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Journey to the Great Midwife – Remembering the HeArt of Midwifery, the Book

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Journey to the Great Midwife – Remembering the HeArt of Midwifery, the Book
Journey to the Great Midwife – Remembering the HeArt of Midwifery, the Book

Support your journey to the heArt of birth as a midwife or pregnant woman. Balance the left-brain medical of most other books with right-brain inner journeys, teachings, activities, contemplations, poetry, and art. Rewarding for students, experienced midwives, and lovers of birth. Makes a great gift.

Quality Paperback, 8×11, 212 pages, full color , $35 plus $7 shipping

Categories: Birth and PP, Books, Midwife classes, Pregnancy, Terra Rafael Tags: birth workers, doula, midwife, midwifery, midwives
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Support your journey to the heArt of birth as a midwife or pregnant woman. Balance the left-brain medical of most other books with right-brain inner journeys, teachings, activities, contemplations, poetry, and art. Rewarding for students, experienced midwives, and lovers of birth. Makes a great gift.

Quality Paperback, 8×11, 212 pages, full color , Amazon.com

Or Kindle book available on Amazon $9.99

Book Table of Contents

Beginning the Journey–  p 1

  •  what the midwife does p2  poem
  •  Apprenticeship to Life p3  contemplation
  •  Journey to the Great Midwife – a guided journey  p 4-6     activity
  • Midwifery Sutras p 7  teaching

Welcoming

  • Journey to Welcoming p 8 & 9   journey
  • A Welcoming Footbath & Foot Massage p 10   activity
  • Informed Choice Agreement  p 11 & 12 teaching
  • Your Mother Sang You Out  p 13 poetry
  • Show Us the Light p 13 poetry
  • “We All Came to Welcome You” song p 14 activity
  •  Sweet Seed p 15 poetry

Love & Trust

  • Journey to Love & Trust p 16 journey
  • Nurturing Love & Trust p 17 contemplation
  • Nurturing Relationship with the Baby p 18 & 19 teaching
  • Prenatal Countdown p 20
  • Nurturing Her relationship with her Mate p 21& 22 teaching
  • Acting From Trust p 23 contemplation
  • Go First to Your Heart p 24 poetry

Support and Nourishment

  • Journey to Support & Nourishment p 25 journey
  • Nourishment p 26 contemplation
  • Singing p 27 tools
  • Self Care As A Helper p 28 & 29 teaching
  • Mother’s Milk p 30 poetry
  • Dandelions p 30 poetry
  • Peer Review p 31 contemplation
  • Red Birthing p 32 poetry
  • Pregnancy Visits p 33 & 34 teaching
  • Connecting with Community – Recreating Tribe p 35 & 36 teaching
  • Have a Baby Party! Women Together through the Childbearing Year p 37-39 activity

Feeding the Spirit

  •  Journey to Feeding the Spirit p 40 & 41 journey
  •  Plenty p 42 contemplation
  •  The Power of Prayer p 43 -45 teaching
  • My Dear One p 46 poetry
  • UterUs GodUs p 47 poetry
  • Spiritual Baths p 48 activity
  • Making a Sacred Birth Object p 49 & 50 activity
  • Practice Changing States of Consciousness p 51 & 52 teaching
  • When You Read This p 54 poetry
  • Planning a Blessing Way p 55 & 56 activity
  • Maintaining a State for the Baby to Stay Connected or Reconnect to Spirit p 57 teaching
  • Tara Celeste’s Birth Poem p 58 poetry

Embodiment

  • Journey to Embodiment p 59 journey Menstrual Sutras p 60 teaching
  • Connecting to the Earth – Nutrition as Support from the Earth & Sky p 61-64
  • From Momma p 65 poetry
  • Getting Used to the Elements p 65 & 66 poetry
  • Power of Animal p 66 poetry
  •  Embodiment p 67 poetry
  • The Burgundy Shawl p 68 tools
  • Using Breath to Stay Embodied p 69 & 70 activity
  • The Midwife’s Mirror p 71 tools
  • We Are Part of the Land p 72 activity
  • Exercise – Taking in Air & Stimulating Fire Within p 73 teaching
  • The Amazing Pelvis p 74 activity
  • Experiences as a Newborn & Beliefs Affect Our Care Giving p 75 & 76  teaching
  • Being With a Newborn with Complications p 77 teaching
  • Body Awareness and Care p 78 contemplation

Courage and  Protection

  • Journey to Courage & Protection p 79 journey
  • Preserving Wilderness in Ourselves and Birth p 80 contemplation
  • Inner Knowing of Safety p 81- 84 teaching
  •  Protecting with Fierceness p 85 tool
  •  Fierceness p 86 poetry
  •  The Yoni Zone p 87 & 88 activity
  •  Beginning of Patriarchy p 89 poetry
  •  Birthing Vocabulary p 90 teaching
  •  The Concept of “Risk” in Pregnancy & Birth p 91 teaching
  •  Fear p 92 contemplation
  •  Deep Breathing to Relieve Stress p 93 activity
  •  Making a Protection Amulet p 94 activity
  •  Letting the Cord Stop Pulsating p 95 & 96 contemplation
  •  Overcoming Anxiety with Ayurveda p 97 & 98 teaching
  •  Pregnant Feelings about Complications of Pregnancy p 99
  •  Setting Limits p 100 contemplation
  •  Human Limitations p 101 poetry
  •  Life Can Whirl p 101 poetry
  •  An Exciting Birth p 102 – 104 birth story
  •  Supporting the Family When there have been Complications p105 teaching
  •  wild midwifery p 106 poetry

Going Inward

  •  Journey to Going Inward p 107 journey
  •  Quiet Creation p 108 contemplation
  •  Pregnancy Self-Care p 109 teaching
  •  Birth Position p 110 contemplation
  •  Birthing the Stars p 111 birth story
  •  Starseed p 112 poetry
  •  Dream Knowledge p 113 contemplation
  •  Energetic Awareness in Female Cycles – Preparing for Birthing p 114 teaching
  • Meditation p 115 & 116 activity
  • Making Great Midwife Cards p 117 activity
  • Processing Emotionally Charged Aspects of Care p 118 teaching
  • Midwife Feelings about Complications of Pregnancy p 119 teaching
  •  Reading Signs  p 120 tool

Celebration

  • Journey to Celebration p 121 & 122 journey
  • I Praise the Blood that Flows from Women’s Wombs p 123 poetry
  • Celebrating Female Creativity Cycles with Songs p 124 & 125 activity
  • Belly Painting p 126-128
  • Return p 129 poetry
  • Emery Shae p 129 poetry
  • Honoring the Placenta p 130 & 131 contemplation
  • Sacred Son p 132 poetry
  • Celebrating the Second Menarche p 133 activity

Letting Go

  • Journey to Letting Go p 134 & 135  journey
  • Spiral Goddess Prayer p 136 poetry
  • A Kitchen Birth Story p 137 birth story
  • Relaxation in Letting Go p 138 contemplation
  • Prenatal Countdown p 139 poetry
  • A New Feast p 139 poetry
  • Welcome to the Unknown p 140 contemplation
  • There was something Special about this Baby p 141   birth story
  • How Hannah Lives p 142 poetry
  • Basil Tea for Moving Grief p 143 activity
  • Death p 144 contemplation
  • It’s Always Storming Somewhere p 145 poetry
  • Mourning Song for a Full Moon Night p 146 activity
  • Nine Stones Release p 147 activity
  • Sealing the Love & Letting Go with Rosewater p 148 activity

 

Additional Articles And Resources

  • Journey to the Great Midwife – a guided journey – full transcript p 149-152
  • Meet the practitioner – pub Midwifery Today p 153 & 154
  • Apprenticeship article p 155 – 159
  • Circle of Midwives, pub 1992 MANA newsletter p 160
  • Terra’s Midwifery Story p 161 – 168
  • Informed Choice Agreement for WiseWomanhood p 169 -174
  • Ayurveda Self-Help p 175 – 183
  • Anatomy and Physiology From the Inside Out p 184 – 192
  • Ayurveda for Pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum p 193 – 209
  • Flower Essence Healing p 210
  • Reiki – Tapping into the Universal Healing Energy p 211 & 212
  • Maya Abdominal Therapy p 213& 214
  • Approaching Holistic Childbirth publ UterUs column WindCircle
  • Steps of Healing Pub Special Delivery Spr 1997
  • A Call to ARMs

 

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