Birth: A New Story
by Samara Concepción
Birth: A New Story is a gathering place for visionary voices to explore what it means to be human and welcome new life into the world with reverence.Samara Concepción is a birth doula and a women’s health practitioner based in London. These conversations intend to offer you a holistic perspective on pregnancy and birth. One which deeply values your innate body wisdom and the inherent intelligence of birth.
Episodes
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For our daughters - In conversation with Imogen Love
You can support the film HERE Imogen love is a British Caribbean London-based birth doula, sound therapist, artist and mother. Imogen is a multi instrumentalist, having worked with sound as a tool for self connection for over 20 years. Imogen offers heart-led holistic support for pregnancy, birth...
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The Descent and Rising of Childbirth - A conversation with Carly Mountain
Use the community code SAMARA-10 for a 10% discount on the Birth: A New Story Course Through the lens of philosophy, pre and perinatal psychology, traditional midwifery, anthropology and modern medicine, this course invites us to widen our understanding about birth and its deep interrelationship...
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Birth and Belonging - A conversation with Advaya, Mia Kalef and Samara Concepción
Through the lens of philosophy, pre and perinatal psychology, traditional midwifery, anthropology and modern medicine, this course invites us to widen our understanding about birth and its deep interrelationship with the rest of our lives. It explores what is possible beyond the dominant story...
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The Holy Architecture of Birth • Towards a council of pregnant women - A conversation between Samara Concepción and Theodore Lowry
This episode is a rich conversation between Theodore Lowry, host of the Story Paths podcast, and myself. It was an absolute pleasure to be interviewed by Theodore and to have the opportunity to bring all my contemplations, research and sensing together into a wholesome conversation which…
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Birth, Dance, Human Rights and Natural Law with Eva Maria Bredler
Eva Maria Bredler is a PhD student, editor, and dancer from Germany. In her PhD, she’s exploring human rights in the context of pregnancy and childbirth. Her work seeks to bring the body back into the law – a sphere mostly inhabited by rational, autonomous legal subjects without bodies or...
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Embracing the Unknown in Birth with Matiga Harrower
Matiga is a Space holding Birthworker & Massage therapist from South East London. Walking with women and families along different stages of their maternal journey, she is honoured to witness the transition to earthside by many bright souls that have trusted her presence. Matiga is currently being...
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Restoring Traditional Birth Practices with Nicola Goodall
Raised in the hip hop and muslim community in South London, Nicola Mahdiyyah Goodall has been involved in birth for almost thirty years. She was guided by her adopted mama Rifat Peggy Nafisa Brown - a traditional midwife taught by God, her local Grand Midwives and her local indigenous elders in...
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Natalie’s Ecstatic Home Birth after a J Incision Caesarean
In this conversation, Samara Concepción invites Natalie Feary to share how she created the conditions within and around herself to experience an ecstatic home birth after a difficult J incision caesarean. Natalie is a mother to two children aged 9 and 5 and was born and grew up in London with a...
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Dissolving Birth Myths with Kemi Johnson (Part 2)
This episode is my second interview with birthkeeper, birth educator and birth activist, Kemi Johnson. In this episode we focus on dissolving some of the most deeply ingrained myths about birth with the intention of creating new possibilities for families beyond the dominant story about birth.…
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Dissolving Birth Myths and Learning To Say No with Kemi Johnson
Kemi Johnson is an experienced Birthkeeper, former NHS and former Independent Midwife in the UK. She provides services to women and families who are seeking more than the conveyor-belt style of care and education that the NHS is providing people with currently. As well as working with first-time...
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Birth is an Altered State of Consciousness with Sheri Winston
Wholistic Sexuality teacher Sheri Winston is a groundbreaking, award-winning author and teacher who offers empowering, entertaining erotic education for everyone. She’s the author of the award-winning Women’s Anatomy of Arousal: Secret Maps to Buried Pleasure (which I personally couldn’t…
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Why I'm creating Birth: A New Story ~ A Prayer for All Mothers and Children
I deeply believe that the way we welcome new life into our world touches all of us, whether we are aware of it or not. I see pregnancy, birth, the postnatal period and parenting as the foundations of our collective health. The lives and losses of lives in Palestine have ripple effects on the...
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An Invitation to Feel (Meditation & Sound Immersion)
My invitation, through this meditation, is to help create the space that is needed to go within and feel all that there is to feel, in the trust that this will, in time, deepen our relationship with what is truly being felt within us. Here’s my offering to you this month, loved ones, and I hope…
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The Underworld of Childbirth with Carly Mountain
Carly Mountain is a writer, psychotherapist and women’s initiatory guide, who specialises in working with sexuality, relationships and embodiment. She is author of Descent & Rising: Women’s Stories & the Embodiment of the Inanna Myth. Carly facilitates people at the threshold of change to deepen...
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Why Birth Activism is Needed Today with Mars Lord
Mars Lord is a life coach and a birth activist. A triple award winning doula, mentor, educator and coach with over 15 years of experience. Mars created Abuela Doulas, a doula preparation course primarily, but not exclusively, for Black and Brown women, and is the Founder of BLA (Black Lives…
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Giving Birth to the Next Generation with Naoli Vinaver
Naolí Vinaver is a Mexican midwife who combines traditional Mexican and contemporary home birth practices, with a profound respect for the physiology of natural birth, having attended over 1800 home births in both Mexico and Brazil. Naolí is a passionate speaker and educator, teaching hundreds of...
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Preserving our Humanity with midwife Jennie Joseph
Jennie Joseph is a British-trained midwife who fights to ensure every person has their healthiest possible pregnancy, birth and postpartum experience with dignity and support. Jennie created The JJ Way® which is an evidence-based, maternity care model delivering readily-accessible…
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How our Pre-birth and Birth Experiences Shape our World, with Mia Kalef
Mia Kalef is a Chiropractor, Craniosacral Therapist and founder of Emerging Families, a program of therapy, education, and research for the Pre and Perinatal Period. She works with families throughout the childbearing years to resolve the effects of Pre and Perinatal challenges and with adults...
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Trusting your Innate Body Wisdom with Natalie Gyte
In this conversation, Samara Concepción invites Natalie Gyte to share her free birth experience and the journey which led her to that choice. Together, they explore pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period as a continuum, rather than separate chapters. Natalie is a new Mama to Rose, and a…
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Welcome to the Podcast
Birth: A New Story is a gathering place for visionary voices to explore what it means to be human and welcome new life into the world with reverence. Samara Concepción is a birth doula and a women’s health practitioner based in London. These conversations intend to offer you a holistic…
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Welcoming The Emerging Being | In Conversation with Te Kaha
In this time of great transition on Earth, Te Kaha's heart-led mission is to be a guide in the transformation and empowerment of others, in their essential reconnection with themselves and with the natural world, as shown to him by his tīpuna (ancestors). For more information about Te Kaha and…
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The Sacred Role of The Father | In Conversation with Adam Jackson & Aubert Bastiat (Sacred Sons)
The New Story about Birth recognises that the health and well-being of fathers is essential to our societal health. The changes that accompany pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period are significant, but so is the role that men play in this transformation. A partner’s quality of presence and...
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Reclaiming Pleasure in Birth | In Conversation with Sheila Kamara Hay
The New Story about Birth is wet, wild and sexy. Intimate, untamed and undisturbed. Birth, like sex, is an altered state - When we don’t interfere with the magnificent design of birth. When a birthing woman feels safe, unobserved, undisturbed and free to follow her innate body wisdom, her body...
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The Ancient Roots of Birth | In Conversation with Charles Eisenstein
The New Story about Birth recognises that the health and well-being of mothers, babies and families is integral to the health of society as a whole. How would we welcome our children into the world in the new story of interbeing? Join this conversation between Charles Eisenstein and Samara...
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Childbirth As Initiation | In Conversation with Kelly Brogan
The New Story about Birth values the innate body wisdom of women and babies. Join this conversation between Kelly Brogan and Samara Concepción to explore how we can reclaim reverence for the mystery and inherent intelligence of birth in a time that perceives childbirth as an inherently dangerous...
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On Birth and Fatherhood | In Conversation with Jacob Fortune-Lloyd and Ian MacKenzie
In support of the forthcoming film Birth: A New Story, join this conversation with School of Mythopoetics co-founder Ian MacKenzie and actor Jacob Fortune-Lloyd. Jacob Fortune-Lloyd - Executive Producer Jacob is an actor, theatre and filmmaker based in London. His acting projects include The...
About this show
Birth: A New Story is a gathering place for visionary voices to explore what it means to be human and welcome new life into the world with reverence.Samara Concepción is a birth doula and a women’s health practitioner based in London. These conversations intend to offer you a holistic perspective on pregnancy and birth. One which deeply values your innate body wisdom and the inherent intelligence of birth.
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