodies. We want to support people overcome this stage in the most gentle and human way possible. We understand the medical protocols as part of our training, and we also know the herbal management recommendations to manage and control menopause symptoms. Most importantly, we have the love to accompany the journeys and at most times, it is support what takes the best outcomes on this process.
Sliding scale of $80-$60 per hour/consults,$45-$35 p/h sliding scale in continuous home care support. Organizations sliding scale based on organizational budget, and community location and impact. While creating packages, the sum of the sliding scale might vary. Open to discuss bartering options for marginalized communities and refugee communities.
“How do I get an appointment?”
We invite you to trust our hands and give yourself and yours as deserved, the gift of gentle loving companionship through any and all of your cycles.
Contact us and tell us about your needs
I’ll create a plan that meets those needs and you’ll review
We’ll identify the barriers and overcome them as needed
I’ll create a package and a timeline for us to start
NATURAL GYNECOLOGY
We use natural and herbal remedies that have been proven as a substitute for chemical medications for symptomatic relief. These remedies also have a preventive and treatment use for some common diseases with low morbidity. We also promote exercises for self-examination and identification of gynecological stages for bodies that involve vaginal health, ovulation, fertility, and menstruation.
Book with us if you are having challenges with menstruation management, natural family planning, checking your IUD or removing it, or recurrent vaginal infections. We offer vaginal swabs/microscope examinations.
PELVIC CARE TRADITIONAL SOBOS
We support people with uteri with their pelvic/womb care either because they are trying to conceive, they are managing fibroids and cysts, healing trauma, after birth, abortion, or pregnancy loss, as well as to close any cycle of their life. Sobos (deep spiritual massage)is a tradition from our Healers (Santiagüadoras) in the mountains of Puerto Rico; one that we honor and take seriously as our Ancestors guide the way of our hands. All our Sobos include herb management options and are great for people after any experience with Sexual and reproductive health loss (Conception, fertility, Pregnancy, Abortion, Perinatal loss, and Postpartum).
Book with us if experiencing discomfort in the pelvic/womb area, wanting to manage fibroids, cysts, or irregularities management.
SOMATIC CARE BODYWORK-PLEASURE
We help individuals understand their bodies and the way they respond to their history, their way to find pleasure, as well as to their trauma. We offer trauma-informed care as well as handled with a feminist, gentle, body-sex positive, and diversity of ability approach. We want you to understand that pleasure is not a line written the same to all, the reason why we shouldn’t pretend to navigate it equally.
Healing pregnancy outcomes and experiences trauma through somatic bodywork and Reiki energy work for a deeper connection with your own body and healing transformation, Body Positivity, Kink-BDSM friendly, Size-Inclusive, and Decolonizing Self Acceptance, and Techniques to understand, prioritize your sexual, body, and self-care, needs, and find your pleasure. We support you in teaching self-examination/discovering, and self-pleasuring guidance.
MAINTAINING YOUR GYNE HEALTH
These classes/ educational consults are based on our Natural Gynecology Model of Care. Care always ends up being education, and education always leads to care.
Topics offered, among others, include:
Decolonizing our body from the Medical industry's expectation and standards
Self Exams as a powerful prevention tool
Herbs for healing and discomfort management
DIY Natural remedies
Menstrual health
Self womb massage
Hormones and our bodies: Different stages and body expressions
Healthy Sexuality
Breast/Chest/Upper Body or after surgery Self Exam
Safer Sex: STI/HIV prevention and/or normalizing and management
Classes are diversity-centered. We decline to use the word Women to define our classes and our clients, as it is a way to oppress and make invisible whoever doesn’t identify as one. We are here to stop normalizing violence in Gyne Care history.
YOUTH-ALLY SEX- ED
BECAUSE WE OWE THEM SO MUCH
We understand our system has failed our communities, parents, and families by not providing the best education and understanding of these topics in the past. For that reason, they haven’t been able to pass it on to our Youth, yet, they have been resilient.
To break and heal this chain, we believe our Youth deserve all the information to make the best decisions when they can, they deserve to learn it alongside their communities, and they deserve we trust them to do so, and pass this information to our future generations. Topics offered include:
Anatomy
Puberty and Changes. Social expectations
Self Esteem and Body Awareness/Image
Healthy Relationships, Consent, and Communication
Understanding Gynecological Exams and Negotiating. Trauma-Informed care
Gender, Diversity, and Inclusion
Healthy Sexuality
Breast/Chest/Upper Body/ Vaginal/Down front Self Exam.
Safer Sex: STI/HIV prevention, normalizing, and/or management
Menstruation management (want it or not)
Parents/Community Sessions
CLASSES
A series of workshops and conversations, groups or 1on1, to help individuals and communities understand their bodies, and the way they respond to their history, pleasure, as well as to their trauma. All classes are trauma-informed as well as handled with a feminist, gentle, body-sex positive, and diversity of ability approach. These classes are amazing for organized groups, and we have done them in intimate-safe spaces among friends, at pre-wedding rituals, and in Collective groups that work with other communities.
We want you to understand that pleasure is ok although not a flat line, and you shouldn’t feel guilty or incomplete about it. That’s at least where we start. Classes included are:
Anatomy of Pleasure
Mindful Sexuality and Body Movement
Self Exploration and Maximizing Your Pleasure
Rituals of Self-Exploration
Fun educational workshops pre-ceremonies
Understanding and overcoming Trauma in your body-Body Mapping
Relaxation techniques
Understanding your sexual limitations vs. opportunities
Alternative therapeutic tools that use joy and rage
HEALTH MENTORS COMMUNITY CLASSES
PREVENTIVE SELF MANAGE CARE.
To honor, respect, and preserve our and your innate cultural individual and community healing practices, we offer training for individuals and their communities interested in becoming resources for their own people's preventive healthcare.
We create curriculums and trainings that respond to preventive healthcare and our communities’ needs. This way we not only guarantee our communities receive excellent, assertive, high-quality education and resources, but we also motivate communities to also utilize mutual aid response to not only stay healthy but multiply the information among them.
These classes are amazing for organized groups, and we have done them in places like Violence Survivors groups at Centro Romero (Chicago). Our series has been very handy in communities overcoming natural disasters like hurricanes in PR, isolated communities, and systemic oppressive circumstances that make the gap between them and accessibility to resources way bigger than it should be. Topics include:
Social Justice and Popular Education Practices
Community Health and Health Workers important roles
Sexual and Reproductive Health Education
Anatomy/Physiology
Vaginal Health/Down Front and Self Exam
Breast/Chest/UpperBody Health and Self Exam
Fertility Awareness Method
Menstrual bodies and all types of Menopause Health
Sexual and Reproductive Health Prevention Education
Sexual negotiation and Protection
Emergency Response
Home Lab 101
Sliding scale of $80-$60 per hour/consults,$45-$35 p/h sliding scale in continuous home care support. Organizations sliding scale based on organizational budget, and community location and impact. While creating packages, the sum of the sliding scale might vary. Open to discuss bartering options for marginalized communities and refugee communities.
“How do I get an appointment?”
We invite you to trust our hands and give yourself and yours as deserved, the gift of gentle loving companionship through any of your cycles.
Contact us and tell us about your needs
I’ll create a plan that meets those needs and you’ll review
We’ll identify the barriers and overcome them as needed
I’ll create a package and a timeline for us to start
FERTILITY LOSS CARE
Care and Companionship support during any Outcomes of Pregnancy can be overwhelming. We have been doing this for quite a bit and could help you, or recommend you We want to provide you a healing hand so you don’t feel alone, regardless of what was the outcome of your pregnancy, as you all deserve. We want to normalize that all outcomes of pregnancy also deserve gentle care.
Some popular services are Gentle loss experience in the privacy of your home, logistics, companionship at the clinic if permitted, how to understand its stages, and how to create spaces for healing care and closure if needed.
TRYING TO CONCEIVE (TTC) EDUCATION ON CHARTING AND TRACKING
In the times when apps can track our cycles and tell us ‘the next steps”, it wouldn’t hurt to reevaluate our connection with our fertility, body, and cycles to achieve (or prevent/stop) a pregnancy. In our classes, designed specifically for your body history, we can work with topics like:
Fertility Awareness method
Body Mapping, Monitoring and Charting
Herbs for Fertility and Conceptions
Nutrition for fertility
Understanding the menstrual cycle
Reconnection with your body signs
Natural Herbal Birth control
Decolonizing the Pre-Menstrual Syndrome
Self-examination
How to achieve/avoid/stop pregnancy, different methodologies and routes, for the fullest spectrum of diversity of being a person with a uterus or menstruating body.
PELVIC CARE TRADITIONAL SOBOS FOR FERTILITY
We support people with uteri with their pelvic/womb care at many cycles and stages of life. Sobos (deep spiritual massage)is a tradition from our Healers (Santiagüadoras) in the mountains of Puerto Rico; one that we honor and take seriously as our Ancestors guide the way of our hands. All our Sobos include herb management options and are great for people after any experience with Sexual and reproductive health loss (Conception, fertility, Pregnancy, Abortion, Perinatal loss, and Postpartum).
Book with us if trying to conceive and want to learn how to self-massage
FERTILITY CONCEPTION MONITRICE CARE
We understand the journey of conception can be challenging, stressful, even lonely, and often filled with grief. It is never a flat line. We’ve been there, and because we understand, we want to extend our hands to those in the process and need. No one should have to go over this on their own, and these services should be accessible to all people.
Book with us if you need support learning the Fertility Awareness Method: (Education, charting, monitoring body signals, navigation of protocols, guidance through exams, etc.), you need Fertility Care around nutrition, herbs, fertility sobos, pelvic floor steam baths, support and companionship during fertility loss and grief.
We also support your at-home insemination journey so you can have a more gentle experience trying to conceive with no need to go to a clinic (if it applies).
Sliding scale of $80-$60 per hour/consults,$45-$35 p/h sliding scale in continuous home care support. Organizations sliding scale based on organizational budget, and community location and impact. While creating packages, the sum of the sliding scale might vary. Open to discuss bartering options for marginalized communities and refugee communities.
“How do I get an appointment?”
We invite you to trust our hands and give yourself and yours as deserved, the gift of gentle loving companionship through any of your cycles.
Contact us and tell us about your needs
I’ll create a plan that meets those needs and you’ll review
We’ll identify the barriers and overcome them as needed
I’ll create a package and a timeline for us to start
PRENATAL COMPREHENSIVE CLASSES
We are excited to bring back our prenatal classes to our communities. These can be held in smaller groups or individually. Topics that may be covered include:
Healthy Pregnancy
Mental health during and after pregnancy
Family and community-social supports
Understanding labor and delivery
How to navigate the hospital or birthing center once you arrive
Supplies needed if preparing for a homebirth
What sorts of medical interventions you might experience/choose
Relaxation and pain-relief techniques (massage, breathing, warm water)
Birthing positions
Options for pain relief
How to prepare a birth plan
Breast/chestfeeding, body feeding, or any form of baby feeding.
Postpartum care
Caring for a newborn
Diversity and Inclusion in Care and Education: Gender Expansive, Body, Ableism, Fat and Sex/kink Positive/acceptance approach
BIRTH SUPPORT AS MONITRICE
We will provide emotional and physical support to you before, during, and after your pregnancy and childbirth. Note that Monitrice Care offers the same continuous labor support as a birth Doula and has additional nursing or midwifery training. This training means that we can perform certain clinical assessments while supporting a family at home in the early stages of labor. DEM/Lay Midwives like me often shift to Monitrice when state laws can’t acknowledge our care, and we we work within a scope that is not that of the primary midwife or ob/gyne care. Until we get our CPM license (2025) we can only offer these services as Monitrice with a team of other Midwife providers. In the meantime, we are more than glad to connect you with other amazing midwives.
PRENATAL TRADITIONAL SOBOS
Studies have shown how Prenatal Sobos can help reduce anxiety, decrease symptoms of depression, relieve muscle aches and joint pains, and improve labor outcomes as well as newborn health. Our Santigüadora Sobos (folk community traditional massages) is a tradition from our Healers in the mountains of Puerto Rico; one that we honor and take seriously as our Ancestors guide the way of our hands.
Relief and Discomfort Management through all stages of pregnancy, Reduce Swelling and Stress through the whole body, Relaxation to sleep better and heal the process, Preparing your body for all changes and stages: Conception to Birth, Body Awareness, and rituals of closure.
Sliding scale of $80-$60 per hour/consults,$45-$35 p/h sliding scale in continuous home care support. Organizations sliding scale based on organizational budget, and community location and impact. While creating packages, the sum of the sliding scale might vary. Open to discuss bartering options for marginalized communities and refugee communities.
“How do I get an appointment?”
We invite you to trust our hands and give yourself and yours as deserved, the gift of gentle loving companionship through any of your cycles.
Contact us and tell us about your needs
I’ll create a plan that meets those needs and you’ll review
We’ll identify the barriers and overcome them as needed
I’ll create a package and a timeline for us to start
ALL PREGNANCY OUTCOMES AND EXPERIENCES (APOE) SUPPORT
We understand how limited are the expansive resources around a fuller spectrum of care. We want to change that, training more Companions for people out there. These individual classes are great for BirthWorkers/Doulas, Midwives, healers, partners in healthcare, Health Workers, as well as friends, parents, and the community in general who want to be there to support others.
Diversity and Inclusion in AOP care and education: Gender Expansive, Body, Ableism, Fat and Sex/Kink positive/acceptance approach
Preparation before, during, and after any APO services
Trans Gender Non-Binary (TGNB) and Youth Ally specific
Home and Clinic management: Differences and approaches
Cultural Competence and Appropriation in Traditional Healing Practices in APO
Prenatal care and Nutrition.
Stages of Labor/Loss
Comfort Measures, options, and herbs management.
Complications, and Emergency Response.
Body-feeding and Post-Outcomes comprehensive care
APO emotional and physical support within clinics and home settings.
Grief and Loss/ Trauma-Informed Care.
“DIY at Home” support for partners and close ones
How to create experiences honoring rituals for all
Among many other transversal topics.
REPRODUCTIVE LOSS MONITRICE SUPPORT AND CARE
Care and Companionship support during any Outcomes of Pregnancy can be overwhelming. We have been doing this for quite a bit and could help you, or recommend you We want to provide you a healing hand so you don’t feel alone, regardless of the outcome of your pregnancy, as you all deserve. We want to normalize that all outcomes of pregnancy also deserve gentle care.
Some popular services are Gentle loss experience in the privacy of your home, logistics, companionship at the clinic if permitted, how to understand its stages, and how to create spaces for healing care and closure if needed.
ABORTION
Care and Companionship support during a process that has been decided still could have many logistics and sides to it, and we are willing to figure them all out with you. We want to provide you with a healing hand so you don’t feel alone, regardless of what was the outcome of your pregnancy, as you all deserve. We want to normalize that all outcomes of pregnancy also deserve gentle care.
Some popular services are Support at home, logistics, companionship at the clinic if permitted, how to prepare for your abortion, how to understand its stages, and how to create spaces for healing care and closure if needed.
PELVIC CARE TRADITIONAL SOBOS FOR LOSS MANAGEMENT
We support people with uteri with their pelvic/womb care at many cycles and stages of life. Sobos (deep spiritual massage)is a tradition from our Healers (Santiagüadoras) in the mountains of Puerto Rico; one that we honor and take seriously as our Ancestors guide the way of our hands. All our Sobos include herbal management options and are great for people after any experience with Sexual and reproductive health loss (Conception, fertility, Pregnancy, Abortion, Perinatal loss, and Postpartum).
Book with us if wanting to heal after any miscarriage and loss experience.
Sliding scale of $80-$50 for consults. $45-$35 p/h sliding scale in continuous home care support.
“How do I get an appointment?”
We invite you to trust our hands and give yourself and yours as deserved, the gift of gentle loving companionship through any and all of your cycles.
Contact us and tell us about your needs
I’ll create a plan that meets those needs and you’ll review
We’ll identify the barriers and will overcome them as needed
I’ll create a package and a timeline for us to start
PELVIC CARE TRADITIONAL SOBOS POSTPARTUM MANAGEMENT
We support people with uteri with their pelvic/womb care at many cycles and stages of life. Sobos (deep spiritual massage)is a tradition from our Healers (Santiagüadoras) in the mountains of Puerto Rico; one that we honor and take seriously as our Ancestors guide the way of our hands. All our Sobos include herbs management options and are great for people after any experience within Sexual and reproductive health loss (Conception, fertility, Pregnancy, Abortion, Perinatal loss, and Postpartum).
Book with us if OVER 40 days postpartum
POSTPARTUM CARE AND SUPPORT
We provide comfort and support while bringing evidenced-based information on things such as infant feeding, emotional and physical recovery from birth, parents-baby bonding, infant soothing, baby feeding and body feeding, and basic newborn care. The most requested service is overnight postpartum care, we support you sleep better while we take care of everything else.
MEAL SUPPORT FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY POSTPARTUM JOURNEY
We love cooking for our families. Don’t be shy and ask away!
Sliding scale of $80-$60 per hour/consults,$45-$35 p/h sliding scale in continuous home care support. Organizations sliding scale based on organizational budget, and community location and impact. While creating packages, the sum of the sliding scale might vary. Open to discuss bartering options for marginalized communities and refugee communities.
“How do I get an appointment?”
We invite you to trust our hands and give yourself and yours as deserved, the gift of gentle loving companionship through any of your cycles.
Contact us and tell us about your needs
I’ll create a plan that meets those needs and you’ll review
We’ll identify the barriers and overcome them as needed
I’ll create a package and a timeline for us to start
GENDER TRANSITION MONITRICE CARE
We offer caregiver and companionship to the expansive spectrum of Gender Affirming Transition including hormone, surgical, non-medical, and herbal transitions — for people who are queer, trans, gender non conforming, nonbinary or otherwise seeking gender-affirming care. We provide support, advocacy, and education to clients going through their gender transitions.
Providing comprehensive resources and referrals in their communities that center QTGNCNB+ health care.
Attending/ training hormone shots with folks in order to help or support them during self-injections.
Helping people before and after surgical procedures.
Being a trauma-informed, compassion-centered caregiver to QTGNCNB+ folks in need of nourishment, wellness, and recovery support.
ADOPTION ADAPTATION SUPPORT: THE OTHER POSTPARTUM
We can work in conjunction with every member of the adoption team, and lend our hand to help ensure a smooth transition for the baby, birthing parent or the adopting one. Some frequent service requests are: how to adapt to a new baby and bond, and learning to become a parent the first “postpartum” nights.We also support families in process of Adoption Loss, providing the emotional guidance for healing success.
TRANSITION OF LIFE (END OF LIFE)
When we were kids, our mom will drag us to support and assist a dying neighbors and their loved ones before, during and after death. We continue the practice providing emotional and physical support, education about the dying process, preparation for what’s to come and guidance while you’re grieving. We utilize comfort and soothing measures to release the stress from the body and rituals to sooth the soul of the ones remaining. Our support is not palliative care, it complements it. Our model of care combines the emotional, physical, and spiritual needs this process takes.
MENOPAUSE MONITRICE SUPPORT
The medical industry creates a lot of confusion around menopause management and often natural paths that are evidence based are ignored. Instead many people are being forced to hormonal replacement therapy without understanding the effect in their bodies. We want to support people overcome this stage in the most gentle and human way possible. We understand the medical protocols as part of our training, and we also know the herbal management recommendations to manage and control menopause symptoms. Most importantly, we have the love to accompany the journeys and at most times, it is support what takes the best outcomes on this process.
My mom (and my Grandma)
….would take care of people, and when they’d die, she'd stick to that last moment. She was one of the first End of Life Doulas I ever knew. She'd look stunning and so full of love, compassion, and love and not a hint of fear. I know this, because I was there, and I was not only learning about my mom but I was also learning about my own path. I'll be forever thankful she'd drag me to these moments.
Like my mom would say, "you show up for your people", and this has translated so beautifully on being there for the one being born, the unborn or the not yet time to being born, and the dying one, or being born to another dimension. No school would have given me this better than my mom. And for that I'll always be grateful.
Gracias Mami!”
Sliding scale of $80-$60 per hour/consults,$45-$35 p/h sliding scale in continuous home care support. Organizations sliding scale based on organizational budget, and community location and impact. While creating packages, the sum of the sliding scale might vary. Open to discuss bartering options for marginalized communities and refugee communities.
“How do I get an appointment?”
We invite you to trust our hands and give yourself and yours as deserved, the gift of gentle loving companionship through any and all of your cycles.
Contact us and tell us about your needs
I’ll create a plan that meets those needs and you’ll review
We’ll identify the barriers and overcome them as needed
I’ll create a package and a timeline for us to start
CONSULTATIONS AND TRAINING FOR CLINICS STAFF AND ORGANIZATIONS
SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SPECIALISTS (SRH)/ CONTRACT
As SRH Specialists with over 20 years of experience, our team can help your organization/ clinic staff acquire a holistic, compassionate, people-centered, cultural competent, gender-expansive, diverse bodies and abilities acceptance, trans -affirming, and trauma-informed approach that can better support your communities.
With higher demands looking for more affirming, natural, and gentler practices, we can help you coordinate the planning and implementation of an Holistic SRH Program geared towards meeting your clients/patients care balance, improving their lives and well-being, as well as your staff and organizational strategic goals.
With over 20 years working in clinic, community, and organizations settings, we have supported the work that has impacted the personalized care of hundreds of people, including Gender Affirming Hormone support. Ask about our consultants and how can they help your organization
Planning and implementation of SRH program centered in trauma-informed care, gender-expansive and affirming, queer-inclusive, body and sex positive, harm-reduction, and culturally competent.
Integrity of the human body, mind, spirit, traumas, and body-emotional experiences as one in your care.
Support training of counterparts and implementing partners
Develop evidence based good practices and lessons learned
Help you through specifics, as feminist approach to Pelvic Exams, Medical Peer consultation, Affirming Comprehensive care, among so many others.
Contact us to create a package, and we will meet your organizations needs.
We have trained and supported the organizations below with consults, classes, curriculum design, temporary contracts, and support overall:
Community members during a gardening class
Vaginal route class, preventive care and use of natural methods
Members of the board that make the magic happen
Mercado Afrícola. Community Fresh Market
Breast Health class and circle of discussion.
A space for the community to meet and enjoy their time
Movie nights
Ecological walks
A space for kids to learn and enjoy our natural resources
Flea markets
Post Hurricane María efforts to restore electricity
Activities for our elders…
Agriculture classes
My dad involved in the leadership of our cabin
The beginnings of my carpentry school
Community supporting the constructions
Preserving our traditions with the gandul
Spaces for community meals, heal, and rest
Ecological walks
Preservation of our natural resources
Community nights and bonfires
Nursery of fruit plants and trees
Preparing lands and soil to avoid landfalls
Continuing ancestral agriculture practices
Plants nursery
Sylvia Gonzalez, MPH, DACM, LAc
Sylvia (she/her/ella) was one of the first “family” I had in Chicago. I owe much to her support and our long night conversations on how to dismantle systems of oppression to uplift the collective healing opportunities for all. A true gem for all!
She is a bilingual Spanish-speaking acupuncturist and herbalist. She uses acupuncture, herbal medicine, body work, food therapy, and lifestyle recommendations to address a wide variety of health issues, and treats children, youth, adults, elderly, and pregnant people.
Sylvia has a Doctorate in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine from the Pacific College of Health Science, and a Master in Public Health from the University of Illinois Chicago. Her professional experiences include years of organizing, advocacy, birth work, and public health research.
Using a trauma-informed and healing-centered approach, she supports patients on their path towards holistic health and wellbeing. You can find her at Sanctuary Health on Mondays and Tuesdays, or you can book directly at her page.
Juanita Montoya, CPM. Traditional Birth. Indigenous birth worker
Juanita created The Rhythm Within, which offers a holistic approach to birth work that uses time-proven birthing practices that center birth as a profound rite of passage. As a rite of passage labor and birth can become an embodied experience of self-discovery and a renewal of self-love. A shedding of old roles for a better-fitting one. In this way, pregnancy is also the time when new parents, new lovers, new selves, new hopes and curiosities are being gestated. This rite of passage leaves no one unchanged. This is one of birth's greatest gifts, one which we can use for healing and personal growth.
The Rhythm Within offers a caring and non-judgmental space where you can let go of what no longer serves you, while holding onto what does as you embrace the vulnerabilities and joys of your birth journey. You can find her through her website.
Coté Sáez , Advanced Holistic Labor and Postpartum Doula, Child Birth Educator, Herbalist, Placenta Artist
Born in Santiago and raised in Los Andes, Chile, Coté Sáez moved to the United States, specifically to the Chicago area, in her late 20’s. Besides being the mother of three beautiful children, Coté is a certified Holistic Birth and Postpartum Doula with The Matrona. She is also a Birth Mentor with Birthing from Within, trained in Placenta Encapsulation and trained with CAPPA as Childbirth Educator.
She has also obtained her Advanced Doula Certification in extended studies including: Anatomy & Physiology, Conflict Resolution and Mediation, Holistic Birth, Placenta Medicine, Postpartum, Prenatal Care and Homeopathy. She is also trained in Spinning Babies technique. In addition, she creates handcrafted herbal products for the whole family and a special line of products for both mother and baby.
You can connect for her services on her website.
Birth Roots Community Midwifery
This the ideal midwifery practice for clients seeking holistic, heart-centered, evidence-based home birth attendance, birth and wellness education, mentorship, and reproductive health care.
Birth Roots is a collaboration between longtime dear friends and fellow birth workers Corinne and Coté, and has been in the works for many years as the midwife and doula friends dreamt about how to do their best work together during walks in the woods and time around the fire.
The Birth Roots co-founders discovered that they shared a passion for a client-centered, trauma-informed approach to birth work that brings in traditional wisdom – and they are thrilled to be finally bringing it all together in the form of Birth Roots Community Midwifery.
Their vision is to serve communities of the Chicagoland area by offering our skills, experience, love, and resources as we partner with clients on their journeys to empowered birth and reproductive wellness. Contact them through their website.
Boricuas
Escuela dar a luz
Escuela de educación popular de partería y salud maternal comunitaria.
Asociación de parteras de Puerto rico
La Hermandad de Parteras de Puerto Rico se estableció en el 1997 para la protección del servicio solicitado por las madres asi como de las parteras, o con titulo de Partera Profesional Certificada. En 2021 se creo la Asociación de Parteras de Puerto Rico como organización sucesora de la Hermandad de Parteras de Puerto Rico.
Aborto Libre Puerto Rico
Campaña Nacional por el Aborto Libre, Seguro y Accesible 🇵🇷
fundacion de mujeres en puerto rico
The first and only women’s fund in Puerto Rico with the mission of supporting organizations that serve, organize and advocate for women, girls and the non-binary community.
Las Mingas Dulas de aborto
Equipo de dulas capacitado para proveer info, apoyo y acompañamiento antes, durante y después de un aborto en PR
Colectivo Ilé
Organización antirracista y decolonial con un propósito de educar para lograr erradicar el racismo y todas sus manifestaciones. A través de la organización comunitaria, talleres y procesos educativos, Colectivo Ilé procura rescatar una historia no distorsionada que fortalezca nuestras identidades raciales.