Sumi's Touch, Oakland, CA (2025)

07/06/2025

In class last week said “I can forgive you babe still chop your head off”. Forgiveness isn’t about making excuses for the other person, forgetting what happened, means that what happened to you was ok, dissolving responsibility, justice, reconciliation…..

This forgiveness container has come about over time. When I think about the spaces I wish to curate and hold…healing and transformation are at the ROOT. My online curated community is a sacred space for us to heal, grow, transform, and learn.

There is no other space like this. This space centers BIPOC families and practitioners who support them. BUT truly anyone who feels called to be in community are more than welcomed to come.

In addition to our highlighted offerings this month during Summer school, we have monthly regular gatherings as well. There are hundreds of hours of recordings. A vibrant community feed to connect, share, ask, and archive.

While social media can leave if feeling overstimulated and distracted, The Virtual Circle will leave you feeling more connected each and every time!

This weeks offerings:

Comment “community” to join us!! It’s a community not just a class!!

“Forgiveness: the root to all healing” 10am pst

TODAY and every Sunday until 8|10. After today we aren’t allowing any more new folks to join this container as to build rapport. This offering will also not be recorded. This container is led by

“The Four Season: fertility awareness and cycle charting” 12pm pst with Moi!!!

This is our 3rd and final class of this series.

If you want to learn how to heal from womb ailments like PCOS, endometriosis, PMDS, painful periods, irregular periods, heavy bleeding,etc. COME!

If you want to learn how to avoid pregnancy without taking birth control, COME!

Each one is recorded and available in Virtual circle!!!

Papa and partners meet up!!! Hosted by and 7|8 at 6pm

(Comment or dm me “Dad” and I’ll send you the link)

“Black Love Is…” every weds. @ 6pm until 8|20

ohhhhweeee I knew this was gonna be so good but goddamn it was POWERFUl, connecting, and so transformative!!

07/02/2025

Summer school…something for the whole damn fam!!!

Virtual circle is a curated community for BIPOC families and practitioners who support families like birth workers, therapist, and healers. This summer we are turning up the notch and offering a few potent series to get us all more connected, grounded, and whole!!

Your most authentic YOU, awaits!! What’s stopping from signing up when the first week is freeeeee and then it cost less than uber eats after that!

Comment or dm me “community” to join these offerings below:

“Black Love Is…” an 8 week container led by for Black couples. One partner must be Black to join us.

We begin THIS evening in just 3 hours at 6pm pst. Then every Wednesday at 6pm onwards.

“Forgiveness: The Root To All Healing” is a 7 week container led by

Sundays at 10am PST

“The Four Seasons: fertility awareness and cycle charting” led by meeeeeee! This will be the final class of this 3 part series. Part 1 and 2 are uploaded Igor you to review l! People are already implementing things they learned and seeing impact on thier cycles 🙌🏿

Virtual circle isn’t just a community…it’s a catalyst for change! Every offering is intended to transform you. Each gathering is curated to give you something you’ve never experienced before.

Social media is literally designed to make you feel less than, to disassociate with the world around you, to make you addicted and influence you.

Virtual circle contradicts alllll of this. We’re curating a virtual space that supports you, leaves you feeling affirmed, and builds your inner and outer resources so you can thrive!

But we know that it’s only fun if all ya homies are there too!!! Comment “bestie” and I’ll send you a link for you and your crew!!!

See yall on the inside!!!

06/29/2025

Are you ready to heal? Are you seeking others who are aligned? Are you desiring to be about of a community of healers, families, and radical care workers?

Come, and invite a friend (or a few) to join you!

Forgiveness: The Root to all Healing 6|29 (7 weeks) with

The Four Seasons: Fertility Awareness and Cycle Charting 6|29 & 7|6 12pm pst w/ me!

“Black love is…” 7|2 at 6pm pst (8 weeks)

You’re not just joining a class your joining a community. So if you’re ready to invest in your transformation, comment or dm me “community”!! You will not be the same you walking away from these powerful offerings as you entered them!

TAG SOMEONE WHO YOU KNOW WILL RESONATE WITH THESE OFFERINGS. TAG SOMEONE WHO YOU KNOW NEEDS THESE OFFERINGS!!

06/19/2025

Happy Juneteenth!!!

Was reflecting on “us” earlier and just literally amazed. Blackness is such an expansive identity, the driving force of humanity. So often, even or maybe especially, as Black people we think of ourselves as victims. We think of ourselves in comparison to others. Our food is this our that..as compared to what? Our hair is this or that…as opposed to what?

What would it look like for us to heal? What would it look like for us to be whole? Affirming ourselves in any space amongst anyone: This is our food, this is our clothes, this is our music, this is our nose…This is our hair…These are our values…etc.

I want to hear from yall…there is no one answer. Many things have contributed to who we are and many things will contribute to who we will be…

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Ghana info session for Th traditional birth worker immersion and Sankofa journey

6|21 8am PST
Comment or dm me “info” and I’ll send you the link to join us!!

The following offerings are all included in our beautiful community!! First week is free and then why would you leave after that? I’ll send you a 25% code too!! Comment “community” and I’ll see ya on the inside!

Body talk: a gentle yoga flow w/
10am pst

BIPOC birth worker circle
12 pm pst

Summer school for the whole damn fam kicks off THIS Sunday!!

The Four Seasons: cycle awareness and charting w/ Moi!!
6|22 & 29 at 12pm pst

Bring your nieces, bring your daughters, bring yourselves!! Come learn about the cycle, the secrets to a pain free period, how to prevent and get pregnant!! We’re making fertility beads in 6|29!!!!

“Black Love Is…”
An 8 part series for Black couples w/
6|25 6pm (will meet weekly after this at the same time)

“Forgiveness 1.0” with
6|29 at 10am pst

Our healing begins with forgiveness. What have you been avoiding? Who hurt you? Do you know how to ask for forgiveness? Coke join this 8 part series if you’re ready to transform from the rooot!!!

06/02/2025

We rest for 40 days days to be well for the next 40 years!

Did you know that all around the world indigenous people had protocols and guidelines in how the immediate postpartum period was held? Just about all of us tested for 40 days. In Korea they rest for 100 days, ha!!

However, there is SOOOO much to unpack here. We are absolutely experiencing cultural amnesia. Resting is t sustainable in a society that places people over profit. Families are so disjointed or nonexistent. Individualism is a cultural stain that paints our perspectives to see lack in giving versus reciprocity. So on and so forth….

However, I’ve also witnessed people with minimal resources band together and hold their loved ones. I’ve seen how other cultures make systems of sustainability.

Here are some ideas to support a loved one during postpartum:

Planning a nesting party
Doing the laundry but I can’t pick it up and drop it of
making or buying food
Providing childcare
running errands
FaceTime dates/checkins

Comment below some ways we can support or be supported during the postpartum time.

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Ready to go deeper into traditional birth work? Ready to decolonize your birth work practice? Ready to restore the cultural amnesia in your lineage? Join me in Ghana this December for my traditional birth worker immersion. Comment “info” to join the info session happening 6/07/25 at 8am pst!!

Mothering isn’t meant to be alone, join us in community!! Comment “community” and I’ll send you the link right now!

05/16/2025

We still have a lot of amazing gathering coming up this month in The Virtual Circle ✨

Sat. May 17th Body Talk from the Black Freedom Fellowship with

Tues. May 20th The Mama Meet Up

Sat May 24th Info Session : Ghana Sankofa Journey Immersion

Sat. May 24th Body Talk from the Black Freedom Fellowship with

Tues. May 27th Papas & Partners

Sat. May 31st Body Talk from the Black Freedom Fellowship with

Check out the link in bio to join us !

05/13/2025

Mother’s Day in a society is lip service at most and truly gas lighting in a society that doesn’t hold those who Mother…

Yesterday I received flowers from my beloved husband even though we are thousand of miles apart. I felt soooooo much gratitude for my children… being able to Mother them is such a honor… yet, there was a looming feeling ruminating somewhere very deep inside of me.

The collective rage.

Mothers are not valued in this society. We are disregarded, disrespected, and discriminated against.

What a joke to give us flowers when we need maternity leave policies that allow us to stay home with our babies.

What an insult to give us a card when we need child care, food, housing…

How audacious to give us a day to “celebrate” us when we have astronomical rates of mortality and morbidity that are over 85% preventable?!

Many things can be true at once…on this Scorpio full moon I want to hold the nuance, the shadow, the grief, the depth.

Holding those who mother, who chose not to mother, who grieve their mother, who can not mother (but desire to), who are estranged from their mothers, who are care taking their mothers, who can’t stand mothers days, who appreciate being held and celebrated, who love tf out of mothering,

Each and everyone of us have been transformed by the mother or by mothering…

Comment “Mama” to get immediate access to the “forgive your Mama” workshop led by brother . It was one of the most potent and necessary offerings we have offered to date!

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Traditional birth worker immersion Ghana 12/11-21
This advanced skills training is ideal for midwives, doulas, doctors, birth workers, and anyone who feels called and can keep up with the curriculum! Family friendly, bring your children and your partner! Early bird sale is happening NOW!! Save $$$ comment “immersion” to learn more and to secure your spot today.

Mark your calendars for our info session all about the Ghana immersion on 5/24/25!! Comment “info” to rsvp!!

05/08/2025

I absolutely love cooking for my clients. You can’t consider yourself a traditional birth worker and not know how to cook. ALOT of people ask me how do they begin to study to be a traditional midwife…I’d say a great place is begin in the kitchen and the garden.

One of the ways that I am upgrading the curriculum for the immersion happening this December in Ghana is by going deeper into herbs and food ways. I’m excited for you each to walk away with recipes and herbal medicine that we will make together.

This is why I added the innovative group on Virtual a circle called “Cooking and Conjuring”. This is. Space where we can share about fertility focused foods, nutrient dense foods, and herbal remedies. I will be adding a step by step guide to making my delicious oxtail and lentil soup. Comment “recipe” and I’ll swing it over to you!!

Join us tomorrow for a super special live demo cooking class with mama !!! She just posted the ingredients in the group and we will be making….AREPAS!!!! I’m loving learning how to make new foods each month!

Virtual circle is truly blossoming and I am so looking for to see it continue to grow. Right now there are hundreds of hours worth of gems and resources archived! It’s like the best kept secret you didn’t even know you were needing!

Reddit meets substack, meets YouTube, meets old school tumblr, meets the most nourishing virtual community you have never been apart of! The only thing we missing is you friend!

If you read this far join my channel to sn**ch a super discount code to join us!! 🥰😊

05/05/2025

A little midwife crush Monday on this international day of the midwife?

I absolutely LOVE midwives… I LOVE being a midwife!!

Today on this I want to invite us in loving on a midwife today!!

If you don’t know a midwife, scroll through and follow each and everyone of these midwives!! We are going extinct…each generation looses more and more midwives. This is all of our concern because the midwife is someone who ensures the safety of each and everyone of us. Not just during pregnancy and birth but throughout the life span!
World Health Organization as declared that we need 900,000 more midwives by 2035… that’s 90,000 each year!

Why? Because midwives save lives!!! Our maternal and infant mortality and morbidity rates as Black people in the US are worst now than when we were enslaved.

This is why we are launching the Black midwives fellowship! To support in the training, cultivating, and continued education of midwives!

This fall myself and Nikiya will be bring 12 midwives with us to !! We are fundraising to ensure that we get there!!! Link in my bio to donate to this first of many cohorts!! I know we can reach out goal!!! If you can’t donate share, connect us with grants and donors, spread the word!!!

I am so grateful to be called into this sacred path. Tag a midwife below that you LOVE and appreciate!!

04/03/2025

🙌🏿Black Maternal Health Festival: Activating our agency and self-determination 🙌🏿

We’re just 1 week away from our opening ceremony for the inaugural Black Maternal Health fest:

It’s 12pm pst, you go to your phone to open the zoom that you will easily found in both your email inbox and synched to your calendar. As you enter the room you are pleasantly surprised to see so many others that you know in attendance as well. There is a graphic up instructing everyone to care for their bodies by grabbing something to nourish and hydrate themselves. The music playing catches your attention because it feels both like a warm hug and an ancestral reminder all in one. They say we will begin in 5 mins.

Just as promised, 5 mins pass the hour the room is now full of others and the energy is buzzing in the chat as folks shout out where they are tuning in from.

turns on her screen and she is just glowing as usual! The music slowly turns down and she opens the space up with a warm greeting. Her voice is very soothing and you feel as if you’re right in the room with her.

Sumi is also on the virtual stage and you are full of anticipation for what’s to come. You just signed up a few days prior and chose the VIP tickets to catch the “ask a midwife” one on one consultation sessions as well as the intimate talk with Sumi and . You knew then that you were about to have your mind blown the entire week.

After Ya Ya warms us up a beautiful prayer is conducted by . She calls in the primordial mother, Yemaya, to bless all the womb bearers, the babies still in the spirit realm, those gestating, and those who have become ancestors once again. She blesses the vessels in which they incarnate through and ask for protection, deep care, and vitality as they dance between where the veil is the thinnest. You have never experienced an indigenous prayer ritual and you can’t believe how much resonate with it.

You were skeptical to join at first because you’ve never heard of a virtual festival. But you’re so damn glad you just went for it. Because this already has filled your spirit in a manner you didn’t even realize you needed in bio

03/29/2025

Raise your hand if you are constantly working on regulating yourself 🙌🏿

Our children wear our nervous systems like a jacket. The way we experience parenting is heavily impacted by the capacity of our nervous system…

My sister will be leading a class all about nervous stem regulation and parenting. This will be a very powerful series!! Not only is it great for parents but anyone!!! So much inner child healing happens 🫂

Join us this morning at 11am-12:30pm PST!!
Sign up for Virtual circle on the Life School tier! First week is free!!

If you can’t join live today no worries! We will post the recording for you to watch over and over again!!

Monday is Mindful Movement with
Tuesday is The Mana Meet up with Moi!!!

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The first Black Maternal Health Festival is happening in just 2 weeks!! Doors are open…secure your seat today!

There will be dozens of offerings!! Get VIP for a year included to join Virtual circle to stay connected to an amazing community and get access to classes like the one today multiple times a month!

All information to sign up is in my bio!!!

03/11/2025

✨TRADITIONAL BIRTH WORKER IMMERSION✨

Look, if you don’t already know what’s up…then friend listen!

We are gathering this year to sit at the feet of traditional midwifery. This isn’t a training, it’s an initiation, an awakening, a homecoming….

Right now, we are seeing the extent of how disregarded and harmed we are by the medical industrial complex. This is the anecdote…..

Traditional midwifery model of care is rooted in immunity. It centers the needs of the client and sees them as the nucleus of their family constellation. They aren’t just another number. Traditional midwifery is revolutionary because it center our vitality, has amazing outcomes, and empowers us to be a sustainable member of our communities.

If you’ve been itching to join us…COME!!

You are garaunteed to be transformed and walk away more integrated, grounded, and confident!!!

SANTA CRUZ 8|22-28

GHANA 12|11-21

* part 3 will be happening in Ghana for a day long. This is for alumni of my Part 1 and 2 cohorts. 12/23/25 dm for more information

Detty December…but make it rooted in culture, spirit, and family friendly!!! Have you been wanting to experience Ghana during this historic time? Well, join us! This is open to everyone!!!! Participants of the immersion will receive a steep discount!!

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