~ Sylvia Lauris - currently working out of Te Whanganui-a-Tara ~
Prior to this line of work my experience has been in Natural Farming. This is a technique I follow in my gardening and farming but also more broadly in my life. Natural Farming, as written about by Masanobu Fukuoka, endeavours to reduce the complexity and heavy workload of farming (and life) by recognising that when we try to solve problems we often create more work for ourselves, and more often that not complex natural systems are beyond our full understanding and we should let them operate to their full effect by intervening as little as possible. This is definitely the case within industrial farming but it applies to an endless array of things.
I believe it applies to birth. Something that women have been doing since before we were humans has become a medicalised event that has strict timeframes, cascades of interventions, "right" and "wrong" ways of doing it. It's become incredibly complex. I don't think it needs to be.
While I am still in the early stages of this work I will be charging a reduced rate and offering an additional free post-partum session as an opportunity for you to provide any feedback to me, among whatever other support you may need.
Experience :
- Rachel Reed's Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage course.
- Student of The Doula School Aotearoa.
- Extensive self directed study