Background:

Empress N’Zola, founder of Kimuntu Midwife, LLC, has accumulated 4+ years of doctoral training in Naturopathic Medicine and Masters of Science in Midwifery clinical and academic training from Bastyr University. During her higher education at Bastyr, N’Zola maintained the distinction of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society status as well after initiation in her undegrad degree in Nutrition & Exercise Physiology. She also was awarded two full-ride academic scholarships for her entire Midwifery master's education at Bastyr University. She garnered numerous awards and grants for her exemplary academic and clinical work in midwifery and naturopathic studies all while simultaneously attending births as a doula and living on call for births. She is also a certified breathwork practitioner who has organized and led holistic community events for midwives, doulas and OB/GYNs of color to discuss black maternal health care solutions in America and has led an live audience of over 100+ people in group meditation and parasympathic activation breathwork at Bastyr University while being a full time clinical and academic masters student, self employed monitrice doula and also working at her local hospital and university’s community medicinal garden.

Midwifery Training:

During her Midwifery education, she was a student clinical midwife at her local community birth center, where she completed clinical days of prenatal and postpartum midwifery visits with her midwife preceptors, assisted and performed newborn baby exams, placental removal, postpartum depression assessments, bedside ultrasounds, blood draws and ordering labs, NSTs (Non-Stress Tests), taking vitals, Leopold's Maneuvers, fundal height assessment, and Doppler fetal heart monitoring. She is a certified childbirth educator and breastfeeding specialist as well as CPR and NRP certified and has assisted in over 44+ home, birth center, water, and hospital births with successful birth outcomes and healthy babies. Many of these births have developed her student midwifery skills in delayed cord clamping, birth stool positions, hydrotherapy, hypnotherapy, intrapartum acupressure, EFT, crystal energy healing, dim light birth spaces, AROM, Rebozo support, prolapsed cord prevention education, placental blood collection, and taking maternal/newborn vitals, newborn physical assessments, vaginal exams, vaginal postpartum suturing, breast exams, abdominal exams, lymphatic detoxification, spinning babies, taking vitals, Doppler fetal heart monitoring, bedside ultrasound, running medical labs and bloodwork, administering maternal Pitocin & fetal vitamin K, respiratory, muscular, skeletal, HEENT, abdominal and internal/external labial exams and natural & herbal labor inductions.

Naturopathic Medical School & Monitrice Doula Training:

N’Zola transitioned life paths from ND school to Midwifery school due to her ancestral calling to help her black and bantu sisters across the globe as well as volunteer work as a community doula during the epidemic. During her education she achieved Honors scholarships and academic excellent in classes such as anatomy, cadaver anatomy lab, histology, epigenetics, biochemistry, physiology, prenatal nutrition, human development, counseling, midwifery care, medical charting, gynecology, breastfeeding, clinical herbalism, sports med, sports nutrition, craniosacral therapy, physical medicine, organic chemistry, hydrotherapy, and much more. A highly certified, full-spectrum, holistic, and monitrice doula, N’Zola specializes in holistic fertility, pregnancy, birth/labor, postpartum, miscarriage, and abortion care. Her certifications are from reputable black-owned schools like The NBDA, CPI, and the Sisters in Loss Training Institute. With a decade of experience in the medical and academic clinical fields, she brings a wealth of knowledge in breastfeeding specialization and neonatal nutrition. Empress N’Zola’s approach to care is deeply enriched by her ancestral and traditional initiations. As a holistic fertility specialist, she possesses profound knowledge of Bakongo sacred womb wisdom and rituals and unique blends modern and ancestral practices including some TCM & ayurvedic principals she learned in naturopathic medical school that allows her to offer a truly holistic approach to maternal health and wellness and offer solutions to the black maternal and fetal health crisis. N’Zola decided to not continue her western ND or Midwifery education to pour her energy into the pan-afrikan liberation struggle and be more involved in her community as she was led out of both westernized programs by her ancestors to practice traditional birth and womb healing work.

Empress N’Zola:

N’Zola practices a raw alkaline/kitoko fruitarian eating pattern full of fresh cold pressed detox green juices, herbal teas, alkaline/seeded fruits, mushrooms and seeds and grasses like fonio and wild rice as well as root vegetables for grounding. Her favorite hobbies include Angolan Capoeira, reading, yoga, ancestral veneration, divine feminine affirmation journaling, juicing, Kizomba, alkaline vegan baking, herbalism, gardening, Samba, yoni steams, studying iridology and tongue diagnosis, taking spiritual baths, sacred pampering rituals, nurturing children at her local community center, spending time in nature, psilocybin healing, meditation, prayer, suturing, menstrual painting, making organic body butters & going to the gym. Also, being a Certified Sound Healer, she enjoys connecting with her inner child and playing various instruments like: Berimbau, Agogo, Atabaque, Pandeiro, Reco-Reco, Kalimba & Tibetan and Crystal Sound Bowls.

What is Kimuntu ?

Coming from the legacy of Ngomas (Kongo ancestry) and Granny Midwives (Black American ancestry). N’Zola has a Matrilineal and Matriarchial vision for the global womb healing of black/African women but understands it starts with a foundation of KIMUNTU. Kimuntu is a part of the Bukongo worldview. Kimuntu is linked with the Matriliearity Kongo view (this is where it differs from the “Ubuntu” similar concept of the Xhosa or Zulu kingdoms). Kimuntu means “that defines the Muntu”. Ki means power/life force energy, Muntu means human, (womb)man and humanity & Midwife is the sacred wholistic birth keeper of spiritual and physical new life. Kimuntu Midwife honors the mind (N’tu), body, soul and spirit of each melanated person birthing or rebirthing new life into this world. “Muntu Fua, Kanda Kadi Fua Ka Ko” is a Kongo proverb and foundational principle to Kimuntu Midwife that means “the individual disappears but the matriarchial lineage remains”. Kimuntu Midwife is a divine feminine legacy that will be passed down to the future generations to always be available to the black wombyn on earth indefinitely as a safe birth and womb healing space. Kimuntu Midwife honors the sacred and divine energies of the divine feminine and masculine in sacred union bringing a divine light and soul earthside with the love and support of midwives, doulas, community, family as well as Earth (through ancestral placenta burial rituals).

N’Zola Nutritional Healing Philosophy:

N’Zola (love) nutritional healing philosophy is a sacred philosophy first developed when she went plant based at the age of 12 (now 15+ years in the making) after researching factory farming, Halal practices and organic agricultural practices of her ancestors as well as the spiritual vibration and frequencies of food. N’Zola nutritional philosophy advocates for epigenetic healing and genetic purification through a eating pattern rich in high-frequency, natural indigenous fruits, juices, and plants. N’Zola nutrition honors Dr. Sebi’s nutritional guide as level 1 initiation but does not require strict policing or alkaline perfection, the goal is more focused on eating colorful and nature-made foods. As a certified color therapist, she emphasizes the naturopathic principle of using food as medicine and eating by Chakra/Bimwelo. By eating for color, she believes mothers are able to have better pregnancy and birth outcomes by nutritional balancing the chakras/bimwelos using phytonutrient awareness. By promoting a colorful holistic well-being journey through "chakra (bimwelo) fruitarian nutrition” she advocates for alkaline fruitarian pregnancies but also holds space freely for supporting women wherever they are in their self-healing journey and divine feminine awakening. Inspired at a young age by the work of Dr. Sebi, Dr. Afrika, Baba Fu Kiau, the Granny Midwives and many other special sangomas and spiritual mentors, she educates women on the gut-brain axis and improving mental health through plant based and fruitarian N’Zola (love) nutrition all with 1 Cor. 13 unconditional love, grace and support. Through all Empress N’Zola’s education and training she has always had the same mission of helping to restore and heal the black/karbon family and end the gender war and all the other -isms birthed by colonization that has caused the black and bantu maternal and fetal health crisis that is often ignored. Kimuntu Midwife is focused on black womb healing/liberation, birthing healthy babies in safe, supportive and sacred birth spaces and divine feminine & EVE gene goddess awareness.

N’Zola Kuingi

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