Midwife Catalina Jimenez Ramos demonstrates techniques she uses in natural childbirth in her village of Santa Maria Yacochi Mixe
Participants primarily graduate students in occupational therapy traveled to Oaxaca Mexico for the University of New Mexico s summer course Introduction to Mexican Traditional Medicine The students took Spanish language classes and were exposed to healing methods using local plants and herbs and traditional procedures for corporal and spiritual cleansings They visited the workshop of traditional healer Laurencio López Nuñez for a presentation of local plants he uses in his work a demonstration of the work of an indigenous midwife and a limpia or spiritual cleansing Midwife Catalina Jimenez Ramos demonstrates techniques she uses in natural childbirth in her village of Santa Maria Yacochi Mixe Oaxaca Her subject for the demonstartion is class member Jennifer Cruz
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Location: Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
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