よろしくお願いします

my name is Uta 歌. i am a birth guardian, womb keeper, energy worker, and artist. my body was formed at the confluence of waters from the deep mountains of ainu mosir (northern so-called japan), and yiddish people of romania, lithuania, and germany. Uta means song; I sing down medicine from the stars that supports our collective reclamation of ourselves as warriors of truth, with the capacity to face all that is, head-on, in order to transform the violence that lives within and around us into the softest weeping awe. i begin with myself.

i worldbuild through film, writing, drumming, energy work, ceremony, birthwork, and song. 

i entered my study of japanese energetic medicine in 2016, guided by my obaachan and hi-bappayan (grandmother and great grandmother). within my matrisphere, we are women of the clear spring water that the mountain drinks from the sky. i honor the mouth the mountain drinks with, and the ways that our bodies are microcosms of the sacred landscapes which give way to life.

i was initiated into womb and birth guardianship through an abortion, and the re-association with trauma held in my pelvic bowl. i have committed myself to the path of the birth arts out of a deep need to reclaim traditional knowledge and cosmology about the womb, which is to say the origin of life. my hunger for reconnection with and healing of origins has brought me to the womb at the center of our bodies, at the core of the earth, and at the very heart of the universe. i give thanks to the owl, womb and village protector through my mother’s lineages, and through my yiddish lineages, i give thanks to the chicken woman or baba yaga who fortifies me on my path.

thank you to all of my teachers, human and beyond-human. these include adela nieves, abuela celia perez-booth, chilan mustain, kenneth jover, aya maria maldonado, rachelle garcia seliga, dr. teresa lau, crystal teng, dohee lee, dana kawano, maya blume, katina castillo, oak kalawakan, maryam hasnaa, siedeh foxie, kawahatsu sensei, the sacred plant teachers, and other vital teachers who cannot be named here.

painting by makoto aida

+ EDUCATION +

INNATE POSTPARTUM CARE 2024 - 9 month postpartum care training

GUARDIANS OF BIRTH 2023 - 3 month ancestral birth arts training

MASTER SHARPENING STONE 2021 - Acupressure training

SOUL FLOWER FARM 2021 - Devas Daughters Herbal Apprenticeship

TRANSFORMATIVE ENERGY WORK 2021 - Chinese 5 Elements Theory training

NEW EARTH MYSTERY SCHOOL 2020 - Energy as Currency training

NADA ACUDETOX THERAPY 2017 - Ear acupuncture training

REIKI 2016 - Japanese energy healing training and certification