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This episode is not to be missed! Elena would have to be one of my most inspiring people that have come into my life path and I feel so honoured deep in my heart to spend this hour listening to her incredible journey of birth, life, birth into being and dolphins!

We begin this story with Elena with her journey from 1982 as a political activist and involved with many movements in Russia trying to make life better. She stumbled across Igor Charkovsky who was pioneering, birth and water birth in the very difficult Russian birthing system. Elena spent 4 hours with with Igor who explained in detail how we are born affects our lives. Igor expressed to Elena that ‘If we want to change the way we live in this planet we need to change the way we make people’. This scales it right back to baby being in the womb and the perceptions, stresses, and emotional state that the mother has at the time of building the baby and how baby will absorb everything from the mother. I guess you could call this Epigenetic’s, new concept yet very old knowledge…

Elena stopped everything with this new information and she dedicated most of her time and energy into helping women give birth well. Her own birth in the 50’s was in state institution where the practice was described by Elena as ‘brutal’ and ‘bizarre’. In her mothers generation the rate of abortions was 23 PER PERSON.. Life was strange and very hard in Russia during this time… Elena describes that, during this time babies were taken away from their mothers for 5 days post birth, no reason, it was done, because thats how it was done. Elena further talks about our basic setting from in utero and birth and how we are ‘programmed’. This part of the interview is worth pondering on or looking for further research. Elena offers a great understanding into how birth trauma is affecting us and our life that is resulted by the ‘thinking’ brain. The effectiveness of any healing modality is when you activate evenly all three parts of the brain including the cortex, limbic and reptilian part this being responsible for mental, emotional and physiological connections. Elena describes birth a an ‘reptilian’ function, the link that Elena describes is that getting pregnant is difficult if the woman’s body is still in shock from her own birth experience. We need to make peace with the body and allow it to do what it does to conceive and birth.

Elena and I continue to talk about her journey in Russia and the birth camps set up in 1986 in the Black Sea. This then bought on the film Birth as We Know It. Western traditions was only just seeping though Russia, and during this time it was actually quite easy to set up something like the birth camps as there were no regulations to stop it.  So dolphins? In Russia dolphins were just considered as standard fish, however there was a obvious correlation with pregnant woman and dolphins when news was coming to Elena about this connection. During this period in the 90’s things were very difficult for Russia as Elena describes the last birth camp finishing in 1992. This to Elena was not long enough. Russia caught up and regulated birth further where home birth would now be known as illegal. There was no footage taken at the camps or admin work to track the births, however luckily there was an American midwife who left her camera at the camp and this contains the only footage they recorded at the birth camps in the span of 6 years.

Elena goes on to talk about her absolute incredible journey during her pregnancy. Elena was pregnant when she arrived in California, not long after she landed in America the whole soviet exploded with civil war and life as Elena knew it completely collapsed. 

Elena found her self in a position that was exactly what she was teaching women not to be in, alone, a foreign country, pregnant and did not speak english and had little money. She recalls her mother screaming on the phone, ‘don’t come home’! This is known now as the event of the Iron Curtain. The father of Elena’s daughter was killed.  Elena talks about perfection in this huge story, for this is the reason she is where she is and what she is teaching today.

People opened their hearts and homes to Elena and she eventually manifested a huge support system. She birthed in the hospital and was granted American citizenship for her daughter. The birth was difficult yet Elena talks more here about the Limbic encoding and her journey from there on into what she is today.

We hear more wisdom from Elena, plus info on her trainings and upcoming biography that she is in the process of writing. I am absolutely just honoured to spend this hour with Elena, again I have transformed by listening to this.

From Elena –

“We are not what happened to us..“

“Its not necessary that a woman has to have a child.. A woman is also person that has any form of expression of her life force, yet she also has the ability to give birth to a baby. This choice needs to be made in alignment from her true identity ..“

“The ability to love is completely universal and from that place the oxytocin flows – you can give brith? you can conceive? not conceive? Your babies will be your books, your gardens, your community. Your life is your masterpiece it does not have to be motherhood.“

“We are born exactly the way our souls agenda requires“

“If our parents are in conflict, we are accepting conflict as normal as our interpretation of love  – we are always expecting a notion of love when we arrive to this planet, its our natural state – so what ever we experience becomes our understanding of love..“

“IN order to give birth well, we need to go back to connecting with that being, that is pure physiological and pure emotional. We need to move the energy in the body.“

“There is so much learning that can happen for any pregnant woman if she is in direct connection with the place from which the baby is coming from.“

 Resources

Connect with Elena and Birth into Being

Website: http://www.birthintobeing.com

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

Since 1982 Elena has been inspiring people all over the world to bring Consciousness into the way they create children. She was one of the organisers of the birth camps at the Black Sea in Russia, where women gave birth in the presence of wild dolphins Elena is the creator of the revolutionary documentary ‘Birth As We Know It’(2006; 3,5 hr), and is a Spiritual Midwife to thousands of people, perfecting her “Birth Into Being” Method, training other facilitators, who are now using it in 28 countries in all major languages.    Elena is featured in the recently released UN sponsored book, “Force Such As the World Had Never Known – Women Creating Change,” as one of the 30 most influential grassroots women in the world. She  recently received the ‘Legendary Leader’ Award, and was a featured keynote speaker at countless conference

 

 

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