YESHI NEUMANN, Certified Nurse Midwife,
MPH MA IBCLC
Yeshi Neumann has been working as a midwife since 1970. In 2000, she created Homestyle Midwifery, a unique model of care, blending home and hospital birth.
In October 2006 Homestyle Midwifery received a certificate of honor from Mayor Gavin Newsom, and in July 2007 was voted "Best Way to Have a Baby" by San Francisco magazine. In addition to her work in the United States, Yeshi has taught and learned from midwives in Mexico, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Trinidad, Tibet, Morocco, India, and China, and most recently in the Amazonian rainforest in Ecuador with the Jungle Mamas Project.
Yeshi has facilitated hundreds of workshops about communication, women's leadership, diversity, conflict resolution,organizational development and family relationships. She brings her passion for healing, women's empowerment and social justice to her work with mothers and grandmothers.Yeshi also trains social change leaders from the non-profit, philanthropic, labor and socially responsible business sectors in the Art of Leadership at Rockwood Leadership Institute.
Yeshi has developed a relevant and inspiring curriculum for the grandmothers of our time, Conscious Grandmothering Workshops, and is the midwife of the Conscious Grandmothering Council Network (Conscious Grandmothering Councils)
Yeshi is a dedicated student and practitioner of Mindfulness. She has
participated in the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Professional Training Program with Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD and in the Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting Professional Training Program with Nancy Bardacke, CNM.
In addition to being a Certified Nurse Midwife, Yeshi has a Masters degree in History and a Masters degree in Public Health. She is a regular speaker at national and international conferences.
Yeshi is the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of two granddaughters, both of whom were born into her own hands.