KillaWarmi Project

Next Woman's Medicine Workshops in Northern California: Spring 2012!

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"Woman's Body, Feminine Medicine" next course-workshop in the US will be shared next Spring 2012 in Northern California. These weekend workshops (18 hours) will be held in: the Bay Area, Arcata, Ashland, Grass Valley and more... For more info please contact: cynthiaingar@gmail.com

Woman Medicine Workshop, Mount Shasta September 17-18, 2011

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Thank you all beautiful women for this amazing women's circle and for sharing your Medicine!

Donations :)

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This coming summer's (January thru March 2012) work will be possible by the generous donation of last October 2011 of midwife Julie Watson from New Zealand. Her donation of 2010 made possible the workshops shared in Wiñaypaq intercultural school in Huandar Community in Sept/Oct 2010. Thank you for your ongoing support Julie!

Kate Grim-Feinberg (anthropologist, US) donated 4 books "Donde No Hay Doctor" (Where There Is No Doctor, Hesperian Foundation) last February 2011: 1 donated to the local health promoter of Pacca community and 1 to a local girl student who is applying to become a doctor so far. Thank you Kate!

Danette Condon and Shay Huffman (direct-entry midwives from West Virginia, US) donated a bunch of sanitizers and some clamps (donated to local midwife Leonie Lange who attends works in rural Urubamba, Sacred Valley, Cusco) in January 2010. Thank you medicine women!

Keri Zug's (midwife student, US) donation of 2010 made possible part of the work of this year 2011 in Pacca community with girls. Thank you Keri!

LUNERAS Ecological Menstrual Cloth Pads

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Toallitas Luneras! (Luneras pads) are pads for your Moontime, your menstruation, your sacred blood. They have been designed and created after years of personal reseach (9 years) trying different alternative cloth pads in South America and North America to find the most comfortable and practical design for your Moon.

Toallitas Luneras! are a combination between the cloths that the Grandmothers used to use and the modern industrial pads with wings. They are 100% cotton, with organic cotton parts, and a special cloth which is super absorbent for the changeable pads (liners).

These Toallitas de Luna have been created in the inspiration to support women as you in living a new relation with their sacred blood.

Recommendation: Change the liners every 3 hours or depending on the quantity of your flow. Then, soak your sacred blood in a glass jar and offer it to Pachamama /Mother Earth and/or to your plants. Afterwards, wash your Luneras! pads with cold water and soap. (Washing them, in connection with Water is also part of the medicine..).

Raising the prayer that these pads for your Moon accompany you in living your Femenine Medicine in this time!

* With the purchase of these Luneras! pads you support KillaWarmi Project, which provides reproductive health education to girls and women in the Peruvian Andes, and that reminds them to relate themselves with their blood and their cycles in a more possitive way and in connection to Pachamama. 50% of the profits help fund the free giving of Luneras pads to these girls and women. www.killawarmiproject.blogspot.com

Luneras! also celebrates Birth sacred blood, so we also have a special presentation for post-partum women and women with heavy flow on their Moontime.

Any doubt about your Moontime and in relation to the connection with your womb; therapies, Woman Medicine Workshops and First Moon Blessings for girls please email: cynthiaingar@gmail.com

Cusco, Peru

Activities April-December 2011 Pacca Community and Huandar Community, Cusco

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Pacca Community, Anta province, Cusco - Peru

Reproductive health counseling to women of the community regarding menstruation, pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, and menopause.

Menstrual health and sexuality workshops for girls of intern secondary school by each grade separately (1st thru 5th secondary grade), between 11 and 18 years old.

Menstrual health and self-care workshops for girls of primary community school between 10 and 13 years old (grades 5th and 6th)

Reproductive health and gender relations workshops for boys of primary community school between 11 and 14 years old (grades 5th and 6th), including emphasis in the understanding of woman's reproductive process and their respect and honoring as well as his

Supply of ecological cloth menstrual pads ("Luneras" pads) to women and girls for free

* 4 sessions of 2 hours each.

Wiñaypaq Intercultural School, Huandar Community, Pisaq, Cusco - Peru http://youtu.be/nmELSHm_29o

Menstrual and reproductive/sexual health workshops for girls between 8 and 14 years old (one multi-grade class from 3rd grade to 6th grade). Dynamics with Drumming, rattling, connecting to their wombs through meditation and touching their own wombs energetically, and singing of Woman Medicine Songs are parts of these workshops. 3 sessions of 2 hours each.

Supply of ecological cloth menstrual pads to girls already menstruating and to the school to provide them when more girls reach menarque

The work in Wiñaypaq school started last year (2010) in September/October with 2 sessions of menstrual and sexual health workshops to girls from 3rd grade to 6th grade, and 1 session to girls from 1st to 2nd grade on the basics of bodily differentiation based on gender and prevention of sexual violence through storytelling and play.

Urpiyay sonqoyay to these girls and their young wombs!

Ser partera en Bolivia.

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Colecho: dormir con tu bebé/ sleeping with your baby

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Women's Workshop November 12, 13, 14 th 2010 (Lima, Peru)

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For anyone of you beautiful women visiting Peru by November, you're welcome to attend this full weekend women's workshop/ retreat at Pakarii (Casa de Nacimiento, Lima, Peru), a workshop given by women for women to reconnect to our genuine feminine wisdom, our bodies, our cycles and our Woman's Medicine. Come join us!

WOMAN'S BODY

FEMININE MEDICINE

We now live a time which is characterized by

constant changes in the cosmic, earthly, and personal levels.

Many of us women have forgotten the connection with our true feminine essence, with our bodies and cyclical processes, and with our

feminine power.

And many of us as at the same time feel a particular Calling as women.

It is for this reason that we dream to create spaces with women of all ages to Remember together and to recover the power over our bodies

and over our womanhood. We will find how to connect with the feminine force of our internal and external universes.

Feeling again that the fact of Being Woman and being in a woman's body is a Gift.

Explore, discover and remember

your Feminine Medicine in this gathering

designed from woman for woman

SHARED BY

Cynthia Ingar M.A.

Feminist Medical Anthropologist (MA), Women's Health Educator, Doula, BA.

Reiki and Quantum Touch Therapist. KillaWarmi Project.

cynthiaingar@gmail.com

www.killawarmiproject.blogspot.com

www.midwiferytoday.com/international/Peru.asp

Dr. Angela Brocker

Director of Pakarii; doctor CPM 29140; gynecology, obstetrics and pediatrics; family and natural medicine; therapies with plants, Bach flowers and Reiki.

* To save your spot (max. 13 participants) and for more info please contact: cynthiaingar@gmail.com

YOUR DONATIONS are very welcome!

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Our project in this first phase depends on the kind donations of individuals around the world who believe in this dream of women around the world reclaiming their feminine power and autonomy again about their reproductive lives, especially those of vulnerable women as Andean women in Peru. Let's make a change together, one woman (or community...) at a time!

Urpiyay sonqoyay!

Thank you from the deep of our hearts (translation from Quechua)

KillaWarmi Presentation

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Recovering women's true feminine essence is the only thing that can genuinely bring sustainable “empowerment” back to women, as this has a direct effect on self-knowledge, more self-responsibility towards our bodies, self-love and self-esteem, which are the basic drivers to making and sustaining positive changes in women's reproductive health and lives. A viable way in which Andean women of rural Peru can successfully defend their real agency in reproductive health has to be sustained by the following conditions: to have a solid cultural identity, a local women's network that can support and empower each other and can advocate for the promotion and defense of women's health rights, and the access to unbiased information in reproductive health which is woman-centered.

Thus, Killa Warmi (Moon Woman in Quechua, Andean native language) Project was created for Andean women of Peru. It is a reproductive health education project aimed to bring reproductive control back to women, focused in the reconnection with the sacredness of women's bodies, the wisdom and knowledge we have as women of our bodies and processes - just by living in them and being connected to our cycles - , the revaluing of our connection to Mother Earth as women, and the strengthening of local feminine support networks. All of these components are transversal to the workshops/ sharings/ women's circles on which the project is based, together with the project's strong focus in the revitalization of Andean local feminine medical knowledge, which is sustained by Andean community midwives whose knowledge is now at risk by the current politics of Peru in public reproductive health.

Main Goal

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To improve Andean women's reproductive health and lives by empowering women with knowledge and a healthier relationship to their bodies and processes, and by regaining individual responsibility in their reproductive control.