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Ancient Map for Modern Pregnancy & Birth

     The gift of being mentored from first trimester through early postpartum                                                   

 Preparation, Passage & Personal Growth

Birth Story Medicine has re-invented childbirth preparation for you! Childbirth preparation should begin from the moment you are pregnant.

Ancient Map for Modern Pregnancy and Birth is a coherent model of childbirth preparation that weaves together art, science, meditations, ceremonies, and the telling of mythic stories. As a pregnant woman, you will benefit from both the ancient and modern maps that points to the tasks and pathways through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.

It is human nature to want to know how to get from "here to there" without getting lost. As a pregnant woman, you inherit our culture's "modern map" of birth, which is useful for navigating routine medical and consumer tasks. Yet you may feel something is missing -- that there is something more. When we show you the ancient map, which reveals the hidden terrain, you will intuitively feel your inner compass pointing to your true self and inner knowing.

While the modern map of birth is accessible through common knowledge, the ancient map must be actively sought. The journey you are making this year is personal and unique to you. By following the ancient map of the mythic journey, the one that humans have been following for millenia, you will feel connected to all mothers who have made the journey before you.

                  Ancient Map offers support and processes throughout your childbearing year.

Begin with RIGHT FROM THE START: MY FIRST 28 WEEKS,

Our second offering, THE LAST 12 WEEKS: GIVING BIRTH  and  EARLY POSTPARTUM.

Ideally you'll begin with The First 28 Weeks, but no worries if you find us later you can still join The Last 12 Weeks.

Four Ways to Participate in This Prenatal  Program

Videos, Journal, Community Meetings/Classes & Personal Consultation

https://birthstorymedicine.com/ancientmapformodernpregnancyandbirth/You can join any time from the moment you discover you are pregnant up to 28 weeks. Choose one, two, three, or all four.

1.  Watch videos on your own

2. Attend the community online led by Pam or Nicole to discuss a topic, talk through the unexpected, participate in a storytelling or an activity.

3.  Journal in the new "My Ancient and Modern Journey through Birth"

4.  Schedule a private session with Pam or Nicole.

Make the most of your First 28 Weeks.

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The first 28 weeks of pregnancy is your time to honor the inner work of creating life and gestating a mother-self; it’s a time for contemplation, rest, and creative learning.

We created videos, journal pages, community meetings/classes, and personal sessions to support you right from the start.

Tasks & Topics in the First 28 Weeks

  • Your Childbearing Year as an Initiatory Journey
  • Tasks of the first phase of Initiation
  • Initiation and Mother as archetype
  • Incubating the Mother:  Who am I as a mother?
  • Fully experiencing Being pregnant
  • Eating like a mother
  • Consciously establish your baby's metabolic programming for life
  • Meditations & Making Birth Art
  • The miracle of the embryo & a Ceremony of Creation
  • Alchemy of Pregnancy: Transforming body, beliefs, and stories about birth

   Follow the ancient inner map of  Initiation during   your childbearing year,  

stretch  your experience far beyond just being a modern patient in obstetrics

      to  a thoughtful    expansion of your mind,        a soulful spiraling   inward   and an embodied incubation of the mother-self. 

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                            2024 CALENDAR  for  COMMUNITY  LEARNING
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Each Community Session is $15.50

September 24, 2024,  10:00 am - 11:00 am PST

 “Survey the landscape of birth,” the first step in reading maps of birth.

 A little known-fact about placental health and happiness

 

October 8, 10:00 am - 11:30 am PST

The alchemy in soulful change work 

A guided meditation 

 

November 5,  10:00 am to 11:30 am PST

The Liminal Phase of the Childbearing Year as Initiation

Making Birth Art:  Mapping 

 

December 10,  10:00 am to 11:30 am PST

Being Pregnant:  philosophy, experience, images.

The 2025 Calendar will be posted later. To get updates join Temenos, our Newsletter.

 

"And under our feet

the highways are tangled. . .

My multiple paths barely stained

now form this enormous rose

encircling my body,

Like an impossible map

the garden of the impossible

every moment is

deepened, restored.

-- Frederico Garcia Lorca

Sign Up Options

Sign up for ONE Community Meeting:  $15.50

Sign up for FOUR Community Meetings: $63.86

Sign Up for EIGHT Community Meetings: $127.72

Ancient Map

Ancient Map for Modern Birth offers a unique message. Using the mythic journey of Inanna as a backdrop through the book, you will experience your childbearing year as an initiatory experience.  It's back in print!  $32.50 including postage.

This offer is only available to mailing addresses in the U.S.  Foreign buyers go to Amazon International.

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