In this session we will be exploring the power of the birth story particularly when its a difficult story to tell, to hold, to share …

When we birth our babies we go somewhere … we travel within and once baby is here we must return. Indeed to make a full return is to heal fully postnatally mind, body and spirit. Yet this full return is rare. Many of us leave a part of us behind in birth. Trapped in the story of whatever was too much, too fast, too soon or too painful to process at the time. Birth Story Medicine is a gentle journey, exploring the story. It's a process, a structured and guided conversation and includes the power of story as medicine. Story is powerful, for thousands of years this is how we taught our children, and each other about life, its perils, dangers and delights. Story lands within us like seeds that over time can blossom and grow. Story is medicine that heals us from within. In this session … I’d like to tell you a medicine story.

About Jenni

I’m a birth story listener, and I trained in Birth Story Medicine, a therapeutic approach to healing birth trauma through the power of story and its the work of midwife, author, birth keeper elder Pam England.

My name is Jenni Jones and I’m based in Liverpool, UK. I’m a yoga therapist specialising in women's health. I’ve been teaching pregnancy yoga in Liverpool Womens Hospital since I was pregnant back in 2004 and I’ve been a doula since 2006 and I’m passionate about supporting women in their journey into motherhood and beyond. I teach new mums baby massage and baby yoga and I run healing afternoon retreats for women in the 4th trimester. I run yoga workshops and retreats for women at all stages of life and I’m passionate about yoga supporting our lives as women and the lives around us that we support.. I trained in Birth Story Listening with Pam England during lockdown and as a budding story teller, I have fallen in love with the process of mothers healing their story, through story and making a full return from birth. 

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Erica: Grandmother

I see you sitting in the (East),

You are sacred

And you are looking at me

I pray to you

Pray to you

You are sacred

(East, South, West, North, Earth, Sky, my Heart, my Womb)

Grandmother

I feel your arms around me

You are sacred

And you are holding me

I pray to you

Pray to you

You are sacred

00:50:27 Alix Thorpe: I can’t turn video on because ‘host has stopped it’

00:50:28 Karen’s iPhone: My camera is disabled by host

00:51:38 Deb Rhodes: I'm just finding somewhere to sit in Prague!

02:59:18 Ruth and Erica: True Midwifery Study Spirals for 2025 are:

SESSION 3: 27 March - Yoni Massage with Hannah Nichols 

SESSION 4: 24 April - Ritual and Ceremony for Rites of Passage of Womanhood with Samara Hawthorn 

SESSION 5: 29 May - Pre eclampsia - Prevention & Treatment through Nutrition with Nina Rinkes 

SESSION 6: 26 June - Breech Births with Joy Horner

SESSION 7: 31 July - The Ancient Witch Hunts continue.. (are the smear campaigns of today’s midwives and birth attendants reminiscent of the ancient witch hunts?) with Lana Petersen & Ruth Ehrhardt

SESSION 8: 28 August - Soul connections to the Unborn Babies with Robyn Sheldon

SESSION 9: 25 September - Supporting IVF Pregnancy and Birth with Vera Dubrovine 

SESSION 10: 30 October - The Role of Indigenous Midwives in Countering Obstetric Violence with Mmatshilo Motsei 

SESSION 11: 27 November - Traditional Mexican Closing of the Bones with Jodi Jade

SESSION 12: 18 December - Group Discussion (Topic to be confirmed)

02:59:21 Ruth and Erica: SESSION 2: 27 February - Childbirth, Eros and Sexuality with Debora Stenta

03:00:22 Ruth and Erica: BFA - MARCH 2025 - true-midwifery1.teachable.com/p/birth-first-aid6

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03:03:55 Katerina: Thank you 🥰

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03:34:09 Ruth and Erica: Jenni Jones

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