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Birthing The Future's International Symposia Series
The Roots of Love & Violence: Birth and the Primal Period
Beautifully staged, filmed and edited into, boxed DVD sets. These are 2 intimate, provocative, and inspiring events. Weaving ancient wisdom and current scientific evidence, "Talk Story" and cross-cultural practices. A multi-ethnic and international cast of presenters. Hear from physicians, midwives, nurses, doulas, healers, therapists, anthropologists, sociologists, chiropractors, teachers, mothers, fathers, and elders.
Perfect for showing to friends and colleagues in your home. Equally valuable for creating successful events that bring practical vision to your community at a fraction of the cost of traveling to a live, international conference or bringing outside speakers to your community. We provide you with the speakers live on film. You provide the panels of local parents and professionals. The result – raised consciousness!
*A brand new concept in personal, public and professional education.
Hosted by acclaimed author, filmmaker, speaker, visionary - Suzanne Arms. Explore the issues that surround how we welcome humans into the world and care for each mother-baby pair
Symposium I 3-hours, 3 DVD set - Home use $59.99, Institution $99.99
- the mother baby bond & mothering
- conscious conception & optimal pregnancy
- healing childbearing loss
- healing birth trauma
- birth centers and the international water birth movement
- birth as a sacred rite of passage
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Symposium II 5-hours, 5 DVD set - Home use $79.99, Institution $149.99
- safety & the place of birth
- medical doctors and midwifery care
- leading edge science (cellular biology to brain development)
- indigenous & ancient wisdom
- circumcision & genital integrity
- breast & formula feeding, fathers & partners
- birthing centers
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WEBSITE SPECIALBoth Symposium 1 & 2 Home use $109.95
Institution $200.00
Each set is conveniently packaged in a slim box/binder with individual DVD sleeves and each disc is divided into chapters for easy viewing.
FREE with purchase of 1 or both DVD sets - "A Step By Step Guide to Putting on a Successful Public Event in Your Community".
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Birth As We Know It
A new, stunningly beautiful film that provides clear proof that natural childbirth is well within our capacity as human beings. Elena Tonetti's film shows that the human infant are capable of birthing with grace and even with ease. Features 11 natural births, including some of the best episodes from the much-loved film we also carry of waterbirth in Russia called "Birth Into Being", plus 2 additional hours of astonishing new material: the birth of twins, breech delivery, another self-birth (alone). These births occur at the Black Sea, at home and in hospital. Inspirating interviews on topics are rarely spoken of: the sensuality of childbirth, circumcision, limbic imprinting of the baby. Additional features allow the viewer to play with Commentaries track (director's informal, "behind the scenes" narration), show C-Section and more. Running time is 3 hrs 15 mins. Only DVD format is available .
Experience Birth As We Know It in this groundbreaking new film featuring 11 births, all completely unique and all natural. Birth As We Know It is a treat for both the heart and mind, comfortably intertwined on a path toward realizing the full potential of birth. A new style of documentary film creates a refreshing arena for the story of Birth to unfold. A triumphant orchestration of stunning cinematography, empowering instrumentation, and a calming narrative, warms our hearts as we are reminded of the beauty of Life, and awakened to the ultimate possibilities of Birth!
The Educational DVD of Birth As We Know It is now available! This special Educational Edition is tailored with Educators, Midwives, and Physicians in mind. The DVD features two abridged versions of the feature film: a 40 minute format ideal for classrooms and presentations, and and a 25 minute format suited to introduce viewers to a brief yet powerful impression of the affects and possibilities of Conscious Birth. Both versions offer the best and most powerful scenes from the feature, and include the same quality of breathtaking music and thought-provoking narration that you would find on the full length feature.
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Giving Birth
Just Released, 2007 Edition
This 34 minute film by award-winning author-teacher Suzanne Arms features best selling obstetrician/author Christiane Northrup MD ("Women's Bodies: Women's Wisdom"). Learn what scientific evidence has discovered about the importance of the process of birth, how babies are born, and the value of normal birth - for both the mother and the baby. Hear from 3 obstetricians, a labor and delivery nurse, a doula, a cesarean mother, and a midwife with 25 years of experience attending home births. Explore issues of prenatal care, overcoming fear, coping with pain in labor, epidural anesthesia, cesarean surgery, routine hospital procedures, and being empowered in birth. See a natural birth on a birthing stool and a water birth. Discover the differences between the medical and midwife models of care. The 36 page resource guide is invaluable for parents and professionals alike.
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The Healing of Birth:
Invitation to Intimacy
The Healing of Birth: Invitation to Intimacy'. DVD 90 mins Including bonus features.
This film presents a groundbreaking point of view; Healing what we think about (and how we do) birth is possible and appreciating the infant may be having an experience that matters is the way to do it. This film is intended to support and help educate those involved in working with people for whom birthing is relevant and an understanding of healing dynamics originating in birth could be useful. Made over several years it takes a distillation of the work of leading edge practitioners in the field of birth psychology and produces a moving and accessibly watchable experience for the viewer.
If you are working as career therapist or are family and find understanding birth psychology is an issue that crops up and you want to understand more then this is the film for you.
Features: Ray Castellino founder of BEBA, Joseph Chilton Pearce, Marti Glenn PhD, Sobonfu Some, and David Chamberlain PhD.
New BONUS FEATURES include and exclusive extended interview with pioneer obstetrician Dr Michel Odent who speaks insightfully about birth physiology and caesarean section, a significant piece with Marti lenn hD of the anta Barbara Graduate Institute on the mythology of birth and an introduction to Fathers to Be, a program supporting men during birth.
The DVD is configured for use as a teaching tool as well as standalone movie.Endorsements for The Healing of Birth: Invitation to Intimacy.
"(The) film is tender and gentle, and the camerawork is excellent." Sheila Kitzinger, internationally recognized author on childbirth. Recent books include : 'The New Pregnancy and Childbirth' and 'Rediscovering Birth'.
"It is a beautiful and very useful film. I love it and it gave me insights. Very moving. Thank you. " William Bloom Ph.D, B.Sc, Cert. Ed.: Arguably Britain's leading teacher, author, & practitioner of the holism movement; founding member of "Alternatives" St James, London.
"This is an extraordinary film,....and the director's vision is truly noteworthy" The Journal Of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health.
This film was co-originated and co-produced with Debby Takikawa, producer of 'What Babies Want' and has approximately 10% material in common with that production.);)
What Babies Want:An Exploration of Consciousness of Infants
A Documentary by Debby Takikawa
Running Time:1 hour
In this remarkable new film, experts in the fields of medicine, psychology, anthropology, and ground-breaking prenatal and perinatal research give the viewer the latest information on how babies think, feel and assimilate the environment around them during pregnancy and in the first hours, days and weeks after birth.
This film challenges prevailing beliefs about what newborns are thinking, doing, feeling and the sense they are making of the world around them. Amazing footage and superb interviews. What Babies Want, offers new insights into how to keep our childrens' spirit and intelligence intact, and ways to heal shock and trauma that some babies experience during womb-life and birth.
Hosted and narrated by actor Noah Wyle (from the TV show ER), who shares his own experience as a new father. See babies born gently, including in water, relate to their mothers, some even crawling to the breast all on their own. Even ultrasound images of babies in-utero.
If you are pregnant, this film will make you rethink how you want your baby to be born. If you are a birth professional, it will cause you to examine your priorities with regard to helping mothers and babies through the birth expereince. If you are an educator, this film provides the evidence you will want to share with your students, that babies *want* to be born gently, drug free, with attention focused on them - not procedures.
Also includes ancient tribal wisdom from Sobonfu Some (Burkina Faso/Africa) that holds value for us today.
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Pregnancy, Birth & Bonding
by Joseph Chilton Pearce
This DVD is one of a six part broadcast series Joseph Chilton Pearce did. In this DVD, Joe describes the the miracle of pregnancy, birth and bonding, the optimal conditions for birth, the negative impact of unnecessary intervention and ways of providing the safest, most intimate experience for mother, baby and family.
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Delivery Self-Attachment
This short but extraordinary video, done in Sweden by pediatrician/researcher Lennart Righard, shows the innate ability of newborn babies to get to their mothers breast successfully without any help. Watch a newborn whose mother did not receive any drugs or anesthesia in labor, as it is placed on its mother's abdomen and then creeps up her body to where its face is between her breasts. Then watch as it self-attaches and suckles. Learn that babies born to unmedicated mothers and were separated after birth had difficulty and that most of the infants from medicated mothers were unable to suckle by themselves at all. 6 unforgettable minutes, color, VHS or DVD
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Birth Day
Birthday is a documentary exquisitely capturing the beauty of a natural home birth in the lush mountain countryside of Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. Taped by the grandfather, Georges Vinver and narrated by the baby's mother, midwife, Naoli Vinaver Lopez, we are treated to the birth of this family's third child and first daughter. Needless to say, this is not your typical birth video. 66 minutes, color, English or Spanish on DVD format.
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Born in Water:
A Sacred Journey
This exquisitely filmed video should dispel any of the fears and misconceptions that still surround water birth. The film shows seven water births, each featuring women surrendering to the power of her labor, birth partners actively supporting women, and midwives at their unobtrusive best. Both English and Spanish-speaking families are presented, making this an excellent film for bilingual audiences. Appropriate for young children, teens and adults, and particularly valuable for those with preconceived notions of water birth as risky - including physicians and nurses hesitant about water birth, who will find this video most educational. 33 minutes, color, English in DVD
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Special Women
This unique film illustrates the benefits of having a skilled woman present throughout labor and birth - a time-honored practice being renewed today by labor-support professionals called "doulas." Gives scientific evidence proving the many benefits of having a doula for every laboring woman. Focus is on hospital birth, and features a wide array of hospital births, brief interviews with families who have used doulas, and interviews with doulas themselves. For women who have only wanted their mate or friend with them in labor, this video will be an awakening. Shows how a doula provides valuable support for everyone present at a birth, and how she facilitates support without replacing a partner or family members. 20 minutes, color, English in DVD format
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Birth Into Being:
The Russian Water Birth Experience
This much-beloved film is back in distribution and available again! Affectionately called “The Russian Waterbirth” film by parents, health professionals and educators who have watched it over-and-over again, this film leaves an indelible sense of joy in everyone who watches it. Russian midwife and birth educator Tatyana and her filmmaker husband recorded five incredible water births that took place in Russia’s Black Sea during warm summer days, and (in a clear, handmade birthing pool) in their home during frigid winter months.
The profound loved shared by the women with their partners during labor, the on-camera interviews with those same men and woman later, looking back on their birth experiences, the footage of Tatyana teaching aquatics to pregnant women, and her going for a swim in the midst of winter toward the end of her own pregnancy, pregnant women and infants and babies swimming and playing together underwater, all make this film a must-see.
Tatyana’s face, with it’s ecstatic and other-worldly expressing during her own third birth, and her delivering that baby unassisted is riveting. And the film ends all too soon, with live footage of her own young children swimming underwater in the sea with dolphins, their bodies free and graceful, leaving audiences weeping, with a sense of what the human experience can – and could – be.
The music is from haunting music is by Paul Winters. 25 minutes, color, English VHS format
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Timeless Way
A wonderful introduction to the politics, sociology and history of birth. Through use of art and media, we are shown how ideas about birth have only recently changed from a natural physical and spiritual event -- empowering to women and honored by the community -- to a fearful medical crisis requiring hospitalization and intervention. Uses sculpture, drawings, and footage from both 20th-century childbirth education films and contemporary natural births. Illustrates a range of simple time-honored labor aids ancient people devised to keep birth normal and maintain a woman's spirits during a challenging labor. 20 minutes, color, English in VHS format
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Babies Know More Than You Think:
Exploring the Consciousness and Capacity of the Unborn and Newborn Child.
Featuring psychologist David Chamberlain interviewed by Suzanne Arms, illustrate with Black & White photographs by Suzanne. Discover that babies learn and remember more and much earlier than we ever imagined. Describes how the attitudes, beliefs and emotional states of mom and dad affect the unborn baby and what can be done to insure optimum growth during a baby's development. Understanding this research can profoundly impact pregnancy, birth, bonding and beyond. 60 minutes, color, English in VHS or DVD format
The Psychology of Birth:
An Introduction to Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and the Impact of Birth on our Lives
In this ground-breaking documentary, noted experts show how a child's personality and approach to life is shaped during the first nine months - from conception through birth. Included is brief live footage of an extraordinary, natural birth as well as intimate scenes from therapeutic sessions with several adults who have chosen to re-experience their original birth trauma as a means of healing and freeing themselves from the patterns it left in their lives. Featuring interviews with Dr. Thomas Verny, author of The Secret Life of the Unborn Child, and Dr. Marshall Klaus, neonatologist and author of Your Amazing Newborn, this video will help adult audiences of all ages and backgrounds understand the impact of our earliest experiences - from our time in the womb through the process of bonding to our mother. 43 minutes, color, English in VHS or DVD format
The 8th Day
Ethics and tradition collide in this powerful and soul-searching documentary by Keren Markuze. This contemporary video follows three Jewish couples wrestling with the decision of whether or not to circumcise their sons. Features interviews with the parents, family members, a medical historian,, a prominent U.S. pediatrician speaking on the risks and negative consequences of circumcision for any baby, and a rabbi and mohel - all with strong opinions about circumcision. An extraordinarily moving documentary suitable for any adult, older teen, college student, professional or student in health care. 53 minutes, color. English in VHS format
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It's My Body, My Baby, My Birth
In this fine film, 7 mothers from diverse backgrounds share the intimate and emotional journey to natural childbirth. Also included are interviews with their partners, an obstetrician, a certified nurse midwife and a licensed midwife. This film addresses the paramount issues of most childbearing women - and men - today: safety, fear and pain. Included is a woman had a cesarean for her first birth and a woman who switches to a birth center during the last month of her pregnancy in order to have the birth she desires. The filmmakers want as many people as possible to see this film and understand the importance of natural childbirth. Thus the extraordinary low price. This film is suitable for children as well as adults. 27 minutes, color. English in DVD format
Born in the USA
This brilliant documentary was made for, and aired on, U.S. national public television. It is now available on DVD. It follows 3 practitioners and explores their values and practices. Through interviews and films of births viewers learn the differences between the medical and midwifery models of care, and birth in different setting. They include: an OB working in a teaching hospital; a Certified Nurse-Midwife in an urban birthing center, and a Licensed Midwife attending births at home. 56 minutes. color. DVD only
Produced by Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider.
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CUT
CUT is a brilliant new documentary film by Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon which examines the subject of male circumcision from a religious, scientific and ethical perspective. Using cutting-edge research, in addition to interview footage of rabbis, philosophers, and scientists, Cut challenges the viewer to confront their biases by asking difficult questions about this long-standing practice. 70 minutes
Circumcision:
Intact Facts
This hard-hitting, factual film aimed is intended to inform people of all ages, backgrounds, professions and interests about the need to stop the practice of newborn male circumcision. It answers all of the commonly asked questions and dispels the various myths that still surround newborn circumcision, which is common in the U.S. and a significant religious ritual globally. Features interviews with wide array of experts, including an Oxford-trained historian, a neurophysiologist, a Jewish pediatrician, and an anthropologist. Also shows an alternative bris done without cutting. 18 minutes, color, English in VHS format
Five Women, Five Births:
A Film About Choices
Made in 1978, this classic film is still used by many educators to gently help shift the focus and discussion from pain to hard work, joy and empowerment. Gives the stories of five women, illustrated by lovely black and white photographs by Suzanne Arms of their labors and births. Includes a thoroughly natural gentle birth in hospital, home birth, and both a vaginal and a cesarean breech birth. Four of the women are first-time mothers; one is a single, self-assured woman supported by her mother. Each tells her story a year after birth, describing the choices she made (or let others make), her experience of labor, and the impact of this birth on her life. Viewers see birth can - and most often should - be normal and natural. Easy viewing for kids too. 28 minutes, black and white. English in VHS format or DVD