About the Barefoot Doctors Academy:
Our History
Our Purpose and Goals
Contact Us
Programs:
Childbirth Assistant Information and Doula Certification
Barefoot Doctor Training
Integrative Healing Forum
Midwifery Tutoring
Special Projects:
DoulaCare Hawai'i
Healing Gardens Ecosystem
World Library of Natural Healing
World Midwifery Museum
Calendars:
Barefoot Doctoring Training Schedule
Childbirth Assistant Info and Doula Certification Schedule
Integrative Healing Forum
Healing Movements
Links:
Dee Anne Domnick, LM, CPM
www.JimBergMD.com
DoulaCare Hawai'i
Doula & Midwifery Links
The Healing Gardens Ecosystem, is designed
to be a spectacular display of medicinal plants from around the world, with a
special emphasis on Hawai’ian and Asian-Pacific
varieties, as well as herbal medicine, rare and unusual tropical plants. The ecosystem is designed to be a teaching resource on the use and
history of natural, indigenous and traditional medicines, utilizing permaculture principles. The landscape is both beautiful and wise, lush with variety and detailed in
its selections. Plans are for plants to
have nameplates with botanical and common names and many with descriptions
of their ethnobotanical heritage, utility, and ecological preferences.
Housed
within the gardens will be pavilions and classrooms, organized for the purpose of educating people
about natural medicine and tropical permaculture. The local community, tourists and visitors,
students and apprentices, and professional healers and ethnobotanists
will benefit from the wealth of knowledge that will flourish from these
gardens. The curriculum will utilize
indigenous, local and international experts to teach about herbology,
organic landscape gardening and environmental wellness, barefoot doctoring and
natural community healthcare, natural birthing, foods, bodywork, meditation,
therapeutic movement, and lifestyle enhancement. The ecosystem itself will be an inspiration
to learning, and the classes will supplement the wisdom of the earth.
Coupled with the gardens and educational resource center will come two important functions: research and networking. The Barefoot Doctors’ Academy will coordinate and facilitate scientific and ethnobotanical research regarding the clinical utility, safety, conservation, and trade of medicinal plants. The center will also help to connect the people with the natural healers by developing a Global Networking Model that systematically catalogues and links healers to those in need. The Global Health Network will complement this, by building alliances with global, regional, national, and local agencies, including private and other non-governmental organizations and indigenous healing groups. A sign of a healthy community is cooperation amongst the healers. We will facilitate this cooperation by sharing knowledge, validating heritages, and being a welcome ecosystem for all with good intentions.
Important Garden Terms and Concepts
