Teaching Principles

We believe everyone is an expert of their own body. Connecting theory with our lived experiences is a link to re-membering and reclaiming knowledge as our own and in service to collective liberation and autonomy.

What to expect in our classes

  • While evidence-based protocols coming from peer-reviewed research plays an important role in building best practices and medical care models, there are serious shortcomings to relying exclusively on their materials. They often exclude the collective knowledge held by marginalized groups without the access or ability to create large bodies of research. Plant medicine, especially when applied to pregnancy, is inherently hard research to get approved, funded and carried out. Our materials and trainings uplift and value many types of knowledge: research, stories, embodied from all types of professionals and experts.

  • As clinically trained herbalists, many will attest to the lack of education around abortion and miscarriage within herbal certification programs, despite 1 out of 3 people with the capacity to become pregnant will have a pregnancy that ends in termination. Additionally, many birthworking professionals (from doulas to midwives to clinicians) get no education on herbal medicine. Healthcare for most people is a combination of allopathic and more traditional, or alternative methods. Trainings from Holistic focus on bridging these knowledge gaps for people working within reproductive healthcare structures.

  • Classes distill ancestral knowledge, current research, and evidence-based protocols into introductory classes and resources meant to teach the general population. Our goal is to provide accurate, well organized and easy to understand education to help practitioners, individuals and collectives to increase their bodily autonomy and community resiliency.

  • People leading workshops through Holistic Abortions have varying levels of clinical experience, community training, and actual lived experience. We know how to center and care for people getting abortions because we get or have had abortions.

    We are not doctors or lawyers (except when we feature those who explicitly say they are!)

    We are not giving medical or legal advice. Courses and training materials are to educate people, so they can make informed decisions about their bodies and their reproductive health.

Student Testimonials

"I am a student midwife, and I am SO pumped to have found your page. Thanks for fighting for reproductive freedoms, educating on our horrific history, and fighting for equity within the us."

“Change and growth starts with you, me, and a conversation and being active in your learning and truth. These classes will teach you so much about your body and the connections we need to rebuild with ourselves and communities. The slides are so beautiful and the energy and knowledge is so tender and empowering! This is the kind of connections and care we need to share and relearn together!”

“I didn't know what to expect with the Herbal Abortion 101 course, but left with my expectations far exceeded and my heart full. It is a class that doesn't offer rote information, but rather an embodied inquiry that shifts the frameworks we use to work with herbs generally, and pregnancy termination more specifically. The storytelling format along with numerous breakout sessions create a refreshingly connective online experience, and I left the class with a vision of what my own contribution to the movement can look like as part of a greater effort of community care.”

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