Eve Agee, PhD, is the international bestselling author of The Uterine Health Companion. She is a medical anthropologist, personal transformation expert, certified life coach and motivational speaker.
Latham Thomas is a maternity lifestyle maven, wellness & birth coach, and yoga teacher. She is the founder of Mama Glow- a holistic lifestyle practice for women and mother’s-to-be and co-founder of the Mama Glow Film Festival. Latham is helping to green the planet one belly at a time.
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Penny Simkin, PT, is a physical therapist who has specialized in childbirth education and labor support since 1968. She has assisted hundreds of women or couples through childbirth as a doula.
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Nekole Shapiro is the creator of EmbodiedBirth. She’s also a go to person for parents, birth pros, sex educators, activists and countless others searching to bring the human back to humanity.
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Roanna is the bestselling author of Cut, Stapled, & Mended. She’s an international speaker, co-founder and host of Birth Plan Radio, and the executive action chair of Human Rights in Childbirth.
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“Thank you, Roanna! You have given me so much to think about, and the idea that without challenging our fears we cannot be courageous, going towards uncertainty, made my perspective totally shift. Hopefully I can hold onto it!” – Olive
Piper Lovemore is a certified Childbirth Educator, Doula and Placenta Encapsulation Specialist, and a passionate birth activist. Piper and her husband, Chaz are Orgasmic Birth parents.
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“That was beautiful, ya’ll. Piper and Chaz are an inspiration. Thank you so much for sharing. your stories ring with so much truth, it gives me happy goose bumps and joyful tears. Keep up the good work. Your last name is making ripples. Much love and respect to you both.” – Sierra
Aviva Romm is the mother of four grown children, a Yale-trained physician specializing in functional medicine for women and children, a midwife, an herbalist, an award-winning author, and the creator/owner of WomanWise, on-line courses dedicated to vitality and optimal health for women and children.
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Renée Perkins is a registered member of the New Zealand Council of Homeopaths. She provides clients with a professional yet relaxed approach to homeopathy. Renée is also an Orgasmic Birth parent.
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Elena Skoko is a mom, singer and passionate birth storyteller. She shares her research, art and life holding Singing Birth Workshops, conferences and lectures worldwide. She’s part of Bluebird & Skoko blues band. Her book Memoirs of a Singing Birth is published in English and Italian. Elena is political activism coordinator for Human Rights in Childbirth in Italy.
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“Wow, I LOVED this talk so much. It was incredibly inspiring to me, thank you Elena and Debra. You invited back into my voice, into my ancestry (Croatian too), into my heart. Your wisdom will stay with me for life.” – Bee, student midwife, doula
Lonnie Morris is a national pioneer in natural childbirth as the founder and director of The Childbirth Center, PA. She holds a Doctorate of Nursing and practices as a Certified Nurse Midwife.
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Marjolein Mensink is a midwife from The Netherlands. Aside from being a midwife, she also studied journalism and is writing for several media that are mainly directed on pregnancy and childbirth.
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Barry Komisaruk, PdD, studies the function of nerve pathways for sexual stimulation in women who have suffered spinal cord injury. He has co-published the first evidence of brain regions involved in orgasm in women.
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Sheila Kamara Hay is an Ecstatic Birth advocate and super-mama to her 3 little ones. She researches ways on how women can enjoy childbirth and makes that info accessible to as many women as possible.
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Ricardo Jones, MD, is a homebirth and hospital attending obstetrician and gynecologist in Brazil. An international lecturer and author, Ricardo is a pioneer in childbirth, introducing a model of support of laboring women that includes a midwife, a doula, and obstetrician for each of his patients.
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“Wonderful doctor! I wish there were more like him… Doctors need to support women with their choices and stop considering birth like an illness. They need to help women feel confident and in tune with their body, and respect birth as a natural event. They need to learn to work with midwives and doulas who are well trained to assist with birth and deliveries, instead of treating them as personal enemies!” – Evelyne
Tami has advanced training in multiple bodywork techniques, including certification in Maya Abdominal Massage and Infant Body Psychotherapy/Birth Trauma Resolution. She received her Masters from Pacific University and her Bachelor of Arts in Biology from the University of California at Berkeley. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and sons.
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Patrick Houser is a father and a grandfather. In 1980 Patrick’s son Jeremy was born in water, the first documented waterbirth in the USA. This birth was the result of a 3 year enquiry into birth stimulated by the traumatic results of his first son’s arrival in 1976. Over the years Patrick has attended many births and supported many parents. He has also owned a construction company, marketing firm and holistic health center. Following his son’s waterbirth he lectured and was interviewed by print media, radio and television, including Phil Donahue, the Oprah of the 80’s.
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Internationally recognized as a champion of Ecstatic Birth and featured in 2 acclaimed documentaries on conscious birth, “Birth as we Know It” and “Orgasmic Birth,” Amber Hartnell’s dedication to resting in the center of inner guided truth and willingness to be melted wide open and vulnerable has touched thousands of lives and helped to fuel a birthing revolution, radically altering the way babies are being brought into the world.
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“Amber, in your video you’re talking about so much more than the orgasmic birth,.. you’re sharing with us the wonderful ideas of oneness, consciousness and even quantum physics to describe that we should be fully present at each moment of our lives having “full contact with the moment” and enjoying being alive.. thank you so much for your warmhearted message!!” – Maria
Amy Wright Glenn earned her MA from Teachers College, Columbia University. She is a Kripalu Yoga teacher, prenatal yoga teacher, a (CD)DONA birth doula, and a hospital chaplain. Amy is the voice for “Motherhood, Spirituality, and Religion” for Philly.com and blogs for Attachment Parenting International, Doula Trainings International, and The Birthing Site. She is a regular columnist for Holistic Parenting Magazine and recently published her first book: Birth, Breath, and Death: Meditations on Motherhood, Chaplaincy, and Life as a Doula. Amy teaching private meditation classes via Skype to students across the United States. She also teaches prenatal yoga classes, Mommy and Me Yoga classes, and Breath and Movement Birth Preparation workshops in south Florida.
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“Thank you, Amy, what a beautiful expression of breath, birth and death in the great interconnected-ness of the circle of life. I found your comments deeply moving and insightful. This has given knew meaning to me and my need to approach the topic of the parents spiritual life and understanding – whatever form that may take – in preparing and during birth.” – Roz
Kim Anami is a holistic sex + relationship expert, writer and speaker. She has propelled thousands of people into higher stratospheres of connection, sensuality, energy and aliveness.
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“Kim’s talk was awesome! Finally, someone who doesn’t mind expressing herself! We so need more sexuality, real deep sexuality, not the junk, in life! Can’t wait to hear / see more of your tips!” – Dita
Elizabeth Davis is internationally active in promoting motherbaby-centered birth and is widely sought after for her expertise in midwifery education and organizational development. She is the author of Heart & Hands: A Midwife’s Guide to Pregnancy & Birth, Orgasmic Birth, The Women’s Wheel of Life & Women’s Sexual Passages.
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“Wonderful interview with Elizabeth! I love that she touches on the huge difference between doulas and midwives. This gives me great tools for writing an article on the difference between CNM care and CPM care. And I can attest for the Heart and Hands Intensives for being so thorough and for NMI making sure their students and graduates know how to handle normal birth, variations of normal birth, and emergency situations.” – Midwife Callender
Carrie Contey, PhD is an internationally recognized coach, author, speaker and educator. Her work offers a new perspective on human development, parenting and family life. She guides, supports and inspires her clients to live with wide open and courageous hearts so they can approach family life with skill and spaciousness. Carrie received her PhD in prenatal and perinatal psychology and is masterful at synthesizing and articulating the science, psychology, and spirituality of humanhood. She is the creator of Evolve a year-long “personal growth through parenting” program. She is also the co-founder of the Slow Family Living movement and the co-author of CALMS: A Guide To Soothing Your Baby.
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Sarah J Buckley is a trained GP/family physician with qualifications in GP-obstetrics and family planning. She is the mother of four home-born children, and currently combines full-time motherhood with her work as a writer on pregnancy, birth, and parenting. Dr. Buckley’s work critiques current practices in pregnancy, birth, and parenting from the widest possible perspectives, including scientific, anthropological, cross-cultural, psychological, and personal. She encourages us to be fully informed in our decision-making; to listen to our hearts and our intuition; and to claim our rightful role as the real experts in our bodies and our children. Her bestselling book Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor’s Guide to Natural Childbirth and Gentle Early Parenting Choices, published by Celestial Arts (US, 2009), builds on her acclaimed first edition, published in Australia as Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: The Wisdom and Science of Gentle Choices in Pregnancy, Birth, and Parenting One Moon Press, Brisbane, 2005).
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A good book is like a secret door. The book Orgasmic Birth opened a secret door for Marta to the world behind every imagination. The book helped her to have a fantastic orgasmic birth after previous deadly tragical birth outcome. She learned from the book how to fight the tigers of fear. Her own orgasmic birth in 2013 empowered Marta in an immense way and she is now building community now where she shares her positive experience and also a topic on healing trauma from birth. You can find the project on shapeup.today.
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“Thank you so much Marta for openly sharing your three birth experiences. It is really inspiring to know you were so prepared for Victoria’s birth that you had no fear and were able to ask for and get what you needed – both time alone and help.” – Susan