Journeys

Out of love for the female womb and its healing and flourishing, this journey is aimed at women, midwives, doulas, alternative practitioners, obstetricians, gynecologists, physiotherapists, womb healers and all those who work with women around the topic of fertility and childbirth and wish to expand their knowledge and craft with the rich treasure of traditional Mayan midwifery. Especially in times when it is becoming increasingly difficult to practice natural, women-oriented obstetrics, a return to the original and essential is of highest value.

The intention of this journey is to deepen the trust and knowledge in the craft of the „midwife“ through the wisdom of traditional Mayan midwifery and learn to listen to one’s own intuition and to feel what mother and child need. To know alternative solutions and to have internalized them helps us to come into our own power and create a fear-free space for mother and child. We need women who work with this knowledge to create a counterbalance to what we are increasingly losing – the naturalness of the most original thing in the world – giving birth as a sacred act.

The mayan midwife Dona Rafaela Can Ake embodies all these qualities and has an immense knowledge of traditional craftsmanship to impart as it can hardly be found anywhere else in the world. For over forty years she has been working as a traditional midwife in a small village in Yucatan, in the middle of the most sacred power places of the Maya. From her originally small sphere of activity she has initiated many projects in the course of her life, among other things she trained women in all surrounding villages to become midwives, in order to keep the old knowledge alive and to provide the rural communities with an obstetrician. She is also chairwoman of the Midwives Association of the „Traditional Midwives of Yucatan“, which consists of a network of 350 traditional midwives.

Out of love for the female womb and its healing and flourishing, this journey is aimed at women, midwives, doulas, alternative practitioners, obstetricians, gynecologists, physiotherapists, womb healers and all those who work with women around the topic of fertility and childbirth and wish to expand their knowledge and craft with the rich treasure of traditional Mayan midwifery. Especially in times when it is becoming increasingly difficult to practice natural, women-oriented obstetrics, a return to the original and essential is of highest value.

The intention of this journey is to deepen the trust and knowledge in the craft of the „midwife“ through the wisdom of traditional Mayan midwifery and learn to listen to one’s own intuition and to feel what mother and child need. To know alternative solutions and to have internalized them helps us to come into our own power and create a fear-free space for mother and child. We need women who work with this knowledge to create a counterbalance to what we are increasingly losing – the naturalness of the most original thing in the world – giving birth as a sacred act.

The mayan midwife Dona Rafaela Can Ake embodies all these qualities and has an immense knowledge of traditional craftsmanship to impart as it can hardly be found anywhere else in the world. For over forty years she has been working as a traditional midwife in a small village in Yucatan, in the middle of the most sacred power places of the Maya. From her originally small sphere of activity she has initiated many projects in the course of her life, among other things she trained women in all surrounding villages to become midwives, in order to keep the old knowledge alive and to provide the rural communities with an obstetrician. She is also chairwoman of the Midwives Association of the „Traditional Midwives of Yucatan“, which consists of a network of 350 traditional midwives.