Kintsugi Class
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by joining pieces back together and filling the cracks with lacquer dusted with powdered gold, silver or platinum, thereby highlighting the flaws in the mended object, and making it more beautiful. Kintsugi is also an aesthetic or world view characterized by embracing imperfection and treating healing as an essential part of human experience. With a Kintsugi mindset, we reframe challenges as opportunities.
Struggling to find hope and healing while managing co-parenting conflict, family litigation or intimate partner violence? This group employs practical tools and peer support to navigate parenting concerns. All information will be kept private and fake names can be provide to protect anonymity.
Prenatal Yoga
We are excited to offer this yoga class in collaboration with The Tree Yoga Collective and Luna & Sol Healing Co. This class will be provided in-person at our Ladera Heights Maternity Home or at the Kindred Space AV location. Currently pregnant and recently postpartum persons are welcome. Your baby must be with you at all times as childcare will not be provided. Address will be provided with the reminder of the next scheduled session. The Ladera Heights group is currently collecting information of interested participants. Please fill out the form below if you would like us to consider your availability and email you for the first scheduled class.
Postpartum Support Group
BMHCE’s Postpartum Support Group: Embracing Joy in the Journey of Black Parenthood
Facilitated by Fareedat Ajibade MD, IBCLC & Nithya Ravindran, DO
Each session offers an opportunity to connect with other Black parents to share your experiences, fears, and successes. We will have bonding activities, breastfeeding support, and infant development education all in a nurturing space for culturally rooted mental and emotional wellness using mindfulness, trauma-informed care, art, music, dance, and storytelling.
All sessions will be held once a month at 2-3:30PM on Thursdays via Zoom. See the schedule for 2026 in the registration form below.
This is a nurturing space for culturally rooted mental and emotional wellness, including: mindfulness, trauma-informed care, art, music, dance, and storytelling
Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy
As a BMHCE participant, you will receive FREE sessions from a licensed physical therapist, Dr. Sydney Curls. This care option is available to all BMHCE clients that are either pregnant or within the first 6 months of their postpartum journey. Your allotted sessions can be split between your prenatal and postpartum period. We cover the initial consultation and six physical therapy sessions.
Mental Health Support
BMHCE works in partnership with Southern California Counseling Center to provide mental health support to our participants. The support options available are
1-on-1 counseling
couples counseling, and
family counseling.
You are eligible for up to 12 sessions both in-person and virtually.
Group Prenatal Care
BMHCE partners with local birthworkers to provide prenatal and postpartum midwifery care to Black Birthing persons in LA County. As a participant of this program, you are given access to 1-2 hour group sessions with your prenatal provider. You are not required to birth with any of the providers. This care can complement your current birth plan, including hospital-based and midwifery-based care.