What if SOUND HEALING (insert feathers and crystal bowls here) didn't have to be a big complicated thing, but was actually woven into your every day life? What if you could be constantly working with frequency and vibration as tools for health and balancing in your body, mind, and spirit?

Oh wait, YOU ALREADY DO!

I loved our talk with Adrian DiMatteo; musician, author, sound healer, and genuine, down to earth, hilarious, and insightful human. We explore some of the ways sound shows up in our every day lives, especially as pregnant women and mothers, and how we can very simply tap into that as a source of connection and healing.

This is so relevant to birth, and I am excited to see where this exploration leads us in the future.

We talk about:

- Utilizing sound as neurolinguistic programming - this doesn't have to be complicated, start by using different words to describe your experiences - The different levels of sound//thoughts moving through the mind into the body and the spirit - How music, mantras, movement, dance, rhythm, are all expression of sound - "Sound Healing" isn't this isolated event that happens only on the full moon in a yoga studio. - How we can utilize this in pregnancy and birth, to overcome fear and re-program our belief systems

- “Sonic massage” - how we can intuitively use our body's vibration for healing for our families - Applying musicality and mantra healing to the rhythm of everyday life. Vibration, frequency, rhythm isn’t something we practice outside of motherhood/pregnancy, it is inherent in our bodies and ready to be activated at any moment - Vibration and the vagus nerve! Carrying vibration, movement, and allowing more oxygen to the cells for healing and pain relief. (SO RELEVANT FOR BIRTH!) - How the natural sounds of the body are essential in releasing emotions, like a dog shaking off the day, we can allow our sighs, yawns, and stretches to reset our systems. - How we could utilize our understanding of frequencies and the human body to curate your birth environment for this sacred ceremony - I'd love to see Adrian and Nikko Kennedy (from episode #33) to design a labor and delivery unit and NICU! - The future of birth support - sound healing? Bringing frequency medicine into the birth space doesn’t have to mean you bring your guitar and know a thousand mantras. It’s the vibration of being calm, present, and in your heart, regardless of what you are saying or not saying. - “Silence is the mother of sound” - Approaching ultrasound technology from the highest possible frequency - Integrating sound healing in the simplest ways - this is so accessible and so simple!

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Mentioned in the show:

Adrian's new book - Elements of Sound: A Full-Spectrum Exploration of Sound and Consciousness

His organization, Sonic Institute

Sound Healer Trainings - (I'm going to do it one of these days!)

And his music - While You Are Awake is the background music for this episode and the perfect addition to a birth playlist!

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If you have anything you want to hear more about, or any questions you'd like us to address, please reach out at catskillsbirthcollective@gmail.com. We welcome your feedback.

Follow us on Instagram @catskillsbirthcollective for more musings and information on wholistic pregnancy, physiological birth, and intuitive motherhood.

Check out our online, comprehensive birth education course Wise Woman, Sacred Birth to go deeper into self responsibility, trust and connection with your inner self, and knowledge and wisdom of the biological truths of the childbearing year, and connection with other beautiful mamas.

With all of the birthy support roles I am currently holding, it may be a surprise that I am not, and have no intention of being a birth doula.

But once, long long ago (or at least that's how it feels!), I was! I thought that being a birth doula was path through which I wanted to serve women... at least until I started doing it.

I talk about how:

- The sister wound has made it's presence known in my business aspirations. I couldn't really serve women in this way if I din't really even want to be friends with them!

- I balled my eyes out after the first 3 birth I went to - but convinced myself it was from the joy and beauty of birth

-Something deep down inside me knew - with no instruction, example, or experience that what I was witnessing wasn't really birth as some part of my ancestral being knew it to be. It was a gross manipulation/mutilation that we're all supposed to applaud and whisper about 'the miracle of childbirth'

- My one home birth experience as a doula opened my eyes to a brief moment of feeling the true power of a birthing woman, then swiftly shifted to an uncomfortable understanding of my own, and our collective cultural orientation towards 'medical professions' as authority, and therefor all the ways in which we give up our power.

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Mentioned in the show:

Indie Birth's Sacred Sisterhood Doula Training

Taking Back Birth Episode - When Doulas Become Cogs in the Wheel of Medicalized Birth

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Thanks for listening!

If you’re enjoying our show, please leave us a rating and review!

If you have anything you want to hear more about, or any questions you'd like us to address, please reach out at catskillsbirthcollective@gmail.com. We welcome your feedback.

Follow us on Instagram @catskillsbirthcollective for more musings and information on wholistic pregnancy, physiological birth, and intuitive motherhood.

Check out our online, comprehensive birth education course Wise Woman, Sacred Birth to go deeper into self responsibility, trust and connection with your inner self, and knowledge and wisdom of the biological truths of the childbearing year, and connection with other beautiful mamas.

Out lovely friends Ashke and Ian join us today from the end of their sacred window to tell us the story of their son, Cedar's birth.

It is such a joy to hear their story of conscious conception, Ashke's new adventure into studying birth education with Birthing From Within, how Ian's relationship with home birth interfaced with his job as an EMT (such a special crossover), culminating in a fast and healing birth.

We talk about the difference between bypassing fear and choosing to face it head on, dealing with external expectations and pressure with humor and grace, and postpartum cooking as community building.

It's been so beautiful to walk with Ashke as she enters the childbearing spiral, and grows into a beautiful mother. She has been one of the biggest champions of our work with Wise Woman, Sacred Birth, and we are so looking forward to what the future holds for their beautiful family.

You can find Ashke's work with herbal medicines - Maka Pejuta

and on Instagram

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Mentioned in the show:

Our podcast episode with Ixchel and Jerry on their beautiful conscious conception process

Birthing from Within

Ashke was one of the first women with access to Wise Woman, Sacred Birth and gave us amazing feedback.

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Thanks for listening!

If you’re enjoying our show, please leave us a rating and review!

If you have anything you want to hear more about, or any questions you'd like us to address, please reach out at catskillsbirthcollective@gmail.com. We welcome your feedback.

Follow us on Instagram @catskillsbirthcollective for more musings and information on wholistic pregnancy, physiological birth, and intuitive motherhood.

Check out our online, comprehensive birth education course Wise Woman, Sacred Birth to go deeper into self responsibility, trust and connection with your inner self, and knowledge and wisdom of the biological truths of the childbearing year, and connection with other beautiful mamas.