Ongoing Ecstatic Birth Tele-summit

Here at SQUAT, some of our editors have been attending the Ecstatic Birth Tele-summit: The BODY Series LIVE! The folks at Ecstatic Birth are letting us listen in for free so we can review the experience for our readers.

Familiar with Ecstatic Birth? Here's a a short excerpt from Ecstatic Birth's vision:

Ecstatic Birth is a call to reconfigure our cultural conception of birth. It is a call to put childbirth back on its sacred pedestal and women back into an empowered relationship with their bodies and their experience of birth.

The physiology of birth and sexuality are one and the same. As strange (or even repugnant) of a thought as it may be to some women, the energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out. Our current cultural disconnect with our sensuality has only fueled our detachment from birth and our need for interventions to help us do what our bodies are fully and ecstatically capable of doing on their own. 

Ecstatic Birth is a movement that shares with women everywhere that birth is a journey we can actually enjoy. 

The tele-summit, which is intended for future parents and birth professionals, started in April and still has several events scheduled through June. It carries a high price tag, but features a very interesting and dynamic range of speakers.
Ecstatic Birth will be unrolling a recorded version of this event (and the original Foundation Series) this summer at a much more accessible price point, so if you happen to miss a session (which admittedly with my busy schedule and 5 month old babe is the case for me) you won't entirely miss out, and if you prefer you can pay for the remaining sessions on a per-session basis.

From their website:
The Ecstatic Birth Tele-Summit is facilitated by Sheila Kamara Hay LIVE via teleconference featuring a different teacher each week for ten weeks, including:

Ina May Gaskin, the "Mother of Modern Midwifery";
Sheri Winston, award winning sexual educator and former midwife;
Regena Thomashauer (Mama Gena), pioneer in the field of pleasure;
Nekole Shapiro, Tantric Birth founder;
Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova, visionary and director of Birth As We Know It;
Sheila Kelley, founder of feminine movement revolution S factor;
Saida Désilets, author of The Emergence of the Sensual Woman;
Aviva Romm, MD, midwife, and award winning author;
Akal Kaur, pregnancy kundalini yoga teacher trainer and registered nurse;
Sarah Buckley, family physician and Ecstatic Birth writer and advocate

Visit their web site for more information about Ecstatic Birth and the The Body tele-summit, and sign up for their mailing list to stay in the loop and receive a free copy of their Top Ten Tips for Creating an Ecstatic Birth.

And stay tuned- we will be posting a full review of the tele-summit and other insights into the business of internet-based conferences over the next month!

Jeramie @ SQUAT
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