Blossoming Birth & Vitality

Blossoming Birth & Vitality Check out my website for more detailed information on how we might work together during this profound and precious time. Our bodies know exactly what to do.

Birth & Postpartum Doula, Massage/Bodywork for all (including pregnancy and postpartum), Vitality Enhancing Workshops/Classes, Holistic Childbirth Education (coming soon) Pregnancy, Birth, Postpartum Doula Offerings:
As an aspiring community midwife, I bring my great passion for birth and deep care for supporting families through the childbearing years. Based in Grass Valley, CA, I serve a multi

ple county region surrounding my home. Contact me to see if your home or hospital is applicable. Integrative Therapeutic Bodywork for all:
As a Natural Therapeutics Specialist, I offer more than just a bodywork treatment. The philosophical foundations of my training are in Natural Therapeutics, or Nature Cure. Similar to my perspectives on childbirth, I believe that our bodies know how to heal themselves and that the closer we get to a relaxed state, the more easily healing happens. I also believe that the basic tenets of wellness are good nutrition, being outside in sunlight and fresh air, moderate exercise, drinking good-quality water, sufficient rest and doing things that we believe in. In addition, bodywork can be very helpful to restoring and maintaining wellness. I offer unique treatments catered to each client and their health concerns. Feel free to call or email me with questions about different modalities and what kind of treatment session/s might be right for you. Workshops/Classes:
I love to teach and feel relatively natural at it. I like to offer classes and workshops that incorporate many ways of learning and knowing as well as hands-on experience. I like to include something creative as well as a wealth of information. I can teach by request or sometimes will schedule classes. My offerings have a wide range of topics, but include such things as basic permaculture, basic herbal medicine/plant knowledge, movement, introduction to some bodywork modalities, basics of fertility and conception and conscious gestation and birth, food preservation techniques and more. See my website for examples of classes I have taught in the past and inquire to schedule one for your group or to see if I might teach something you are interested in. Holistic Childbirth Education:
Birth is a natural process. I am currently pursuing my Childbirth Educator certification through Childbirth International. Drawing from my extensive studies and clients' experiences, I will offer evidence-based classes for new or growing families in the childbearing years. Contact me for private classes or see my website for an upcoming schedule of offerings. Event/Retreat Production:
Over the past couple of years, I have been helping found and co-produce multidisciplinary events and retreats often composed of music, dance, art, diverse locally-sourced education and cultivating community. My partner and I are currently co-producing an amazing three day weekend event Sept 8-11, 2011 at Earthdance in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts. It is going to be a not-to-miss experience with many diverse teachers and opportunities to learn, engage, move and create. The event is called WEAVE. Please check out the website for more info: http://weaveweekend.weebly.com

01/20/2016

None of us wants to have to take an antidepressants during pregnancy. But untreated depression in pregnancy can also be harmful.

01/07/2016

Incredible. "On the left you see a fully closed and thick cervix with mucus plug - prior to the onset labor. On the right you see a fully effaced and dilated cervix in labor. The image on the right also illustrates how contractions cause the upper part of the uterus (fundus) to tighten and thicken while the cervix and lower portion of the uterus stretch and relax, helping the baby pass from inside the uterus and into the birth canal for delivery".

12/23/2015

Birth advocates often talk about how birth is similar to making love and should be treated as such. But what if making love was treated like giving birth?

10/29/2015

oh yeah babay! dancin' that baby all the way into this beautiful world...

Are routine ultrasounds warranted/safe in an uncomplicated pregnancy? http://reset.me/story/17-scans-in-one-pregnancy-wh...
09/05/2015

Are routine ultrasounds warranted/safe in an uncomplicated pregnancy?

http://reset.me/story/17-scans-in-one-pregnancy-why-these-scientists-warn-ultrasound-could-harm-developing-brain/

Low-risk women get an average of 5.2 scans per pregnancy, up 92 percent from 2004. Despite its tremendous popularity, scientists are starting to question the safety of fetal imaging during pregnancy. Research has shown that ultrasound exposure can change human tissue by creating small air pockets —…

09/03/2015

"ORIGINS OF THE WORD "C**T"

"Cuneiform", the most ancient form of writing, derives from "kunta" meaning "female genitalia" in Sumerian of ancient Iraq. "Kunta" is "woman" in several Near Eastern and African languages and a Mother Tongue that is being compiled by linguists today. It was also spelled "quna," which is the root of "queen." Since priestesses were known to be accountants/administrators of Temple of Inanna in Sumeria c.3100 B.C. when Cuneiform was first used, it is highly likely that cuneiform was "the sign of the kunta" who kept the books (clay tablets) for the temple economy/redistribution of wealth that evolved from communal economics of ancient mother-cultures.

So when an abuser calls a woman a "c**t" he is actually calling her a "queen who invented writing and numerals." Girls and women can thus reclaim the words in our language that have been used as weapons against us in emotionally explosive situations. The word "pr******te" (law giver of the temple) and "w***e" (houri, Persian, which means a gorgeous semi-divine female that awaits men in the 7th Heaven) are some of the finest compliments a woman can be given.

Many ancient languages did not have huge vocabularies as we do and the same word had many meanings, according to the context in which it was used. "Kunta" is also the root of kundalini (energy), khan (highest leader of the Eurasian steppe nomads, whose society was originally matriarchal and who still have remnants of a matriarchate), quantity, any words that start with "kw", qu, or kh. Examples: Cunda, mother of Buddha according to Japanese; Cunti-Devi, Goddess of kundalini energy, India; Kunta, means literally one who has female genitalia, and describes a priestess, ancient Sumeria; Kun, Goddess of Mercy, India; Quani, Korean goddess; Qudshu, female priestess of ancient Canaan & Phoenicia, which became the Roman province of Palestine after they conquered it; Quadesha, Sumerian word for a type of priestess. Qu' can also mean love, sensuality, sexuality, the divinity present in all females.

So, the most interesting conclusion is that the Quran, is actually the book of love for females. Female sensuality is probably the literal translation, but Muslims translate it as "reading or lection", which is also flattering to females because the mothers of Arabs were always their only teachers before Mohammad dictated the Koran. Now they have Koranic schools called "Madrasas", the mother-schools, although they now teach only boys and denigrate women. Almost every value word in the Muslim religion, including "Muslim" is a mother-word, derived from the mother root: Mohammad, m***i, mosque, madrasa, Makka (Mecca), Madina, mukhtar, mujahadeem, mezes, and many, many more.

Another variation is "quern," a hand-mill used by ancient women to grind grain into flour. The etymology points to housewives of ancient Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq and parts of Iran, Palestine, & Syria, where agriculture began, as the ones who invented bread out of flour by adding a liquid and letting the dough sit for while until air-borne yeasts raised it. When baked in their clay ovens, it resulted in the most remarkable invention of the human race, the staff of life, bread. It was also baked quickly, without waiting for the yeasts to lighten it, and is known today as pita.

~Gloria Bertonis, M.Ed. with Carol Miranda, Stone Age Divas: Their Mystery and Their Magic

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05/13/2015

Following on yesterday's powerful thread about birth, what do you experienced mommas who trust in birth and your bodies recommend for women who are pregnant or soon to be, to overcome unhealthy birth fear (I say unhealthy levels because some fear is natural -- it's a big unknown!) and regain that trust? I have a lot of techniques I use in my practice from talking it out to drawing to visualization to having the right support during labor. What do you do?

Oh, remember to SHARE this so as many mommas as possible can learn from the wisdom that gets shared - that's how we change birth practices together!

04/09/2015

Easy video to follow for belly wrapping in pregnancy... nice way to provide extra support as your baby and belly grow beautifully!!

03/25/2015

Updated and edited: February 2015 This post was co-authored by Jessie Johnson-Cash and based on her presentation at the USC Midwifery Education Day. The human microbiome is rather fashionable in th...

03/19/2015

Taking care of your stress system will quiet down your inflammatory responses, and help you to heal your thyroid.

Awesome to witness an institutional acknowledgement of the outdated use of the immediate postpartum eye ointment treatme...
03/12/2015

Awesome to witness an institutional acknowledgement of the outdated use of the immediate postpartum eye ointment treatment!!

Canadian Paediatric Society: Protecting and promoting the health and well-being of children and youth.

03/04/2015

“So eight days late, huh,? You must be getting a little uncomfortable? . . . If you’re anxious there are a few ways to help things along . . . actually there are things you can do…just some home remedies . . . .I’ve found that some of them are very effective . . . .there’s an herbal tea you can drin…

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