Spiritual midwifery

The feature-length documentary BIRTH STORY: INA MAY GASKIN & THE FARM MIDWIVES tells the story of counterculture heroine Ina May Gaskin and her spirited friends, who began delivering each other’s babies in 1970, on a caravan of hippie school buses, headed to a patch of rural Tennessee land. With Ina May as their leader, the women taught themselves midwifery from the ground up, and, with their families, founded an entirely communal, agricultural society called The Farm. They grew their own…

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J o s é p h i n e K l e r k s on Instagram: "Commission work for @artipoppe first edition newsletter 🕊 This piece is inspired by the motherly intuition that runs deep down. The mammal force that holds this innate inner knowing what’s best for you and your baby. Discovering the world new again, so tender and vulnerable, yet so strong and shining. Always close as if the heart beats melts into one. The mother as the guiding star, walking through the waves of this humbling existence, held by…

This is the beautiful logo from Ina May Gaskin’s Spiritual Midwifery and The Farm Midwifery Center. The image of the crowning baby is similar to Artist Gisela’s Crowning Rose ima…

Becoming a midwife has not been an easy choice. Now, starting midwifery school has come with some fears too, such as balance of work and family. I have known for a while that I wanted to be a midwife so badly, but I kept trying to avoid it and find other ways to fulfill myself