Sacred Window Podcast: Nurturing Awareness in Postpartum Care

In this episode, featuring Tatiana Berindei and Sarah Kruse, delves into the concept of sacred windows in Ayurvedic texts, including menarche, postpartum, and perimenopause/menopause. They emphasize the importance of community, storytelling, and intentional preparation for these life transitions. Tatiana shares her book "Path to Puberty" and its mission to support mothers and daughters....

In this episode, Christine introduces Sarah Kruse, founder of Embrace Ayurveda, who supports women in all stages of life through Ayurvedic consultations and coaching programs. Sarah emphasizes the importance of clearing and detoxifying the body, mind, and spirit before nourishment, which is often overlooked in Western medicine. Sarah discovered her passion for Ayurveda through a lecture by Dr. Geo...

In this episode, Jennifer introduced her unique therapy map approach to healing. Christine and Jennifer began exploring the neurological needs of someone in the postpartum window but had more to discuss. Today, they will further examine birth as an initiatory experience and postpartum as 'the return.' Specifically, Christine and Jennifer want to look more closely at how Western culture ten...

Welcome to the Sacred Window Podcast. I'm Christine Eck and I'm excited to be joined today by Jennifer Summerfeldt to discuss her unique approach to mapping out a mother's healing journey. Jennifer is the founder of Ask Therapy and author of Healing After Birth. Jennifer's own birthing experiences ignited her passion for supporting mothers in their journey. She has trained as a hol...

This podcast discusses navigating professional identity and parenthood. Msulle shares their journey from working in finance to becoming a mother, noting lack of support for working mothers. They reflect on unexpected challenges of new parenthood and learning to embrace unknowns with flexibility. Paragraph 2: Christine and Msulle discuss balancing work and motherhood, with Msulle's experience r...

This episode discusses how to maintain loving connections with people despite differences in perspectives or disagreements. Lauren Pick shares a vulnerable moment from her therapy practice where a client felt misunderstood after an emotional outburst, but Lauren responded with even more love and empathy. She emphasizes the importance of drawing closer together rather than separating during conflic...

This episode discusses the importance of sustainability for both postpartum doulas and new parents. Guest Joanne McIntosh shares her journey providing postpartum support in Australia and the healing she has experienced through this work. Joanne reflects on experiences with traumatic birth and lack of support for her own mother that inspired her career. Through bodywork, she helps clients integrate...

This talk explores how community healing can be nourished through simplicity, intuition and herbalism. Guest Ayana Muhammad shares her journey from birth companion to community healer focusing on postpartum care. She discusses how even from a young age she was drawn to caregiving, and found various ways to support others through massage therapy and herbal remedies. Ayana emphasizes how the small a...

Vera Skough is a doula based in Townsville, Australia. She runs a business called Mother Birth and Postpartum, supporting new mothers through pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. Originally from Sweden, Vera moved to Australia 10 years ago where she met her partner and had her son. Without family support in a new country, Vera's own birth experience led her to pursue helping other moth...

Naomi Newlan, a seasoned practitioner of yoga and Ayurvedic massage, shares her profound journey of integrating these modalities into her practice spanning over two decades. Rooted in a lineage of yoga, Naomi's exploration led her to embrace the art of massage therapy, weaving together her passion for hands-on healing and ancient wisdom from indigenous cultures across various countries. With A...

Lauren Pick MS LIMHP LMHP LPC CYT is a psychotherapist in private practice focusing on Grief, Trauma, & Life Transitions. She is currently located in Lincoln, Nebraska (of all places). As a certified yoga instructor, Nia instructor and mindbody fitness professional, Lauren enjoys weaving somatic modalities into her work with clients. Find out more at  www.laurenpick.com In this episode, Lauren...

Roshni Kavate is an artist, grief educator, post partum caregiver and avid home cook. Roshni Kavate is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of Marigolde, and the co host of the podcast Mango and Gnocchi. She believes grief is a portal to wholeness. Marigolde is a wellness platform dedicated to reclaiming nourishing practices rooted in ancestral wisdom for collective liberation. Through rituals and...

Samantha Veitch is the founder of Emerging Wisdom Care. She is an Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula and Elimination Coach. Elimination Communication (EC) is the practice of learning your baby’s elimination cues and being able to anticipate the process, thereby reducing the need for diapers. Essentially, it’s infant potty training, though Samantha explains why she doesn’t often use those words. In this ep...

This podcast episode welcomes back Stephanie Peers, a student and member of our Sacred Window Studies Community. Stephanie and I are hosting a Forgiveness Workshop: A Practice for Giving and Receiving on August 30, 2023.  Register for the Workshop Here for Free! If you missed it, please don’t worry. There are many more learning and experiential opportunities to be had through Stephanie’s work (lin...

In this episode, I speak with Christine D’Esposito, Director of Programs at Birthing from Within. During my own first pregnancy in 2007, Birthing from Within was an incredible support model for me in exploring the more subtle aspect of birth readiness, and harnessing my own feelings of empowerment to trust my body and honor the changes I was going through. Now, as a proponent of conscious postpart...

The sacred window is not just for postpartum. It is a bringing of reverence to a time that otherwise could pass without significance. Maybe we were able to have a supported and special time after our children were born, maybe we did not. Maybe we honored a sacred window during menopause or at any other major transition in our lives. What is important is that we paused, took a moment and acknowledg...

This year we are expanding into a theme of the different ways people come to the Postpartum Path. We each follow our own call - we have unique stories, and it is a shining example of how the need for better postpartum care culturally is impacting each of us - directing us to this work. Stephanie Peers is a Kundalini Yoga Instructor, a mother and has specialized her work in Ayurveda to women’s heal...

This episode was originally shared on the Postpartum University Podcast with Maranda Bower. Maranda has been a longtime advocate, educator and fierce activist for new mothers. She is also one of the warmest and most compassionate people I’ve connected with through this work. In this episode, Maranda and I dive into shifting our beliefs around postpartum, honoring the healing path WE need to take,...

Emily Seeboo is a mother to a beautiful baby boy.  Her story is her own, just as each of ours should have a story that reflects our true sense of self and safety. In this interview, Emily shares her story of her homebirth, and we talk further about staying true to self, even when it does not align with expectations from our family or loved ones.  During the childbearing year, we are espe...

In this episode, Christine speaks with Marissa Mignone, an inspiring birth and postpartum professional in Truckee, CA.  We explore the many lessons Marissa has learned about how to best care for the whole person in postpartum healing, how she began following her heart and soul when it came to her own path and the healing commitment she makes to her clients.  Marissa is an inspiration - y...

Today on the Sacred Window podcast we talk about sustainability and minimal living in the postpartum period. Our guest, Amanda, is an artist and mother who gave birth just over a year ago for the first time. She has used both cloth diapers and elimination communication to reduce plastic diaper waste for the planet. In the West in the past 100 years, plastic diapers have become the norm, but she po...

Today on the Sacred Window Podcast we talked with Danielle Hanna of Living Arts Ayurveda. Danielle is a mother, long time teacher of Ayurveda for students of Yoga, and a Ayurvedic practitioner working with individuals and families offering conscious postpartum care. Hanna Lives and practices in Portland, Oregon, unceded Chinook land. Today on Sacred Window Podcast: Foundational principles of Ayurv...

In this episode of the Sacred Window podcast, founder Christine Eck talks with dear friend Natasha Mason from Melbourne Australia. Natasha is a mother, meditation teacher, Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula, a Reiki healer, and is the Founder and Director of Nourish Melbourne.  They discussed Natasha's experience in losing her mother and choosing to terminate a pregnancy and how she used the Mother p...

Join Roshni and our guest Zaure Vuk as they discuss navigating the postpartum time and parenting through different cultural lenses. Zaure was born and raised in Kazakhstan, and has been living in Boston for the last 15 years. Her background is in musicology. Music brought her to the States, and music is how she met her husband in 2007 at School of Groove (Cambridge, MA). In 2012 Zaure and her husb...

Corinne Andrews is a long time friend of Sacred Window Studies founder, Christine Eck. met 12 years ago Corrine is local to Massachusetts. Corrine is co-owner and director of Shraddha yoga , where she teaches online and in person classes. She is the developer and teacher of Birthing Mama, a 90 hour prenatal and postpartum yoga and wellness teacher training, and her course turned into a book. The t...