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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

From Pam England "Embodied Teaching"

The Birthing From Within Difference: 

Read Pam's post on her blog: http://birthpeeps.blogspot.com/2011/03/change-21-embodied-teaching.html

Here is an excerpt "When I began midwifery school, I started in my heart. I had a vision, hope, and trust that filled my being. Of course, every journey begins in Innocence, Trust and as the inner Child, and and some of the initial naivety and innocence is modified in any worthwhile journey. But it was beyond a wholesome modification and maturation. By the end of my training, I was midwifing from my head, disconnected from intuition, and, over time, far from being intact in body, mind and spirit. From my own disembodied being, I taught childbirth classes to parents, from my head to their head. I gave them mixed messages about trusting their body, but separated them from their body with all the heady information. It makes sense that I gave birth the first time from my head, "evidence-based" all the way to the operating room."
Posted by Kimberly Rivers at 11:20 AM

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