Magamama With Kimberly Ann Johnson: Sex, Birth And Motherhood

What She Shares: How the birth of her three children set her on her path Discovering ways to connect to your pleasurable sensations Practicing one minute of self-pleasure as a meditation   What You’ll Hear: Healing birth trauma and changing the narrative Listening to the body and hearing its message Reclaiming your connection with your body through birth Being present and available for the ecstasy of birth Letting go of the checklist mentality and having a full system experience Opening yourself to pleasure to consciously use it during birth Expanding your capacity to hold energy through mindful self pleasure Integrating trauma as much as possible before birth Working to expand pleasurable sensation in the body Practicing pleasure in a calm and relaxed state so that it is available in charged situations Sourcing energy from a distant source when you feel stuck Doulas as energy holders in birth spaces Taking care of yourself through connection to your body How presence and connecting to Source is helpful in

 What Rachelle Shares: Stepping into our next maturation level as adults How our experiences being gestated and born impact us through life Why the physiological birth requires safety and protection   What You’ll Hear: Returning to personal authority and innate wisdom The long-ranging impacts of gestation and birth on an infant Creating healthy, high-functioning adults in the future by prioritizing the care and health of mothers Making decisions during pregnancy and birth to support your child’s capacity in life Aligning ourselves with Thriving Life Principles instead of Death Principles Understanding how separating a mother and baby at birth may impact the baby’s attachment patternings Knowing how the use of Pitocin during birth effects postpartum depression rates Attending to our family’s health and wellness by respecting our physiology Working through fear so that we can align with Thriving Life Understanding that intense experiences are not automatically traumatic Heading the radical call to re-center

What She Shares: Why psoas is a central part of birth Shifting from concept to physical movement in your tissues Psoas as innate expression Being coherent with nature Beginning your journey home to yourself What You’ll Hear: Consciously maintaining our agency throughout the birth continuum Separating cultural conditioning from our animal-ness Trusting the animal body’s knowledge of birth Unlocking your physical organism How ancestral trauma appears in different bodies Learning to shape shift to prepare for birth Why a supple, hydrated, expressive psoas is important for knowing oneself Trusting your own power Understanding the power dynamics between insurance companies, OBs, and birthing women Why your birthing experience affects your rite of passage into motherhood Examining appeasement and fawning responses Why it can feel so exhausting to try to maintain coherence with our animal bodies The difficulty of actively defending ourselves during birth The difference between controlling ourselves and expressing

  What Shannon Shares: Using astrology to survey time and cycles Why astrologers have been looking towards 2020 for many years What it means to see Jupiter and Saturn come together in Aquarius for the first time in 600 years     What You’ll Hear: Examining planetary transits that have not culminated for hundreds of years Breaking down old structures so that we can build new ones that are suitable for our current society Why the United States is experiencing an even bigger shift than other nations Why Saturn’s time in Capricorn has helped us address outdated systems How Saturn’s transition into Aquarius supports individuals and societies in innovation Expecting introspection and realizations during the next 3 months. Why July 1- Dec 16 will be an important time for productive building Understanding how planets move through the signs by examining the sun’s movement Transitioning from a state of ‘undoing’ to ‘creating’ Looking forward to positive things coming as 2020 moves into 2021 Why we’re being called to

Jane Clapp’s approach is to weave her diverse training in holistic and mindful strength and movement coaching with trauma-informed mindfulness and nervous system regulation interventions, transforming emotional and physical overwhelm into embodied strength, mobility, and vitality. What Jane Shares:     How personal necessity inspired her on her path     Discovering coherence in her system when she became a mother     Why she helps people move into sympathetic arousal in order to relax     Ways to access your vitality   What You’ll Hear:     Seeing ourselves as more than just has happened to us     Finding healthy attachment responses within yourself     Experiencing active responses to challenges during birth     Looking at differences in maternal care between countries through a realistic lens     Defining healthy maternal leave     How the structure of parental leave can affect long term parenting dynamics     Developing a deeper understanding of our sexuality within motherhood     Why moving into full v

Find out the possibilities of what can grow and change in you, your life and your relationships as a result of the Activate Your Inner Jaguar class. In a roundtable format, women share about the unexpected transformations they experienced in their lives from the content, the spaceholding, and the group container or people coming together in a process of rewilding and deeper humanness. 

Dr. Zhaleh Boyd Philips is an intuitive healer, a Certified Vaginal Steam Practitioner, and a co-host of the Hot Steamy Podcast. She’s also a doctor in sociology specializing in human sex trafficking. Zhaleh was the magic behind all of the write-ups and graphics behind the Fourth Trimester Vaginal Steam study and has developed a vaginal steaming course specifically for empaths. What Zhaleh Shares:     Her personal history with sex trafficking and how it shaped her path     Realizing she couldn’t be in anti-trafficking work forever     Becoming a joy junky     Receiving information from her ancestors and how it’s guided her What You’ll Hear:     The complexity and difficulties of working with law enforcement     Finding accessible ways to support trafficking victims     How sex trafficking is different in different communities     The need for balance within your interests and time commitments to avoid burnout     Developing tools as an empathy to reclaim your body from other people’s emotions     Safeguard

What Kim Shares:     How she used the beauty of imagery to stay in the heaviness of her memoir     How studying archetypes helped her art make sense to herself     Navigating major transitions by being with the tensions     Her experiences with miscarriage   What You’ll Hear:     Examining all the parts of who we are and who we’re expected to be     Feeling the tension of duality without buckling     Allowing a new creative solution to come forth from tension or difficulty     Using your personal practice to get through difficult times     Relating to work that you’ve released into the world     Allowing the true emotional experience to surface     Having space for the rich emotional experiences of life     Tending radical simplification in your life     Titrating your work to promote stabilization of the nervous system     Prioritizing your sense of self over external accomplishment     Resourcing yourself so that you’re able to navigate the tension of duality     Holding yourself through each new phase  

Ash Robinson bootstrapped two of her own startups; raised over $12M in funding; sold to a public company right before the recession and consulted with hundreds of business owners and executives- most of whom were women. Ash started a company called Purpose to Profit specifically for women entrepreneurs to more effectively lead sustainable and wealth-creating businesses. Now she consults for non-profits, corporations, and entrepreneurs, especially when they are at critical junctures or need people solutions. What Ash Shares: Where she got her experience and foundation in business How she navigated business and new motherhood Re-creating business with a model that works for women What You’ll Hear: Creating safety for freelancers during the fourth trimester Allowing your postpartum experience, without needing it to be ‘perfect’ Culturally ingrained postpartum care How providing parental leave supports companies in the long term. Why working with your nervous system is important in building your business Why d

Michel Odent, MD, is a French obstetrician trained as a general surgeon known for his tireless research on how environmental factors present during pregnancy and birth affect babies, children, and our communities. He is the founder of the  Primal Health Research Centre and authored the first articles on the initiation of lactation and the use of birthing pools. He has authored 15 books and continues to publish cutting edge research.  What He Shares: Why birth is an important subject not only for birth workers, but for all people interested in the future of our species. Why the period of birth is a critical period in a person’s life The inability to study the long-term, non-specific affect of modern pregnancy and birth practices Exploring the changes in Homo sapiens resulting from birthing practices What You’ll Hear: How birthing hormones affect our biological programing Understanding the needs of a laboring person Why the microbiome of a newborn baby affects a their lifelong health How the future of our sp

What She Shares: The relationship between slavery and modern medicine Learning to read between the lines of the medical literature produced during slavery The emotional strain of researching archives of enslaved people Her own gynecological experience as a black woman What You’ll Hear: The racist background of gynecology and obstetrics How the presumption that Black bodies feel less pain is founded in slavery Understanding that the first men practicing gynecological surgeries were interested in protecting an economic system Recognizing the Mothers of gynecology while respecting their privacy Having an embodied since of history and homeland Examining the legacy of anti-blackness and xenophobia in medicine How nonviolent direct action helped fan the popularity of her book Using education to dismantle the anti-black medical system Attending to the maternal health of Indigenous women How race and class still affect how a person is treated in a medical office Allowing the present to be a part of historical stud

What She Shares:     How her own postpartum story inspired her to learn and teach postpartum care     The history of the school and about its founder, Ysha Oakes     The layout of the Ayurvedic Doula program from the School for Sacred Window Studies What You’ll Hear:     The lineage of the School for Sacred Window Studies     Preventing postpartum mood disorders with appropriate care for mothers     Why it’s important to have a postpartum care provider who personalizes care     Prioritizing comfort and peace during the fourth trimester     How doula training has expanded outside of DONA certification     Getting clear on the services you provide as a postpartum doula     How having a care provider for a new mom affects the mother-baby relationship and nervous system regulation     Why Ayurvedic postpartum bodywork is helpful in reducing PMADs     Finding your boundaries after birth     The value of hiring a postpartum care provider with training and expertise     Understanding how food can impact a person’

Cleo Stiller is a multiple award-winning journalist who is a self-identified “relationship non-expert.” She is obsessed with exploring stories about health, gender, and technology among millenials.  She recently authored the book “Modern Manhood: Complications Conversations on Being a Good Man Today.”  What She Shares:     Writing a book on manhood as a woman     Untangling socialized gender     The process of interviewing men anonymously post #metoo on how they really feel   What You’ll Hear:     Bringing conversations around sexuality and consent out into the open     Making room for nuance in complicated topics     Understanding that we all are learning about sex and boundaries together due to a lack of foundational education     Finding true learning within the grey areas     The societal reasons why men feel isolated     Undoing the toxic binary that holds both men and women back     Creating authentic space for men to get in touch with their emotions     How vocabulary changes can allow men to partic

Jennifer Block is an award winning journalist, an advocate for women’s health care, and the author of books including “Pushed: the Painful Truth about Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care” and “Everything Below the Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution.” She writes frequently about health, gender, and conflict of interest in medicine. What She Shares:     Insight into the recent Madison Breech Birth Conference     Working for 5 years to get publishers to take her first book seriously     Why viewing birth through a human rights lens is so important     How feminism’s relationship with the medical establishment has changed  What You’ll Hear:     How the lack of professional birth education creates ‘birth refugees’     How practitioners organized the Madison Breech Birth Conference to take education back into their own hands     The importance of human rights in birth     Taking an active role in your birth and changing the trauma response     The correspondence of the rise in maternal mortality

Jenelle Marie Pierce is the Executive Director of The STI Project, the founder of the Herpes Activist Network, and is the spokesperson for Positive Singles.  As an STI + Sexual Health Educator and content creator, Jenelle is dismantling STI stigma through awareness, education, and acceptance. What She Shares:     The definitions of STI and STD, and how they differ     Safe sex vs safer sex     How many sexually active people contract STIs in their lifetime     Her own journey with untangling STI stigma  What You’ll Hear:     Understanding that you are not alone with an STI diagnosis     The majority of people living with STIs are unaware of their status     Untangling the stigma around genital herpes     Understanding that STI stigma originated with stigma around sex     How different cultures view herpes     Removing the differentiation between HSV1 and HSV2     Examining your own views on promiscuity and what it means to be ‘good’     Understanding the impacts of a positive STI status and learning to com

Three women share how the Activate Your Inner Jaguar course changed their lives.  magamama.com/jaguar

What She Shares:     What is Jing, how it is developed, and how it affects us     The Three Golden Opportunities available to menstruating people     Kris’s personal journey as a mother of two children with autism, the effect it had on her health, and how she restored her wellness     What You’ll Hear:     Building on the Jing or Essence you’re born with     Matching ancient Eastern philosophies with modern research     Recognizing the key times in a menstruating person’s life when they can positively affect how their health manifests     Menstrual blood as the physical manifestation of Jing loss, and safeguarding your energy and Essence     Menstruation as a vital sign of your health     Allowing variation within the menstrual cycle based on life events and stressors     Approaching your health from a felt sense     Positively influencing your health through Jing restoration during menstruation and postpartum     Stopping “Doing,” and embracing Rest     Approaching healing practices through the lens of en

Jennifer Lang recently published an open letter as an OB-GYN who supports women who seek alternative, holistic, and awakened care. She has authored two books, “Consent: The New Rules for Sex Education” and “The Whole 9 Months: A Week-by-week Pregnancy Nutrition Guide.” Jennifer Today she speaks on her journey from ‘surgical cowboy’ to an advocate for bodily autonomy, discovering embodiment through birth, empowering low income communities to screen for and treat cervical cancer, and supporting women in building personal agency within a medical system. Bio:  Jennifer Lang is a gynecological oncologist, the author of two books, the mother of three children, and a passionate force for women’s health and wellbeing. She has served women in a hospital setting, founded a non-profit to reduce cervical cancer rates, and is creating a tech start-up to assist young people in recognizing when they are too incapacitated to consent. “We don’t have to turn over our bodily autonomy every time we walk into a doctor’s office an

Keli Garza, Steamy Chick, and Kimberly Johnson, Magamama discuss the results of The Fourth Trimester Vaginal Steam Study results.  We are defining what postpartum recovery looks like. In this podcast we will walk you through the study design- what we did, how we did it, what the results are and what we think the groundbreaking implications of those results mean for future postpartum health and future studies.   

Cece joins us fresh out of her 6 th grade Sex Education curriculum and offers insight and feedback on ways to make the process more comfortable, effective, and accurate. We also talk about the challenges of body image and learning to embrace both our flaws and strengths. Cece opens up about her experience as a bi-racial individual navigating school, life, and the current political climate. What She Shares: The good, the bad, and the lovely of having a sex educator for a mom What Sex Ed is like in a modern 6 th grade classroom What it’s like being the student with accurate information Her journey with body image Growing up bi-racially with a white mother What You’ll Hear: Making sex education more comfortable through authentic connection Calling for curriculum updates that meet kids at their level Learning about puberty from a 1980’s film Untangling the bits of truth from the ball of misinformation in sex ed curriculum Sex ed still does not cover the days in a woman’s cycle when she’s actually fertile The