In this episode, I speak with Tara, an independent midwife in Copenhagen, a wise woman, and a beautiful soul. We tap into an intimate connection with the feminine and what it means to be in alignment with Her in all her dimensions. This episode is like honey, so sweet, tender and nourishing.

Tara Ravn is a traditional midwife working in Copenhagen and the countryside around Copenhagen, including the South of Sweden.

She sees the natural worlds in the pregnant woman, in births and post partum, and sustains the shamanic dimensions between woman, body, midwife and earth, tending to the roots of birth medicine.

The roots of birth medicine are very connected to the healer - both the sacred and the wounded. Deep transitions in life, as becoming a mother evokes many, both bright and dark paths inside the landscape of a woman. The roots of birth calls us to befriend the dark feminine, to be able to de-armour our defenses against intimacy in our culture and in our relations. Birth medicine invites us to be somatically embodied with honesty in our approach of each other, the earth and to our own birth stories.

Tara works with activism around birth culture from the inside out. All the women she witnessed give birth are represented in her own body and it is from there she evokes change. From embodiment, honesty and relation.

Tara trained and educated herself in Denmark, but worked in both Norway and Mexico for a deepening in on nature, tradition and health.

In Tepotzlan/Mexico she learned from Angelina Martinez. With her she deepened in on plants and cacao in birth, post partum rituals and nurturing the woman in the first 40 days after birth.

Naoli Vinaver (currently living in Brazil) introduced her to rebozo & ceremonial birthwork in the community.

Resources:

This is Tara & Naoli working together on the closing of the bones. https://www.naolivinaver.com/mexican-postpartum.html

Outro song:

For Her Speak/MaMuse (feat. Lyla Jones)

Tara's website: www.naturligfødsel.com

Tara's instagram: @naturligfoedsel

Literature:

Thomas Hübl “Healing Collective Trauma”

Sharon Blackie “Hagitude” & “If Women Rose Rooted”

Rachel Reed “Reclaiming childbirth as a rite of passage…”



Clarissa Pinkola Estés “Women who run with the wolves”



Toko Pa Turner “Belonging”

Rupi Kaur “The sun and all her flowers”