Montuna

Montuna Partería Montuna (Mountain Midwifery)Because our healer’s journey started at these elements' interconnection.

Acompañamiento
Ginecología Natural Preventiva
Educación y cuidado integral-feminista para toda experiencia y resultado en Salud Sexual-Reproductiva
Preservación de prácticas curativas culturales tradicionales de PR
Sanación Colectiva
Partera, DEM We are your Partera Comunitaria (Community Midwife, DEM) providing accompaniment, coaching, education, and care services during any journey, stage, experience, or outcome of your sexual and reproductive health life. These expand from sexuality, puberty, fertility, pregnancy, childbirth-postpartum, gender affirmative therapy, abortion, perinatal loss, and menopause, to end of life. We believe that we are your companions and partners in preventive healthcare and education as you are the primary voice, with the right and power to make decisions about your own body, and we are here to listen and guide you through that process and those decisions.

We are spending our round around the sun #47 at our ancestors' mountains. We will be celebrating our life creating art ...
08/22/2025

We are spending our round around the sun #47 at our ancestors' mountains. We will be celebrating our life creating art with our nieces, hiking with our sister, and drinking coffee in the mountains while having long conversations with our viejos.

We will be back Sept 6th. To schedule an appt use the link in our bio.

Image: A cup of coffee with a mountains and mist background.

Sacred Companionship through Loss and Life Transitions🌿 You Don’t Have to Walk Thi🌿 You Don’t Have to Walk Thi Path Alo...
08/21/2025

Sacred Companionship through Loss and Life Transitions

🌿 You Don’t Have to Walk Thi🌿 You Don’t Have to Walk Thi Path Alone 🌿
At the heart of every community is companionship—someone to hold space with tenderness, presence, and care.
Pregnancy loss, miscarriage, and abortion are profound experiences—and you deserve gentle, culturally-rooted support that centers your story, your body, and your healing.

✨ Our Offerings Include:
🤲 In-Home Monitrice Support after miscarriage, abortion, or loss
🌿 Traditional Sobadas for emotional and physical healing
🍲 Nourishing meals + Herbal remedies for womb wellness
💫 Reiki & Energy Work for grief, balance, and integration

This care isn’t clinical—it’s ancestral.
It’s rest, remembrance, and soul-tending.

💖 You are not alone. You are not broken. We are here—with reverence, respect, and love.

📩 Learn more or request care at montuna.org

Dr Jen Gunter on how the FDA Panel on Hormone Therapy was a Trojan Horse for Disinformation:"Women (AFAB) deserve evide...
08/19/2025

Dr Jen Gunter on how the FDA Panel on Hormone Therapy was a Trojan Horse for Disinformation:
"Women (AFAB) deserve evidence, transparency, and due process—because when those are ignored, the consequences are real. Also, ignoring higher-quality data is misogyny, because it means that women don’t need science, opinion is sufficient. If Dr. Makary were serious about improving women’s health, he’d call for a scientific advisory panel on the black box warning for vaginal estrogen and commit to funding meaningful research. Instead, he’s using his book chapter on hormones as a springboard for policy and attention.

Though Makary clearly misunderstands the science behind menopausal hormone therapy, he knows how to play the PR game. By presenting himself as an MHT advocate, he’s gained positive press and a network of meno-influencers who amplify his message—often to mutual benefit.

It is true that many women have been scared to use vaginal estrogen or denied it based on the black box warning. It is also true that many women have suffered without access to menopause hormone therapy because their health care providers couldn’t be bothered to read the guidelines. And finally, it is true that menopause is underfunded and understudied."

NOTE: If you want to get more up to date with menopause studies, JOIN OUR CLASS (We teach it for Chicago Women's Health Center with our amazing friend Terri Kapsalis): Saturday, October 11th, 2025, from 9:30am-12pm Central! (LINK IN OUR BIO!)


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Our services:Holistic Postpartum & Post-Pregnancy CareHealing After Pregnancy—Your Way We honor every outcome of pregnan...
08/17/2025

Our services:
Holistic Postpartum & Post-Pregnancy Care

Healing After Pregnancy—Your Way
We honor every outcome of pregnancy—birth, loss, abortion, or any other path—with care that centers you, your story, and your healing.

Our wellness-based, trauma-informed approach supports:
💫 Emotional well-being after pregnancy
💫 Healing from loss, abortion, or trauma
💫 Sexuality, contraception, & body autonomy
💫 Rest, nourishment & hormonal recovery
💫 Culturally rooted care that respects your traditions

✨ Our Offerings Include:
🌿 Traditional Sobadas (hands-on healing after pregnancy)
🌿 Cuarentena-Inspired Support (rest + warmth for all outcomes)
🌿 Infant Feeding Support (inclusive for all family types)
🌿 Loss & Abortion Recovery (physical + emotional care)
🌿 Nourishing Meals, Herbal Support, Pelvic Steams
🌿 Reiki, Grief Rituals & more

💖 No matter where you are in your journey—we’re here to walk with you.

📩 Learn more or book support at www.montuna.org
We are Direct Entry Midwife trained, and have practice and experience of over 20 years.

Know more about our services: Embodied Healing & Sexual WellnessYour body holds wisdom—and we’re here to help you listen...
08/10/2025

Know more about our services:
Embodied Healing & Sexual Wellness

Your body holds wisdom—and we’re here to help you listen.
At Montuna, we offer holistic, trauma-informed care to support you in reconnecting with your body, exploring pleasure with confidence, and healing at your own pace. 💖

✨ Whether you’re navigating pain, trauma, or seeking deeper connection, we honor your story, your resilience, and your boundaries.

Our services include:
🌿 Sexual Health & Intimacy Consults
🌿 Somatic Healing & Bodywork
🌿 Support for ED, Vaginismus & Vulvodynia
🌿 Pelvic Wellness & Herbal Support
🌿 Scar Tissue Massage
🌿 Reiki & Traditional Sobadas

🌈 Feminist. Body-positive. Ability-inclusive. Always led by you.

You deserve care that feels safe, affirming, and empowering. We’re here to walk with you.

📩 Book a consult or learn more at www.montuna.org
We are members of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT), and retrained by Sexual Health Alliance (SHA).

🐜 🌿 All Local Healers, Providers & Community Workers! 🌿 🐜At Montuna, we’re expanding our referral network and would love...
08/06/2025

🐜 🌿 All Local Healers, Providers & Community Workers! 🌿 🐜

At Montuna, we’re expanding our referral network and would love to collaborate with you. Whether you’re a doula, therapist, bodyworker, herbalist, birth worker, acupuncturist, or clinic, we’re inviting partners who provide affirming, trauma-informed, and holistic care.

Let’s work together to ensure our communities have access to the full spectrum of support they deserve—from sexual and reproductive health, to grief support, fertility care, somatic healing, and more.

🤝 We want to refer clients to and from trusted partners and build a stronger network of mutual care and collaboration.

✨ Because no one can do it alone. When we refer to each other, share resources, and work together, our clients receive well-rounded, affirming support.

✨ Because we all have different strengths. Whether your focus is therapy, birth and postpartum care, gender-affirming support, somatic work, herbalism, or something else—we’d love to know about it and share it.

✨ Because our mission aligns with yours: We’re here for holistic, trauma-informed, culturally rooted, and justice-oriented care.

💌 Interested in partnering? Contact us at jacoba@montuna.org or fill out our Collaboration Form [link in our bio].

Let’s create healing spaces rooted in justice, access, and community—together.

🚨NEW CLASS🚨(but also not so new; look at us how cute teaching pelvic self exams in 2009 !!!) ❤️✨ You deserve to know yo...
08/03/2025

🚨NEW CLASS🚨(but also not so new; look at us how cute teaching pelvic self exams in 2009 !!!) ❤️

✨ You deserve to know your body.
Join us for our Small Group Pelvic Self-Exam Class—a private, affirming space to reconnect with your body, learn your anatomy, and take charge of your health.

📅 First Saturday of every month
🕙 10 AM – 12 PM
📍 Evanston, IL (In-person at our office)
🌿 Limited to a small, private group for comfort and safety
🛒 Cost $75

Our next Class will be August 2nd, 2025

In this hands-on, trauma-informed class, you’ll learn:
🌸 How to understand your vaginal and cervical health
🪞 How to perform a pelvic self-exam with a mirror and speculum
🩺 Signs of health, common concerns, and prevention tips
💬 How to advocate for your care in medical settings
❤️ How to tune into your body with compassion and curiosity

This is radical body literacy—not just anatomy, but empowerment.
Come learn, connect, and reclaim your care. Class includes a speculum and a self exam guide!

🔗 DM or email jacoba@montuna.org to reserve your spot—spaces are limited! You can also fill the form of interest in the shop link in our bio

🚨New Class🚨(but also not so new; look at us how cute teaching pelvic self exams in 2009 !!!) ❤️✨ You deserve to know yo...
08/03/2025

🚨New Class🚨
(but also not so new; look at us how cute teaching pelvic self exams in 2009 !!!) ❤️

✨ You deserve to know your body.
Join us for our Small Group Pelvic Self-Exam Class—a private, affirming space to reconnect with your body, learn your anatomy, and take charge of your health.

📅 First Saturday of every month
🕙 10 AM – 12 PM
📍 Evanston, IL (In-person at our office)
🌿 Limited to a small, private group for comfort and safety
🛒 Cost $75

Our next Class will be September 6, 2025

In this hands-on, trauma-informed class, you’ll learn:
🌸 How to understand your vaginal and cervical health
🪞 How to perform a pelvic self-exam with a mirror and speculum
🩺 Signs of health, common concerns, and prevention tips
💬 How to advocate for your care in medical settings
❤️ How to tune into your body with compassion and curiosity

This is radical body literacy—not just anatomy, but empowerment.
Come learn, connect, and reclaim your care. Class includes a speculum and a self exam guide!

🔗 DM or email jacoba@montuna.org to reserve your spot—spaces are limited! You can also fill the form of interest in the shop link in our bio

Memory Lane to when we used to clean houses as a newly arrived immigrant:I use Formula (with a final twist)"When I arriv...
08/02/2025

Memory Lane to when we used to clean houses as a newly arrived immigrant:

I use Formula (with a final twist)

"When I arrived, I smiled and congratulated her on the baby—a beautiful little one with dark, pointy hair. The kind of baby that already looks like they’ve got something to say.

She looked tired, of course. That fresh, soul-deep tired you can’t fake. So I asked:

“Is there any other way I can support you today?”

She replied, simply:

“My sister came all the way from X to support me. Thank you.”

And I felt that—straight into my chest" ❤

Complete blog at link in our bio!




















🌀 Since 2009, Montuna has had the joy and purpose of training a wide diversity of Companions—not only Birthworkers, but ...
07/31/2025

🌀 Since 2009, Montuna has had the joy and purpose of training a wide diversity of Companions—not only Birthworkers, but also Abortion, Perinatal Loss, Fertility, Adoption, and now Menopause Companions.

In 2022, after co-hosting a powerful training with CWHC we launched an initiative to build a shared Abortion Companion Directory for clinics, midwives, and community partners. Over 70 folks responded—not just from Chicago, but all the way to the West Coast. Solidarity in action. 💜

As the demand for companion support grew, and we recognized the specific needs of clinics and communities, we moved the database to our website and created a more intentional intake process.

📣 If you trained with us (or co-trained with CWHC) any time since 2009 and want to be included in the new Directory, please reach out. We are prioritizing Companions offering care that centers:

BIPOC, Spanish-monolingual, LGBTQIA+, youth, disabled & marginalized folks
Trauma-informed frameworks
Free, barter, sliding scale, or accessible payment models
🌸 Already on the 2022 list? No worries—we haven’t added anyone without explicit second consent (we emailed you!). You can still opt out at any time.

🌼 Prefer anonymity? You can be listed without your photo, use a flower image, a G-number, or choose to be contacted through us directly.

This is not just for Abortion Companions—our Directory also welcomes those supporting:
🕯️ Perinatal Loss
🌱 Fertility
🌀 Menopause
💞 Adoption

✨ Visit the link in our bio to learn more. We’re excited to keep building this web of care with you.



{image of those love birds supporting each other with a written text that says Directory of Companions: Acompañantes}

Memory Lane to 2017: Las Mujeres de mi Casa en el Espejo"We are women who do not tire easily.We do not break.We bend. We...
07/29/2025

Memory Lane to 2017: Las Mujeres de mi Casa en el Espejo

"We are women who do not tire easily.
We do not break.
We bend. We spiral. We bloom.
We are fern spirals—cíclicas, ancient, and sacred.
We open when the sun signals,
but only when we decide,
only when our hearts command it.

We resist—on the island,
and in the “acá afuera,”
this Diaspora that stretches and pulls and remakes us daily.
.....

There I was:
Winged eyeliner smudged down one cheek,
under tired, chocolate-brown eyes.
Lips still painted faintly with last night’s story.
Hair curled just enough.
A little black dress.
The kind that makes you feel dangerous and soft at once.

I looked at myself.
And I smiled.

Not out of vanity—
but because even in exhaustion, even in labor,
I saw beauty.
I saw a woman carrying the stories of many women.
A woman who danced the night before and worked the next morning.
A woman who can do both.......

Right there in that mirror—
I found myself.
And with me:
my mother,
my grandmother,
my sisters,
my nieces.
All of them.
Present.
Proud.
Moving through me".



Complete post in our blog; link in our bio.
{image: black and white picture of the reflection of Jacoba cleaning a mirror"

Memory to when we worked in clinic during days, attended postpartum babies during night, and made gardens during weekend...
07/27/2025

Memory to when we worked in clinic during days, attended postpartum babies during night, and made gardens during weekends.

"I kicked off my shoes, touched the ground, and began singing:
“Dos gardenias para ti... con ellas quiero decir...”
while fixing pots and digging holes.

That song is one of my Dad’s favorites.
My Grandma loved it too.

When I finished, I sent my Dad some pictures—of course I need his approval, his pride in my work. I asked him what he was doing, hoping he was gardening too. Pretending, maybe even believing, that by both of us touching the ground at the same time, we’d be close—like the old days together at the finca.

Like maybe distance could dissolve for a little while.
“Oh Papi, estoy muerta.”
If only I could clap my hands and have you appear right here".

Complete post in my blog; link in our bio!

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{image of my feet next to a plant pot, some flowers, and gardening tools}

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Mujer Montuna was born in 2008 as my spiritual reconciliation with the mountains of San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico. It was created initially as a space to work, create and conspire; with and for women identified people, and people, at mountain communities of PR.

It has transformed into a Social-Agricultural-Healing Justice project that we work on a daily basis with and for the community, around herbalism, permaculture, health and popular education practices.

Mujer Montuna’s mission is to reach social justice by encouraging transformative organizing for community sustainability and autonomy via the preservation and dissemination of ancestral practices of collective healing, agriculture, and education. Our target groups are communities of color with scarce resources, with a special focus on women identified people* within rural/ marginalized areas

Mama Aicha is a sub-project of Mujer Montuna. “Mama” as we say in Puerto Rico to a woman identified person we love, or we approach with love. An independent project that offers a compassionate support to communities and its people to obtain full spectrum sexual and reproductive health education and care services. We do this with a popular education, social-healing-reproductive justice, feminist, and decolonizing framework, training and organizing Health Workers in our communities on self-managed health techniques and bringing health prevention practices to where it always ancestrally belonged; into our people's hands!