#213 Orgasmic Birth & Mothering with Yolande Norris-Clarke
Release Date: 01/29/2024
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info_outlineTahnee speaks with the phenomenal Yolande Norris Clarke. Yolande is a birth liberation activist, birth-witness, spell-breaker, way-shower, childbirth educator, midwifery teacher, and mother of 9 (soon to be 10) beautiful children.
In this juicy episode with Tahnee, Yolande shares her birth stories and the powerful insights she's gained both working and being in the free birth space.
The women speak to the growing awareness and education surrounding free birth, sharing thought-provoking dialog around the impact of subconscious programming and the role manifestation plays in creating one's reality, inviting us to question beyond the “traditional” institutionalised approaches women are most often sold as gospel, and consider the power of choice in shaping an individual's birthing experience.
Yolande shares her love of German New Medicine, celebrating its holistic mind-body approach and the positive implications it has had for her own healing and parenting. Passionately encouraging mothers to embrace and trust in their children's innate ability to heal, emphasising that love, support, and validation are the most essential elements on the parenting journey.
This beautiful conversation serves as a catalyst for reflection, inviting individuals to consider their choices, to embrace the power of surrender, and recognise the profound impact the mind has on the birthing experience and beyond.
We’re left with a rich tapestry of insight into the realms of birth, motherhood and self-healing, reminded that the human organism has the innate power to self organise, and is coded to reproduce as nature intended, in a wild, unfiltered and undomesticated way.
Yolande & Tahnee discuss:
- Free birth, Yolande's birth stories and surrender as a discipline.
- The "perfect pregnancy" and the myths surrounding it.
- Birth as an initiation and spiritual experience.
- Reclaiming the joy of motherhood.
- Creation, manifestation and commitment.
- German New Medicine.
Resource Guide:
Guest Links
Yolande's Website
Yolande's Courses
Yolande's German New Medicine Salon
Yolande's Book
Yolande's Instagram
Yolande's Facebook
Yolande's TikTok
Mentioned In This Episode
Free Birth Society
Ina May Gaskin Books
Janine Parvati Baker Books
Jane Hardwicke Collings
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Birth Is A Body Based Event with Clancy Allen (EP#79)
Birth Work, Ceremony, and Rites of Passage with Caitlin Priday (EP#148)
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