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Sacred Window Podcast: Nurturing Awareness in Postpartum Care

Sacred Window Podcast: Nurturing Awareness in Postpartum Care

By Sacred Window Podcast

The Sacred Window Podcast is a voice for change and growth in shifting the current paradigm in postpartum care. We discuss a variety of topics that range from abortion to eating in postpartum. We are a community passionate about bringing awareness to all aspects of the emotional, physical and spiritual wellbeing during the postpartum time.

This podcast is created by the Center for Sacred Window Studies, an organization that trains current and aspiring doulas and other birth professionals in conscious care for the sacred postpartum window.

Visit www.sacredwindowstudies.com to learn more.
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Nurturing Feminine Energy & Postpartum Healing with Naomi Nolan

Sacred Window Podcast: Nurturing Awareness in Postpartum CareMar 18, 2024

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Nurturing Feminine Energy & Postpartum Healing with Naomi Nolan

Nurturing Feminine Energy & Postpartum Healing with Naomi Nolan

Naomi Nolan, a seasoned practitioner of yoga and Ayurvedic massage, shares her profound journey of integrating these modalities into her practice spanning over two decades. Rooted in a lineage of yoga, Naomi's exploration led her to embrace the art of massage therapy, weaving together her passion for hands-on healing and ancient wisdom from indigenous cultures across various countries. With Aveda and yoga as constant companions, Naomi embodies a deep connection to nature and the profound wisdom inherent in the human body.

In this episode, Naomi reflects on her experiences during the postpartum periods of her children. Recalling her initial lack of understanding and support during her first childbirth, she candidly shares the challenges she faced and the profound impact it had on her well-being. However, the arrival of nurturing figures during her second postpartum period sparked a realization of the importance of postpartum care, igniting a desire to provide similar support to others. Through her work as a pre and postnatal massage therapist, Naomi discovered the sacredness of entering new mothers' homes and the profound honor it entails, fostering a deep connection to the transformative journey of motherhood.

It's through these experiences that Naomi emphasizes the significance of recognizing the inner shifts during major life changes. She discusses the importance of the postpartum period as a sacred pause before transformation, highlighting the need for presence and surrender during this pivotal time of rebirth. Join us as we explore Naomi's journey of healing, wisdom, and the serene power of nurturing postpartum care.


Are you feeling the call to know more about Conscious Postpartum Care?

Learn about our programs at ⁠www.sacredwindowstudies.com⁠

Follow us on Instagram at @sacredwindowstudies

Facebook at @AyurvedaForPostpartum

Join our ⁠Facebook Group⁠ 

Reach out! ⁠Schedule a time with Christine⁠ to find out if our programs are a good fit for you!

Here is the ⁠link⁠ to our free class

Mar 18, 202448:09
Presence - The Key to Healing and The Essence of Being a Good Human with Lauren Pick

Presence - The Key to Healing and The Essence of Being a Good Human with Lauren Pick

Lauren Pick MS LIMHP LMHP LPC CYT is a psychotherapist in private practice focusing on Grief, Trauma, & Life Transitions. She is currently located in Lincoln, Nebraska (of all places). As a certified yoga instructor, Nia instructor and mindbody fitness professional, Lauren enjoys weaving somatic modalities into her work with clients. Find out more at www.laurenpick.com


In this episode, Lauren discusses the challenges of disconnection, grief, and the tendency to overlook the value of each day in the hustle of life. They reflect on the concept of going to bed to wake up again, finding a deeper purpose beyond the routine. The phrase "we've got to go to bed so we can wake up together so we can wake up again" is explored, highlighting the importance of finding a meaningful reason for one's actions.


The conversation shifts to life transitions, particularly the transformative experience of becoming a parent. The speaker emphasizes the significance of recognizing the inner shifts during major life changes and the need for a vital connection when designing care and support. The discussion touches on the importance of meeting people where they are, using mirroring, and creating a heart connection to initiate healing.


Are you feeling the call to know more about Conscious Postpartum Care?

Learn about our programs at ⁠www.sacredwindowstudies.com⁠

Follow us on Instagram at @sacredwindowstudies

Facebook at @AyurvedaForPostpartum

Join our ⁠Facebook Group⁠ 

Reach out! ⁠Schedule a time with Christine⁠ to find out if our programs are a good fit for you!

Here is the ⁠link⁠ to our free class

Feb 02, 202439:28
Ancestral Cooking for Postpartum with Roshni Kavate

Ancestral Cooking for Postpartum with Roshni Kavate

Roshni Kavate is an artist, grief educator, post partum caregiver and avid home cook. Roshni Kavate is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of Marigolde, and the co host of the podcast Mango and Gnocchi. She believes grief is a portal to wholeness. Marigolde is a wellness platform dedicated to reclaiming nourishing practices rooted in ancestral wisdom for collective liberation. Through rituals and storytelling, we can reconnect to our origins and be our wild selves. She sees the path to being whole as a radical art and political practice. The question that guides her is What is our grief craving? and how can we nourish and feed it? She is the co creator and faculty in the Marigolde Post Partum Ancestral Kitchen Certification Apprenticeship and Student Advisor and Guest Instructor at Center for Sacred Window Studies. She has recently published two cookbooks, Saffron Ginger Postpartum Kitchen and Mending a Broken Heart: Recipes for Nurturing Grief


In this episode, Roshni emphasize the idea that Ayurvedic cooking for postpartum is not limited to Indian cuisine but is tailored to individual needs for balance. They delve into the concept of ancestral foods, emphasizing that Ayurvedic and ancestral foods are closely connected. Roshni encourages listeners to explore their ancestral food by considering what brings comfort, nurturance, and resilience.


The conversation shifts to ways of reconnecting with one's ancestral line, especially for those who feel disconnected due to a lack of clear understanding or tradition in a Western context. Roshni suggests asking questions within the family about geographic origins and exploring documented archival culinary history, especially for those with European ancestry.


Links:

  • Ancestral Postpartum Kitchen Apprenticeship Certification

Ancestral Postpartum Kitchen — Marigolde

Marigolde Postpartum Ancestral Kitchen Certificate Apprenticeship


  • Book: Saffron Ginger Kitchen

Saffron Ginger Kitchen: Recipes for Nourished Postpartum Years, Rooted in Ayurveda — Marigolde


  • Podcast: Mango and Gnocchi

‎Mango and Gnocchi Podcast on Apple Podcasts


Are you feeling the call to know more about Conscious Postpartum Care?

Learn about our programs at ⁠www.sacredwindowstudies.com⁠

Follow us on Instagram at @sacredwindowstudies

Facebook at @AyurvedaForPostpartum

Join our ⁠Facebook Group⁠ 

Reach out! ⁠Schedule a time with Christine⁠ to find out if our programs are a good fit for you!

Here is the ⁠link⁠ to our free class

Jan 30, 202449:17
Elimination Communication: Developing a routine with our babies during the sacred postpartum window with Samantha Veitch

Elimination Communication: Developing a routine with our babies during the sacred postpartum window with Samantha Veitch

Samantha Veitch is the founder of Emerging Wisdom Care. She is an Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula and Elimination Coach.

Elimination Communication (EC) is the practice of learning your baby’s elimination cues and being able to anticipate the process, thereby reducing the need for diapers. Essentially, it’s infant potty training, though Samantha explains why she doesn’t often use those words.

In this episode, Samantha shared how she explains Elimination Communication to her clients. She discusses how this is an age old practice rather than a new fad families are exploring.

We discuss incredibly valuable bonding and psychological benefits of this practice for babies, parents and how it integrates beautifully with the healing process in postpartum.

Samantha shares how this practice is so beneficial right after birth, and how it becomes even easier when started early. She also encourages it as a fun and relaxed practice, rather than a stressful project to be strict about.

In our conversation she shares cues to look and listen for, easy ways to get started, and the 4 entry points for elimination communication.

I loved this conversation and learned so much. I know you will love it too.

Below, Samantha shares some of the resources mentioned in the interview. Enjoy!


From Samantha:

This is a link to Andrea Olson's Book ---- really the bible for EC practicalities. 


This is a link to Ingrid Bauer's book which was a lovely book more about the gentle bonding and communication building aspect By Bauer Diaper Free: The Gentle Wisdom of Natural Infant Hygiene (CCARE): Amazon.co.uk: Bauer: 8601405993946: Books

This is a link to a book on Dunstan baby language Calm the Crying: The Secret Baby Language That Reveals the Hidden Meaning Behind an Infant's Cry: Amazon.co.uk: Dunstan, Priscilla: 9781583334690: Books

This is a link to Tiny Undies which is where I send everyone for the basic tools (potties etc) , EC appropriate clothing, tiny underwear that is so hard to find- 


If you use my coupon code SAMANTHA you get 20% off!

I am available for EC consultation 1:1 online or in person if you are in Nevada County, California area. I also run a free in-person monthly EC support group for local mamas - 


Start EC with the Go Diaper Free BookTiny Undies: small underwear + training pants for babies and toddlersGo Diaper Free of Nevada City | Facebook

Oct 04, 202339:22
Forgiveness Kriya and Kundalini Yoga with Stephanie Peers

Forgiveness Kriya and Kundalini Yoga with Stephanie Peers

This podcast episode welcomes back Stephanie Peers, a student and member of our Sacred Window Studies Community. Stephanie and I are hosting a Forgiveness Workshop: A Practice for Giving and Receiving on August 30, 2023. Register for the Workshop Here for Free!

If you missed it, please don’t worry. There are many more learning and experiential opportunities to be had through Stephanie’s work (links found below) and here at the Center for Sacred Window Studies.

Stop for a moment and think about any shame or guilt you are holding onto. Whenever you think about this incident or happening that causes guilt to bubble up within you, it’s like a suckerpunch. It causes you pain and strife. You can feel it in your body.

Understanding that everything is energy, so too is the energy of guilt and shame.

That pain is stored within you, as a cellular memory. Your cells literally hold on to it, which can cause dis-eases and imbalance in your physical body over time. But there’s more to it. If you want to change the world, then you have got to be willing to forgive yourself. Forgiveness is the key to a better world. Here’s why:

Like the Great Gandhi said: “Be the change you want to see in the world.”

Forgiveness is not necessarily a practice of forgiving others, but of forgiving ourselves. When we honor and take responsibility for everything that’s happened in our life, we can lighten the burden that blocks our receptivity.

Learn how to move your body with Kundalini Yoga in ways that effectively release stuck emotions keeping you in a loop of shame and guilt, preventing you from being able to receive the many blessings you are so worthy of.

With this potent practice, discover how easy and invigorating it is to free yourself from the internal punisher, and become open to move forward with optimism and joy.

Become magnetic to MIRACLES!

Don’t worry if you have never experienced Kundalini Yoga before. This practice is easy, gentle and perfect for beginners!

Stephanie Peers

Empowered Mamma

www.empoweredmamma.com

Youtube: @empoweredmamma


Email: stephanie@empoweredmamma.biz


Mentioned in Video: Brett Larkin and Guru Singh of Kundalini University 

Empowered Mamma

Sacred Journey of Forgiveness - Kundalini Kriya Workshop

Online 200-Hour Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training – Brett Larkin Yoga


Are you feeling the call to know more about Conscious Postpartum Care?

Learn about our programs at www.sacredwindowstudies.com

Follow us on Instagram at @sacredwindowstudies

Facebook at @AyurvedaForPostpartum

Join our Facebook Group 

Reach out! Schedule a time with Christine to find out if our programs are a good fit for you!

Here is the link to our free class

Aug 10, 202326:35
The Synchronicity of Birth Support and Postpartum Support with Birthing from Within’s Program Director, Christine D’Esposito

The Synchronicity of Birth Support and Postpartum Support with Birthing from Within’s Program Director, Christine D’Esposito

In this episode, I speak with Christine D’Esposito, Director of Programs at Birthing from Within.

During my own first pregnancy in 2007, Birthing from Within was an incredible support model for me in exploring the more subtle aspect of birth readiness, and harnessing my own feelings of empowerment to trust my body and honor the changes I was going through.

Now, as a proponent of conscious postpartum care, I love how the tenants taught by Birthing from Within support the foundations of our work!

This is a beautiful episode you don’t want to miss!


Christine D'Esposito is a Mentor, Doula and Facilitator with over fifteen years of experience in the field of birth work.

She lives in Duluth, MN and is the Director of Programs at Birthing from Within.

Birthing from Within was founded in 1998 by midwife Pam England when she realized that something was missing from birth preparation in our culture.

While lots of organizations address parents' brains and bodies, very few address their hearts.

Birthing from Within works to fill that gap by providing parents with preparation for the deep psychological and emotional transformations of birth.

Christine discovered Birthing From Within in 2003 at her first doula training. It was the concept of honoring birth as a rite of passage and a transformational experience for everyone involved that spoke to her most.

Christine has a passion for the intersection of birth and social justice work and aspires to be an agent of change in the world.


www.birthingfromwithin.com

Social media for FB and IG @‌birthingfromwithin

Jun 09, 202340:36
The Sacred Window as a Yearly Ritual with Marinella Benelli

The Sacred Window as a Yearly Ritual with Marinella Benelli

The sacred window is not just for postpartum. It is a bringing of reverence to a time that otherwise could pass without significance. Maybe we were able to have a supported and special time after our children were born, maybe we did not. Maybe we honored a sacred window during menopause or at any other major transition in our lives. What is important is that we paused, took a moment and acknowledged that something was important for us. We did something - maybe as small as a deep breath - maybe as involved as 40 days of a healing routine. We gave special care to ourselves in a big or small way to help sustain our energy, our health, our wellbeing in order to bring longevity and sustainability to our present and future selves.

In this conversation with Marinella, we further explored the Sacred Window as a Yearly Ritual in some beautiful ways. It has opened up a window of inspiration for me, as I hope it will do for you. Enjoy!

Marinella Benelli is a mother, postpartum doula (graduate of the Center for Sacred Window Studies), yoga teacher, massage therapist and holder of women's circles based in Bristol, UK. She has been working with women for over a decade, with a special focus on the childbearing years and rites of passage.

Her own experience of Sacred Window was foundational for her mothering journey and for the continued commitment to her self-care, which is becoming non-negotiable now as she transition through peri menopause - and it's the inspiration for this conversation about the "Sacred Window as a Yearly Ritual".

Connect with Marinella Benelli

@earthmoonmala

www.earthmoonmala.com


Are you feeling the call to know more about Conscious Postpartum Care?

Learn about our programs at www.sacredwindowstudies.com

Follow us on Instagram at @sacredwindowstudies

Facebook at @AyurvedaForPostpartum

Join our Facebook Group 

Reach out! Schedule a time with Christine to find out if our programs are a good fit for you!

May 05, 202346:06
Choosing Conscious Postpartum Care as a Professional Path with Stephanie Peers
May 05, 202344:13
Conscious Postpartum Shift with Maranda Bower and Christine Eck
Mar 22, 202326:29
Honoring Your Decisions and Staying True to Yourself

Honoring Your Decisions and Staying True to Yourself

Emily Seeboo is a mother to a beautiful baby boy.  Her story is her own, just as each of ours should have a story that reflects our true sense of self and safety.

In this interview, Emily shares her story of her homebirth, and we talk further about staying true to self, even when it does not align with expectations from our family or loved ones.  During the childbearing year, we are especially sensitive and tender to the energies of those around us.  It can be devastating to not receive the support or approval we wish we had.

From pregnancy, birth and postpartum decision making and planning, Emily and her husband manifested a beautiful story and learned a ton along the way.

Thank you Emily for sharing your story with us!

You can learn more about Emily and the beautiful work she does here:

www.emilyseeboo.com

Emily Seeboo YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@emilyseeboo

Instagram: @emilyseeboo

Emily Seeboonruang consults for and works privately with women who want to reclaim their rites of passage that mark their transition into motherhood. She’s the host of The Mother Freedom Show on YouTube and has interviewed women from all over the world. She has been a guest on the Freebirth Society Podcast sharing her own freebirth story. Emily advocates a minimalist way of living that gives women maximum freedom and autonomy while feeling more embodied than ever.


Are you ready to take your passion to a more meaningful and informed level?

Are you called to learn Conscious Postpartum Care?

Enroll or Learn More at www.sacredwindowstudies.com

Mar 15, 202337:47
The Essence of Postpartum Care with Postpartum Doula Marissa Mignone

The Essence of Postpartum Care with Postpartum Doula Marissa Mignone

In this episode, Christine speaks with Marissa Mignone, an inspiring birth and postpartum professional in Truckee, CA.  We explore the many lessons Marissa has learned about how to best care for the whole person in postpartum healing, how she began following her heart and soul when it came to her own path and the healing commitment she makes to her clients.  Marissa is an inspiration - you’ll love this interview!

Mirassa is a Birth Doula, Postpartum Doula, Childbirth Educator and Prenatal/Postnatal Yoga Instructor for the past 10 years in the Truckee/Tahoe area. She believes with the proper care, support, love and time that parents can have happier experiences of pregnancy, birth and postpartum.  Marissa strives to help parents understand their options, how to make decisions and how to find solutions in the moment to achieve a positive empowered birth.


Connect with Mirassa

www.mountainblessingsbirth.com


Gift from Mirassa

Enjoy this beautiful Preparing for the Fourth Trimester Handbook created by Marissa!



Learn more and Connect with the Sacred Window Community

Learn about the importance of the sacred postpartum window, the tools of care that have been lost in modern culture, and the ways we can bring them back for the benefit of women, birth givers and families.

Join our online training and mentoring programs for aspiring and current postpartum professionals as well as our vibrant professional collective.

www.sacredwindowstudies.com/learn

For expecting parents, take our DIY course and be ready to welcome your baby in a truly supported space.

https://sacredwindowstudies.teachable.com/p/diy-ayurvedic-postpartum-care-for-expecting-parents

We acknowledge that the sacred window applies to many variations in birth outcomes. Conscious Care is a human need and our mission includes fostering care for every individual during the sacred windows of birth, postpartum, life, and all the ways we experience loss, grief and transformation.

Bringing back the sacred in postpartum care... together!

Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of the Sacred Window Podcast: Nurturing Awareness in Postpartum Care with Christine Eck. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review. The show can be found anywhere else you may wish to get your podcasts too!

Connect with us!
www.sacredwindowstudies.com
Instagram: @sacredwindowstudies
Twitter: @sacred_window
Facebook: Center for Sacred Window Studies

Music written and performed by: Sara Emmitt https://saraemmitt.bandcamp.com/

Dec 04, 202246:60
Sustainability and Baby Care: A Discussion on Cloth Diapering, Elimination Communication and More
Oct 11, 202233:24
Simple and Effective Application of Ayurvedic Principles

Simple and Effective Application of Ayurvedic Principles

Today on the Sacred Window Podcast we talked with Danielle Hanna of Living Arts Ayurveda. Danielle is a mother, long time teacher of Ayurveda for students of Yoga, and a Ayurvedic practitioner working with individuals and families offering conscious postpartum care. Hanna Lives and practices in Portland, Oregon, unceded Chinook land.

Today on Sacred Window Podcast:

  • Foundational principles of Ayurveda
  • Making Ayurvedic accessible
  • Applying Ayurvedic lifestyle in simple and effective ways
  • How care changes and grows
  • Ayurveda applied during different stages of life


Connect with Danielle Hanna and other resources

Instagram: @Sittingmoononthemountain

@Livingartsaryurveda

www.livingartsayurveda.com


Learn more and Connect with the Sacred Window Community

Learn about the importance of the sacred postpartum window, the tools of care that have been lost in modern culture, and the ways we can bring them back for the benefit of women, birth givers and families.

Join our online training and mentoring programs for aspiring and current postpartum professionals as well as our vibrant professional collective.

www.sacredwindowstudies.com/learn

For expecting parents, take our DIY course and be ready to welcome your baby in a truly supported space.

https://sacredwindowstudies.teachable.com/p/diy-ayurvedic-postpartum-care-for-expecting-parents

We acknowledge that the sacred window applies to many variations in birth outcomes. Conscious Care is a human need and our mission includes fostering care for every individual during the sacred windows of birth, postpartum, life, and all the ways we experience loss, grief and transformation.

Bringing back the sacred in postpartum care... together!

Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of the Sacred Window Podcast: Nurturing Awareness in Postpartum Care with Christine Eck. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review. The show can be found anywhere else you may wish to get your podcasts too!

Connect with us!
www.sacredwindowstudies.com
Instagram: @sacredwindowstudies
Twitter: @sacred_window
Facebook: Center for Sacred Window Studies

Aug 03, 202247:37
Sacred Window Care Outside of Postpartum

Sacred Window Care Outside of Postpartum

In this episode of the Sacred Window podcast, founder Christine Eck talks with dear friend Natasha Mason from Melbourne Australia. Natasha is a mother, meditation teacher, Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula, a Reiki healer, and is the Founder and Director of Nourish Melbourne. 

They discussed Natasha's experience in losing her mother and choosing to terminate a pregnancy and how she used the Mother principles of the sacred window to support this time. They talked about the subtle mental and emotional health needs during these times and how sacred window care makes space for that.


Today on the Sacred Window Podcast:

Benefits of knowing what you need and asking

Shifting the way we support each other

Identifyinghttps://www.postpartum.net how the Sacred Window shows up in other emotionally challenging areas of our lives 

Stories of loss and recuperation

How the sacred window shows up outside of postpartum


Connect with Natasha Mason and other resources

Instagram: @_natashamason

Facebook: Natasha Mason Meditation

https://natashamasonmeditation.com


Learn more and Connect with the Sacred Window Community

Learn about the importance of the sacred postpartum window, the tools of care that have been lost in modern culture, and the ways we can bring them back for the benefit of women, birth givers and families.

Join our online training and mentoring programs for aspiring and current postpartum professionals as well as our vibrant professional collective.

www.sacredwindowstudies.com/learn

For expecting parents, take our DIY course and be ready to welcome your baby in a truly supported space.

https://sacredwindowstudies.teachable.com/p/diy-ayurvedic-postpartum-care-for-expecting-parents

We acknowledge that the sacred window applies to many variations in birth outcomes. Conscious Care is a human need and our mission includes fostering care for every individual during the sacred windows of birth, postpartum, life, and all the ways we experience loss, grief and transformation.

Bringing back the sacred in postpartum care... together!

Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of the Sacred Window Podcast: Nurturing Awareness in Postpartum Care with Christine Eck. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review. The show can be found anywhere else you may wish to get your podcasts too!

Connect with us!
www.sacredwindowstudies.com
Instagram: @sacredwindowstudies
Twitter: @sacred_window
Facebook: Center for Sacred Window Studies

Jul 03, 202201:03:34
Finding Empowerment and Autonomy Within the Bounds of Tradition

Finding Empowerment and Autonomy Within the Bounds of Tradition

Join Roshni and our guest Zaure Vuk as they discuss navigating the postpartum time and parenting through different cultural lenses. Zaure was born and raised in Kazakhstan, and has been living in Boston for the last 15 years. Her background is in musicology. Music brought her to the States, and music is how she met her husband in 2007 at School of Groove (Cambridge, MA). In 2012 Zaure and her husband Chris started a music and Montessori based daycare center, Rock and Roll Daycare (Cambridge, MA).

Over the last decade she has been studying Montessori and today she loves sharing Montessori life transforming principles and how they can become a great framework within which parents can develop their own parenting style. In this episode Zaure and Roshni explore how to bring the concepts of Montessori into supporting parents. 

Today on Sacred Window Podcast:

  • Postpartum in Kazakhstan vs in the Unites States
  • Empowerment and autonomy in postpartum
  • Navigating unexpected (cultural) challenges in parenthood
  • Engaging and awakening to your own values
  • Identifying parenting styles
  • Discovering and applying Montessori
  • Earning respect vs earning respect
  • Shedding old paradigms in parenting journey
  • Bridging Montessori for children into Montessori for adults


Connect with Zaure

Instagram: @montessorimama


Learn more and Connect with the Sacred Window Community

Learn about the importance of the sacred postpartum window, the tools of care that have been lost in modern culture, and the ways we can bring them back for the benefit of women, birth givers and families.

Join our online training and mentoring programs for aspiring and current postpartum professionals as well as our vibrant professional collective.

www.sacredwindowstudies.com/learn

For expecting parents, take our DIY course and be ready to welcome your baby in a truly supported space.

https://sacredwindowstudies.teachable.com/p/diy-ayurvedic-postpartum-care-for-expecting-parents

We acknowledge that the sacred window applies to many variations in birth outcomes. Conscious Care is a human need and our mission includes fostering care for every individual during the sacred windows of birth, postpartum, life, and all the ways we experience loss, grief and transformation.

Bringing back the sacred in postpartum care... together!

Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of the Sacred Window Podcast: Nurturing Awareness in Postpartum Care with Christine Eck. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review. The show can be found anywhere else you may wish to get your podcasts too!

Connect with us!
www.sacredwindowstudies.com
Instagram: @sacredwindowstudies
Twitter: @sacred_window
Facebook: Center for Sacred Window Studies

Music written and performed by: Sara Emmitt https://saraemmitt.bandcamp.com/

May 14, 202250:39
Expanding the Scope of Pregnancy and Birth

Expanding the Scope of Pregnancy and Birth

Corinne Andrews is a long time friend of Sacred Window Studies founder, Christine Eck. met 12 years ago Corrine is local to Massachusetts. Corrine is co-owner and director of Shraddha yoga, where she teaches online and in person classes. She is the developer and teacher of Birthing Mama, a 90 hour prenatal and postpartum yoga and wellness teacher training, and her course turned into a book.

The theme of today's talk was shifting the way we practice to better serve our needs and our clients. There was a heavy emphasis on intuitive collaboration and heart-led connections with other professionals. Corrinne spoke of managing the balance of self wellness and professional life in an industry with many needs. She shared ideas and perspectives on how to bridge the gap between birth and postpartum care and the subtle areas that need attention. Christine and Corinne discussed important points such as addressing each client as their own unique, sacred window, without holding them to any performance standard. Towards the end of the talk, we open the discussion to the community and hear gyms that expand and inspire our perspective on innovative ways to serve families through professional connections. 

“How may I serve you? How may I love you?” - Corinne Andrews 


Today on Sacred Window Podcast:

How to create containers that can support our caregiving and knowledge

Applying conscious care and an ayurvedic lens toward individual clients' unique situations

Being open and curious about caregiving, responding with open connectedness

How to navigate meeting a client for the first time during a hard time in postpartum

Creating cohesive care for clients with other professionals

Shifting the practice culture to a whole model of care

Balancing real life culture and business and integrating intuitive moments and finding answers

Community shares

Awakening consciousness as intention


Connect with Corinne

 https://www.shraddhayoga.org/pytt

Pregnancy Companion Program-Prenatal Yoga Videos

https://www.shraddhayoga.org/pregnancy-companion-program

Birthing Mama, The Book

https://www.birthingmama.com/copy-of-book

Online Prenatal Yoga Weekly Class and Pregnancy/Postpartum Wisdom Circle:

https://www.shraddhayoga.org/birthing-mama


Learn more and Connect with the Sacred Window Community

Learn about the importance of the sacred postpartum window, the tools of care that have been lost in modern culture, and the ways we can bring them back for the benefit of women, birth givers and families.

Join our online training and mentoring programs for aspiring and current postpartum professionals as well as our vibrant professional collective

www.sacredwindowstudies.com/learn 

Bringing back the sacred in postpartum care... together!

Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of the Sacred Window Podcast: Nurturing Awareness in Postpartum Care with Christine Eck. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review. The show can be found anywhere else you may wish to get your podcasts too!

Connect with us!
www.sacredwindowstudies.com
Instagram: @sacredwindowstu
Twitter: @sacred_window
Facebook: Center for Sacred Window Studies

Mar 29, 202258:22
A Conscious Look at Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders

A Conscious Look at Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders

On todays episode we talked with Courtney Morris, mother, Licensed Professional Counseling-Associate, master's level holistic nutritionist, and yoga teacher. We discussed perinatal mood and anxiety disorders and the mind-body connection. Courtney shared her story about her experience with eating disorders as a youth and describes how yoga played a huge role in healing her connection with her body. This led to her offering support to those that were struggling with the same issues, with a less clinical approach. While in school to become a counselor, she became pregnant and began to feel called to work with those who have experienced perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.

She breaks down the broad scope of what PMADS are, who they affect, how to identify them, and how they can interrupt the time of pregnancy and postpartum time. We explored tools and insights on how we can navigate the emotional changes of postpartum that are experienced by most families.

Today on Sacred Window Podcast:

  • What is a PMAD? (Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorder)
  • The Mind Body Connection in Ayurveda
  • What is the Postpartum Window?
  • What is Productivity in the Postpartum Time?
  • Signs of PMAD
  • How to Find a Well Versed Postpartum Provider
  • Simple Ways to Create Systems for Postpartum


Connect With Courtney and Additional Resources

Instagram: @courtneymorriscounseling

Facebook: Courtney Morris Counseling

Postpartum Support International (PPSI)

https://www.postpartum.net

Additional resource:

https://www.postpartum.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/PSI-PMD-FACT-SHEET-2015.pdf


Learn more and Connect with the Sacred Window Community

Learn about the importance of the sacred postpartum window, the tools of care that have been lost in modern culture, and the ways we can bring them back for the benefit of women, birth givers and families.

Join our online training and mentoring programs for aspiring and current postpartum professionals as well as our vibrant professional collective.

www.sacredwindowstudies.com/learn

For expecting parents, take our DIY course and be ready to welcome your baby in a truly supported space.

https://sacredwindowstudies.teachable.com/p/diy-ayurvedic-postpartum-care-for-expecting-parents

We acknowledge that the sacred window applies to many variations in birth outcomes. Conscious Care is a human need and our mission includes fostering care for every individual during the sacred windows of birth, postpartum, life, and all the ways we experience loss, grief and transformation.

Bringing back the sacred in postpartum care... together!

Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of the Sacred Window Podcast: Nurturing Awareness in Postpartum Care with Christine Eck. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review. The show can be found anywhere else you may wish to get your podcasts too!

Connect with us!
www.sacredwindowstudies.com
Instagram: @sacredwindowstudies
Twitter: @sacred_window
Facebook: Center for Sacred Window Studies

Feb 26, 202257:20
Planning Ahead for a Supported Postpartum Window

Planning Ahead for a Supported Postpartum Window

“Conscious Care provides an avenue to give you the tools to trust yourself, and confidence to know that you are the best caregiver" - Andrea Luzitano

Andrea Luzitano in is the founder of Upon Arrival and mother to 4, serving the Plymouth county of Massachusetts. She is a Postpartum Doula Support and offers Family Education Services, serving the Plymouth county of Massachusetts and surrounding areas.

Today on the Sacred Window Studies Podcast we talked about the importance of planning for the postpartum time. Andrea is based in the United States where postpartum care is culturally limited. We spoke about the importance of postpartum planning covering aspects of emotional support to logistic support, such as assigning tasks, gathering support and directing support people. Andrea went into depth about what new postpartum caregivers should know and essential tips to support a successful postpartum time. As a postpartum caregiver it is important to know how to stick to basic information, allowing things to be as simple and digestible as possible. We spoke about how to do this while also providing thorough care.

Today on Sacred Window Podcast:

  • Importance of postpartum planning
  • How to create basic framework for a postpartum plan
  • Society's responsibility
  • Key planning points
  • How to ask for help
  • Mental wellness and preparing relationships
  • How to gather, assign, and direct support
  • Tips for new postpartum caregivers
  • Herbal support
  • Building a toolkit


Connect with Andrea ~

https://www.uponarrivaldoula.com/

Instagram: @uponarrivaldoula


Learn more and Connect with the Sacred Window Community

Learn about the importance of the sacred postpartum window, the tools of care that have been lost in modern culture, and the ways we can bring them back for the benefit of women, birth givers and families.

Join our online training and mentoring programs for aspiring and current postpartum professionals as well as our vibrant professional collective.

www.sacredwindowstudies.com/learn

For expecting parents, take our DIY course and be ready to welcome your baby in a truly supported space.

https://sacredwindowstudies.teachable.com/p/diy-ayurvedic-postpartum-care-for-expecting-parents

We acknowledge that the sacred window applies to many variations in birth outcomes. Conscious Care is a human need and our mission includes fostering care for every individual during the sacred windows of birth, postpartum, life, and all the ways we experience loss, grief and transformation.

Bringing back the sacred in postpartum care... together!

Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of the Sacred Window Podcast: Nurturing Awareness in Postpartum Care with Christine Eck. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review. The show can be found anywhere else you may wish to get your podcasts too!

Connect with us!
www.sacredwindowstudies.com
Instagram: @sacredwindowstudies
Twitter: @sacred_window
Facebook: Center for Sacred Window Studies

Jan 28, 202248:02
Revival of Postpartum Care through Traditional Trinidadian Practices

Revival of Postpartum Care through Traditional Trinidadian Practices

Alysha Higgins, postpartum advocate and Sacred Window Studies student with Trini roots, sat down and talked with Trinidadian Midwife Debrah Lewis, co-founder of Mamatoto Birth Center in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Trinidad and Tobago is the southernmost Caribbean Island and has a mixed population of 40% African and 40% Indian. On a mission to uncover and empower the traditional postpartum practices in her ancestral country, Alysha spoke with Debrah, who has worked with thousands of families in the last 30 years, about the traditional postpartum practices she witnesses within the community and clients she serves.

Debrah spoke of traditions stemming from Africa, such as vaginal steaming, castor oil and belly wrapping. We learn about the overlap of traditions cross-culturally and explore the comparison of Mexican tradition of the Closing-of-the-Bones to East Indian cultural practice of Rubbing-Up-the-Uterus. This ethnographic account aims to shed light on the general view of the sacred postpartum window in Trinidad, what practices have been preserved from the motherlands of Africa and India, how they have evolved, what has been lost through the westernization and medicalization of birth, and how these traditions are being revived- a slow and steady process of decolonization of birth practices in Trinidad.

“If it's not harmful and its necessary to keep the peace, do it!” - Debrah Lewis

Today on Sacred Window Podcast:

Homebirth in Trinidad

ACCESS in homebirth

How are families supported in the postpartum period

Traditional African postpartum routines

Respecting traditional postpartum care as a professional

The new generation and traditional postpartum care

Massage across cultures in postpartum care

Planning for postpartum care

Eating for postpartum

The importance of rest

Working with type A mamas

Spiritual beliefs and superstitions for baby

Natural remedies traditional herb remedies

Postpartum depression in Trinidad

Doulas, postpartum doulas in Trinidad

Training of midwives in Trinidad


Connect with Debrah Lewis and learn more about Mamato Resource and Birth Centre

  • https://mamatoto.net/


Learn more and Connect with the Sacred Window Community

Learn about the importance of the sacred postpartum window, the tools of care that have been lost in modern culture, and the ways we can bring them back for the benefit of women, birth givers and families.

Join our online training and mentoring programs for aspiring and current postpartum professionals as well as our vibrant professional collective.

www.sacredwindowstudies.com/learn


Bringing back the sacred in postpartum care... together!

Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of the Sacred Window Podcast: Nurturing Awareness in Postpartum Care with Christine Eck. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review. The show can be found anywhere else you may wish to get your podcasts too!

Connect with us!
www.sacredwindowstudies.com
Instagram: @sacredwindowstu
Twitter: @sacred_window
Facebook: Center for Sacred Window Studies



Jan 10, 202201:27:29
Body Image and Identity Transformation After Baby

Body Image and Identity Transformation After Baby

Join us in this personal and informative episode, where we speak with our very own Charlotte Senseney-Stearnkind, Ayurvedic Touch for Postpartum instructor, and guests, Deborah Rose Schoutema and Nichole Trunfio. Deborah is the founder of Ayurveda Mamma and Nichole is the founder of Bump Suit Co, and they are both professional models and working mothers.  

In this episode we go into depth about the postpartum body and how pressure from society impacts our relationship with our bodies postpartum. Through storytelling of Nicole, Deborah, and Charlotte's personal experiences through the postpartum time, we uncover the importance of recognizing the sacred transformation of the body in modern day society. We dive into a unique point of view of the postpartum journey through the modeling industry and Nicoles story of how she took her difficult postpartum experience to empower herself and other women, to create a footprint on the industry. 

“I got into postpartum to really hear the after affects of how the birth was. How you feeling now about the birth and the image and who you are now and who you are continuously becoming and rebecoming”- Charlotte Stearnsy


Today on Sacred Window Podcast:

The importance of birth stories

Personal postpartum experiences while in modeling industry

Benefits of Ayurvedic Postpartum Care

Your body while pregnant

Practices to honor the birth body

The personal postpartum healing journey


Connect with Charlotte Senseney-Stearnkind

Instagram: @charlotteayurdoula 

www.ayurdoula.com

Connect with Nicole Trunfio

Instagram: @nictrunfio

https://www.bumpsuit.co/


Connect with Deborah Rose Schoutema

Instagram: @deborahroseschoutema

https://www.ayurvedamamma.com/


Learn more and Connect with the Sacred Window Community

Learn about the importance of the sacred postpartum window, the tools of care that have been lost in modern culture, and the ways we can bring them back for the benefit of women, birth givers and families.

Join our online training and mentoring programs for aspiring and current postpartum professionals as well as our vibrant professional collective.

www.sacredwindowstudies.com/learn

For expecting parents, take our DIY course and be ready to welcome your baby in a truly supported space.

https://sacredwindowstudies.teachable.com/p/diy-ayurvedic-postpartum-care-for-expecting-parents

We acknowledge that the sacred window applies to many variations in birth outcomes. Conscious Care is a human need and our mission includes fostering care for every individual during the sacred windows of birth, postpartum, life, and all the ways we experience loss, grief and transformation.

Bringing back the sacred in postpartum care... together!

Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of the Sacred Window Podcast: Nurturing Awareness in Postpartum Care with Christine Eck. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review. The show can be found anywhere else you may wish to get your podcasts too!

Connect with us!
www.sacredwindowstudies.com
Instagram: @sacredwindowstudies
Twitter: @sacred_window
Facebook: Center for Sacred Window Studies

Dec 31, 202101:13:07
Herbalism + Navigating an Unexpected Postpartum Window

Herbalism + Navigating an Unexpected Postpartum Window

On todays episode, Sacred Window Student Advisor, Rohsni Kavate, spoke with herbalist Meaghan Thompson. Meaghan is co-owner of Blooming Mountains Botanical Sanctuary, a medicinal herb farm that she operates with her husband. One of her greatest passions is working with plants and using her knowledge and skills to connect people with herbal allies. She specializes in women's health and loves to work with Mothers holistically throughout their entire childbearing year, of which she has a special fondness for the postpartum period. She is an alumni of Sky House Herb School, Green Comfort School of Herbal Medicine, and the Center for Sacred Windows Study.

Meaghan shared her two very different postpartum experiences, emphasizing the importance of rest, food, and herbs. She shares her personal story of about her miscarriage and how she learned and grew from this experience. They uncover what it means to trust the process, your body and discover what you want as a person. She goes into detail about how she utilized herbal support during the postpartum time and her experience handling a herbal farm.

You can find her farm online at www.bloomingmtnsbotanicalsanctuary.com and on social media.

Today on Sacred Window Podcast:

  • Important things to support postpartum
  • Unexpected Loss
  • Exploring postpartum after miscarriage
  • Reclamation through grief
  • Postpartum Support through plant medicine
  • Postpartum herbal preparations
  • Choosing herbs from a ancestral perspective
  • The language of herbs
  • Herbal Support for Baby


Connect with Meaghan

Learn more and Connect with the Sacred Window Community

Learn about the importance of the sacred postpartum window, the tools of care that have been lost in modern culture, and the ways we can bring them back for the benefit of women, birth givers and families.

Join our online training and mentoring programs for aspiring and current postpartum professionals as well as our vibrant professional collective.

www.sacredwindowstudies.com/learn

For expecting parents, take our DIY course and be ready to welcome your baby in a truly supported space.

https://sacredwindowstudies.teachable.com/p/diy-ayurvedic-postpartum-care-for-expecting-parents

We acknowledge that the sacred window applies to many variations in birth outcomes. Conscious Care is a human need and our mission includes fostering care for every individual during the sacred windows of birth, postpartum, life, and all the ways we experience loss, grief and transformation.

Bringing back the sacred in postpartum care... together!

Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of the Sacred Window Podcast: Nurturing Awareness in Postpartum Care with Christine Eck. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review. The show can be found anywhere else you may wish to get your podcasts too!

Connect with us!
www.sacredwindowstudies.com
Instagram: @sacredwindowstudies
Twitter: @sacred_window
Facebook: Center for Sacred Window Studies

Dec 24, 202158:28
IEMANJA: Dancing the Great Mother for Embodiment

IEMANJA: Dancing the Great Mother for Embodiment

Today on the Sacred Window Podcast student, postpartum caregiver, and devoted dancer, Alysha Higgins, introduces us to her dance instructor, Vera Passos. Alysha and Vera will guide us through a beautiful movement class on Tuesday, December 14th at 630pm EST so be sure not to miss it! Click HERE to register!

Vera Passos is the Associate Artistic Director of Viver Brasil in Los Angeles and the Founder/Artistic Director of Casa de Cultura Do Movimento in Salvador, Bahia. Vera is a choreographer, master teacher, dancer and producer whose profound and indigenous relationship with Afro-Brazilian movement and music richly infuses her teaching and choreography. In her own words, Vera acknowledges the importance and impact that Bahian culture has in shaping the power and expression that she articulates and commands as an artist, “My culture is my inspiration, my feet speak with the earth and bring ancestral messages of joy, resistance and harmony.”

Vera joins us in speaking about the orixa, and her personal connection and experience with these mysterious and complex energy forms. She tells stories of orixa Iemanja and the way her powerful energies manifest in the physical world and the embodiment of her fierce, protective, unconditional love. It is understood that we move with intention to embody those qualities. We learn that through movement and dance we can rid ourselves of separation and connect to the creative energy that dissolves all barriers. Vera says when community comes together to dance the space changes from “mine” to “ours”. It becomes a community space with no barriers, it becomes-- what is good for everyone.


Topics Covered...

What is orixa

Who is Iemanja?

Stories of Iemanja 

Using the inspiration of Iemanja through dance and movement

Transformation through movement

Connection of the elements to dance to life

Who is nana?

How community dance lifts us all


Learn more and Connect with the Sacred Window Community

Learn about the importance of the sacred postpartum window, the tools of care that have been lost in modern culture, and the ways we can bring them back for the benefit of women, birth givers and families.

Join our online training and mentoring programs for aspiring and current postpartum professionals as well as our vibrant professional collective.

www.sacredwindowstudies.com/learn


Bringing back the sacred in postpartum care... together!

Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of the Sacred Window Podcast: Nurturing Awareness in Postpartum Care with Christine Eck. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review. The show can be found anywhere else you may wish to get your podcasts too!

Connect with us!
www.sacredwindowstudies.com
Instagram: @sacredwindowstudies
Twitter: @sacred_window
Facebook: Center for Sacred Window Studies

Music written and performed by: Sara Emmitt https://saraemmitt.bandcamp.com/

Dec 09, 202143:11
Parenting Gender Fluid Children

Parenting Gender Fluid Children

On todays episode, Sacred Window Studies student advisor Roshni Kavate talked to Rebecca Seross about navigating parenting her genderfluid child. Among other things, Rebecca is a mother of three, RN, Ayurvedic Health Counselor, Postpartum Doula. She is the founder of Remedies for Resilience where she leads a 12 week journey into creating and establishing a nourishing and sustainable self care routine for the postpartum parent.

“I am parenting a unique soul that is finding their own course, creating their own grooves in the earth, led by their own divine wisdom. I see it as my responsibility now to dive in and educate myself about self love for the infinite self, rather than just the feminine self. I am grateful for my connection to the feminine; I don’t abandon it. I take that wisdom with me as I sit before the feet of my teachers, my children, our children, their new eyes, their unfettered vision of themselves, of humanity, of the future. I am in service to you, and I will do the work to walk beside you on your journey.” - Rebecca Seross, Excerpt from Sacred Window Studies Blog

READ THE FULL BLOG HERE!


Today on the Sacred Window Podcast:

Gender stereotypes

Human empowerment without identification of gender

Balance of gender equality and other gender expression

Allowing children express without imprinting our own expectations

Body literacy in children

Processing and Sitting with resistance

Support of your community

Keeping open lines of communication

Liberation through expression


Connect with Rebecca

  • https://www.remediesforresilience.com/
  • Instagram: @remedies.for.resilience


Learn more and Connect with the Sacred Window Community

Learn about the importance of the sacred postpartum window, the tools of care that have been lost in modern culture, and the ways we can bring them back for the benefit of women, birth givers and families.

Join our online training and mentoring programs for aspiring and current postpartum professionals as well as our vibrant professional collective.

www.sacredwindowstudies.com/learn

For expecting parents, take our DIY course and be ready to welcome your baby in a truly supported space.

https://sacredwindowstudies.teachable.com/p/diy-ayurvedic-postpartum-care-for-expecting-parents

We acknowledge that the sacred window applies to many variations in birth outcomes. Conscious Care is a human need and our mission includes fostering care for every individual during the sacred windows of birth, postpartum, life, and all the ways we experience loss, grief and transformation.

Bringing back the sacred in postpartum care... together!

Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of the Sacred Window Podcast: Nurturing Awareness in Postpartum Care with Christine Eck. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review. The show can be found anywhere else you may wish to get your podcasts too!

Connect with us!
www.sacredwindowstudies.com
Instagram: @sacredwindowstudies
Twitter: @sacred_window
Facebook: Center for Sacred Window Studies

Music written and performed by: Sara Emmitt https://saraemmitt.bandcamp.com/

Nov 18, 202142:36
Postpartum Neuroscience and Cultural Body Blaming

Postpartum Neuroscience and Cultural Body Blaming

Join us in our recorded talk for the Postpartum Care Collective centered around neuroscience and cultural body shaming in the postpartum period. Christine was joined by postpartum and birth professionals and masterminds, Shelley Rahim, Eunique Deann and Siena Butler in discussing the implications of brain changes a women goes through and what strategies we can best use to support them. They spoke about creating action to shift the present dynamic, identifying support needed to cater to this continued trance like state. Less spoken about topics were brought up about topics such supporting partners in navigating the conditioning of cultural body shaming. Together they go deep on many topics relating to the powerful changes of the body and brain in the postpartum time. 

Learn More About The Postpartum Care Collective (PCC)
The PCC is a community of professionals and alumni of our program that are dedicated and passionate about postpartum caregiving. We offer live talks such as this one, a treasure trove of learning content and continuous professional support. Visit us to join today!
https://sacredwindowstudies.com/postpartum-care-collective/


“Talking about how the brain actually changes and as much as we can, bring in some celebration around how beautiful and phenomenal that actually is.” - Christine Eck

Today on Sacred Window Podcast:

  • Working Within a Patriarchal Society
  • Brain Changes in Postpartum
  • The Patriarchs Affect on the Female Body
  • Navigating Cultural Conditioning
  • Normalizing the Reality of the Postpartum Time
  • Celebrating through Preparation
  • Calling in the Masculine for Support
  • Support through Validation


Connect with Shelley
https://newmothercaregiving.com/
IG: @newmothercaregiving

Connect with Euni
https://www.slowbirthcollective.com/
IG: euniquedeeann

Connect with Siena
www.consciousnurturer.com
IG: @consciousnurturer


Learn more and Connect with the Sacred Window Community

Learn about the importance of the sacred postpartum window, the tools of care that have been lost in modern culture, and the ways we can bring them back for the benefit of women, birth givers and families.

Join our online training and mentoring programs for aspiring and current postpartum professionals as well as our vibrant professional collective.

www.sacredwindowstudies.com/learn

For expecting parents, take our DIY course and be ready to welcome your baby in a truly supported space.

https://sacredwindowstudies.teachable.com/p/diy-ayurvedic-postpartum-care-for-expecting-parents

We acknowledge that the sacred window applies to many variations in birth outcomes. Conscious Care is a human need and our mission includes fostering care for every individual during the sacred windows of birth, postpartum, life, and all the ways we experience loss, grief and transformation.

Bringing back the sacred in postpartum care... together!

Connect with us!
www.sacredwindowstudies.com
Instagram: @sacredwindowstudies
Twitter: @sacred_window
Facebook: Center for Sacred Window Studies

Nov 05, 202101:10:07
Postpartum Care Rooted in Cultural Tradition

Postpartum Care Rooted in Cultural Tradition

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Today on the Sacred Window Podcast one of our Community Holders, Roshni Kavate spoke with Raeanne Madison. Raeanne is an Indigenous Postpartum Educator and Postpartum Doula located in far Northern Michigan. After learning of her indigenous Anishinaabe heritage at 13 years old, she spent years researching and connecting with her lineage. The traumatic first birth of her 1st child propelled Raeanne on her ancestral journey, piecing together traditional birthing and postpartum practices. She spent the next 8 years connecting with Indigenous teachers in every corner of Anishinaabe Aki. Raeanne now teaches a comprehensive online course that is focused on using ancestral wisdom to restore health and wellness in the postpartum period.

Raeanne joins us in speaking about postpartum care that is rooted in her Anishinaabe cultural traditions. We spoke about the importance of healing through traditional foods and practices. Raeanne shares the foundational aspects of the human experience during the postpartum time and how to support those through a consent based relationship. We discussed topics that every postpartum professional and postpartum family should know about, from activating resiliency in the DNA to saying ‘NO’ to ice packs postpartum.

The medicine is always in us, there are just a few things that we can do to access that.” - Raeanne

Today on Sacred Window Podcast:

  • The story of discovering indigenous ancestry and reclamation of ancestral practice
  • How she came to birth work and integrating her cultural traditions
  • Birth and Postpartum as bridge to deeper connect with ancestors
  • Making space for the grief of postpartum
  • Reconnecting to indigenous medicine
  • Consent based relationships
  • Anishinnabe traditional postpartum care
  • Healing the womb wound


Connect with Raeanne

  • https://postpartumhealinglodge.com
  • Instagram: @postpartumhealinglodge

Learn more and Connect with the Sacred Window Community

Learn about the importance of the sacred postpartum window, the tools of care that have been lost in modern culture, and the ways we can bring them back for the benefit of women, birth givers and families.

Join our online training and mentoring programs for aspiring and current postpartum professionals as well as our vibrant professional collective.

www.sacredwindowstudies.com/learn

For expecting parents, take our DIY course and be ready to welcome your baby in a truly supported space.

https://sacredwindowstudies.teachable.com/p/diy-ayurvedic-postpartum-care-for-expecting-parents

We acknowledge that the sacred window applies to many variations in birth outcomes. Conscious Care is a human need and our mission includes fostering care for every individual during the sacred windows of birth, postpartum, life, and all the ways we experience loss, grief and transformation.

Bringing back the sacred in postpartum care... together!

Connect with us!
www.sacredwindowstudies.com
Instagram: @sacredwindowstudies
Twitter: @sacred_window
Facebook: Center for Sacred Window Studies

Music written and performed by: Sara Emmitt https://saraemmitt.bandcamp.com/

Oct 11, 202153:33
Sexual Health Awareness Month: Somatic Sexuality in the Postpartum Window

Sexual Health Awareness Month: Somatic Sexuality in the Postpartum Window

Today on the Sacred Window Podcast we have Gal Galucci and Stacey Ramsower. Among many other things Stacey is a full spectrum doula and somatic sex educator. She integrates the fundamental principles of yoga, Tantra, and Ayurveda into her coaching and support. Stacey is committed to supporting women who are reclaiming parts of themselves that have been shunned, rejected and silenced through society's teaching.

Gal Galucci is a public speaker, educator, somatic sexologist, exclusive erotic blueprints coach and postpartum doula. Gal supports clients into the remembrance of their own bodies' wisdom using somatic tools that interrupt old narratives in the mental realm. She supports building new neural pathways through presence, safety, guidance and experiencing to expand into ones truth embodiment and empowerment. Through mentorship, doula support and hands on sessions, she holds sessions to reach a place of inner trust.

“We can change the narrative from suffering to this really deep exploration. ” -Gal Galucci


Connect with Stacey Ramsower

https://www.staceyramsower.com/

Instagram: @sacredbody_staceyramsower


Connect with Gal Galucci

Instagram: @venus_noir007


Today on Sacred Window Podcast:

--Connection between motherhood and sexuality

--Somatic work and postpartum care

--Identifying distinction sexuality and the physical aspect of sex

--Trust in intuition needs boundaries

--Finding agency with yourself and in relationship

--Navigating sexual activity in the postpartum time

--3 minute game

--Sexual consent and agency

--Sensation during postpartum

--Rediscovering sexuality

--Artistry of bonding

--Reclaiming wholeness

--Fighting systems of repression

--Unraveling held beliefs

--Good girl vs bad girl

--Navigating pressure to please

--Importance of somatic sexology


Learn more and Connect with the Sacred Window Community

Join our online training and mentoring programs for aspiring and current postpartum professionals as well as our vibrant professional collective.

www.sacredwindowstudies.com/learn

For expecting parents, take our DIY course and be ready to welcome your baby in a truly supported space.

https://sacredwindowstudies.teachable.com/p/diy-ayurvedic-postpartum-care-for-expecting-parents

Bringing back the sacred in postpartum care... together!

Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of the Sacred Window Podcast: Nurturing Awareness in Postpartum Care with Christine Eck. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review. The show can be found anywhere else you may wish to get your podcasts too!

Connect with us!www.sacredwindowstudies.com Instagram: @sacredwindowstudies Twitter: @sacred_window Facebook: Center for Sacred Window Studies

Music written and performed by: Sara Emmitt https://saraemmitt.bandcamp.com/

Oct 01, 202101:25:57
Postpartum Caregiving: Setting Boundaries and Navigating Pitfalls For Professionals

Postpartum Caregiving: Setting Boundaries and Navigating Pitfalls For Professionals

Shelley Rahim is a Birth Doula, Postpartum Chef and Caregiver, Birthing From Within Childbirth Educator, Birth Story Listener, Prenatal Yoga Instructor and a Mother of three. For the past fifteen years Shelley has been supporting families during the childbearing year as a trauma-informed educator, doula and postpartum caregiver. Shelley's most recent work is focusing on how to prepare families to take care of the postpartum mother in their life. You can learn more about her work by visiting her website or following her on IG. www.NewMotherCaregiving.com  IG handle: https://www.instagram.com/newmothercaregiving/

The intent of this episode is to support postpartum caregivers in navigating challenging moments of their practice. Shelley talks about the risks of burnout for postpartum caregivers and the importance of preparing clients ahead of time. She talks about how to support households that don't know the value of the postpartum time and how she helps them create high standards of care. She also discusses setting clear boundaries in her contract and increasing her fees for her services.


Check out our blog post featuring FREEBIE worksheets from Shelley on:

- Listening to Birth Stories

- Tips for Setting Caregiving Boundaries

- Emotional Self Care Tips for Postpartum Caregivers

Click here to view the full blog post!


"When a postpartum mother processes her birth story while it's fresh, she will discover strength, power and courage, and possibly even self-love and compassion, where she once felt judgment toward herself for a choice she made during her birth. She will shift into a place of power and wisdom and this will inform how she sees herself as a mother."  --Shelley Rahim

Today on Sacred Window Podcast:

  • -- integrating the high standards of healing postpartum with the low standards of society
  • -- importance of bringing back awareness into postpartum care
  • -- learning how to manage postpartum care and boundaries with self preservation, time efficacy and not over giving
  • -- lessons in integrating lessons in postpartum caregiving with real life situations
  • -- how to set time boundaries
  • -- Importance of prenatal preparation for postpartum success
  • -- increasing rates and amending contracts
  • -- how to avoid burnout
  • -- why preparation is not just important for the postpartum family, but for the postpartum professional
  • -- why details matter
  • -- setting emotional boundaries
  • -- importance of flexibility in postpartum duties
  • -- digesting amma or the birth experience
  • -- patriarchal patterns impact on emotional health
  • -- connecting with archetypes
Sep 24, 202101:03:26
The Ins and Outs of Diastasis Recti

The Ins and Outs of Diastasis Recti

Dr. Prity Dal lives in Mumbai, India and is a dentist by training and prenatal and postnatal fitness expert. She specializes in working with people with diastasis recti, which is what we will be talking about today. We talked about the importance of allowing our body to heal fully before following the mainstream push to "snap back" after birth. Prity stresses that mindful movement and awareness of our body postures, highly impacts our chance of worsening or producing diastasis. We go into depth about what specific movements to avoid, what movement to do and how to support a strong recovery postpartum. 


“So in the past 8 months I must have done 30 consultations and out of that only 3 didn't have diastasis. The rest, 27 people had diastasis, so it is that common. ” - Prity Dal


Today on the Sacred Window Podcast:

What is diastasis recti?

Factors the lead to diastases recti

The four postures

How to support diastasis recti

Breath synchronization

How to assess for diastase recti

What exercises to avoid

When to start exercising

Simple Exercising for first months postpartum

Social Media Impact on Postpartum

Importance of Belly Binding


Connect with Prity!

Website: https://linktr.ee/Prity_yogidentist
Instagram: @Prity_yogidentist


Learn more and Connect with the Sacred Window Community

Learn about the importance of the sacred postpartum window, the tools of care that have been lost in modern culture, and the ways we can bring them back for the benefit of women, birth givers and families.

Join our online training and mentoring programs for aspiring and current postpartum professionals as well as our vibrant professional collective.

www.sacredwindowstudies.com/learn

For expecting parents, take our DIY course and be ready to welcome your baby in a truly supported space.

https://sacredwindowstudies.teachable.com/p/diy-ayurvedic-postpartum-care-for-expecting-parents

We acknowledge that the sacred window applies to many variations in birth outcomes. Conscious Care is a human need and our mission includes fostering care for every individual during the sacred windows of birth, postpartum, life, and all the ways we experience loss, grief and transformation.

Bringing back the sacred in postpartum care... together!

Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of the Sacred Window Podcast: Nurturing Awareness in Postpartum Care with Christine Eck. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review. The show can be found anywhere else you may wish to get your podcasts too!

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Music written and performed by: Sara Emmitt https://saraemmitt.bandcamp.com/

Aug 26, 202138:09
Exploration of Achieving Postpartum Bliss

Exploration of Achieving Postpartum Bliss

Maranda Bower is a mother of 4, Postpartum Bliss Coach and Womb Whisperer for women who want to live life after childbirth with balanced hormones, better sleep, and an amazingly nourished body. She works with women in all stages, from preparing for pregnancy to 3 years post birth. Miranda believes that with the right support, postpartum doesn’t have to be depressive. She is the author of 3 bestselling books: Supported in Birth, Supported in Breastfeeding, Supported in Postpartum and has worked with hundreds of women around the world in deeply healing their body in the years after childbirth. You can find her at https://marandabower.com/ to learn more about her, purchase her books and learn about her offerings.


“One of the misconceptions is that in order to be strong and powerful then you have to do it all by yourself. But I think the opposite is true, in that it takes someone strong and powerful who feels worthy enough to ask for help” ” - Maranda Bower


Today on Sacred Window Podcast:

  • Preventing postpartum depression and anxiety
  • Perception in postpartum
  • Cultural misconceptions around postpartum and solutions
  • Finding a pace within the transformation and transition into stages of motherhood
  • Healing yourself and others through present and future care and experiences
  • Transforming what we know about postpartum depression and anxiety
  • How conscious postpartum care and planning impacts depression and anxiety
  • Dealing with things within our control and out of our control in postpartum
  • What it means to know your worth within postpartum


Connect with Miranda
https://marandabower.com/
Instagram: @postpartummaranda


Learn more and Connect with the Sacred Window Community

Learn about the importance of the sacred postpartum window, the tools of care that have been lost in modern culture, and the ways we can bring them back for the benefit of women, birth givers and families.

Join our online training and mentoring programs for aspiring and current postpartum professionals as well as our vibrant professional collective.

www.sacredwindowstudies.com/learn

For expecting parents, take our DIY course and be ready to welcome your baby in a truly supported space.

https://sacredwindowstudies.teachable.com/p/diy-ayurvedic-postpartum-care-for-expecting-parents

We acknowledge that the sacred window applies to many variations in birth outcomes. Conscious Care is a human need and our mission includes fostering care for every individual during the sacred windows of birth, postpartum, life, and all the ways we experience loss, grief and transformation.

Bringing back the sacred in postpartum care... together!

Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of the Sacred Window Podcast: Nurturing Awareness in Postpartum Care with Christine Eck. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review. The show can be found anywhere else you may wish to get your podcasts too!

Connect with us!
www.sacredwindowstudies.com
Instagram: @sacredwindowstudies
Twitter: @sacred_window
Facebook: Center for Sacred Window Studies

Music written and performed by: Sara Emmitt https://saraemmitt.bandcamp.com/

Aug 26, 202148:21
Reviving Postpartum Care in Modern Society

Reviving Postpartum Care in Modern Society

The Sacred Window Podcast | 03 - Reviving Postpartum Care in Modern Society

Julia Jones specializes in teaching professionals how to support the postpartum time by merging the two realms of science and the ancient Ayurvedic tradition. She teaches students from all over the world, sharing her wisdom on supporting new moms in the transformation into motherhood. In her specially curated program called Infant Mothers she utilizes brain science, anthropology, evolution and traditional medicine. You can find her at https://newbornmothers.com/ to learn more about her, purchase her books and learn about her offerings.

Julia joins us in speaking about a big topic: the revival of postpartum care. We hit many different points and angles, in the conversation from patriarchy to neuroscience. She explains the importance of the postpartum period and the impact of the loss of knowledge from cultural traditions. We discussed how to move forward from this story of lost knowledge, towards changing the modern paradigm of postpartum care. Julia speaks about how creating strong support networks of care for postpartum mothers, and the postpartum doula profession in itself is a radical push for social change.


“When a baby is born, so is a mother. ” - Julia Jones


Today on Sacred Window Podcast:

  • Cultural traditions and the shift away from traditional postpartum care and how they mirror each other --
  • Colonization, industrialization and its impact on tradition --
  • The postpartum doula profession as a radical act --
  • Asking versus taking care of self, how to accept help-
  • Patriarchy, masculine energy and its impact on postpartum and your postpartum doula business--
  • Navigating accessibility in postpartum care-
  • Social change in postpartum care
  • Cultural appropriation in practicing postpartum care
  • Neuroscience and how our brain changes with pregnancy and birth

Connect with Iselin
https://newbornmothers.com/
Instagram: @newbornmothers

Learn more and Connect with the Sacred Window Community
Learn about the importance of the sacred postpartum window, the tools of care that have been lost in modern culture, and the ways we can bring them back for the benefit of women, birth givers and families.

Join our online training and mentoring programs for aspiring and current postpartum professionals as well as our vibrant professional collective.

www.sacredwindowstudies.com/learn

For expecting parents, take our DIY course and be ready to welcome your baby in a truly supported space.

https://sacredwindowstudies.teachable.com/p/diy-ayurvedic-postpartum-care-for-expecting-parents 

We acknowledge that the sacred window applies to many variations in birth outcomes. Conscious Care is a human need and our mission includes fostering care for every individual during the sacred windows of birth, postpartum, life, and all the ways we experience loss, grief and transformation.


Bringing back the sacred in postpartum care... together!

Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of the Sacred Window Podcast: Nurturing Awareness in Postpartum Care with Christine Eck. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review. The show can be found anywhere else you may wish to get your podcasts too!


Connect with us!
www.sacredwindowstudies.com
Instagram: @sacredwindowstudies
Twitter: @sacred_window
Facebook: Center for Sacred Window Studies

Aug 13, 202141:13
Raising Awareness in Postpartum Care w/ PCC Community Holders

Raising Awareness in Postpartum Care w/ PCC Community Holders

The Sacred Window Podcast | 02 - Raising Awareness in Postpartum Care with the Sacred Window Postpartum Care Collective Community Holders

In this episode we gathered with our PCC Community Holders Euni, Roshni and Siena. Euni is a writer, artist, full spectrum doula, reiki healer and connection + creativity facilitator based in San Diego on Kumeyaay territory. Roshni is the founder of Cardamom Kavate, a wellness platform dedicated to exploring grief, our ancestral rituals and living in our wilderness. Siena is a birth and postpartum doula and co creator of Conscious Nurturer, a community for new parents centered around reclaiming personal identities in parenthood and creating nourishing, accessible pathways of support.

Our community holders join us today in conversation about ways to raise awareness in the postpartum time. We talked about collaborative, familial care and its roots in indigenous culture. There were moments where we explored the topics of postpartum and bereavement, not only related to a loss of child, but related to identity. We discussed working collaboratively with clients within a community based model versus based off of a hierarchy system. We found what it means to start within our own communities and create circles of support that mirror the models of care we want to see happen in the world.


“If we can empower someone to feel like they deserve to be cared for, they can ask to be cared for, that there are people there who will care for them, then we have done an amazing job. ” - Christine Eck


Today on Sacred Window Podcast:

  • Birth Preparation vs. Postpartum Preparation
  • Postpartum caregivers collaborating with birth workers
  • Postpartum care from an ancestral perspective
  • Postpartum caregivers collaborating with birth workers
  • Navigating grief in postpartum
  • Accessibility for care through client collaboration
  • Building a micro nets of care at community level
  • Accepting and receiving care

Connect with our Community Holders
Euni
https://www.selfstudylab.com
Instagram: @euniquedeeann

Roshni
https://www.cardamomandkavate.com/
Instagram: @cardamomandkavate

Siena
https://consciousnurturer.com/
Instagram: @consciousnurturer


Learn more and Connect with the Sacred Window Community

Learn about the importance of the sacred postpartum window, the tools of care that have been lost in modern culture, and the ways we can bring them back for the benefit of women, birth givers and families.

Join our online training and mentoring programs for aspiring and current postpartum professionals as well as our vibrant professional collective.

www.sacredwindowstudies.com/learn

For expecting parents, take our DIY course and be ready to welcome your baby in a truly supported space.

https://sacredwindowstudies.teachable.com/p/diy-ayurvedic-postpartum-care-for-expecting-parents 


Aug 12, 202158:29
Abortion + Loss with Iselin Stoylen

Abortion + Loss with Iselin Stoylen

Iselin Stoylen is a health counselor specializing in women's health, menstrual cycle and fertility awareness. Her mission is to help women understand their bodies' innate wisdom and find harmony within themselves. Iselin brings her passion of nurturing and “mothering” new mothers of the world to her doula work, childbirth education, breastfeeding consulting, and perinatal nutrition education. You can find her at https://iselinstoylen.com/ to learn more about her and the services she offers.

Iselin joins us today to share about a personal and vulnerable topic, her abortion. She explains in what ways her abortion opened her up to a spectrum of emotions, from grief to honoring the sacred process. She explains how the medical system could have better supported her and why it is important to have a strong support system through the experience. Iselin also discusses how to replenish the body and spirit during the time after abortion and how it relates to the postpartum window.

“Healing comes in waves. ” - Iselin Stoylen

Today on Sacred Window Podcast:

  • How Islein moved through the wide spectrum of emotions brought by her abortion
  • The layers of her healing journey
  • What the medical system could have done better in supporting the abortion process
  • The significance of abortion and how it can be a sacred transformative time
  • Holistic support during after abortion
  • Eating for the mind and body
  • The connection of abortion to the postpartum time

Connect with Iselin

  • https://iselinstoylen.com/
  • Instagram: @iselin_stoylen

Learn more and Connect with the Sacred Window Community

Learn about the importance of the sacred postpartum window, the tools of care that have been lost in modern culture, and the ways we can bring them back for the benefit of women, birth givers and families.

Join our online training and mentoring programs for aspiring and current postpartum professionals as well as our vibrant professional collective.

www.sacredwindowstudies.com/learn

For expecting parents, take our DIY course and be ready to welcome your baby in a truly supported space.

https://sacredwindowstudies.teachable.com/p/diy-ayurvedic-postpartum-care-for-expecting-parents

We acknowledge that the sacred window applies to many variations in birth outcomes. Conscious Care is a human need and our mission includes fostering care for every individual during the sacred windows of birth, postpartum, life, and all the ways we experience loss, grief and transformation.

Bringing back the sacred in postpartum care... together!

Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of the Sacred Window Podcast: Nurturing Awareness in Postpartum Care with Christine Eck. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review. The show can be found anywhere else you may wish to get your podcasts too!

Connect with us!
www.sacredwindowstudies.com
Instagram: @sacredwindowstudies
Twitter: @sacred_window
Facebook: Center for Sacred Window Studies

Aug 11, 202157:45