About Us

Ruro Caituiro Monge

Midwife / PaRtera
in the Sacred Valley and Cusco

Born in the Peruvian Andes of the Apurímac region, Ruro has 20 years of combined experience between midwifery and obstetrics. She specialized in traditional midwifery, water birth and ancestral culture mostly from the Cusco, Apurímac and Lambayeque regions. With a degree in obstetrics and childcare, which she earned after giving birth to her two children, Ruro balances traditional indigenous childbirth practices and modern medicine. After 12 years of helping women deliver their healthy babies, she decided to open the Ruruchay Birthing House, a center now in Peru’s Sacred Valley, Urubamba, for deliveries, training and community development.

ALEJANDRA SAL

PHYSIOTHERAPIST / midwife assistant

For 10 years now, Alejandra has been accompanying women during pregnancy and postpartum. Through physical therapy, movement, education, and awareness, she helps other women connect with their bodies, heal their pelvic floors, ease discomfort from pregnancy changes, stay agile, strong, and healthy. during this stage, and to recover in the postpartum period. She is a pelvic floor specialist, and collaborates with Ruro, so that women are aware of the importance of taking care of the body and pelvic floor during pregnancy and postpartum. Alejandra is at your service to accompany you online through classes or online consultations.

Hayley Ward

Doula / midwife assistant 

An Oregon native, Hayley first came to Peru in 2o10. After getting married in 2012 with her Peruvian husband, they went on many adventures together and finally settled in the Sacred Valley in 2017.  She met Ruro in Cusco that same year and began her journey in learning traditional Andean midwifery, accompanying Ruro in her work off and on until the birth of her 1st son in 2019. During the pandemic, the doors opened to be able to begin working full time at Ruruchay, accompanying home births, helping with administrative work and continuing her path of working hands-on with other women, guiding them to re-connect with their sacred feminine intuition.      

Rosalin Guadalupe PimenteL

CHEF / midwife assistant 

Rosalin is the woman who nourishes us through her delicious food, she is also in charge of cleaning, laundry, she is a nurse and has already graduated as a cleaver in the birth house and is now a midwife apprentice. She is a woman who is very passionate about what she does, she always accompanies deliveries with a great fire 🔥. Thank you Guada for so much love.

Dr. Raffaella Pellegrini

Music therapist – PSYCHOLOGIST

After completing a PhD in Psychology on issues related to emotional and communicative attunement through the breath, today she carries out training and research activities on topics of the Psychology of Voice and Music with a view to increasing Wellbeing. She also carries on in parallel the clinical activity of counseling and psychological support.

Since 2007, Raffa has been designing and delivering training courses aimed at educators, teachers, and parents relating to both psycho-pedagogical issues and the development of cognitive, emotional, and social skills in early childhood through music and expressive languages.

At Ruruchay, she provides support for pregnant couple to find their authentic voices and use sound for pain-management in labor.

monica rivas

waltaska specialist – post partum wrap 

A few years ago Monica became interested in holistic therapies and new ways to heal our bodies. Her interest grew about the traditional postpartum therapy, Waltaska (Andean wrap) after her first child was born and having received it to recover from a puerperal fever. Her body healed very quickly allowing her to regain strength to continue with her life and close a cycle of physical and emotional transformations to be able to focus on her new life of motherhood. 2 years later, after the birth of her second child, she experienced puerperal fever again, without hesitation she returned to receive Waltaska and  was able to come out of the critical situation again, proving the benefits of this wonderful ancestral practice of the Andes.

A few months later she decided to do the Waltaska training at the Ruruchay, receiving first-hand instructions from her teacher Ruro. Here she understood the depth of this beautiful practice and the importance that all women who have given birth can receive this medicine. Since then she has dedicated herself to sharing the Waltaska, and accompanying moms who are open to this wonderful experience, transmitting everything that helped her in a moment to recover my body and my energy to breastfeed her babies. We continue with this mission of reviving ancestral knowledge and helping many women in need.

Tayta Martín de Queros

QUERO ALTOMISAYOC

Tayta Martin is always supporting us, helping us lead our Birth House with one foot planted on the Earth, dedicated to the Pachmama, and connected to the sky remembering all our Ancestors who have come before us.

RAQUEL KOYA MAPELLI