Adrienne Leeds is a Certified Professional Midwife and Certified Clinical Herbalist. A graduate of the Rocky Mountain Center for Botanical Studies' 3-year Clinical Herbalism program, Adrienne is also Reiki II practitioner and flower essence formulator. Adrienne deepened her study of women's health with Wise Womanhood, The Matrona, The Association of Texas Midwives' Midwifery Training Program, Postpartum Ayurdoula Ysha Oakes, Ruth Shepard, and Dr. Rosita Arvigo. She is a married mother of two homebirthed children, gardener, hiker and rollerblader.
ARTICLES
Homebirth in Peru's Sacred Valley, Midwifery Today Issue 97, Spring 2011
The Art of The Sitz Bath, Midwifery Today Issue 65, Spring 2003
How to Make Herbal Tinctures
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Natural Family Medicine Cabinet, Botanica Festival June 2022
Herbs and Lactation, Community Roots Midwife Collective conference May 2022
Partus Preparator Herbs, Carolina Birth Junkies Summer Island Retreat, August 2021
Postpartum Thyroiditis, Colorado Midwives Association conference, September 2019 and GOLD Midwifery February 2020
Wise Woman Fertility, Red Earth Herbal Gathering, September 2019
Preeclampsia and Nutrition: Separating Fact from Fiction, GOLD Online Midwifery Conference, February 2019
Wise Woman Fertility, Midwest Women's Herbal Conference, June 2013
Prenatal Nutrition: Beyond Brewer, MANA SE Regional Conference, August 2011
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Colorado Midwives Association
GOLD Midwifery Professional Advisory Committee 2017-22
Midwifery Advisory Council to SC Department of Heath & Environmental Control, 2012-2017
Member, American Herbalists Guild
VARIOUS & SUNDRY TRAININGS
Arvigo Techniques of Mayan Abdominal Therapy, Professional Level, March 2022
Craniosacral and Myofascial Release for Pregnancy and Infants, June 2021
Spinning Babies, December 2016
Homeopathy for the Childbearing Continuum, September 2013
Medicines from the Earth Herbal Conference: June 2012, 2008, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2000
Resolving Shoulder Dystocia, March 2011
Breastfeeding Peer Counselor, Summer 2004
Fourth International Waterbirth Congress, April 2004
New England Woman's Herbal Conference, August 2003
Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy, Level One, February 2003
Reiki I & II 2001
Frontier Herbfest, May 1997
DOULA TRAININGS
The Matrona, Advanced Holistic Doula, September 2004
The Matrona Doula training, spring 2004
ALACE (now ToLabor): summer 2004; certification completed February 2006
Sacred Window Postpartum Ayurvedic Doula Level I-II, November 2002
Wise Womanhood/ReSourcing Birth: March 2001
