Complete Conference: $250
Individual Sessions: $50
We are so excited for you to join us for CRMC's 2nd annual conference, May 21- 22, 2022. This year the focus is on Midwifery, in its many ways. We have a range of topics for midwives and others who care for those in their childbearing times. The Community Roots Midwifery Conference is a fundraiser for our Midwifery Service Fund, which makes midwifery care financially accessible through sliding scale services. Thank you for your participation and donation! Please reach out for scholarship opportunities (BIPOC applicants prioritized).
On Zoom and sessions are recorded if you can’t make it live!
Saturday May 21st Individual Sessions
Eutimia Cruz Montoya
Setting Sacred Space for the Birthing Portal: conception + pregnancy
May 21st 10-11:30am
Eutimia Cruz Montoya is a healer, seer, birth worker and ceremonialist based in her lineage of New Mexican Curanderismo. She has been practicing hands-on-healing since toddlerhood, and was born into Danza Mexicayotl. Eutimia holds a degree in the Anthropological Sciences from Stanford University, is a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist and has been studying and practicing Chinese Medicine since 2004. Her birth work journey began at age 12 in the hospital and has since transformed into a deep honoring of natural, ancestral, spiritual and human-centered birth ways. She is full of joy to share her knowledge and wisdom with you all, as she grows baby #2 in her sacred womb.
Learn more about Eutimia: MuseMedicina
This is Part-one of a two-part class. The second session will be on Sunday May 22 10am- 11:30am
Khye Tyson
Community Don’t Come Easy (MEAC CEUs Pending)
May 21st 12-1:30pm
Though we know that humans thrive in community, most of us don't actually know how to go about building one. Because social skills, commonly referred to as “soft skills,” have been actively devalued in our society, many of us are unfamiliar with such survival skills as how to make friends, build community, or solve conflict. During this session, attendees will learn the importance of “queering” our ideas of community, simple ways to build community for themselves, and how to guide clients through building a strong postpartum community in order to adjust, heal, and thrive during the first year of a baby’s life.
Learn more about Khye: Kuluntu Reproductive Justice Center
Eileen Henry
Sleep: The First Three Years (MEAC CEUs Pending)
May 21st 2-3:30pm
Sleep has become a controversial topic: Two polarized methods that dominate the conversation. There is a middle way.
Sleep is a basic need for well-being. Sleep is the result of a regulated nervous system.
Sleep is not a problem to be fixed. Sleep is a developmental skill that all children can learn.
Sleep in the first 3-years. Regulated sleep looks different at every age. Regulated sleep looks different in every home.
Sleep is continually impacted by life. In childhood, sleep is mostly impacted by their rapid development and brain growth.
When we present sleep to families as an act of self-regard, self-respect, and self-care, we support them in raising children who view sleep as a personal value of self-love.
Learn more about Eileen: Compassionate Sleep Solutions
Sangeet Raj
Birth as Sexual Healing
May 21st 4- 5:30pm
Birth as Sexual Healing
1 in 3 women has experienced sexual trauma and in this session we explore how birth can be used as an opportunity to heal the shadows of sexual trauma for survivors.
- Learn the signs of sexual trauma in pregnancy and birth
- Learn the best practices for reproductive related care practitioners that best empower survivors
- Receive a free resource guide for survivors that birth - Learn how to mitigate common survivor challenges during labor to avoid complex birth trauma
- and more
Manorah Sangeet Raj is a holistic fertility coach, traditional birthworker and somatic trauma practitioner.
She believes trauma is an opportunity to heal and through somatic techniques she assists individuals with the challenging transitions associated with reproductive health, fertility, birth, parenthood and beyond.
Learn more about Sangeet: Royal Mothering
Sunday May 22nd Individual Sessions
Eutimia Cruz Montoya
Setting Sacred Space for the Birthing Portal: birth + postpartum
May 22nd 10-11:30am
Eutimia Cruz Montoya is a healer, seer, birth worker and ceremonialist based in her lineage of New Mexican Curanderismo. She has been practicing hands-on-healing since toddlerhood, and was born into Danza Mexicayotl. Eutimia holds a degree in the Anthropological Sciences from Stanford University, is a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist and has been studying and practicing Chinese Medicine since 2004. Her birth work journey began at age 12 in the hospital and has since transformed into a deep honoring of natural, ancestral, spiritual and human-centered birth ways. She is full of joy to share her knowledge and wisdom with you all, as she grows baby #2 in her sacred womb.
This is Part-two of a two-part class. The first session will be on Saturday May 21 10am- 11:30am
Learn more about Eutimia: Muse Medicina
Adrienne Leeds
Herbs and Lactation (MEAC CEUs Pending)
May 22nd 12- 1:30pm
Learn about herbs to increase or decrease milk supply, remedies for plugged ducts and mastitis, as well as which herbs are contraindicated for the breastfeeding dyad. We will go in-depth about several common galactagogue herbs.
Learn more about Adrienne Leeds: abundantbearth.com
Samantha Zipporah
PLEASE BLEED: Plants, Pills, & Practical Magic for Autonomous Fertility Management
May 22nd 2- 3:30pm
Autonomous fertility management is reproductive justice.
Sam brings levity & light to some of our more culturally taboo, subversive & shadowy curves of the womb continuum: avoiding & ending pregnancy outside of the clinical paradigm.
Establishing first a lens that acknowledges ancestral, indigenous, & historical practices for fertility management, we will then explore the theory & practice of various methods of avoiding & ending pregnancy outside the clinical consumer paradigm.
Discussion will be broad rather than deep, & will include but not be limited to:
fertility awareness methods & plants as “plan B”
pharmaceutical emergency contraception
biochemistry & anatomy of implantation inhibition vs. abortion
herbal emmenagogues energetics & actions
menstrual extraction & manual vacuum aspiration
misoprostol & herbs
holistic & ancient technologies & practices to promote release
We will explore the following questions:
What are the ways we can encourage the womb to “Please Bleed!” by allying with plants, pills, & practical magic?
How might we avoid & end pregnancies rooted in reclamation of wise woman-ways & traditional womb-to-tomb care?
How might we support the integrity of the menstrual cycle while avoiding pregnancy, even in the case of an “oops”?
What is the difference between contraception, implantation inhibition, & abortion? How can we support individuals at each of these points on the womb continuum with making deeply informed consentual decisions?
How can we assess individual risks & benefits based on values, legality & physiology?
A supplementary handout with journal prompts & resources will be available via google doc to participants upon request.
Learn more about Samantha Zipporah
Sarah Buckley
Oxytocin, love and labour (MEAC CEUs Pending)
May 22nd 4:00- 5:30pm
Dr Buckley brings both science and wisdom to understanding the powerful role of oxytocin in labour and birth. Oxytocin facilitates safety, ease and pleasure from pregnancy to labour, birth and the magical postpartum hour including for newborns. Disruptions to oxytocin caused by interventions such as epidural, cesareans and synthetic oxytocin in the perinatal period can have unintended consequences, including for bonding and breastfeeding. This lecture is based on Dr Buckley’s recent PhD research and publications.
Pre- Recorded Sessions
Dana Hutchinson
Botanical Strategies for Fertility (MEAC CEUs Pending)
Pre- Recorded
In this 1.5 hour recorded class, Dana Hutchinson RH (AHG), will discuss the top alternative considerations for fertility enhancement in menstruating individuals. Dana will provide a detailed overview of 6 health categories she considers vital for folks looking to conceive naturally. The class will examine emotional trauma, gut health, hormonal regulation, environmental exposures, overall Qi vitality, and Traditional Chinese Medicine diagnostic considerations. Dana will provide botanical recommendations for each essential health category to support an array of individual's issues leading up to a desired pregnancy. Come learn how the lead practitioner of the Wildflower Clinic, a traditional Chinese medicine and western clinical herbalism integrative health center in Golden, CO, supports clients in the complex world of fertility.
