The Indie Birth New Midwifery School is open.
New, in this context means fresh. A more open perspective. An expansive feel.
It’s funny when in life expansion comes from constriction. Meaning pain, tightness, chaos. Trauma.
But it’s human nature if we are open to it.
It’s how lemons turn into lemonade.
Here’s my story….
In April 2023, I was the midwife for a very difficult birth situation. The birth itself was traumatic for me and the parents, but the most traumatic parts actually happened after the birth was over. I recognize now that it was stuck energy or stuck charge living in my body. It wasn’t actually the birth or it would have left when the birth was over. The stuck charge, or trauma, was left behind and had nothing to do, really, with the birth itself. I will probably say more about that later.
What actually saved me from myself, and from depression and final burnout after I experienced this was learning about trauma healing and really just learning my body. This is a life long practice and I am an eternal student. At this moment, I have found my passion again but in THE BODY and how we relate to ourselves; and then others and then birth.
I realize I am absolutely passionate and determined to shift midwifery culture from the inside out; and the INSIDE is you. Each and every one of us.
Even though midwifery and home birth are still so “fringe”; the art of somatics and how it combines with birth work is even more fringe. Somehow, even crunchy hippy birth workers have been mostly brainwashed by the Matrix and the patriarchy in the training we have. Maybe not in every way; but in many ways that matter.
“Somatics” is the study of felt sensation in the body. Soma=body.
It is the mundane, magical, mystical, simple and complex experience of being IN a human body. I truly believe that learning to be in these vehicles we are in is the first and biggest step to our own spirituality. As the saying goes…we get to the Soul through the body.
“The language of the soma is sensation”- Ruby Gibson
(This is an excerpt from a course booklet I wrote for my new course in the new school; Learning the Language of the Body).
All present and new students have access to this booklet and to this course.
The new version of our School is amazing. There is nothing like it.
Our first cohort begins September 22.
Xoxoxo
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