Birth As Creation
This image leaves little to the imagination. Julie Seltzer designed this challah based on an Alex Grey painting depicting birth. A soferet, who just completed writing an entire sefer Torah, Julie was...
View ArticleOur Mothers
On the first night of Shoshana and David Cooper’s 7-day silent meditation retreat this past winter, the group transitioned into silence by lighting candles – much as one would to transition into...
View ArticleStand Up For Yourself
This year I decided to join an adult basketball league in New York City. During one of the games, another young woman was blocking me. Every time I tried to drive the ball forward, she stepped closer...
View ArticleThe Natural Woman
Women often tell me that prayers or texts for birth are nice enough, but–when the strong labor contractions set in–are as good as useless. Birth is just so physical that the cognitive mind shuts off to...
View ArticleAn Endangered Species?
Has natural birth become an endangered species? In this video, from a new series called One World Birth, is a collection of quotes from doctors, midwives, doulas, mothers, and other birth professionals...
View ArticleInvoking God As Healer
When Miriam Pineles had back pain several years ago, she followed a friend’s advice and went to see an acupuncturist. Little did she know that the experience would change her life. “I was so inspired...
View ArticleReturn To Who You Are
Teshuvah. It mean ‘return’ or ‘repentance’ in Hebrew. As the afternoon turns to dusk and the Jewish people head into Yom Kippur, the word teshivah hangs heavy in the air. Who are we at are very core?...
View ArticleVideo: The Solution
What is your birth vision: for yourself? Your wife? Your partner? Your daughter? Your friend? How can we make birth a meaningful, joyful, enriching and empowering experience for women? This video, from...
View ArticleGod Was My Midwife
It was when Rixa Freeze was in graduate school, studying for a PhD in American Studies at the University of Iowa, that she first heard about unassisted birth. She had become interested in homebirth and...
View ArticleBlossom Bloom Birth
Inspired by a DONA labor doula training, I drew my visions of pregnancy and birth as a flower blossoming, growing and eventually bringing forth new life in the form of a baby flower. According to Debra...
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