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This workshop will help ground and connect you with your own sexual health. It will open your mind to what your sexual health actually encompasses and all the ways it can be affected. It will connect you to the deep wisdom your body holds both in it’s physical construction and in its natural rhythms. Through tapping into modern maps and ancestral medicine, we aim to construct a decolonized view of sexual health.

Constructing decolonized views of sexual health is important for everyone of every race and ethnicity because it allows us to begin seeing through the layers of patriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalism that the United States was built upon and that filter the our perspectives every day. It has the potential to help us create new pathways for justice and revolution. And it can empower us to connect to ourselves, the earth, spirit, and one another in ways that we never have before.

Learning decolonized views of sexual health is especially critical for indigenous people, black people, and all people of color (IBPOC) as well as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) folks because ancestral knowledge can serve to build resilience and resistance to the daily violence and oppression that is encountered by these populations. In these communities there is an extensive history of the church and state violating and shaming our bodies. This violence and shame has been internalized and it is still playing out today in both subtle and overt ways.

We have an amazing set of tools at our disposal that will help us to embody social justice on every level. Our patients deserve self-aware practitioners who are able to monitor their own biases, privileges, and traumas. We deserve to be able to protect ourselves, have tough conversations, and use our voice to make a difference in the work place. This workshop will reveal the wisdom that is ready and waiting for us within.

Our body’s wisdom is highly neglected in our colonized, capitalistic, modern society. But in sexual and reproductive health we know that the body is far more intelligent that we give it credit. In this workshop you will learn more about how you can tap into that wisdom on a daily basis. Your body and your patient’s body are always talking to you. Learn a new ways to listen in this class that brings together nervous system knowledge, social justice, and sexual and reproductive health to ensure that you provide services that are more socially just and more trauma informed.

Sexual health is a vital part of the birth process an it is essential to learn how to honor and integrate it before, during, and especially after pregnancy. During the postpartum phase birthing people can easily become disconnected from their sexuality due to multiple societal influences on birth and parenthood. Simultaneously, they can be physically uncomfortable or in pain in ways they weren’t expecting and don’t understand due to birth injuries and the new daily movements of caring for an infant.

The postpartum time is a unique window where birthing people have the potential to come home to their sexual selves, their inner eros in a whole new way. It can be a time of sexual drought and aggravation for new parents or it can be a time of sexual exploration and expansion for them. The time after birth is a very special territory that birthing people and their partners are not often prepared to navigate due to our societal structure around birth. This workshop will introduce you and your partner to a whole new way to approach sex after birth.

Birth workers hold an invaluable position that can break the mold of the typical “get your body back” messaging aimed at birthing people. You can replace this messaging with an empowering philosophy for every body. This workshop will help you to spark crucial conversations with postpartum people that are often glossed over by other providers, in this critical time of growth and transformation. Built on values of intersectionality and body positivity, this class aims to equip you with the knowledge you need as you inspire your clients to fully embody the next phase of their lives.

Learn to become friends with your matriz after a cesarean.

Read birth stories like your own to realize you are among some very powerful beings.

Gain a better understanding of your nervous system.

Practice using knowledge of the nervous system to skillfully process trauma from your belly birth.

Get an in-depth explanation of the physical process of the cesarean.

Get clear insights to the most common effects of a cesarean on the birthing body.

Learn how to find your matriz amidst the scar tissue of a belly birth.

Gain the skills to perform scar tissue remediation for yourself.

Get a few of simple recetas and my favorite resources for foods and yerbas after a belly birth.

Practice learning from and working with plant ancestor, prodigiosa.

Understand what types of exercise can be helpful and those that can be harmful after a cesarean to make informed decisions.

Make your way through shame and reclaim your sexual health post cesarean.

Process your story in artistic ways that are meaningful and supportive to your healing journey.

Learn the foundational skills you need to perform scar tissue remediation for yourself.

I’m a consejera, a full spectrum doula, and a sexual health educator who has worked on their own scar tissue and that of others for 6+ years. Most of my experience with scar tissue comes from working with cesarean scars. I am ALSO a breast cancer survivor /thriver who is improving my own range of motion after a double mastectomy with the EXACT same methods I want to share with YOU! As a Baddie Ambassador with For The Breast of Us, I’m excited to give to our community in this way!

After dealing with a breast cancer diagnosis and a mastectomy, some get physical therapy and sometimes it helps. For many, skin and other layers of tissue become tight and movement becomes restricted. This is an affordable way to mend the scar tissue, improve our range of movement, and even stop the scar tissue from growing and attaching to other structures in the body, potentially limiting the chances of developing lymphedema!