Hope has trained and worked as midwife and doula, and educator in women's health & healing arts. She graduated from the National College of Midwifery, and has attended over 400 births in the U.S., Indonesia, and Africa, where Hope worked at a village birth center with the African Birth Collective. Her approach to birth has always been natural and holistic, focused on out of hospital care. Her specialties have included massage, nutrition, yoga and waterbirth~ rich with experience from having practiced at the first water birth center in the United States, Andaluz Waterbirth Center. She has also supported many families who needed a hospital birth, as their doula, and thus has witnessed many of the pros and cons of the modern hospital system from the inside. This has inspired her to work harder to educate and raise awareness of healthy women as to their options from their own health and growing families thus Hope began Artemis Healing Arts education program and has taught natural birth classes in Peru, Brazil, Africa, Indonesia, as well as in the US.
Hope has also been playing hand drums for over twenty years. She has been the professional percussionist for internationally touring world roots rock band, Medicine for the People (Nahko.com) since 2007. Her first teacher was Babatunde Olatunje from Nigeria, and she has studied with master drummers in West Africa, Peru and Brazil. She is honored to use indigenous instruments to call forth the spirit of love and healing with intention. Hope enjoys sharing these powerful instruments with others~ she has facilitated drum circles and taught rhythm classes to over 2,500 participants; encouraging others to find their voice and empowerment through the drum in well facilitated supportive rhythm circles.
All of her projects are interwoven, and continue to expand in reach and pertinence. Hope has found ways to promote women’s health and empowerment through voice in her music and videos. She is coming out with an instructional Drum DVD at the end of 2016. She has taught ‘Rhythm and Birth’ classes in Brazil, Peru & Indonesia and continues to teach community building drum workshops in the US and Australia. She is co-teaching dynamic women’s health workshops with Tami Kent, author of Wild Feminine, which explore the true source of creativity. Hope has produced an album to birth to Back to the Mother, and a second album featuring her percussion called Purify. Her third solo music album, Bring to Light, will be coming out in 2016.
Yet of all these projects, Artemis healing Arts is very dear to her heart~ as a means to help the next generation feel supported to arrive in a gentler, more conscious way!
For more: HopeMedford.com
Hope has also been playing hand drums for over twenty years. She has been the professional percussionist for internationally touring world roots rock band, Medicine for the People (Nahko.com) since 2007. Her first teacher was Babatunde Olatunje from Nigeria, and she has studied with master drummers in West Africa, Peru and Brazil. She is honored to use indigenous instruments to call forth the spirit of love and healing with intention. Hope enjoys sharing these powerful instruments with others~ she has facilitated drum circles and taught rhythm classes to over 2,500 participants; encouraging others to find their voice and empowerment through the drum in well facilitated supportive rhythm circles.
All of her projects are interwoven, and continue to expand in reach and pertinence. Hope has found ways to promote women’s health and empowerment through voice in her music and videos. She is coming out with an instructional Drum DVD at the end of 2016. She has taught ‘Rhythm and Birth’ classes in Brazil, Peru & Indonesia and continues to teach community building drum workshops in the US and Australia. She is co-teaching dynamic women’s health workshops with Tami Kent, author of Wild Feminine, which explore the true source of creativity. Hope has produced an album to birth to Back to the Mother, and a second album featuring her percussion called Purify. Her third solo music album, Bring to Light, will be coming out in 2016.
Yet of all these projects, Artemis healing Arts is very dear to her heart~ as a means to help the next generation feel supported to arrive in a gentler, more conscious way!
For more: HopeMedford.com