Sex Birth Trauma with Kimberly Ann Johnson

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...

  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 prioritizi...

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...

  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...

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...

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:...

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...

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-pr...

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 continu...

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 founde...

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  ...

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    ...

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 Madis...

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...

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 w...

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...

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 fut...

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 Sh...

Steve Hoskinson was one of my Somatic Experiencing teachers and has since gone on to found Organic Intelligence. He hosts The End of Trauma podcast and has made democratizing nervous system information his mission. What Steve Shares:       Seeing our humanness through the map of complexity science       The importance of joy and pleasure in growth       Information on his End of Trauma course     ...

Katie Silcox is a yoga instructor and Ayurveda instructor who studied with world renowned teachers and became disillusioned by some of what she experienced in the yoga world.  Her experiences allowed her to become more discerning and offer her students safety and freedom in their own practice. What Katie Shares: When the yoga she was doing wasn't working anymore [9:25] She wanted to break up with...

Summary: .  Levina and Caleb have been journaling together about their sex life for nearly a year. They quickly discovered that creating this intimate and authentic space allowed them to learn more about themselves and each other, both within and outside of sex. They've been able to unearth and heal old dynamics, foster curiosity and communication, and continue building an electric sex life.   Res...

Sabia Wade began her birth work with incarcerated people. A full spectrum doula, she is an educator, doula trainer and activist. She says there's no separating activism and birthwork and wants all people to have access to care. She is the founder of For the Village, a non-profit setting out to address disparities in birth and provide community for birthworkers. 

What Gia Shares:       How her positive experience receiving sex education from her parents informed her path       Differences between sensuality and sexuality      What's essential for parents to know        Her favorite part of her book   What You'll Hear:       Defining your reality through language       Approaching sex through sense-based experiences       Building relationships on the found...