Birth: A New Story

You can support the film HEREImogen love is a British Caribbean London-based birth doula, sound therapist, artist and mother. Imogen is a multi instrumentalist, having worked with sound as a tool for self connection for over 20 years. Imogen offers heart-led holistic support for pregnancy, birth and postpartum. Her care addresses the mind and body using complimentary sound, meditation, nutrition and exercises. Imogen’s visual practice has seen her art direct and photograph commercial fashion campaigns, largely inspired by her own fascination with human connection and nature.

Use the community code SAMARA-10 for a 10% discount on the Birth: A New Story CourseThrough the lens of philosophy, pre and perinatal psychology, traditional midwifery, anthropology and modern medicine, this course invites us to widen our understanding about birth and its deep interrelationship with the rest of our lives. It explores what is possible beyond the dominant story about birth and how we can collectively create a new story that is in service of thriving life.

Through the lens of philosophy, pre and perinatal psychology, traditional midwifery, anthropology and modern medicine, this course invites us to widen our understanding about birth and its deep interrelationship with the rest of our lives. It explores what is possible beyond the dominant story about birth and how we can collectively create a new story that is in service of thriving life. USE THE DISCOUNT CODE SAMARA-BIRTH-10 to get 10% off the course. You can register HERE

This episode is a rich conversation between Theodore Lowry, host of the Story Paths podcast, and myself. It was an absolute pleasure to be interviewed by Theodore and to have the opportunity to bring all my contemplations, research and sensing together into a wholesome conversation which completes the first season of the birth a new story podcast, before I take a pause to give my full attention to the film which is entering its post production phase.  In this conversation we explore how birth, like life, unfolds in different fields of belief. We contemplate the natural design of birth or birth's holy architecture as a reflection of our human potential for deeper states of love, trust and empathy. Of course, we cover the deep interrelationship between birth and sex. And we also allow our minds and hearts to imagine a world where a council of pregnant women is consulted for important world decisions and a world where humans live in kinship with the life force that created us. You can support Birth: A New Story HERE

Eva Maria Bredler is a PhD student, editor, and dancer from Germany. In her PhD, she’s exploring human rights in the context of pregnancy and childbirth. Her work seeks to bring the body back into the law – a sphere mostly inhabited by rational, autonomous legal subjects without bodies or relationships. As such, the law is unable to grasp pregnancy and childbirth as connected and embodied experiences. While doing research at the University of Oxford, she fell in love with social dancing. Trained as a ballet dancer, she is now focussing on Bachata and wants to inspire people to reconnect both to their own and other people’s bodies on a deeper level. You can support Birth: A New Story HERE Photography by Imogen Love