There’s an East West Special Event this weekend-the 15, 16, 17 June 2007-called Calm Birth: Teacher Certification.
It’s presented by Robert Newman, and it says, “Robert Bruce Newman is the developer of calm birth a new childbirth method based on his more than 20 years of apprenticeship with Tibetan meditation teachers and doctors, western doctors, childbirth educators, midwives, nurses, and doulas.”
www.calmbirth.org
After the births of Sebastian and Sophie I started thinking a lot about the importance of coming into the world in a gentle and loving way. It seems that our western society is now striving to make that happen. It’s taken a long time, maybe our crawl in that direction is picking up some speed. Having a gentle, more loving and caring birth is a great way to enter the world.
Note: What happened? – After years of servicing the Greenwich Village area, and all the recent renovations, East West closed. Happily, right around the corner is Namaste Bookshop at 2 West 14th Street, NYC.