I am a Midwife

OUR VISION

Academy’s purpose is to elevate and honour midwifery. This profession is more than a trade, it’s a calling. Midwifery is a sacrament, an oath, a commitment and it’s how we honour all who developed and nurtured the art of birth before us and all who practice it now.

Traditional midwives have accompanied humanity throughout the ages since ancient times. The midwifery tradition has been kept alive passing down the knowledge from generation to generation for thousands of years, and in some parts of the world this line has never been broken and is sustained until this day. Little by little the tradition of midwifery is slowly being revived in places where it had disappeared.

We have founded the International Academy of the Art of Midwifery in order to assemble and spread the experience and knowledge of both the newest scientific research and traditional midwifery.

PROGRAM

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TEACHERS

Claire Eccleston

Claire is a mother of three beautiful children, an experienced registered midwife, a Spinning Babies® approved trainer a biodynamic craniosacral therapist and a STREAM ( scar tissue remediation, education and management
Claire has been supporting women’s transitions since 2000.

Attending births, offering childbirth education, pregnancy yoga and providing bodywork sessions.
Claire is a dynamic facilitator offering national, international and online workshops and speaking at conferences and events around the globe.
Claire is passionate about the ancient and sacred arts of birth work, bodywork and where they meet. Claire has a deep reverence for our bodies, the rhythms of our physical nature and our earthy intelligence. She honours this womb work with deep reverence, respect and gentleness. Claire is also a wild dancer.

Angelina Martinez Miranda

The renowned traditional midwife living and practicing in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. She is the inheritor of three generations of midwifery knowledge; her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother were all traditional midwives, practicing for around 40 years each.

She started attending births since she was 7 years old together with her grandmother and mother. At age of 13 she started attending births on her own. Angelina and her husband has 5 sons and many grandchildren.
Throughout her life she attended around 15000 births. Angelina owns a birth center, located next to her house, where, for years, she and her apprentices have attended an average of 23 births per month, with excellent outcomes. She is highly respected in her community. She is a long-time member of Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA) Mexico and a founding member of a new state organization created by the traditional midwives of Morelos. An accomplished speaker, she has given talks and workshops at international conferences all over the world. She is a strong source of inspiration for the many traditional midwives in Mexico who are working to preserve and revitalize their profession for the future.

Angelina combines traditional Mexican wisdom with the many courses she has taken in midwifery and related subjects to keep up-to-date with evidence-based obstetrics.