Tlamatquiticitl, Huachaychiq, Yatuqa, Partera, Midwife, Doula are some of many names for those who carry the organic technologies of Guarding Birth. Although they express themselves uniquely within their cultural context, they channel a universal ability to tend to the physical, psycho-emotional, and spiritual requirements of pregnancy and childbirth.

We are now in a collective time-space where Pregnancy & Childbirth have been absorbed by the medical industrial complex, and most people have been indoctrinated to believe that Pregnancy & Childbirth are inherently dangerous medical events. We see reflected in the failing health of mothers & children worldwide, and the high rate of maternal and infant mortality in hospitals, that this system is not serving our collective wellbeing.

Additionally, we now see the way that many licensed and certified midwives & doulas are conditioned to be agents of the medical industrial complex and are beholden to regulations and laws that don’t always reflect the best interests of women and families. Unless the individual practitioner is committed to honoring physiologic birth and chooses to answer, above all, to their conscience, they simply perpetuate the same fear-based and pathologizing programming, just at home.

Furthermore, in order to truly reclaim birth, families have to commit to the journey of connecting with their lineage history, health history, and orient themselves to their reality so they can make empowered decisions about their birth and reproductive care.

Guardians of Birth is a non-medical immersion for those who recognize that our collective health & power relies on the reclamation of our birthrights and who want to empower women and families through their gestational and birth initiations.

This space will provide information, practices, resources, and inspiration to support you in becoming a resource to your community. And, it will require you to face your own programming, activate your investigative sovereignty, and commit to your personal evolution.

Your ability or readiness to accompany a gestational-birth journey is determined by your coherence, your embodied knowing, and an organic recognition of your abilities by your community. This is a lifelong path, and the learning is infinite.

In recognition of the fact that we live in times where many compounding factors affect our fertility and the health of pregnancy and birth, Guardians of Birth will explore the art of interweaving ancestral birth-care with certain elements of allopathic medicine.

RAIZ

My parteria midwifery path is an ongoing apprenticeship to the elements, physiology and the intangible mysteries. I consider myself a seedling partera. Guardians of Birth is an extension of my practice and embodied experience, and it is an offering to my global community who has been asking for me to share in this way.

All of the content of Guardians of Birth is rooted in the teachings that sustain me on this life-path, which come through Ancestral Plant Medicine Work, Traditional-First Nations Doctors, Eclectic Urban Physicians, Comadronas & Matronas of Central and South America, OBGYNS, Animal Births, the Mothers in my life, every Woman & Family that has invited me into their sacred process; and the Activation of my Ancestral & Intuitive Memory through daily disciplines and commitments.

The path of Guarding Birth is non-linear and infinite.