Akane Sugimoto Storey (she/her) is a midwife and Registered Somatic Movement Therapist (RSMT) through the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA). As a mechanism to promote change, Somatic Movement invites creating space for the nuances and perceptions of the body from within. Akane believes her experiences as a mixed heritage and race U.S.- Asian- and- Latin- American, and her lifelong love of movement, brought her into Somatics.
Akane has found vast opportunities to apply training from the Eastwest Somatics Institute (USA) and Upledger Institute (Mexico) to clinical care, clinical instruction, and beyond. Her professional experience includes provision of full-scope midwifery care, pre-service and in-service clinical education, advocacy, and accompaniment in post-conflict settings.
For many years, Akane led care at Luna Maya Midwifery in Chiapas, Mexico. Most recently, she has provided instruction and clinical direction at the National Midwifery Institute, a direct entry midwifery learning program; and, through the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM), implemented programming to strengthen clinical competencies and the midwifery model in Afghanistan. Akane has a B.A. in International Studies; an MSc with Distinction in Maternal and Infant Health; and, with strong aspirations to shift systems and structures to become conducive and enabling for midwives, is eager to begin her Doctor in Global Heath Leadership and Practice (DrGH) this Fall.
Somatic Movement is an exploratory field that invites phenomenological exploration, or an in-depth focus on the nuances and perceptions of the body from within, to promote sustained positive change. Midwifery refers to the provision of clinical care that safeguards childbirth and the continuums before, after and in lieu of childbearing as normal events; while centering the informed choices, preferences, and values of each care-seeking individual; minimizing unnecessary intervention; and working autonomously within an integrated interprofessional team.This session will explore how one midwife, across an array of global contexts and settings, has infused these two fields to become one. Explorations will include applications of Somatic Movement in midwifery using examples from client care, midwifery education, provider development, advocacy and leadership development. Participants will leave this session with a baseline understanding of Somatics and, with concepts like experiential anatomy, therapeutic touch, movement patterns, authentic movement, and elements from craniosacral therapy woven across the session, equipped with somatic concepts ready to be used irrespective of the direction of their greatest force, whether through practice, teaching, advocacy, or leadership.
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