E21- Maha Al Musa EmbodyBirth Premie Hospital to Home Lotus Birth Stories

 

In this episode I feel very connected to the story from Maha Al Musa. This episode brings cultural elements with a journey of finding feminine and connecting in full potential to the birth…

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Maha beings the story with her background where she talks about her grandmother and birth houses in Arab culture. Taken from her mother at 6 months old and finding her again 33 years later in Lebanon, Maha describes the connection and similarities (such as using the same lip balm) with her mother upon reconnecting with her all this time later. Returning home Maha was pregnant 6 months after reconnecting with her mother. The circle returns. Maha believes we carry the seeds from our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers. Those seeds are important in our own birth journeys. Maha finally found her strength.

Her first birth with her son Kailash and he was six weeks early. Kailash was born in a country hospital in NSW, Australia. Maha describes this as the most incredible experience in her life. After his birth Kailash was taken by helicopter to the nearest city hospital to be placed in intensive care. Maha correlates this experience to when she was taken from her mother as a baby. As you listen further you will hear a beautiful connection that Maha makes with Kailash’s birthdate and time of birth. Maha also talks about the wonderful staff that assisted her and her baby during their stay at hospital, she found compassion and skill.

Her next birth story with her son Tariq was a water birth at home with a lotus birth. At the time of Maha’s pregnancy and birthing they lived on a property surrounded by nature this helped Maha widen her scope of birth. She describes how she would regularly communicate with baby and engaged in plenty of mindfulness, meditation, dance, sound and movement. This pregnancy allowed Maha to clear much of her father issues so with that Maha named him Tariq meaning spiritual messenger in Arabic. Maha in this section talks about name meanings in middle eastern culture and the importance it brings to new life.

Maha was 46 years of age when she become pregnant with her daughter Aminah. She knew this would be the last time she would be birthing and asked to gain all the lessons she needed to learn from this experience. Maha was committed and gave this pregnancy 110%, ‘this was an incredible journey into the heart and soul.’ During this pregnancy Maha immersed her self in her work (dance of the womb) and belly dance for birth. She had a beautiful home / water birth. Maha talks about how blessed she felt to have this experience. She describes so many feelings and connection within.

Maha talks further about her teachings over the past 20 years, she stands as a sister, the way of the feminine while celebrating and bringing her middle eastern roots to her work.

The love for the ‘systemhood’ or the sisterhood’ which would you prefer?

From Maha –

“As women we are everything”

“A woman in labour does not need to be saved… she needs to be loved”

“The expert of birth is you, and, your baby as the beginning point. From there we spiral out from that place. If we need to do the research, we do it from the place of that inherent wisdom and being anchored in our emotional, physical, spiritual and energetic body. We need to connect those four bodies to find our wisdom.”

“The living book is within, with your baby, read first, get centred and then flow around her.”

“May all women feel what it is to birth as nature intended where possible, to raise the level of consciousness on the planet.”

““Birth is not choreographed, birth is a song and dance that is ever changing by being in rhythm & in stillness. The comfort and guidance is within you when you feel connected.”

Resources

• Maha’s published article in the Elephant Journal – This talks about our birth imprint, culture and connection to humanity and birth. http://www.elephantjournal.com/2016/07/birth-as-a-vehicle-for-opening-gateways-into-a-more-loving-human-existence/ 
• Embody Birth Training – Connecting to the language of birth, for women to gain another perspective and path to childbirth and beyond – http://mahaalmusa.com/index.php/about-embodybirth/
• Training Promotional Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzQC5llxNEU&feature=youtu.be

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Connect with Maha Al Musa

Websites: http://mahaalmusa.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mahaalmusabirthvisionary

Maha Al Musa is a leading light in the birth world as a spiritual birth visionary and birth activist. She has 20 years experience working with pregnant and birthing women and is the creator and founder of  EmbodyBirth™ – BellydanceBirth® – The Al Musa Method®  also described as Mindful Movement To Awaken Birth Wisdom since 1997. Maha was the winner of the 2011 One World National Birth Hero Award, breastfeeding advocate, doula, mother of three and birth consultant for both pregnant women and birth professionals. She offers her inspiring somatic  Teacher Training worldwide that honours the language of the feminine. More Information Here.

Maha is also an international speaker and passionate about Human Rights in Childbirth. She has presented at numerous birth conferences, events and seminars within Australia and internationally. See Speaking Topics Here.

In her breastfeeding advocacy Maha has graced the cover of two Australian magazines Woman’s Day Nov 2012 and Take 5 Magazine January 2014 as well as appearing on Sunrise TV Australia, A Current Affair, Mornings Show Australia. She has been interviewed by many online and published magazines as well as appearing in three documentaries in 2015, including Discovery Channel, RTL German TV and Inside Story Australia. Watch Here.

She is the author of the award winning world first book “Dance Of The Womb”, endorsed by Dr Michel Odent, Sheila Kitzinger and Dr Sarah Buckley. She is the producer of the DVD “Dance Of The Womb”, endorsed by NACE (Australia) and the Australian Doula College.

Maha speaks the language of the feminine for birth and beyond. She has boldly stood in the light throughout the world for women and babies to be seen and heard with reverence for this human spiritual rite of passage. Through her birth work she encourages women with their babies to align with the innate birth intelligence that resides within themselves and trust in its guidance.

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