Joy in Birthing

Massage, Ecstatic & Belly Dance, Hypnosis & Yoga to experience or help experience Joy in Birthing

October  2011 (exact dates TBD)

Bali, Indonesia

Ellen Watson, Giuditta Tornetta, Robin Lin, Uma Inder

“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” ~George Eliot

This workshop is designed for you if you ever want to be pregnant, want to be present at a birth, or provide massage or bodywork for a woman before, during or after birth. Doulas, Midwives and midwives in training are welcomed. Mothers in early pregnancy will benefit immensely and be pampered to no end. Both professionals and family members will learn valuable skills for supporting Joy In Birthing.  Full of partial grants available.

The first 4 days take place on the north coast of Bali, where we learn to surrender to the labor dance, through hypnosis and embrace our innate ability to usher a new life & learn water birthing skills in the hot spring pools of Mimpi Resort, and in the warm waters of the Java Sea.

We then move to Ananda, Ubud, where we’re joined by members of Bumi Sehat’s (gentle birthing) bodywork & birthing staff. Under the direction of American midwife, Robin Linn, Bumi Sehat has transformed the experience of birth in Indonesia. If you are a midwife or doula in training note this: Following completion Loving The Mother, you may volunteer at Bumi Sehat, Ubud, Bali, or Aceh, West Java and get your births to get your certification.

Your retreat leaders, Giuditta & Ellen, are committed to creating a safe and welcoming environment using hypnosis, journal writing, massage, movement (i.e. belly dance and ecstatic dance designed to keeping the pelvis open,) and guided imagery. Each of us will have the opportunity to recall our lives while in the womb, and re-experience our own birth.

A space will be held for you to have a shift in consciousness from “Life is happening to me” to “I am the creator of my own life.” As you birth a new-self you will be given the tools needed to facilitate people of all ages resolve and redesign prenatal and birth trauma impressions.

This workshop is designed for a wide range of professional backgrounds and skills including: body workers, nurses, medical doctors, midwives, doulas, childbirth educators, infant massage therapists, regular and special education teachers, counselors, and psychologists.

Price start at: $1,200.00 includes tuition, shared room & food, airport pickup & return, transportation to/from Mimpi Resort, and course materials. Airfare not included.

For AC upgrade add $300

Facilitators

Ellen Watson: Ellen teaches a wide variety of Somatic and Shamanic Arts internationally. Her passion for movement arts, combined with breath, sound, bodywork, and yoga have prepared her for midwifing both men and women through the transformative death/rebirth process. For more information on Ellen visit MovingVentures.org

Giuditta Tornetta: Giuditta is a certified birth doula, a certified lactation educator, a certified clinical hypnotherapist, and a certified shiatsu therapist. She is the author of the bestselling book Painless Childbirth: An Empowering Journey Through Pregnancy and Birth. Giuditta practices clinical hypnotherapy and a method of natural childbirth that uses hypnotic techniques to reduce stress and fear during labor and delivery, alleviating discomfort and making the birth experience positive and enjoyable. She also teaches infant mental, emotional, and cognitive health and development.  She has worked in hospital labor and delivery rooms, and home environments, attending and assisting with hundreds of births. For more information on Giuditta visit Joy in Birthing.

Robin Lim: Robin is a mother, grandmother, author, poet, midwife and educator who lives in Bali with her husband and children. Ibu (mother) Robin is a Certified Lay Midwife, with the North American Registry of Midwives and Ikatan Bidan Indonesia. She is a founder and executive director for Yayasan Ibu Bumi Sehat Birth Center in Bali. Lim splits her time between the birth center and the Tsunami Relief Clinic in Samatiga Aceh, Sumatra. Along with receiving babies, Ibu Robin is an author. Many of her articles, stories and poems have been published in Midwifery Today magazine and The Birthkit newsletter. Lim has been given the Alexander Langer International Peace Award.

Uma Inder: Uma Inder Ayervedic midwife, yogini & mother of a two year old, is of Indian descent, born in Kenya, has lived in Bali the last 16 years. Uma has a private practice in the healing arts in Ubud.

Deposit: 500.00  Non-refundable: 200.00

We will offer full or partial scholarships for this workshop more details will follow soon