Today I am back home after spending 5 days at the Midwifery Today conference in Eugene. For the most part I am still absorbing all that I experienced. As with everything there are always a few disappointments but overall, I know that I came back home with a huge amount of new learning, new friends and inspiration.
So my plan is to write a bit, hopefully through this week and next to share just a bit of the inspirations I found.
In the picture above is Naoli Vinavar, sharing techniques with a Rebozo that traditional Mexican midwives use. I have always wanted to learn to work with a rebozo, but so far youtube videos were the closest I came to visuals on these techniques. Well now after a few sessions with both Naoli and Kara Spencer from Eugene, I am now excited to add this to the skills to help my Doula clients and future midwifery clients. Kara Spencer also introduced me to a healing technique that I have been very interested in learning, Craniosacral therapy for mothers and babies. So again after this taste my hope is to train further so as to offer this fully to clients.
I think some of the most inspiration I found these last few days were from learning how to connect more with Mothers and Babies energetically. How to help them more through subtle touch and traditional methods. This conference gave me much less of a technical knowledge as it did a reminder to go within and find the knowledge stores within myself. Knowledge passed through traditions. To not rely as much on tools as my senses and intuition. Midwifery unlike so much of the medical field is definitely a combination of technical knowledge and sensory knowing, and it is so easy to rely on the technical. So my goal, to always remember that the majority of knowledge will come from within. They need to walk hand and hand together.
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