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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.
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.
2024 CALENDAR for COMMUNITY LEARNING
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 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.