Wise Moon
Marquee at Quest 2010
Workshops and Speakers
Greetings,
The Wise Moon Marquee is a space where women, and women and children can relax and where there is also a programme of talks at this year's Quest Natural Health show. Please find details of the Wise Moon Marquee workshop and speakers below.
Friday 9th July
10-10. 45 FREE (Wise Moon Marquee)
MOON LODGES AND THEIR IMPORTANCE IN MODERN DAY SOCIETY
RACHAEL HERTOGS
During 'moon lodges and their importance in modern day society' we will discuss things like; what is a moon lodge, why should I have one, how do I create one?
Rachael Hertogs is a mother, business woman, workshop facilitator, member of The Red Web Foundation, creatress of Moon Times cloth pads and has worked in the field of menstrual health for almost 20 years! www.moontimes.co.uk
11.00 - 12.20 FREE (Art Room)
FILM: THE MOON INSIDE YOU
With humour and self-irony, this documentary approaches menstruation with personal
and collective references, challenging our ideas of womanhood- followed by a 20 minute discussion with Rachael Hertogs and Kylie Patnak
Like many other women, Diana has been suffering problematic periods for years. With every new cycle, the same question arises: "Why the pain and annoyance if I am supposed to be healthy?". Her initial innocent curiosity sparks off an emotional voyage to the very roots of femininity and life. Moon inside you is a fresh look at a taboo that defines the political and social reality of both women and men in a more profound way than society might be willing to admit. Facing the menstrual etiquette with doses of humour and self-irony, the documentary approaches the subject through both personal and collective references, thus challenging our preconceived ideas of womanhood.
Kylie Pattnaik is passionate about supporting and empowering mothers in their journey through pregnancy and into motherhood.
In addition to her training as a Holistic Birth Support Partner, she has specialist skills and experience in working with families who have children with complex needs, communication impairment and feeding difficulties. The training Kylie has taken to become a Doula has encompassed workshops with internationally recognised birthing professionals including Michel Odent, Jean Sutton, Penny Simkin and Pam England. In addition, she has studied with Birthing Wisdom in South Devon. Kylie is also a Reiki Master, Breathwork Practitioner and certified teacher of the work of Louise L Hay. Kylie is a Doula UK's Regional Rep for Cornwall & Devon.
Rachael Hertogs is a mother, business woman, workshop facilitator, member of The Red Web Foundation, creatress of Moon Times cloth pads and has worked in the field of menstrual health for almost 20 years! www.moontimes.co.uk
11.15-12.40 REF 138 £5.00 (Wise Moon Marquee)
TRANSFORMING FEARS IN PREGNANCY
OLIVIA SECK, CLAIRE ARNOLD AND JOLIE COMPTON
Creating a vision of your birth and transforming your fears through creativity. No experience of art necessary. Open to all parents and professionals.
Life transitions such as Pregnancy and Birth bring great potential for growth and transformation. As we prepare to cross the threshold of parenthood, all sorts of changes and challenges are taking place. It can be a time of excitement and joy, feeling blessed and open, but also of confusion, fear, anxiety and loss, and sometimes deep loneliness. You may be worried about the pending birth, connecting with the baby, being a good parent or feeling anxious from a previous birth etc.
Creating your own vision for how you see birth right now can help you connect with your fears, feelings, hopes and wishes. Using creativity (and the right side of the brain) during this process can help provide clarity, understanding and connection to your inner wisdom. Your artistic ability is not important, the process of engaging with the right brain helps you go within and explore what may be going on for you. Experience a gentle, intuitive way to deal with your thoughts, feelings, fears, challenges, hopes and wishes around birth and parenthood...and create your own unique vision for birth.
Olivia Seck is a Holistic Birth practitioner and trainer with a wealth of experience as a childbirth educator. She runs Birthing Wisdom in Devon through which Claire Arnold and Jolie Compton have recently completed their Holistic Birth practitioner training with Birthing Wisdom.
1.15-2.45pm FREE (Wise Moon Marquee)
THULA MAMA SINGING WORKSHOP and PERFORMANCE
HELEN YEOMANS
Come and sing together in harmony with other mothers. Enriching for you and soothing for the babies - it's magic! No experience required. Preceded by an informal performance
by some of the mothers (with babies)
When Helen Yeomans joined a local choir after the birth of her 2nd child, a whole new world of singing opened up for her. After the birth of her 3rd child, Helen vowed that as soon as she was at playgroup she would start a singing group for mothers and babies. The group quickly took off, meeting in her living room every Tuesday morning, as it still does today. She has a permanent waiting list, yet has decided to keep the group small and intimate. Thula Mama songs are sung 'a capella' using only the human voice. This is soothing and calming for babies, grounding and confidence-building for mothers.
1.45-3.00 REF 135 £5.00 (Art Room)
CHOOSING HAPPINESS: Raising our children with the awareness that happiness is our true nature.
AMANDA RAYMENT
Raising our children to know that happiness is our true nature. Herbal remedies for babyhood ailments such as colic, restlessness and teething. Also herbs for nurturing in daily life.
This workshop offers the invitation to join with others who are seeking to experience happiness in family life. We will examine how to use herbal remedies as an expression of self kindness in response to babyhood ailments such as colic, restlessness, teething and feeding disturbances. Also using herbs to support nurturing and wellbeing in daily life.
Amanda Rayment has worked for many years as a herbalist with pregnant women and also their families after the baby's birth. Amanda is also education director of The Holistic Birth Trust Foundation, offering the training, Birth and Loving Relationships. At the heart of all the work Amanda offers is the joyful opportunity that the parent child relationship offers.
3.30 - 4.45 REF 136 £5.00 (Art Rom)
THE 7 WORDS OF BIRTH
DOMINIQUE SAKOILSKY AND LOUISE BENNETT
Learn something different about yourself in relation to birth. Whether a birth-worker or a pregnant couple, knowing what you bring to the arena of birth is of utmost importance!
The 7 Secrets of Joyful Birthing is about authentic birthing, really knowing what it is that we bring to the table of Birth, and understanding from that what it is we might need in order to birth. The 7 words is an authentic system of communication which offers a point of exploration, which highlights who we are at this moment in time and where lie our strengths and the less developed parts of ourselves. Using the 7 word system (No, Hello, Thank you, Goodbye, Please, Sorry and Yes) we will get to know how comfortable we are in the 7 states implicit in these words and what that means for us in relation to birthing. Come and learn something new about yourself in relation to what you bring to birth, whether you are a pregnant Mum, Dad or birthing professional.
The 7 words of birth workshop is an invitation for you to learn something different about yourself in relation to birth. Whether a birth-worker or a pregnant couple, knowing what you bring to the arena of birth is of utmost importance. Come explore!
5 -5.45pm FREE (Wise Moon Marquee)
CELEBRATING MENARCHE
RACHAEL HERTOGS
'Celebrating Menarche' for mums (dads allowed!) and daughters ; how to Create beautiful ritual and ceremony to celebrate this rite of passage in to womanhood.
Rachael Hertogs is a mother, business woman, workshop facilitator, member of The Red Web Foundation, creatress of Moon Times cloth pads and has worked in the field of menstrual health for almost 20 years! www.moontimes.co.uk
Saturday 10th July
10.00 - 11.00 FREE (Art Room)
THE WOMB HEART CONNECTION
DOMINIQUE SAKOILSKY AND LOUISE BENNETT
Working with the heart -womb connection brings understanding to Birth. It facilitates the necessary flow of hormones, so come celebrate bringing heart to Birth.
Dominic Sakoilsky has worked in the arena of Birth for over 20 years, as an Active Birth teacher working at the Active Birth Centre in London for some years, then in Bristol where I now run a busy practice. I also work as a couple and family counselor, craniosacral therapist and has set up Relaxed Birth and Parenting with her colleague Louise Bennett, which is a company which trains teachers to run antenatal classes with a mind-body focus, facilitating deep relaxation so that we may ease the journey into birth. We bring attention to the baby's experience of birth, as well as supporting mothers and their family to embrace birth for the transformational experience it is. We have had a group of teachers train funded by the Walsall PCT to take the work into the NHS in the West Midlands, and have 2 doula trainings within the NHS coming up in the Spring and Autumn, training up a group of "Birth Buddies" so they may help women in minority groups as a birthing partner and Doula. we are running our third training in Bristol this spring and are also expanding to run a doula training in Bristol. We are both 7 Words practitioners which is an authentic system of communication which can help highlight areas which need attention! we are co-writing a book "The 7 secrets of Joyful Birth"
11.15 - 12.00 FREE (Wise Moon Marquee)
BIRTHRITES - RITUALS AND CELEBRATIONS FOR THE CHILD-BEARING YEARS
JACKIE SINGER
An inclusive and DIY approach to creating ceremony to make sacred the whole journey of conception, pregnancy and birth.
Jackie Singer is author of Birthrites: Rituals and Ceremonies for the Child-bearing Years, published by Permanent Publications. Jackie lives in Oxford, and is a mother, musician, celebrant and writer.
12.15 - 12.45 FREE (Wise Moon Marquee)
DOULAS/BIRTH COMPANIONS
SONYA ROWLAND, KEELEY FARRINGDON AND BECKY SHERWOOD
How they can support women or couples during pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period.
Sonya Rowlands says: "I did my Doula training with Olivia Seck of Birthing Wisdom 5 yrs ago. This training is the most comprehensive and holistic training available in the UK.
I have also supported at Natural Active Birth classes and I am a fully qualified Massage and Aromatherapist. I live in Buckfastleigh with my husband and our 4 children. We have 2 boys and 2 girls, and all of my births have been different. We also had a Doula supporting us with our last birth, which was a wonderfully comforting experience even though we had given birth 3 times before.
I decided that I would like to work as a Doula partly because of my own experiences of pregnancy and birth and partly because I feel that woman have the right to regain the power to do things their way, with more control over their own experiences whilst feeling supported enough to make their own choices.
Becky Sherwood is a trained homoeopathist and has recently trained with Birthing Wisdom as a doula and holistic childbirth educator.
Keeley Farringdon completed her doula training with Birthing Wisdom in July of 2006 and says: ''The training showed me what deep inner resources I already had; what deep inner resources all women have available to them if they are guided in where & how to look, and if they feel loved and supported in that process.
I learnt that in many ways the lessons we learn about and through birth are lessons for life, both for ourselves as Doulas & the couples we work with. In essence the training reminds me of the difference between giving a starving family a fish or the means to catch their own fish! We certainly learnt a lot about the work that is of practical use, but where I personally felt the most value lie, was in what we learnt about how to learn; how to listen to and respond sensitively and with respect to ourselves, to the women we work with, to birth and to life. Through this, I feel ready and inspired to meet whatever life as a Doula brings.''
Saturday 1 - 1.30 FREE (Wise Moon Marquee)
BIRTHING WISDOM NETWORKING EVENT
OLIVIA SECK
Would you like to join others to create a new culture of Birth and parenting in your area? To join or start a group, network or project to benefit parents or birth professionals? Come and meet up with like minded people. Children welcome.
Research has shown the importance of the right kind of preparation and support in preventing complication and interventions in childbirth and parenthood. This preparation needs to go beyond the intellectual knowledge or body based exercise offered by most antenatal preparation classes. It needs to include an emotional and mental preparation as well as look at the overall social and cultural climate the women and couples are birthing and raising their children into.
In other words what is needed is a holistic approach in preparation as well as care during the childbearing year. Whether we are midwives, childbirth educators, doulas, health visitors or complementary therapist, mothers or fathers, we all have the same aim, the well-being of families and our world. Birthing Wisdom is creating a focus point where families and professionals can come together to explore ways to create a new culture of birth and parenting in their local area - moving away from the prevalent climate of fear and social fragmentation towards embodied presence, love and connectedness, the corner stones of positive birth and parenting experiences.
2 - 3. 30 REF 234 £10.00 (Wise Moon Marquee)
HOW OUR PRE-DISPOSITIONS INFLUENCE THE HEALTH OF OUR CHILDREN
BARBARA WREN
Nothing happens by chance. Understand the pre-dispositions in our children from their family history and how we can strengthen them with nutrition and naturopathic techniques.
Everything is connected, nothing happens by chance. Barbara will lead a hands on workshop to show how we can understand the pre-dispositions manifested in our children from their family history and how we can strengthen them with nutrition and naturopathic techniques.
For the past 35 years, Barbara Wren has been searching for the understanding of who we really are and how our bodies really work. She has been teaching and lecturing for the past 27 years showing people a different approach to healing through nutrition and healing techniques. She has always believed that empowering the individual through contacting their own inner wisdom is the only true way back to wholeness and happiness within the universal laws and rhythms. She is founder of The College of Natural Nutrition
4.00 - 5.15 REF 231 £5.00 (Art Room)
MOTHER BLESSING CEREMONIES
JACKIE SINGER AND KEELEY FARRINGDON
A 'mother blessing' honours and encourages a woman as she approaches giving birth. This
practical workshop offers tools and inspiration to devise a ceremony. (women only)
Jackie Singer is author of Birthrites: Rituals and Ceremonies for the Child-bearing Years, published by Permanent Publications. Jackie lives in Oxford, and is a mother, musician, celebrant and writer. Keeley Farringdon has been working as a doula since 2006 and is a celebrant.
Sunday 11th July
10 -11am REF 337 £5.00 (Wise Moon Marquee)
BIRTHDANCE - BELLY DANCE FOR PREGNANCY AND BIRTH
FIONA WILLIS
Belly dance is an ancient birthing dance, its movements mirroring a labouring woman, strengthening and preparing the body for birth.
Many of the moves in belly dance relate to those that a woman makes during birthing, and are an excellent way to gently and sensuously work those important muscles and train them for the work of birth.
Come and explore this ancient dance and discover the sensuous roots of feminine power and strength.
Belly dancing whilst pregnant is excellent exercise and highly enjoyable as well as being a traditional way in the Middle East to prepare for birth. Dancing in the postnatal period can help to regain strength and tone in the abdomen and pelvic floor as well as being a great way of honouring the curves of the new mother.
Fiona Willis love of belly dance began when she started learning Raqs Sharqi (traditional Egyptian dance) in 1992, and she has been dancing ever since! Fiona has studied dancing from various Middle Eastern cultures and continues to learn with esteemed dance and teachers such as Amel Tafsout.
Whilst studying for her Shiatsu in maternity care post graduate diploma, Fiona researched the history of this ancient dance in depth and discovered that it's roots lie in preparing a woman for childbirth. In Middle Eastern cultures, women traditionally danced for themselves and each other, and only in relatively recent times has the dance become associated with performance and voyeurism. Traditionally the dance was a way for women to celebrate and enhance their fertility as the movements strengthen the abdomen and pelvic area. A lot of the movements mimic those made during labour and birth and so were a way of sharing birthing wisdom between generations. Fiona offers belly dance as birth dance classes for pregnant women as a way of connecting with this traditional wisdom of birth preparation.
11 30-12-45pm REF 338 £5.00 (Wise Moon Marquee)
WHAT CAN WE DO WHEN BIRTH OR PARENTING BECOMES A REAL STRUGGLE?
OLIVIA SECK
How can we help ourselves and those in our care to get back on track? For parents and professionals.
Olivia Seck is a mother, holistic childbirth educator, birth companion, trainer, hypnotherapist and HypnoBirthing teacher. She has been teaching and supporting birthing women and couples for over 20 years now.
On her quest for a holistic lifestyle and profession at the beginning of the 80's, Olivia studied various aspects of holistic health : humanistic psychology and education, counselling, voice dialogue, movement and dance, healing and infant massage. After training with the Holistic Birth Foundation, she founded the Kin & Kin Pregnancy practice in Devon and created The Demestia Birth companion/doula training, a distillation of her two decades of studies, her professional experience supporting women through life transitions and her 24 years as a mother and partner.
After training with Marie Mongan, the founder of HypnoBirthing in the USA, Olivia created BirthCreation, a holistic childbirth education programme, which includes valuable hypnobirthing techniques. This hypnobirthing approach has been integrated in the Birthing Wisdom curriculum.
Olivia lives with her family in Devon where she has a pregnancy practice and runs pregnancy retreats
1.45-2.30am FREE (Wise Moon Marquee)
CONSCIOUS CONCEPTION, CALLING A SOUL TO JOIN YOUR FAMILY
ALEXANDRA TILLIE AND LILAMAE MCLEAN
Looking at pre-conception bonding, conscious sexual union, pregnancy soul connection and the removal of limiting beliefs and trauma around miscarriage/stillbirth.
A workshop exploring our role as conscious creators. Looking at pre-conception bonding, conscious sexual union, pregnancy soul connection and the removal of limiting core beliefs and trauma around miscarriage/termination/stillbirth.
Alexandra Tillie and Lilamae McLean are trainee doulas who have a wealth of experience in priestess and shamanic practice, ritual space holding, bodywork, soul transition and sacred sexual work.
2.45- 3.30 FREE (Wise Moon Marquee)
RITUALS FOR HEALING
JACKIE SINGER AND LILAMAE MCLEAN
A talk on the value of rituals after miscarriage or termination, with examples and practical suggestions. For men and women.
Jackie Singer is author of Birthrites: Rituals and Ceremonies for the Child-bearing Years, published by Permanent Publications. Jackie lives in Oxford, and is a mother, musician, celebrant and writer.
Lilamae McLean Is a trainee doulas who is also experienced in shamanic practice, ritual space holding, bodywork, soul transition and sacred sexual work.
4.15 - 5.15 FREE (Art Room)
VIDEO PRESENTATION: SELF ATTACHMENT IN BREASTFEEDING
Self -attachment, the easiest, most natural and effective way for baby to
start breastfeeding. Feel confident that you or the mums in your care can do it.
5.15 -6pm FREE (Wise Moon Marquee)
BIRTHING WISDOM NETWORKING EVENT
OLIVIA SECK
Would you like to join others to create a new culture of Birth and parenting in your area?
To join or start a group, network or project to benefit parents or birth professionals?
Come and meet up with like minded people. Children welcome.
Research has shown the importance of the right kind of preparation and support in preventing complication and interventions in childbirth and parenthood. This preparation needs to go beyond the intellectual knowledge or body based exercise offered by most antenatal preparation classes. It needs to include an emotional and mental preparation as well as look at the overall social and cultural climate the women and couples are birthing and raising their children into.
In other words what is needed is a holistic approach in preparation as well as care during the childbearing year. Whether we are midwives, childbirth educators, doulas, health visitors or complementary therapist, mothers or fathers, we all have the same aim, the well being of families and our world. Birthing Wisdom is creating a focus point where families and professionals can come together to explore ways to create a new culture of birth and parenting in their local area - moving away from the prevalent climate of fear and social fragmentation towards embodied presence, love and connectedness, the corner stones of positive birth and parenting experiences
6.00 Closing circle. (Wise Moon Marquee)
Workshops and Speakers
Greetings,
The Wise Moon Marquee is a space where women, and women and children can relax and where there is also a programme of talks at this year's Quest Natural Health show. Please find details of the Wise Moon Marquee workshop and speakers below.
Friday 9th July
10-10. 45 FREE (Wise Moon Marquee)
MOON LODGES AND THEIR IMPORTANCE IN MODERN DAY SOCIETY
RACHAEL HERTOGS
During 'moon lodges and their importance in modern day society' we will discuss things like; what is a moon lodge, why should I have one, how do I create one?
Rachael Hertogs is a mother, business woman, workshop facilitator, member of The Red Web Foundation, creatress of Moon Times cloth pads and has worked in the field of menstrual health for almost 20 years! www.moontimes.co.uk
11.00 - 12.20 FREE (Art Room)
FILM: THE MOON INSIDE YOU
With humour and self-irony, this documentary approaches menstruation with personal
and collective references, challenging our ideas of womanhood- followed by a 20 minute discussion with Rachael Hertogs and Kylie Patnak
Like many other women, Diana has been suffering problematic periods for years. With every new cycle, the same question arises: "Why the pain and annoyance if I am supposed to be healthy?". Her initial innocent curiosity sparks off an emotional voyage to the very roots of femininity and life. Moon inside you is a fresh look at a taboo that defines the political and social reality of both women and men in a more profound way than society might be willing to admit. Facing the menstrual etiquette with doses of humour and self-irony, the documentary approaches the subject through both personal and collective references, thus challenging our preconceived ideas of womanhood.
Kylie Pattnaik is passionate about supporting and empowering mothers in their journey through pregnancy and into motherhood.
In addition to her training as a Holistic Birth Support Partner, she has specialist skills and experience in working with families who have children with complex needs, communication impairment and feeding difficulties. The training Kylie has taken to become a Doula has encompassed workshops with internationally recognised birthing professionals including Michel Odent, Jean Sutton, Penny Simkin and Pam England. In addition, she has studied with Birthing Wisdom in South Devon. Kylie is also a Reiki Master, Breathwork Practitioner and certified teacher of the work of Louise L Hay. Kylie is a Doula UK's Regional Rep for Cornwall & Devon.
Rachael Hertogs is a mother, business woman, workshop facilitator, member of The Red Web Foundation, creatress of Moon Times cloth pads and has worked in the field of menstrual health for almost 20 years! www.moontimes.co.uk
11.15-12.40 REF 138 £5.00 (Wise Moon Marquee)
TRANSFORMING FEARS IN PREGNANCY
OLIVIA SECK, CLAIRE ARNOLD AND JOLIE COMPTON
Creating a vision of your birth and transforming your fears through creativity. No experience of art necessary. Open to all parents and professionals.
Life transitions such as Pregnancy and Birth bring great potential for growth and transformation. As we prepare to cross the threshold of parenthood, all sorts of changes and challenges are taking place. It can be a time of excitement and joy, feeling blessed and open, but also of confusion, fear, anxiety and loss, and sometimes deep loneliness. You may be worried about the pending birth, connecting with the baby, being a good parent or feeling anxious from a previous birth etc.
Creating your own vision for how you see birth right now can help you connect with your fears, feelings, hopes and wishes. Using creativity (and the right side of the brain) during this process can help provide clarity, understanding and connection to your inner wisdom. Your artistic ability is not important, the process of engaging with the right brain helps you go within and explore what may be going on for you. Experience a gentle, intuitive way to deal with your thoughts, feelings, fears, challenges, hopes and wishes around birth and parenthood...and create your own unique vision for birth.
Olivia Seck is a Holistic Birth practitioner and trainer with a wealth of experience as a childbirth educator. She runs Birthing Wisdom in Devon through which Claire Arnold and Jolie Compton have recently completed their Holistic Birth practitioner training with Birthing Wisdom.
1.15-2.45pm FREE (Wise Moon Marquee)
THULA MAMA SINGING WORKSHOP and PERFORMANCE
HELEN YEOMANS
Come and sing together in harmony with other mothers. Enriching for you and soothing for the babies - it's magic! No experience required. Preceded by an informal performance
by some of the mothers (with babies)
When Helen Yeomans joined a local choir after the birth of her 2nd child, a whole new world of singing opened up for her. After the birth of her 3rd child, Helen vowed that as soon as she was at playgroup she would start a singing group for mothers and babies. The group quickly took off, meeting in her living room every Tuesday morning, as it still does today. She has a permanent waiting list, yet has decided to keep the group small and intimate. Thula Mama songs are sung 'a capella' using only the human voice. This is soothing and calming for babies, grounding and confidence-building for mothers.
1.45-3.00 REF 135 £5.00 (Art Room)
CHOOSING HAPPINESS: Raising our children with the awareness that happiness is our true nature.
AMANDA RAYMENT
Raising our children to know that happiness is our true nature. Herbal remedies for babyhood ailments such as colic, restlessness and teething. Also herbs for nurturing in daily life.
This workshop offers the invitation to join with others who are seeking to experience happiness in family life. We will examine how to use herbal remedies as an expression of self kindness in response to babyhood ailments such as colic, restlessness, teething and feeding disturbances. Also using herbs to support nurturing and wellbeing in daily life.
Amanda Rayment has worked for many years as a herbalist with pregnant women and also their families after the baby's birth. Amanda is also education director of The Holistic Birth Trust Foundation, offering the training, Birth and Loving Relationships. At the heart of all the work Amanda offers is the joyful opportunity that the parent child relationship offers.
3.30 - 4.45 REF 136 £5.00 (Art Rom)
THE 7 WORDS OF BIRTH
DOMINIQUE SAKOILSKY AND LOUISE BENNETT
Learn something different about yourself in relation to birth. Whether a birth-worker or a pregnant couple, knowing what you bring to the arena of birth is of utmost importance!
The 7 Secrets of Joyful Birthing is about authentic birthing, really knowing what it is that we bring to the table of Birth, and understanding from that what it is we might need in order to birth. The 7 words is an authentic system of communication which offers a point of exploration, which highlights who we are at this moment in time and where lie our strengths and the less developed parts of ourselves. Using the 7 word system (No, Hello, Thank you, Goodbye, Please, Sorry and Yes) we will get to know how comfortable we are in the 7 states implicit in these words and what that means for us in relation to birthing. Come and learn something new about yourself in relation to what you bring to birth, whether you are a pregnant Mum, Dad or birthing professional.
The 7 words of birth workshop is an invitation for you to learn something different about yourself in relation to birth. Whether a birth-worker or a pregnant couple, knowing what you bring to the arena of birth is of utmost importance. Come explore!
5 -5.45pm FREE (Wise Moon Marquee)
CELEBRATING MENARCHE
RACHAEL HERTOGS
'Celebrating Menarche' for mums (dads allowed!) and daughters ; how to Create beautiful ritual and ceremony to celebrate this rite of passage in to womanhood.
Rachael Hertogs is a mother, business woman, workshop facilitator, member of The Red Web Foundation, creatress of Moon Times cloth pads and has worked in the field of menstrual health for almost 20 years! www.moontimes.co.uk
Saturday 10th July
10.00 - 11.00 FREE (Art Room)
THE WOMB HEART CONNECTION
DOMINIQUE SAKOILSKY AND LOUISE BENNETT
Working with the heart -womb connection brings understanding to Birth. It facilitates the necessary flow of hormones, so come celebrate bringing heart to Birth.
Dominic Sakoilsky has worked in the arena of Birth for over 20 years, as an Active Birth teacher working at the Active Birth Centre in London for some years, then in Bristol where I now run a busy practice. I also work as a couple and family counselor, craniosacral therapist and has set up Relaxed Birth and Parenting with her colleague Louise Bennett, which is a company which trains teachers to run antenatal classes with a mind-body focus, facilitating deep relaxation so that we may ease the journey into birth. We bring attention to the baby's experience of birth, as well as supporting mothers and their family to embrace birth for the transformational experience it is. We have had a group of teachers train funded by the Walsall PCT to take the work into the NHS in the West Midlands, and have 2 doula trainings within the NHS coming up in the Spring and Autumn, training up a group of "Birth Buddies" so they may help women in minority groups as a birthing partner and Doula. we are running our third training in Bristol this spring and are also expanding to run a doula training in Bristol. We are both 7 Words practitioners which is an authentic system of communication which can help highlight areas which need attention! we are co-writing a book "The 7 secrets of Joyful Birth"
11.15 - 12.00 FREE (Wise Moon Marquee)
BIRTHRITES - RITUALS AND CELEBRATIONS FOR THE CHILD-BEARING YEARS
JACKIE SINGER
An inclusive and DIY approach to creating ceremony to make sacred the whole journey of conception, pregnancy and birth.
Jackie Singer is author of Birthrites: Rituals and Ceremonies for the Child-bearing Years, published by Permanent Publications. Jackie lives in Oxford, and is a mother, musician, celebrant and writer.
12.15 - 12.45 FREE (Wise Moon Marquee)
DOULAS/BIRTH COMPANIONS
SONYA ROWLAND, KEELEY FARRINGDON AND BECKY SHERWOOD
How they can support women or couples during pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period.
Sonya Rowlands says: "I did my Doula training with Olivia Seck of Birthing Wisdom 5 yrs ago. This training is the most comprehensive and holistic training available in the UK.
I have also supported at Natural Active Birth classes and I am a fully qualified Massage and Aromatherapist. I live in Buckfastleigh with my husband and our 4 children. We have 2 boys and 2 girls, and all of my births have been different. We also had a Doula supporting us with our last birth, which was a wonderfully comforting experience even though we had given birth 3 times before.
I decided that I would like to work as a Doula partly because of my own experiences of pregnancy and birth and partly because I feel that woman have the right to regain the power to do things their way, with more control over their own experiences whilst feeling supported enough to make their own choices.
Becky Sherwood is a trained homoeopathist and has recently trained with Birthing Wisdom as a doula and holistic childbirth educator.
Keeley Farringdon completed her doula training with Birthing Wisdom in July of 2006 and says: ''The training showed me what deep inner resources I already had; what deep inner resources all women have available to them if they are guided in where & how to look, and if they feel loved and supported in that process.
I learnt that in many ways the lessons we learn about and through birth are lessons for life, both for ourselves as Doulas & the couples we work with. In essence the training reminds me of the difference between giving a starving family a fish or the means to catch their own fish! We certainly learnt a lot about the work that is of practical use, but where I personally felt the most value lie, was in what we learnt about how to learn; how to listen to and respond sensitively and with respect to ourselves, to the women we work with, to birth and to life. Through this, I feel ready and inspired to meet whatever life as a Doula brings.''
Saturday 1 - 1.30 FREE (Wise Moon Marquee)
BIRTHING WISDOM NETWORKING EVENT
OLIVIA SECK
Would you like to join others to create a new culture of Birth and parenting in your area? To join or start a group, network or project to benefit parents or birth professionals? Come and meet up with like minded people. Children welcome.
Research has shown the importance of the right kind of preparation and support in preventing complication and interventions in childbirth and parenthood. This preparation needs to go beyond the intellectual knowledge or body based exercise offered by most antenatal preparation classes. It needs to include an emotional and mental preparation as well as look at the overall social and cultural climate the women and couples are birthing and raising their children into.
In other words what is needed is a holistic approach in preparation as well as care during the childbearing year. Whether we are midwives, childbirth educators, doulas, health visitors or complementary therapist, mothers or fathers, we all have the same aim, the well-being of families and our world. Birthing Wisdom is creating a focus point where families and professionals can come together to explore ways to create a new culture of birth and parenting in their local area - moving away from the prevalent climate of fear and social fragmentation towards embodied presence, love and connectedness, the corner stones of positive birth and parenting experiences.
2 - 3. 30 REF 234 £10.00 (Wise Moon Marquee)
HOW OUR PRE-DISPOSITIONS INFLUENCE THE HEALTH OF OUR CHILDREN
BARBARA WREN
Nothing happens by chance. Understand the pre-dispositions in our children from their family history and how we can strengthen them with nutrition and naturopathic techniques.
Everything is connected, nothing happens by chance. Barbara will lead a hands on workshop to show how we can understand the pre-dispositions manifested in our children from their family history and how we can strengthen them with nutrition and naturopathic techniques.
For the past 35 years, Barbara Wren has been searching for the understanding of who we really are and how our bodies really work. She has been teaching and lecturing for the past 27 years showing people a different approach to healing through nutrition and healing techniques. She has always believed that empowering the individual through contacting their own inner wisdom is the only true way back to wholeness and happiness within the universal laws and rhythms. She is founder of The College of Natural Nutrition
4.00 - 5.15 REF 231 £5.00 (Art Room)
MOTHER BLESSING CEREMONIES
JACKIE SINGER AND KEELEY FARRINGDON
A 'mother blessing' honours and encourages a woman as she approaches giving birth. This
practical workshop offers tools and inspiration to devise a ceremony. (women only)
Jackie Singer is author of Birthrites: Rituals and Ceremonies for the Child-bearing Years, published by Permanent Publications. Jackie lives in Oxford, and is a mother, musician, celebrant and writer. Keeley Farringdon has been working as a doula since 2006 and is a celebrant.
Sunday 11th July
10 -11am REF 337 £5.00 (Wise Moon Marquee)
BIRTHDANCE - BELLY DANCE FOR PREGNANCY AND BIRTH
FIONA WILLIS
Belly dance is an ancient birthing dance, its movements mirroring a labouring woman, strengthening and preparing the body for birth.
Many of the moves in belly dance relate to those that a woman makes during birthing, and are an excellent way to gently and sensuously work those important muscles and train them for the work of birth.
Come and explore this ancient dance and discover the sensuous roots of feminine power and strength.
Belly dancing whilst pregnant is excellent exercise and highly enjoyable as well as being a traditional way in the Middle East to prepare for birth. Dancing in the postnatal period can help to regain strength and tone in the abdomen and pelvic floor as well as being a great way of honouring the curves of the new mother.
Fiona Willis love of belly dance began when she started learning Raqs Sharqi (traditional Egyptian dance) in 1992, and she has been dancing ever since! Fiona has studied dancing from various Middle Eastern cultures and continues to learn with esteemed dance and teachers such as Amel Tafsout.
Whilst studying for her Shiatsu in maternity care post graduate diploma, Fiona researched the history of this ancient dance in depth and discovered that it's roots lie in preparing a woman for childbirth. In Middle Eastern cultures, women traditionally danced for themselves and each other, and only in relatively recent times has the dance become associated with performance and voyeurism. Traditionally the dance was a way for women to celebrate and enhance their fertility as the movements strengthen the abdomen and pelvic area. A lot of the movements mimic those made during labour and birth and so were a way of sharing birthing wisdom between generations. Fiona offers belly dance as birth dance classes for pregnant women as a way of connecting with this traditional wisdom of birth preparation.
11 30-12-45pm REF 338 £5.00 (Wise Moon Marquee)
WHAT CAN WE DO WHEN BIRTH OR PARENTING BECOMES A REAL STRUGGLE?
OLIVIA SECK
How can we help ourselves and those in our care to get back on track? For parents and professionals.
Olivia Seck is a mother, holistic childbirth educator, birth companion, trainer, hypnotherapist and HypnoBirthing teacher. She has been teaching and supporting birthing women and couples for over 20 years now.
On her quest for a holistic lifestyle and profession at the beginning of the 80's, Olivia studied various aspects of holistic health : humanistic psychology and education, counselling, voice dialogue, movement and dance, healing and infant massage. After training with the Holistic Birth Foundation, she founded the Kin & Kin Pregnancy practice in Devon and created The Demestia Birth companion/doula training, a distillation of her two decades of studies, her professional experience supporting women through life transitions and her 24 years as a mother and partner.
After training with Marie Mongan, the founder of HypnoBirthing in the USA, Olivia created BirthCreation, a holistic childbirth education programme, which includes valuable hypnobirthing techniques. This hypnobirthing approach has been integrated in the Birthing Wisdom curriculum.
Olivia lives with her family in Devon where she has a pregnancy practice and runs pregnancy retreats
1.45-2.30am FREE (Wise Moon Marquee)
CONSCIOUS CONCEPTION, CALLING A SOUL TO JOIN YOUR FAMILY
ALEXANDRA TILLIE AND LILAMAE MCLEAN
Looking at pre-conception bonding, conscious sexual union, pregnancy soul connection and the removal of limiting beliefs and trauma around miscarriage/stillbirth.
A workshop exploring our role as conscious creators. Looking at pre-conception bonding, conscious sexual union, pregnancy soul connection and the removal of limiting core beliefs and trauma around miscarriage/termination/stillbirth.
Alexandra Tillie and Lilamae McLean are trainee doulas who have a wealth of experience in priestess and shamanic practice, ritual space holding, bodywork, soul transition and sacred sexual work.
2.45- 3.30 FREE (Wise Moon Marquee)
RITUALS FOR HEALING
JACKIE SINGER AND LILAMAE MCLEAN
A talk on the value of rituals after miscarriage or termination, with examples and practical suggestions. For men and women.
Jackie Singer is author of Birthrites: Rituals and Ceremonies for the Child-bearing Years, published by Permanent Publications. Jackie lives in Oxford, and is a mother, musician, celebrant and writer.
Lilamae McLean Is a trainee doulas who is also experienced in shamanic practice, ritual space holding, bodywork, soul transition and sacred sexual work.
4.15 - 5.15 FREE (Art Room)
VIDEO PRESENTATION: SELF ATTACHMENT IN BREASTFEEDING
Self -attachment, the easiest, most natural and effective way for baby to
start breastfeeding. Feel confident that you or the mums in your care can do it.
5.15 -6pm FREE (Wise Moon Marquee)
BIRTHING WISDOM NETWORKING EVENT
OLIVIA SECK
Would you like to join others to create a new culture of Birth and parenting in your area?
To join or start a group, network or project to benefit parents or birth professionals?
Come and meet up with like minded people. Children welcome.
Research has shown the importance of the right kind of preparation and support in preventing complication and interventions in childbirth and parenthood. This preparation needs to go beyond the intellectual knowledge or body based exercise offered by most antenatal preparation classes. It needs to include an emotional and mental preparation as well as look at the overall social and cultural climate the women and couples are birthing and raising their children into.
In other words what is needed is a holistic approach in preparation as well as care during the childbearing year. Whether we are midwives, childbirth educators, doulas, health visitors or complementary therapist, mothers or fathers, we all have the same aim, the well being of families and our world. Birthing Wisdom is creating a focus point where families and professionals can come together to explore ways to create a new culture of birth and parenting in their local area - moving away from the prevalent climate of fear and social fragmentation towards embodied presence, love and connectedness, the corner stones of positive birth and parenting experiences
6.00 Closing circle. (Wise Moon Marquee)