Tejedoras del Nacer has been deeply nourished by the wisdom, generosity and teachings of parteras tradicionales and birth keepers who have devoted their lives to tending birth and carrying ancestral ways forward.
With profound gratitude, we honour the parteras of Latin America — We have had direct transmission from Nana Rosalia, Nana Dominga and Nana Ixquik, Abuela Angelina Martínez, Naolí Vinaver Laura Torres, Daniela Salinas Riquelme, Martha Arotingo, Mariu, Ruro, and Mirna Amaya.
We also want to give our deepest gratitude to our dear mentors from the United States Whapio and Sunni Karll.
Their teachings are not simply knowledge to be learned, but living wisdom carried through relationship, experience, lineage and community.
We bow with gratitude to all that has been shared with us, and to all that remains held within the communities and lineages from which these teachings come.
May our learning always be rooted in respect, reciprocity and right relationship — giving back to and supporting the parteras and communities who continue to carry these traditions.
With gratitude to those who came before,
those who continue to tend to the sacredness of birth today,
and those who will carry these threads forward.
Daniela Ekman Perez - Founder of Tejedoras del Nacer & Soma-Shakti
Daniela was born and raised in the beautiful lands of Venezuela. Her ancestry weaves together Mayan and Amazonian Indigenous roots, alongside European lineages.
Her great-grandmother came from rural Venezuela, from a time when birth was held within the fabric of community. She gave birth to her three children at home, accompanied by a partera tradicional. This story has become a meaningful thread in Daniela's own journey of remembering and returning to ancestral ways of tending women and birth.
Life eventually carried Daniela away from the lands and culture in which she was born, beginning a long journey of seeking, learning and remembering through different traditional cultures.
In India, she studied Ayurvedic Medicine, and for many years supported women through fertility, pregnancy and postpartum with traditional therapies, herbal medicine and nourishment.
And then, just as a spiral, something began calling her home. Back to her roots, to her land, to her ancestors.
Daniela felt drawn to sit with and learn from parteras tradicionales connected to the lands and lineages of Latin America. Through her teachers, she has been learning the art of sobadas, the medicine and ceremony of the temazcal, traditional ways of tending birth, and the ancestral practices that have accompanied women through pregnancy, birth and postpartum for generations.
Motherhood has deepened this path profoundly.
Today, Daniela continues to accompany women and families within her community while remaining a student of the women, traditions and lineages that guide her.
From this journey, Tejedoras del Nacer was born.
Her prayer is that the wisdom of the Abuelas continues to live. Not as something belonging only to the past, but as living wisdom carried through our bodies, our relationships, our communities and the generations yet to come.
She teaches from the heart, with deep gratitude to her teachers and ancestors.
May we remember what our bodies already know.
May the wisdom of the Abuelas live on.
