Amazonian Midwifery & Workshops
Overview
Live and learn alongside a collective of Kichwa women who are revitalizing Amazonian health traditions through midwifery, plant medicine, and cultural preservation. This internship offers insight into Indigenous approaches to reproductive wellness, natural gynecology, and forest-based healing practices. While the center is known for supporting traditional vertical births, daily activities often revolve around helping host workshops focused on women’s health and wellness, cooking traditional meals, preparing fresh medicines, tending gardens, attending visitors, tourists, and students.
Daily Life
Each day unfolds in rhythm with the needs of the center and the surrounding community. You might start your morning in the medicinal garden, harvesting herbs for steam baths or tinctures. Later, you could help prepare food for visitors, sit in on a sharing circle with midwives, or assist in organizing a community workshop. Some days may involve shadowing the midwives on pre or post natal patient visits in nearby communities or helping with educational activities on topics like natural contraceptives. You may even shadow a birth during your internship. Evenings are often quiet, filled with time for reflection, storytelling, or preparing the space for upcoming guests.
You’ll be immersed in a living knowledge system where health, spirituality, and ecology are interconnected. Through your support in daily tasks and wellness workshops, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of how Indigenous women care for themselves, their families, and their environment—guided not by modern equipment, but by plants, intuition, and inherited wisdom.
Price:
$2700 total, 1 month minimum