Embryoga - Intuitive Birth

Coming up in the next few months.. the launch of my updated all online program! Stay tuned for launch dates on how we can access the "Ancient Wisdom" in this modern birthing culture with a comprehensive online Intelligent Birthing course complete with workbook and meditations that you can download and use during pregnancy and birth!

The work of seizing back what has been taken from within us by centuries of female repression and early, often brutal childhood conditioning is a long, laborious process, requiring faith and vigilance and the willingness to learn by trial and error.

It is our female-animal instincts that have been denied and suppressed then replaced by false, externally imposed rules and ideas about ourselves and the world.

We have lost the instinctive knowing that belonged to us by biological birthright in the millennia that preceded the development of patriarchal culture and male dominance.

It is not a question of returning to the past but one of reawakening the instinctual senses and the empowerment needed to act on what our bodies know to be true.

~ Vicki Noble, from “Shakti Woman”
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Art by Sarah Jane Lambert
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There are still a few spots open for this 6 week prenatal yoga series! Join us this Sunday on our mats Zen Riot!

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Embryoga: 6 week prenatal series Join us for this wonderful experience!

Coming up soon Zen Riot! Connect with your unborn baby, prepare you mind and body for birth. Water the seeds of Peace for the next generation through intentional bonding and a strong foundation of love and support!
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Come and prepare your newborn to be released into the wild with us ! Prenatal Yoga series is filling fast! Starts February 11th! Link is in bio!

Hello all you wonderful birthing folks! The long awaited Embryoga - Intuitive Birth series is coming up soon Zen Riot. This class fills up fast so make sure to sign up right away!






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Embryoga Prenatal Yoga Series Join us for this wonderful experience!

Helping me gramma train for backpacking can be exhausting.

Behind all your stories is always your mother's story.
Because hers is where yours begin.

~ Mitch Albom

[Art: Garis Edelweiss]

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When we become parents our brains go through the dramatic transformation of matrescence to become mothers or patrescence to become fathers. Our brains are transformed. The parent brain is very different than the adult brain. It is unique.

A pregnant person’s brain changes throughout pregnancy and continues to change postpartum. When we have a surrogate or adopt our brain will change postpartum. For partners brain changes happen postpartum as well.

Guess what changes the parent brain postpartum? Nurturing our baby!!!

Holding baby, skin to skin, smelling baby’s head, responding to baby’s cues, feeding baby and spending face to face time interacting with your baby will maximize your brain changes. Our baby releases dopamine, oxytocin, prolactin and other brain signals to transform our brain.

When the parent brain changes more, it’s protective for parents mental health and it predicts the quality of your relationship with your baby for life.

If anyone tells you that you need to separate from your baby, leave your baby alone or ignore any of your baby’s communication. Please ignore it. It’s exactly what you and your baby need.

Parenthood, with a new brain, is a new chance to listen to your intuition, your gut, your biology.

✨What if we told women the truth about birth✨

We’d have to tell them that contractions will probably be more than “surges” or “sensations.”

That they’ll probably rock your f✨cking world and leave you begging for salvation as you clutch the edge of the tub or the hospital linens

That your gentle breathing exercises and your Spotify soundtrack will be left in the dust as you sweat and pant and sway and swear your way through it

That you’ll trip harder than any mushroom you ever did in college and vomit with the same ferocity and travel to places deep within yourself that you didn’t know existed. That you’ll float above your body and simultaneously be trapped in it with an intensity you’ve never tasted

And in that intensity, in the sweating and the swearing and the swaying and the vomiting and the endless hours of contractions crashing down upon you
You’ll find your strength
You’ll find a resilience you’ve never known
You’ll find the power you need for the journey of motherhood ahead

In the messy humanity of it all
You’ll find that you are holy
A portal to the divine
Capable of indescribable miracles
A vessel of sacred life

What if we told women the truth about birth?
We’d have to tell them they are capable of anything
Worthy of being treated like goddesses
Made to walk through the flames
Surf the tidal waves
Dive into the underworld
And come out alive

Not unscathed
Not unchanged
But whole
And healed
And ready to take on the world

If we told women the truth about birth
We’d have to admit that we’ve lied about everything else
And that they are more powerful
More fierce
More capable
More beautiful
Than we’ve ever let on.

If we told the truth about birth?
We’d shatter the world.”

~ Words and Art by Catie Atkinson
Spirit Y Sol
www.linktr.ee/spiritysol

A baby hello!!!

This is THE place for babies when you first meet them and for the months following. It is also a place for babies to experience throughout infancy.

This is not only for immediately after birth. I call it a baby hello because it happens whenever possible - medical issues, adoption, surrogacy, illness- can all happen. AND you can do baby hello whenever it becomes possible for you. And we want to do it as much as possible in the weeks and months we are getting to know our baby.

Your chest is baby’s home. The only place of safety. They expect this experience. They take in the full sensory experience of you. Your smell, your voice, your heartbeat, your breathing, your movements.

This sensory experience releases oxytocin into your baby's brain and your brain - transforming both towards wellness.

This is how you meet your baby. Shirts off for you and baby, baby on your chest, blanket on.

No swaddle, bassinet, hat or gloves, no pacifier. These take away the safety signals that babies are expecting and can suppress infant communication.

This is the picture I wish everyone sent out from birth.

Every time I see a picture of a newborn in a bassinet, swaddle, hat, pacifier - I want to make the adjustments to put babies and parents into the position of a baby hello. Without it everyone is missing out on vital brain transformation.

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"There is a phase in labor, appropriately called transition, where a wahine will reach her breaking point. She'll feel as though she can't go on. She's right. The kōhine (maiden) in her is not strong enough for the task at hand. It's during this time the kōhine dies so that the wahine can be reborn as a māmā, with her pēpi. A new, more capable version of herself with far more strength than she has ever known. From Kōhine to Māmā."

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There are so many of them;
they stand behind our backs,
long trails of mothers stretching out over the frozen lakes,
spilling beyond the skyline and eventually
lost far inside dark shadows of time.
There forms a river of women's blood,
a mesh of women's bones,
a web of women's lives
into which we are profoundly, intricately woven.
As we walk back along our line of ancestral women
they reach out their hands to touch us
We are being wrapped in the enduring life force of our
many ancient mothers.
Each ancestor we pass has given some part of herself to
the women we are now.
There are so many mothers whispering inside us.

~ Carolyn Hillyer, from the Weavers Oracle
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Art by Anna Lee
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Exactly the point.

If trauma can be passed down through generations, then so can healing.

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Amazing opportunity!


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When women come together,
something magical happens.
It’s science, the mystical kind,
and it’s an unstoppable force,
to be reckoned with.

When women come together,
they connect,
on a deeper level,
both spiritually and cellularly.
Souls nodding in alignment, I see you.

Put women together for long enough
and their cycles will sync.
If that is not an example of the wondrous, connective majesty of womanhood,
what is my friend, what is?

When women come together,
an unseen wall is fashioned,
built from the wisdom of the breaks,
we have all endured,
and the passion to scream louder,
so that those beneath us can hear,
and need not suffer the same.

When women come together,
and tell their stories,
the good and the bad,
the power created is a tsunami of strength and intuition.
Washing us all on to better things.
A wave of majesty, wisdom and connection.

When women come together,
we are, quite frankly, intimidating.

So watch out for those will keep us apart.
They are afraid.

We are not.

~ Donna Ashworth
Donna Ashworth Words
www.donnaashworth.com

Art by Jakki Moore Art
www.jakkiart.com

“Women’s circles and mother-daughter circles are perhaps the most powerful agents of change on the planet right now, with each woman contributing to the healing of our world as she herself experiences healing.”

~ Amy Wilding, excerpt from “Wild & Wise: Sacred Feminine Meditations for Women's Circles & Personal Awakening”
www.redtentlouisville.com

Art by Catie Atkinson
Spirit Y Sol
www.linktr.ee/spiritysol

What Sweden Teaches Us About Parenting and the Outdoors Nine tips gleaned from the Swedish parenting playbook

Do you remember the sound
of the hips that cracked
to birth you
echoing all the way back
to the First Mother?

The ten thousand secrets
whispered into your blood
by every woman
that came before you.

The blessings of your lineage;
how to know yourself
how to live a life
how to heal.

The burdens;
how to hold your tongue
how to carry your pain
how to pass it on.

You look just like your mother’s mother’s mother
when the sun hits your face
and her voice slips through your lips
when you stand firm-footed
and say;
I remember.

You look just like your daughter’s daughter’s daughter
when the moon reflects in your eyes
and her voice drips from your tongue
when you stand firm-footed
and say;
this ends with me.

Don’t you realize
that you can midwife your own birth
as often as you need to?

Listen closely
to the pulse of silence
in the deep velvet of your womb
until you hear a gentle voice
that whispers
‘this is the way.’

~ Gina Puorro, “Mother”
www.ginapuorro.com

Art by Anna Lee
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“Feeding Our Legacy”

Radiant pisip goddess feeding her little legacy rivers of life. Nutrients flow. Nourishing every part of their being. I created this piece to honor a journey so many of us have gone/going through & to honor my first born. During those sleepless nights when I would roll to the side & nurse her - I would just stare & admire her so much. Everything she does has beauty & so much intention. Grateful for this journey.

I noticed I’ve never posted this piece & wanted to share it. I created it in 2019. Now it is home in a private collection with a dear friend ♥️