#21 A Visionary Birth Story - Deep Medicine in the Birth of Makoa

Today’s episode is a special one! Sara and I are back together to interview the lovely Ixchel. We talked with her and her partner during her pregnancy back in episode 4. Now, almost 2 years after their birth, we finally recorded their incredible birth story of their firecracker son, Makoa. This is the story of the "what ifs". But not "what if something goes wrong", instead it's "what if something goes right?" What if birth can be challenging, transformative, visionary, earth, shattering, and so so beautiful? Ixchel is an amazing and powerful woman who's experience and history with inner work and practices guided her in this motherhood journey.

 

***We did record in a shed, with a single microphone, in the middle of a rainstorm, so there’s definitely some background noise noise, especially towards the end of the episode. However, the content is gold and definitely worth listening through! I also play her whole song, Birthing Spiral, at the end of this episode.***

 

You’ll hear about:

-How Ixchel navigated intense pelvic pain and used it as a tool and teacher to guide her through labor.

-A continuation of her pregnancy story, she shares more about the deaths that she had to allow to happen in her underworld journey to rebirth yourself as a mother.

-The magical story of her son's full moon birth

-How Ixchel used water in numerous ways to help support her in her labor.

-The amazing community of sisters who came together, and the power of song, music, and prayer.

-How lessons from pregnancy allowed her to step into postpartum with more grace.

-Her husband‘s experience in supporting birth, and the one moment that clarified his role there for him.

-Amazing stories of Ixchel's visions and understandings that came through this uninterrupted, ecstatic, birth process.

-And her gorgeous song that came as a result of a homework prompt in our birth education course.

 

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Mentioned in the show:

 

Ixchel Prisma's music

Her husband, Jerry Walsh's podcast, BodhiSpeak

Our birth education course, Wise Woman, Sacred Birth!

My local MotherCircle offering

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