Maha Al Musa's Blog, page 37

EmbodyBirth™ – An Illuminated Perspective on Pregnancy and Birth

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It was 1996. I held my firstborn son, Kailash, and I felt so liberated.   I was completely in awe […]

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Overcoming Societal Pressures Associated With Natural Term Breastfeeding.

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“It’s not normal”. This is the sort of comment I would receive back in early 2012 when the media placed […]

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Dance of the Womb Book Readings

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These videos are from my LIVE Dance of the Womb book readings on Facebook. Each day I introduced one BellydanceBirth® movement dance […]

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Why Belly Dance for Birth: 8 Benefits of BellydanceBirth® Which Practiced During Pregnancy Can Help You Prepare for a Natural, Non-Intrusive and Positive Childbirth

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There are 8 videos to watch in this series of videos called Why Belly Dance for Birth. *Note: These videos […]

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BACK TO BIRTH BASICS

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A reflection A part of me, as an independent childbirth educator, founder of EmbodyBirth for the past 22 years, really feels we need to seriously re address- back to birth basics – and what drives our mammalian instincts for birthing. How a woman’s body opens or closes in relation to the environment she is in – and the people who are in this environment – how do these basics of […]

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What The Birth World Needs Now

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We have a very triggered world and nowhere does it show up more vehemently than at the molten core of human experience- Birth and Beyond. It can look like this – When we see a mother birthing in her autonomy without the reliance on an external authority and/or a mother happily breastfeeding her 8 year old, there are some people, who cannot tolerate absorbing these kinds of Love states. It […]

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Melbourne Doula Conference 2018 – My Experience as a Panel Speaker

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On the 25/26th March, 2018 I attended the first Doula Conference in Melbourne. It was a wonderful chance to meet so many women whom I had known on social media but not face to face! I was placed on a panel to discuss the topic… Trauma, coercion, obstetric violence and rising intervention rates in the birth space. What are the influencing factors creating this, and how do we help to […]

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Are Science Studies for Birth Really What They Are Cracked Up to Be?

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Call me old fashioned… Birth has become an industry where women are in a twilight zone – a commodity, a vessel and an experiment. I have been teaching my form of EmbodyBirthTM childbirth preparation for almost 21 years now using the ancient language of birth that has always been and will always be. The language of instinctive, intuitive movement and dance that is self-referenced and sourced from one’s instincts in connection […]

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Frustrations as a Birth Worker

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Briefly and completely spontaneous answer!! The loss of Heart and Humanity and understanding the true nature of the sacredness of birth… Birth has become a business in a hierarchical model and many birth workers have bought into this (whether midwife or independent educator). By turning birth into a business we have boxed it so it no longer roams freely, organically and intuitively. You cannot limit an expansive experience that is […]

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Frustrations As A Birth Worker

This post is by Maha.

Briefly and completely spontaneous answer!! The loss of Heart and Humanity and understanding the true nature of the sacredness of birth… Birth has become a business in a hierarchical model and many birth workers have bought into this (whether midwife or independent educator). By turning birth into a business we have boxed it so it no longer roams freely, organically and intuitively. You cannot limit an expansive experience that is […]

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