WELCOME TO THE WISDOM OF BIRTH
Two weeks diving deep into Nature's biology and Sacred Wisdom of Birth with Dr Gauri and Reframing Women's Healthcare
Welcome Home, Sister
Welcome to our beautiful Soul Family where we come to unfold and deepen our values and consciousness around birth.
We are a few brave enough to stand up for the Sacred Model of Birth as Mother Nature has shown and shares with us through the language of listening, touch, and connecting. We need to keep the truth around the mystical, the spiritual, and the power of transformation that every new soul on Earth brings.
Birth is a healing portal.
It is not meant to be controlled in any way for it contains the very essence of the codes of life itself. We can never suppose to know this better,
I am here to serve Birth and in this way I bring you the Wisdom of Birth - how to access Her truths so your heart will forever be imprinted with the importance of connection and the wisdom to navigate this domain with integrity and accountability and deepest conscious awareness.
We need to learn to listen to the intelligence of Nature, so we can receive Womb Wisdom as Medicine, and serve Birth, Mother and Baby as Mother Nature intended.
This course will open up the Sacred intelligence of BIrth
- I am so excited to welcome you, deeper!
Two weeks intensive schedule
16th November 9am GMT +2
WELCOME
INTRODUCTION TO SACRED MODEL OF BIRTH
Dr Gauri
Opportunity to network and meet others
17th November 9am GMT +2
AFRICAN WOMB COSMOLOGY
WOMB SOVEREIGNTY
Mar Sophia
DIscussion followed on womb sovereignty in the birth field
18th November 9am GMT +2
ENERGY OF BIRTH
Divya Deswaal
Discussion followed on the Sacred language of Birth as reflecting Mother Earth's wisdom.
21st November 4pm GMT +2
PERINATAL PSYCHOLOGY
Suzanne Arms
Discussion around your perinatal imprinting
22nd November 9am GMT +2
SPACE HOLDING AT BIRTH
Rome Naidoo
Practical workshop using breath and more
23rd November 9am GMT +2
INTUITION AND CLINICAL SKILLS
Marianne Littlejohn
Unpacking the true tools a birth keeper needs.
24th November 9am GMT +2
REFRAMING YONI AND PUSHING WITHOUT TEARING
Dr Gauri
Reclaiming our Yoni wisdom birth without tearing
25th November 9am GMT +2
THE WISDOM OF MOTHER NATURE IN BIRTH
Dr Gauri
Birth through the lens of the Divine intelligence of Mother Nature
28th November 4pm GMT +2
DELAYED CORD CLAMING
PLACENTA PRACTICES
Robin Lim
Followed by discussion on lotus birth and other cultural practices
29th November 4pm GMT +2
PULLING ALL THIS TOGETHER INTO PRACTICE
Dr Gauri
And now what?
30th November 9am GMT +2
CLOSING CEREMONY
Lisa Davis
Ceremonial sealing and Closing Ceremony
Your Speakers
Live talks and workshops run at either 9am - 12 or 4 - 6pm South Africa time GMT +2
17th November
The Cosmological connection and sovereignty of the womb
with Rev. Mar Sophia
This talks about how our wombs are connected to the star system. You will get to know which stars are your womb ally.
You will know how to elevate your womb intelligence, Spiritually and cosmologically.
Our wombs are connected to the whole. We are holy and whole.
My name is Rev T Mar Sophia.
I am a Reverend, Teacher, and a Minister of God (Prime Source Creator). I do not subscribe to any dogma because, according to me God/Source is not a Religion.
I am a professional speaker, community leader, public commentator, accredited SAQA facilitator, and writer on diverse issues of sexuality and human relationships. I offer soul and spiritual coaching, ministerial work, training, courses, retreats, and mentorship on intimate and enriching personal development processes.
I come from a lineage of womb healers ( mother, Grandmother and Great Grandmother were all womb healers), a gift that runs very deep in my Matriarch. I took the operation of this gift further by studying and being affiliated with other international bodies, platforms, and people who are in the women/womb healing space. This has broadened my reach from being a local practitioner to also being an international practitioner and has also deepened the medicine I bring into my space.
https://marsophia.com/
18th November
Energy of Birth
with Divya Deswaal
Understanding the sacred feminine and masculine energy that unfolds during birth.
How can we use this understanding to support both mother and father during their pregnancy and birth?
Divya Deswal is a doula and doula trainer and mentor, Childbirth educator, HypnoBirthing practitioner. HypnoFertility practitioner, Biodynamic craniosacral therapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. PsychK Practitioner, Parent Infant Pathways facilitator(UMN),Pre and perinatal educator and mentor with APPPAH USA
What began as a personal journey to understand the effects of induction, took Divya from her profession as an engineer to the world of babies. Each new experience brought forth a new
layer of understanding, reinforced her belief that the baby is a sentient being, and the journey of motherhood a spiritual one. It also opened up a further inquiry that propelled her to keep learning. In the last 2 decades her work organically integrated pre and perinatal psychology (APPPAH), early infancy period (PIP UMN) trauma and trauma informed care in her work with
expectant families.
She is the founder of The Doula Collective, a training, mentoring and community platform for doulas
She is a mentor for APPPAH USA.
Divya is co-founder of a digital support platform for pregnancy and parenting, www.mamily.in, which offers information and support on the entire journey of parenting.
www.mamily.com | www.doulacollective.co.in
21st November 4pm GMT+2
Birth and the perinatal period, the Sacred Feminine, and its critical role in the creation of thriving communities and society.
with Suzanne Arms
- how far we've strayed from the wisdom of the biological blueprint for birth and mother-baby, family care
- the huge role trauma has played in keeping us from achieving our human potential as individuals, parents, communities, and societies
- what must change, and how
- midwives, doulas, birth and postpartum educators/coaches as advocates re reconnecting us all to what truly matters
Suzanne Arms is a 78-year-old grandmother and wise elder living in Colorado, author of 7 published nonfiction books (one of which, Immaculate Deception: A New Look at Women and Childbirth, was reviewed by Adrianne Rich on the cover of the New York Times Review of Books, and also named a Best Book of the Year). Arms is a renowned, passionate, and compassionate speaker, photojournalist, filmmaker, practical visionary, and social activist. She is known for connecting people and connecting the personal, the political, the social, and the environmental. She co-founded one of the first community birth centers, the first resource center for pregnancy, birth, and early parenting, and the first health resource library and project to transform hospitals into healing centers, called Planetree. In 2005 she founded and continues to direct a small nonprofit (BirthingTheFuture.org). She is a founding and active member of The Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children (aTLC.org).
22nd November
Space holding at Birth
with Rome Naidoo
A practical exploration into the art of space holding from the view of Sacred Masculine. How we can support and hold space during birth for anyone who attends births.
Using tools of breathwork, presence and the interplay of Sacred Masculine and Feminine for her to feel safe and open.
23rd November
Intuition and Clinical Skills
with Marianne Littlejohn
An exploration into an experienced and wise view into supporting women during birth. The balance of intuition and clinical skills
What is the place of clinical skills and tools in supporting sovereign, gentle and conscious mother led births?
Marianne Littlejohn and is a homebirth midwife of 40 years in South Africa, and sometimes elsewhere. After qualifying in 1979 she started her midwifery journey following the homebirth of her first son, in 1982. She has worked in Birth centres and tertiary care hospitals as well as out of hospital settings. Marianne worked as a research assistant for Dr Nils Bergman, researching Kangaroo Mother Care and has an honours degree in Psychology. Marianne asks how we " know" things, about ourselves and others, about the world around us. Do we receive sensory information we are unaware of consciously? She explores this vast subject with you. "
www.spiritualmidwifery.net
28th November
Delayed Cord Clamping and Placenta practices
with Robin Lim
Deepening our understanding of the implications of not allowing the placenta to continue to flow blood into the baby after birth. How does this affect the baby? The Mother? The system?
Why the practice of delayed cord clamping is so important. All about the benefits on all levels.
A practical discussion into the some of the indigenous practices of the placenta after birth.
Meet your host
Hi, I am Gauri
In my 3rd year of medschool I gave birth to my first son at home. This birth transformed my medical career. I had tasted the divine portal of connection and the Sacred channel of Mother Nature in Birth. I felt empowered, ecstatic, rebirthed.
When I completed my clinicals and witnessed the abuse and trauma at births I became a birth activist for maternity rights at birth.
6 years later, I had completed my required hospital training. I shadowed with a homebirth midwife to learn how to support a woman during a homebirth.
I have dedicated my work to serving women in the capacity of linking them to their own divine healing and autonomy to give Birth like a Goddess.
I have created a course called Sacred Model of Midwifery Training which bridges together the Sacred Wisdom of Birth with the wisdom of Mother Nature - deepening our tools of heart and hand to support women during birth with integrity and clarity.
This two-week intensive is born out of a need to dive deeper into what this means in meeting ourselves in this service.
Me personally, live in between India and South Africa with my husband and 2 sons.
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