Rev. Maritday Rodriguez aka Ama’ritday. Sharing what I love, helping people get informed is what I live to do. There is so much to learn, love, see taste and do. I want to be the torch that lights your fire within, Life starts with your spirit, your relationships, your job, your exercise I call this Primary Food and the food you eat is your secondary food.
I graduated a live out apprenticeship with Susun Weed, world renowned master herbalist, Wolf Clan member, keeper of the wise woman tradition.
A public/motivational speaker regarding Organics and GMO foods and the importance of navigating the terrain when shopping, cooking in and eating out.
Let me share what I know about FOOD,WOMEN"S HEALTH, HEALTH, LIFE, LOVE and SPIRIT. Let me take a moment and tell you a little about who I am and what I do.
A Multi-Faceted Passionista with a medicine bag full of modalities and solutions
Doula/Maven/ Ceremonialist/ Keeper of Ancient Ways, I am a Metaphysician, Scribe and Medicine Woman, walking my path in harmony with my Taino ancestors and studying their indigenous heritage and practices, carrying the nourishment and energy medicine of our ancestors, integrating indigenous practices into every dish, prayer, class, workshop, ceremony, and ritual that I create or am asked to witness and participate. This amazing journey began over 25 years ago, unbeknownst to me the remembering had begun- learning, practicing, and teaching about women’s empowerment, nutrition, energy medicine, herbal medicine, holistic, skincare, natural health and reproductive wellness – Fertility, Ante-Partum, Prenatal, Birth & Post-Partum (Full Spectrum-miscarriage, born-sleeping, abortion, adoption) Wholistic Doula. I have practiced hands on healing through my work as in women’s health ministry, holistic skin care and energy work, as an Ordained Minister, Licensed Master Wholistic Aesthetician and Energy Work Master Instructor/Practitioner, and I now share my knowledge and healing energy as a Maven, Advocate and Facilitator for Women’s Health/Womb Health, Women’s Empowerment, Loving Movement & Meditation Groups, Retreats, and Red Tent Healing Circles.
Regina’s passion is rooted in the women’s studies movement – A woman’s strength is staunch, resolute, and purposeful. Her unwavering fervor for life is exuberantly demonstrated in her work guided by this women’s studies conviction. Inclusive, Regina is an avid advocate of midwifery and the integrative approach promoted by the midwifery model of care.
According to the Midwifery Task Force, Inc., "midwives monitor the physical, psychological, and social well-being of the mother throughout the childbearing cycle. Midwives provide women with individualized education, counseling, and prenatal care, continuous hands-on assistance during labor and delivery, and postpartum support. While midwives minimize the use of technological interventions, they take care to immediately identify and refer women who do require obstetrical attention."
Ms. Conceição is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She holds a Bachelors of Science Degree in Women’s Studies and Spanish, which she is fluent in as well as Cape Verdean Creole. She is a certified DONA Doula, a certified lactation counselor (CLC), holds a CDA (Child Development Associates), a family development credential (FDC) and is certified in CPR (adult and infant). Regina’s certifications are complimented by regularly attended workshops and seminars such as; From Birth to Breast Feeding, The New York University and Teacher’s College Child Development, Birth without Borders in Costa Rica, and Northern Manhattan Perinatal Partnership conferences.
In addition, Regina partners with well childbirth advocates such as Denise Spatafora, author of The Better Birth Book (www.betterbirthbook.com), Choices in Childbirth (www.choicesinchildbirth.org), and Metropolitan Doula Group (www.metropolitandoulagroup.com), These and other partnerships strengthen the holistic approach Regina and her team infuses into APNB and creates a wealth of resources, options, and infinite possibilities for the women that interface with the APNB team.
Professional accreditation and experience serve as the foundation for APNB; still the strength and success derives from APNB’s team‘s passion, excitement, and assurance in women’s innate ability to make healthy decisions around childbirth. It is APNB’s team resolution and affirmation in women’s strength, intrinsic knowledge, and natural desire to borne good that keeps APNB centered and focused in its work to assist women deliver healthy babies and continuing to celebrate a passion for new beginnings!
Emily ("Em") is joyfully devoted to your (our) Life and Love, to womb healing and empowerment...to attentively deeply honoring the babies being born, the people becoming (and growing as) parents, and the wombyn becoming and being mothers. Em is being trained as a Holistic Nurse (Quinnipiac, CT). She has also been trained as a Doula (DONA), Advanced Holistic Doula (The Matrona), Postpartum Doula (Birth Partners and The Matrona), Prenatal and Postpartum Yoga Teacher (YA Certified, Sonic Yoga NY), Mayan Abdominal/Womb Massage (trained for two weeks by Midwife Dona Dominga), Reiki Teacher and Practitioner (Level 3), Sound Healer, Women's Circle Facilitator (Wild Woman Project), Healing Touch Practitioner, Birth Into Being Facilitator, Hypnotherapist, WaterBirth Educator (WaterBirth International), Watsu therapist for Pregnancy and Postpartum, and initiate of the lineage of Brigit and Mary Magdalena. She was born from (daughter of) an Obstetrician/Gynecologist, at dawn on a new moon (10/8, 1991) in Connecticut. It is an honor for her to be able to follow this calling, to be there with you and support you, to do what matters most to her.
Nuratu Otulana is a full time holistic birth and post partum doula, and homeopath in training, servicing women and families in the greater New York City area.
She believes in supporting women through their entire birth and post partum experience, and providing the necessary nurturing of mothers and babies that makes for a positive and enriching birth, motherhood and womanhood experience. She aims to provide a space that allows mothers to step into and embrace their power and works to provide information and options for women and families.
Her services include but are not limited to lactation consultation, placenta medicine, and homeopathy.
As your doula her attention to detail will be unmatched as she is invested in your care.