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Birth: A New StoryFor our daughters - In conversation with Imogen LoveYou can support the film HEREImogen love is a British Caribbean London-based birth doula, sound therapist, artist and mother. Imogen is a multi instrumentalist, having worked with sound as a tool for self connection for over 20 years. Imogen offers heart-led holistic support for pregnancy, birth and postpartum. Her care addresses the mind and body using complimentary sound, meditation, nutrition and exercises. Imogen’s visual practice has seen her art direct and photograph commercial fashion campaigns, largely inspired by her own fascination with human connection and nature.
2025-04-1625 min
Birth: A New StoryThe Descent and Rising of Childbirth - A conversation with Carly MountainUse the community code SAMARA-10 for a 10% discount on the Birth: A New Story CourseThrough the lens of philosophy, pre and perinatal psychology, traditional midwifery, anthropology and modern medicine, this course invites us to widen our understanding about birth and its deep interrelationship with the rest of our lives. It explores what is possible beyond the dominant story about birth and how we can collectively create a new story that is in service of thriving life.
2025-02-2757 min
Birth: A New StoryBirth and Belonging - A conversation with Advaya, Mia Kalef and Samara ConcepciónThrough the lens of philosophy, pre and perinatal psychology, traditional midwifery, anthropology and modern medicine, this course invites us to widen our understanding about birth and its deep interrelationship with the rest of our lives. It explores what is possible beyond the dominant story about birth and how we can collectively create a new story that is in service of thriving life.
USE THE DISCOUNT CODE SAMARA-BIRTH-10 to get 10% off the course.
You can register HERE
2025-01-2854 min
Birth: A New StoryThe Holy Architecture of Birth • Towards a council of pregnant women - A conversation between Samara Concepción and Theodore LowryThis episode is a rich conversation between Theodore Lowry, host of the Story Paths podcast, and myself. It was an absolute pleasure to be interviewed by Theodore and to have the opportunity to bring all my contemplations, research and sensing together into a wholesome conversation which completes the first season of the birth a new story podcast, before I take a pause to give my full attention to the film which is entering its post production phase.
In this conversation we explore how birth, like life, unfolds in different fields of belief. We contemplate the natural design o...
2024-09-081h 18
Birth: A New StoryBirth, Dance, Human Rights and Natural Law with Eva Maria BredlerEva Maria Bredler is a PhD student, editor, and dancer from Germany.
In her PhD, she’s exploring human rights in the context of pregnancy and childbirth. Her work seeks to bring the body back into the law – a sphere mostly inhabited by rational, autonomous legal subjects without bodies or relationships. As such, the law is unable to grasp pregnancy and childbirth as connected and embodied experiences. While doing research at the University of Oxford, she fell in love with social dancing. Trained as a ballet dancer, she is now focussing on Bachata and wants to inspire peop...
2024-07-011h 08
Birth: A New StoryEmbracing the Unknown in Birth with Matiga HarrowerMatiga is a Space holding Birthworker & Massage therapist from South East London. Walking with women and families along different stages of their maternal journey, she is honoured to witness the transition to earthside by many bright souls that have trusted her presence.
Matiga is currently being gently called to support during the other major life transition, that being departures, and she is excited to see where the roads lead next.
To learn more about Matiga's offerings, please visit https://www.makebadoula.co.uk/
You can support Birth: A New Story H...
2024-06-0124 min
Birth: A New StoryRestoring Traditional Birth Practices with Nicola GoodallRaised in the hip hop and muslim community in South London, Nicola Mahdiyyah Goodall has been involved in birth for almost thirty years. She was guided by her adopted mama Rifat Peggy Nafisa Brown - a traditional midwife taught by God, her local Grand Midwives and her local indigenous elders in Portland. Officially trained in 2002 with Michel Odent as one of the first Paramana Doulas. She works actively not only as a doula, but is also part of many different initiatives which promote good health for women.
She is the founder of the Red Tent Doulas training...
2024-05-0144 min
Birth: A New StoryNatalie’s Ecstatic Home Birth after a J Incision CaesareanIn this conversation, Samara Concepción invites Natalie Feary to share how she created the conditions within and around herself to experience an ecstatic home birth after a difficult J incision caesarean.
Natalie is a mother to two children aged 9 and 5 and was born and grew up in London with a Mexican mother and English father. She has worked extensively as a politics and business journalist for both print and broadcast media and is the co-owner of two Mexican restaurants by the name of Santo Remedio in London. Natalie had a wonderful birth experience with the birth of...
2024-04-0154 min
Birth: A New StoryDissolving Birth Myths with Kemi Johnson (Part 2)This episode is my second interview with birthkeeper, birth educator and birth activist, Kemi Johnson.
In this episode we focus on dissolving some of the most deeply ingrained myths about birth with the intention of creating new possibilities for families beyond the dominant story about birth.
Kemi Johnson is an experienced Birthkeeper, former NHS and former Independent Midwife in the UK. She provides services to women and families who are seeking more than the conveyor-belt style of care and education that the NHS is providing people with currently.
As well as working with fi...
2024-03-0142 min
Birth: A New StoryDissolving Birth Myths and Learning To Say No with Kemi JohnsonKemi Johnson is an experienced Birthkeeper, former NHS and former Independent Midwife in the UK. She provides services to women and families who are seeking more than the conveyor-belt style of care and education that the NHS is providing people with currently.
As well as working with first-time mothers-to-be, Kemi also helps people unravel their thoughts regarding previous birth experiences. They walk away lighter, more informed and able to plan future births with strength and confidence restored.
Half of Kemi’s work is dedicated to coaching other Birthkeepers in their power to support families all ove...
2024-02-0156 min
Birth: A New StoryBirth is an Altered State of Consciousness with Sheri WinstonWholistic Sexuality teacher Sheri Winston is a groundbreaking, award-winning author and teacher who offers empowering, entertaining erotic education for everyone.
She’s the author of the award-winning Women’s Anatomy of Arousal: Secret Maps to Buried Pleasure (which I personally couldn’t recommend enough) and Succulent SexCraft: Your Hands-On Guide to Erotic Play and Practice. She’s also a contributor to the award-winning Secrets of the Sex Masters.
Sheri is the founder of the Intimate Arts Center. She offers pleasure-centered sex-ed for grown-ups via a wide variety of practical and transformational intimate arts educational recorded online c...
2024-01-0159 min
Birth: A New StoryWhy I'm creating Birth: A New Story ~ A Prayer for All Mothers and ChildrenI deeply believe that the way we welcome new life into our world touches all of us, whether we are aware of it or not. I see pregnancy, birth, the postnatal period and parenting as the foundations of our collective health. The lives and losses of lives in Palestine have ripple effects on the unfolding of our human story.
What could be more important, more precious, to society, governments and our collective humanity than caring for the source of all human life itself?
This project is a Prayer for All Mothers and...
2023-12-1305 min
Birth: A New StoryAn Invitation to Feel (Meditation & Sound Immersion)My invitation, through this meditation, is to help create the space that is needed to go within and feel all that there is to feel, in the trust that this will, in time, deepen our relationship with what is truly being felt within us. Here’s my offering to you this month, loved ones, and I hope it opens/nourishes you in some way.
With immense Love,
Samara
Music composed by Tommy Khosla
2023-12-0212 min
Birth: A New StoryThe Underworld of Childbirth with Carly MountainCarly Mountain is a writer, psychotherapist and women’s initiatory guide, who specialises in working with sexuality, relationships and embodiment. She is author of Descent & Rising: Women’s Stories & the Embodiment of the Inanna Myth.
Carly facilitates people at the threshold of change to deepen intimacy with themselves and their lives. Her writing and work seeks to uncover what has been exiled or hidden within, that is longing to be remembered and reconnected with. A mythopoetic process that leads us back into intimacy with all that we have been estranged from, so that we can become more of w...
2023-11-011h 02
Birth: A New StoryWhy Birth Activism is Needed Today with Mars LordMars Lord is a life coach and a birth activist. A triple award winning doula, mentor, educator and coach with over 15 years of experience.
Mars created Abuela Doulas, a doula preparation course primarily, but not exclusively, for Black and Brown women, and is the Founder of BLA (Black Lives Abuela) Scholarship. This scholarship is to help Black women who wish to become doulas to train and not be held back by socio-economic disadvantage.
She is Inclusion Consultant to several large companies causing them to look deep into their practise to make systemic and structural change.
2023-10-0159 min
Birth: A New StoryGiving Birth to the Next Generation with Naoli VinaverNaolí Vinaver is a Mexican midwife who combines traditional Mexican and contemporary home birth practices, with a profound respect for the physiology of natural birth, having attended over 1800 home births in both Mexico and Brazil. Naolí is a passionate speaker and educator, teaching hundreds of workshops and seminars in over 30 countries around the world.
In this interview Naoli shares her love for the journey of expansion, discovery and transformation that every woman embarks on through pregnancy and birth. Naoli offers her fascinating perspective as an anthropologist on how the medical model of birth became the norm and in...
2023-09-011h 02
Birth: A New StoryPreserving our Humanity with midwife Jennie JosephJennie Joseph is a British-trained midwife who fights to ensure every person has their healthiest possible pregnancy, birth and postpartum experience with dignity and support.
Jennie created The JJ Way® which is an evidence-based, maternity care model delivering readily-accessible, patient-centred, culturally-congruent care to women in areas that she terms 'materno-toxic zones'.
Jennie is the Founder and President of Commonsense Childbirth which operates a perinatal training division, a clinical division, a national Midwifery school and the National Perinatal Task Force, a grassroots organisation whose mission is the elimination of racial disparities in maternal child health in t...
2023-08-0139 min
Birth: A New StoryHow our Pre-birth and Birth Experiences Shape our World, with Mia KalefMia Kalef is a Chiropractor, Craniosacral Therapist and founder of Emerging Families, a program of therapy, education, and research for the Pre and Perinatal Period. She works with families throughout the childbearing years to resolve the effects of Pre and Perinatal challenges and with adults retrospectively. She is the author of ‘The Secret Life of Babies: How Our Prebirth and Birth Experiences Shape Our World’ and ‘It’s Never Too Late: Healing Prebirth and Birth At Any Age’, which is a practical guide for parents, caregivers, and health care providers I personally couldn’t recommend enough.
In this intervi...
2023-07-0130 min
Birth: A New StoryTrusting your Innate Body Wisdom with Natalie GyteIn this conversation, Samara Concepción invites Natalie Gyte to share her free birth experience and the journey which led her to that choice. Together, they explore pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period as a continuum, rather than separate chapters.
Natalie is a new Mama to Rose, and a partner to Luke. She has played basketball for England and for team Great Britain at the junior Olympics and has competed in boxing for 8 years - winning a national title in 2019. Natalie is currently navigating a down shift into slow living as she journeys into Motherhood. And she d...
2023-06-0652 min
Birth: A New StoryWelcome to the PodcastBirth: A New Story is a gathering place for visionary voices to explore what it means to be human and welcome new life into the world with reverence.
Samara Concepción is a birth doula and a women’s health practitioner based in London. These conversations intend to offer you a holistic perspective on pregnancy and birth. One which deeply values your innate body wisdom and the inherent intelligence of birth.
2023-06-0501 minBirth: A New StoryA Message from Samara ConcepcionStay in touch on the film updates at http://birthanewstory.com
2022-09-0900 min
Birth: A New StoryWelcoming The Emerging Being | In Conversation with Te KahaIn this time of great transition on Earth, Te Kaha's heart-led mission is to be a guide in the transformation and empowerment of others, in their essential reconnection with themselves and with the natural world, as shown to him by his tīpuna (ancestors).
For more information about Te Kaha and his offerings, please visit his website: https://www.tekahapounamu.com/home
2022-09-081h 04
Birth: A New StoryThe Sacred Role of The Father | In Conversation with Adam Jackson & Aubert Bastiat (Sacred Sons)The New Story about Birth recognises that the health and well-being of fathers is essential to our societal health. The changes that accompany pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period are significant, but so is the role that men play in this transformation. A partner’s quality of presence and influence through this time is momentous. How could men be better supported on their journey to fatherhood? Join Adam Jackson, Aubert Bastiat and Samara Concepción to explore the sacred role of the father during pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period.
2022-09-0858 min
Birth: A New StoryReclaiming Pleasure in Birth | In Conversation with Sheila Kamara HayThe New Story about Birth is wet, wild and sexy. Intimate, untamed and undisturbed. Birth, like sex, is an altered state - When we don’t interfere with the magnificent design of birth.
When a birthing woman feels safe, unobserved, undisturbed and free to follow her innate body wisdom, her body starts releasing a fine combination of hormones, including oxytocin and beta-endorphin, which lead her into an altered state or birth trance. This state is essential to the optimal unfolding of birth. Oxytocin, also known as the hormone of love and bonding, is also released during arousal and...
2022-09-0854 min
Birth: A New StoryThe Ancient Roots of Birth | In Conversation with Charles EisensteinThe New Story about Birth recognises that the health and well-being of mothers, babies and families is integral to the health of society as a whole. How would we welcome our children into the world in the new story of interbeing?
Join this conversation between Charles Eisenstein and Samara Concepción to explore how we can restore the radical power of birth to its ancient roots in service of thriving life.
2022-09-0850 min
Birth: A New StoryChildbirth As Initiation | In Conversation with Kelly BroganThe New Story about Birth values the innate body wisdom of women and babies. Join this conversation between Kelly Brogan and Samara Concepción to explore how we can reclaim reverence for the mystery and inherent intelligence of birth in a time that perceives childbirth as an inherently dangerous event that requires medical management.
2022-09-081h 02
Birth: A New StoryOn Birth and Fatherhood | In Conversation with Jacob Fortune-Lloyd and Ian MacKenzieIn support of the forthcoming film Birth: A New Story, join this conversation with School of Mythopoetics co-founder Ian MacKenzie and actor Jacob Fortune-Lloyd.
Jacob Fortune-Lloyd - Executive Producer
Jacob is an actor, theatre and filmmaker based in London. His acting projects include The Queen's Gambit, Wolf Hall, and the upcoming See How They Run and The Power. He has performed on London's West End, volunteer co-produces Matchstick Theatre Company in South East London, and is currently co-developing a number of film and TV projects. He is excited and honoured to be part of bringing th...
2022-09-011h 01
The Crow's Nest with Ian MacKenzie03 | A New (And Ancient) Story of Birth w/ Samara ConcepcionThe Crow's Nest is a new weekly series with Ian MacKenzie and special guests. Each episode will riff on the latest current events and themes from a mythopoetic lens. In this Wed edition, I'll be joined by Samara Concepcion, a birth doula who is directing a forthcoming documentary Birth: A New Story. We'll talk about the film and a mythopoetic exploration of birth.
Support the film Birth: A New Story http://birthanewstory.com
Become a Member of The School of Mythopoetics http://schoolfomythopoetics.com
2022-06-0830 min
Stephano Rossi In The MixURB@NI@ MIXT@PE VOLUME 24-2020-MIXED BY STEPH@NO ROSSITRACKLIST:
Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande - Rain On Me (Remix)
ANTONIA - Rebound
R3HAB & Astrid S & HRVY - Am I The Only One
Waterfall - RnBass x Chris Brown 2020
Irina Rimes x Cris Cab - Your Love
DJ DENZ The Rooster - Tokyo Skyline
Spike - Paparude
Lil Jon Eminem - Closer (2020)
Cortes 🛸 Rashid 🛸 Jon Baiat Bun 🛸 Arkanian 🛸 Jianu – Zeama
Travis Scott feat. Young Thug M.I.A. - FRANCHISE
Maya B - Sink ft. SAINt JHN
Feid ❌ Sech ❌ Jamaica (EXTENTED)
Cyrus (of Metro City) - Shut down (prod...
2020-11-114h 15
SAMARA_Saltillo #2019Testimonio Dr. Gloria Polo en Veracruz, Parroquia Inmaculada Concepción - Dic.8 de 2016Testimonio Dr. Gloria Polo en Veracruz, Parroquia Inmaculada Concepción - Dic.8 de 2016 - Grabación en Vivo By. www.ProtelMx.com
2016-12-092h 04
SAMARA_Saltillo #2019Misa del 8 Diciembre, 2015. (Inmaculada Concepción) Pbro. Mario A.Cruz M. - SAMARA Saltillo.Diciembre 08 de 2015, Podcast #508 Audio HiRes - (Misa, Lecturas, Evangelio, Homilía y Consagración, Celebramos a la Inmaculada Concepción de la Santísima Virgen María) en SAMARA Saltillo del Pbro. Mario Alberto Cruz Méndez. - ( "Alégrate, llena de gracias, el Señor está contigo". ) - Audios para Compartir y Meditar desde la Parroquia Santa María Reina de los Apóstoles, Edición Digital en www.protelMx.com, por el Ing. Salvador Morales, en Saltillo, Coahuila México.
2015-12-091h 10