Partería Montuna (Mountain Midwifery)Because our healer’s journey started at these elements' interconnection.
Accompaniment
Preventive Natural Gynecology
Comprehensive education/ care for all sexual and reproductive health/ pregnancy experiences and outcomes
Preservation of traditional cultural healing practices in PR
Collective Healing
Partera, DEM
Multilingual 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.
12/20/2025
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As this season of celebration unfolds, we at Montuna pause at our Cabaña Montuna with gratitude and intention. We honor rest as sacred and recognize that how we care, slow down, and remain present is deeply political. We also reflect on how justice is practiced in the everyday—in how we relate to one another, to the land, and to ourselves.
May these days be gentle, nourishing, and rooted in collective responsibility. 🤍
ESPAÑOL
En esta temporada de celebraciones, en Montuna hacemos una pausa en nuestra Cabaña Montuna con gratitud e intención. Honramos el descanso como algo sagrado y reconocemos que la forma en que cuidamos, desaceleramos y permanecemos presentes también es política. Reflexionamos también en cómo la justicia se practica en lo cotidiano—en cómo nos relacionamos entre nosotrxs, con la tierra y con nosotrxs mismxs.
Que estos días sean suaves, nutritivos y sostenidos por la responsabilidad colectiva. 🤍
12/17/2025
New Blog Post Alert!
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At Montuna, ancestral care is living practice.
Our new blog honors Puerto Rico’s santigüadoras—the lineages that raised us and shape our work today. From mal de ojo and empacho to mountain wisdom carried across the diaspora.
Read it at the link in our bio or on our page.
ESPAÑOL
En Montuna, el cuidado ancestral está vivo.
Nuestro nuevo blog honra a las santigüadoras de Puerto Rico y los linajes que nos criaron y guían nuestro trabajo hoy—del mal de ojo y el empacho a la sabiduría de la montaña en la diáspora.
Léelo en el enlace en nuestra bio o en nuestra página de Facebook.
12/16/2025
Let’s talk about SAM
Thanks IPAS for continuing these important conversations
12/14/2025
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At Montuna, we honor and continue the legacy of Puerto Rico’s santigüadoras—healers who cared for their communities through prayer, touch, herbs, and ancestral wisdom. Carrying this lineage forward is an act of remembrance, resistance, and collective healing. This knowledge is alive, and it belongs to our communities.
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En Montuna honramos y continuamos el legado de las santigüadoras de Puerto Rico—mujeres sanadoras que sostuvieron a sus comunidades con oración, toque, plantas y sabiduría ancestral. Mantener viva esta tradición es un acto de memoria, resistencia y sanación colectiva. Este conocimiento sigue vivo y es de nuestra gente. www.montuna.org
12/03/2025
This article does an excellent job highlighting emerging research on hormone therapy and cognitive health, and Dr. Lisa Mosconi’s work shines at the center of it. Mosconi has been one of the few researchers consistently pushing the field to take women’s brain health seriously, and this piece underscores how urgently we need to listen to the data she and others are generating.
The findings discussed here reinforce what clinicians and patients have been saying for years: perimenopause and menopause are not simply reproductive transitions — they are neurological transitions with real, measurable impacts. Mosconi’s commitment to rigorous, brain-based research is opening doors that were ignored for far too long.
If anything, this article shows how much more investment is needed. Women/people deserve studies that match the scale and complexity of their lived experiences. Continued funding and research in this area are essential so we can move beyond outdated assumptions and toward evidence-based care that protects cognitive health across the lifespan.
Looking for a meaningful holiday gift?
Offer someone you love the care they deserve — Montuna gift cards for bodywork, sobadas, reproductive wellness, and community-rooted healing.
Because wellness is best when shared.
¿Buscas un regalo significativo estas fiestas?
Regálale a alguien que amas el cuidado que merece — tarjetas de regalo de Montuna para masajes, sobadas, bienestar reproductivo y sanación comunitaria.
Porque el bienestar se comparte.
Order at the link in our bio/ Enlace para pedidos en nuestro perfil! www.montuna.org
11/27/2025
Today, in honor of our Indigenous Communities in North America and beyond:
Recording of the webinar "Beyond the Birth Room" :
"This powerful session, led by Nicolle Arthun, explores how Indigenous midwifery wisdom—holistic risk assessment, relational decision-making, and deep accountability to community—can drive meaningful systems change from the birth room into policy. Through case studies such as the Mni Wiconi Midwifery Field Clinic at Standing Rock and the work of Changing Woman Initiative, the webinar examines the systemic barriers that shape maternal health access, including jurisdictional fragmentation, funding challenges, workforce gaps, and limitations on sovereignty".
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This is why we do what we do!
Content warning for abortion ban-related death
Tierra Walker knew something was wrong. She begged for answers. She asked for an abortion — the only thing that could protect her from the preeclampsia she feared would kill her.
Doctors told her there was “no emergency,” because Texas law made them fear prison more than they feared losing a patient.
Tierra died. Her son found her on his birthday.
This is what abortion bans do.
They silence doctors. They trap families. They cost lives.
No one should be forced to stay pregnant at the risk of their own life.
image: photo of black woman smiling and her child on a frame that says mommy and me.
11/24/2025
A friend tagged us on this post, of course!!!
Mice aren’t usually tied to cooperative caregiving, but researchers just filmed something extraordinary inside a nesting box. When a mother struggled to deliver her pups, another female stepped in — tugging a newborn free with her paws and mouth, then staying close through the rest of the birth. These helpers were almost always experienced mothers, suggesting they can detect distress and react in a targeted, purposeful way.
It’s one of the clearest examples of cooperative birthing ever recorded in rodents and raises new questions about how social bonds shape survival in small mammals.
Reposted from Discvr Blog in Facebook that had the link of the study. We are just too excited about the post and forgot about it 😆
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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!
We do Reproductive/Sexual Health Education and Services: Fertility. Conception. Prenatal classes. Birth. Postpartum. Breast/Chest feeding. Womb "sobadas". Reiki. Vaginal Health/ Steam Baths. Full Spectrum Birth Worker. Abortion Companionship and training of Abortion companions. Alternative inseminations. Midwife trained. Everything in sync with what our ancestors taught us.
Together we built La Cabaña, a place where people gather, conspire ideas and dreams, take classes, heal and meet. The cabin was made with mucho love by Papi and our own hands, among the hands of my neighbors. With same love we ask people to enter through its doors.
Our Values:
Reproductive Justice because we understand people have the right of power to make decisions about their bodies, gender, sexuality, families and communities; but of those, some are most marginalized than others.
Inter-sectional Power, because we understand in this system people’s identities determine their power, as deny power to others.
Cultural Competence, because we believe People’s cultural differences should be respected, honored and manage appropriately by other people and systems.
Decolonizing, because systems are not lineal for everybody and can oppress some people, and might not determine values for others. We aim to bring health prevention practices to where it always ancestrally belonged; into our people's hands!
Popular Education because we promote conversations and organizing education in the base; BY the people, WITH the people and FOR the people.
Hope and Joy, because we know historically our communities of color have been threatened with tearing off our joy and hope, and we are here to safeguard these values.
With love, Jackie, o , La Jacoba
*Note: Trans women are women. People don’t need to have uterus nor vaginas to be part of our groups! Trans men have benefited from our workshops as well. Every diversity of body is welcome!
