This Is A Calling Institute

COLLECTIVELY ANSWERING AND DEEPENING OUR INTIMACY TO THE MEDICINE.

Our Current Offerings

Sumi’s Touch Full Spectrum Traditional Birth Workers Trainings

EMERGE

Child Birth Preparation Course

This course is for Black and Indigenous people who are interested in learning more about pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. People who are supporting folks who are pregnant, giving birth, and postpartum (partners, family members, doulas, etc.) People who desire to tap into their autonomy, sovereignty and innate wisdom as a birthing and postpartum.

Birth Worker Circle

A space for BIPOC birth workers and perinatal providers who are supporting womb possessing people at any phase of their journey

Feeding Fundamentals

a 3 part self paced series that discusses and unpacks the journey of feeding infants.

The Mama’s Meet Up

A Safe Space for parents to connect, share. They didn't give us a handbook but we can have eachother

Courting The Medicine

A Free Space for BIPOC people ready for LIFE SCHOOL: the ancient technologies we need to choose collective liberation
Monthly Webinar Last Tuesday of the Month 7-8PM PST.

    • So you can access your intuition

    • So you can master the art of holding space

    • For self development

    • You feel more YOU from doing the work

    • This work is in direct alignment with your life purpose

    • Your main focus is not money, profit, clout or business

    • You cannot learn to be a birth worker, you are born one

    • You understand the nuances between politics, policy, and people power

    • Advocacy as an avenue to support your clients to exercise their agency

    • Intersectional lens: You understand the connection between social determinants and peoples experiences

    • Birth justice means all people are afforded informed consent always in all ways

    • Having the competency to support people through abortion, miscarriage & live birth

    • Induced abortion/termination is a valid, honorable, a fucking normal choice

    • Holistic Care: mental, physical, spiritual, emotional

    • Learning rituals, ceremonial practices, and culturally relative traditions each step of the way

    • Remembering traditions so we can release colonial practices

    • Honoring the legacy of the traditional midwife

    • Naming our teachers and never overstepping them

    • Naming where traditions derive from

    • Trusting our inner being to guide us

    • De-Whitewashing midwifery by reclaiming our “old ways”

    • Birth is an extension of the human sexual/erotic/kinky/sensual experience

    • The same body parts are being activated

    • The lack of informed consent being exercised is an extension of the rape culture we live in. (Obstetric rape)

    • Sexual trauma can be healed and/or triggered during birth & vice versa

    • The female anatomy needs the same thing during both orgasm and birth

    • We have the power to manifest and be deliberate co-creators of our reality

    • When this path is for us a way will be made

    • The seeds we plant are congruent with fruit it bares

    • MANIFEST MANIFEST MANIFEST

    • Prevents burn out

    • Self care is simply listening to your self. Especially regarding your input and output.

    • Having healthy self talk is one of the foundations of self care

    • Self care doesn't have to cost money

    • Having routine in your life balances out being on call and the input— output balance