Liberation: A Day of Healing Honoring Juneteenth

TATIANA ZAMIR is a healing arts conductor, performance artist, and trauma-informed movement therapist who has been walking a path of evolution, transformation, and deep personal inquiry her whole life. In her dance classes, healing arts retreats, and performances, she employs her unique movement therapy method developed over a lifetime of training and exploration of the body as a vehicle for our highest destiny. Zamir studied and performed as a dancer and choreographer in the World Arts & Cultures Department at UCLA and developed her natural skills in the healing arts at IPSB Life Energy Institute. From her base in Los Angeles, her work has taken her to Bulgaria, Argentina, Namibia, Senegal, Mexico, Cuba, and Bali. As both a healer and an artist, Tatiana holds a uniquely compassionate space, which catalyzes transformation and aids people around the world to embody their joy and live unapologetic, creatively-fulfilled lives — whether in her Afro-Joy Dance classes, her performance art, or movement therapy-based healing arts workshops and retreats.

Milan Bell-Watts owns Urban Doula, providing full spectrum doula services as well as birth education, energetic body work, movement, breath therapy, nutrition and more. Milan's wellness practices includes Yoga, Crystal & Sound Healing, Thai Chakra Massage, a retreat company “Golden Goddess Getaways” and a vast knowledge of Energetic Healing Modalities.

Raquel Lemus is a Certified Professional Midwife and owner of Community Partera. She provides full spectrum midwifery care, including birth education and lactation education. Raquel is lead on all Sugar Heal Home Births and is an expert in providing culturally competent care.

Daniel Hutchison is the owner of Heliology, providing acupuncture, nutrition and herbs for birthing persons and their partners. His prenatal and postpartum care allows for more balanced births and a robust postpartum recovery. 

Colleen Lovejoy is founder and director of Sugar Heal Gang. A lifelong singer-songwriter, Colleen began developing her abilities to heal with sound through acuvibration therapy in 2019 with her company Seline Vibes. She uses acuvibration in maternity care to harmonize birthing person and baby in a number of ways, including eliminating pregnancy discomforts, regulating labor contractions, lowering blood pressure, halting hemorrhaging, and maintaining healthy heart rate.

Piper LoveMore is a birthworker on a mission to empower families around the globe to navigate their birth experiences with confidence and pleasure. To that end she has pursued certification as a Lamaze educator, a doula, and a midwife, spending decades in service to the parturient population. Piper now serves as Chief Advisor to Sugar Heal Gang and offers birth consultant services to a variety of organizations.

Chaz LoveMore is an audio engineer by trade, and a birth educator by necessity. Having been transformed by his first birth experience, he sought to encourage other partners to discover the power of their presence in the birth space by speaking directly to their unique concerns. He facilitates Sugar Heal's Birth Empowerment for Fathers program.

Dr. Zhaleh Phillips is a sociologist, an expert in trauma resolution and a medical intuitive. She channels guidance for Sugar Heal Gang birthing families and practitioners.

Jade Ross owns LuxnGrace, a company that provides peristeam hydrotherapy for labor prep & for postpartum recovery as well as postpartum meal delivery. LuxnGrace also designs intensive care retreats for clients experiencing high risk symptoms. Jade was Sugar Heal's first client; her son Legend was born on Christmas of 2020.