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ONLINE BIRTH CLASSES

ON HOLD FOR AUGUST/SEPTEMBER // // UPDATE: Due to temporarily increased hours as an on-call midwife, I am unable to offer classes in August/September. Will let you know when classes return! // You’re pregnant! Huge congratulations! And now – what exactly even happens in birth?? How can I prepare? How do I even know what…

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COMING SOON – The Birth Ecology Podcast will be a conversation with experts in their field, teasing out the various influences that come to bear on birth, from the macro – maternity systems, culture etc – to the micro – for example the interplay of hormones – to explore the ways we can best work…

JESSIE PRICE

The seed of the Big Bang glimmers in the heart of this birth. Birth Ecology is a framework for mapping all the various influences that come to bear on birth, so that we can work in conscious alignment with birth for true health, both as women coming to birth, and as those who work with…

Mapping the influences on birth

By: Jessie Price // Birth Ecology December 1, 2019December 11, 2019

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HOW DO WE IDENTIFY THE CONNECTIONS? HOW CAN WE BEST LEVERAGE THE CONNECTIONS FOR TRUE HEALTH? When we stand back and appreciate all these things that interweave for birth’s unfolding, we can be overwhelmed by our responsibility to the complexity. How can we discern the patterns that we can usefully work with, to serve women?…

Evolution’s grace notes: birth is responsive and adaptive

By: Jessie Price // Birth Ecology November 26, 2019December 11, 2019

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Birth is inherently a physical process, but that physical process is interwoven with the other elements of the experience of being alive, both seen and unseen, objective and subjective, external and internal. Each element is affected by the next, and affects the next in turn. The physical process of birth is in such an intricate…

Two acorns: how each birth weaves a unique journey within the overarching pattern of birth

By: Jessie Price // Birth Ecology November 19, 2019December 11, 2019

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WE ARE CONNECTED. INTERCONNECTION SHAPES THE UNFOLDING OF PROCESS. Let us take two acorns, dense with the same potential to become oak trees. The first acorn sprouts into life on the shaded forest floor. It shoots up, spindly and pale, to the light at the canopy, where it leafs out, catching what sunlight it can.…

Birth’s micro to macro; macro to micro

By: Jessie Price // Birth Ecology November 19, 2019December 11, 2019

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There is no getting around it; our babies are born from us into this big, hard, beautiful world through our hard work and going deep. In valuing birth in all its muck and glory, we value all the flavours that Life brings, even as we bring new life into the world. Further than this –…

THE ARC OF BIRTH

By: Jessie Price // Birth Ecology November 19, 2019December 11, 2019

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WE ARE PROCESS From nothing comes something. From out of profound NOTHING comes suddenly an incandescent, dense explosion of matter, space and time – the Big Bang’s rupture of exceptional heat and protons proliferating into a space expanding through new time. If we look with a long eye, stand back far enough, we can trace the…