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
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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
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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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