Calgary Canada June 9, 2011 Screening of BAWKI and Elena's presentation
Calgary Canada
June 10-13, 2011
2 Day or 4 Day Workshop Level 1 & 2
Stamford, CT USA
June 17, 2011
Screening of BAWKI and Elena's presentation
Stamford, CT USA
June 18-19, 2011
2 Day Workshop Level 1
London, UK 9-10th of July 'Birth into Being' Level II
facilitated by Penny Jean-Pierre, Elena's apprentice
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Chico, CA USA
August 5-14, 2011
10 Day Apprenticeship Training (Includes Levels 1 and 2; 2 day and 4 day)
Berlin Germany
September 17-26, 2011
10 Day Apprenticeship Training (Includes Levels 1 and 2; 2 day and 4 day)
Prague Czech Republic
October 6-9, 2011
2 Day or 4 Day Workshop Level 1 & 2
Zutphen Holland
October 15-18, 2011
2 Day or 4 Day Workshop Level 1 & 2
Limerick Ireland
October 27-30, 2011
2 Day or 4 Day Workshop Level 1 & 2
Belfast Ireland
November 3-12
10 Day Apprenticeship Training (Includes Level 1 and 2; 2 Day and 4 Day)
Ashland, OR USA
January 28 - 29, 2012
Level 1 Workshop
Auckland New Zealand
March 17-26, 2012
10 Day Apprenticeship Training (Includes Level 1 and 2; 2 Day and 4 Day)
Victoria Canada
June 9 - 10, 2012
Level 1 Workshop
Chico, CA USA
August 3 - 12, 2012
10 day Apprenticeship Training (Includes Level 1 and 2; 2 Day and 4 Day)
Birth As We Know It DVDs 11 ecstatic births in a variety of natural settings.
Covers topics rarely discussed in public media: sexuality of birth, side effects of c-section, circumcision, lotus birth, spirituality of conscious procreation.
Directed by Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova, Produced by E. Tonetti, co-producers: C.K. Borthwick and George C. Dennistonk, Edited by Skyler Sabine Copyright 2006
In this Issue: ~An article from Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova~ ~Film Screening & Birthshop 2011 & 2012 Schedule~ ~A Note about the Limbic Imprint Re-coding Birthshops~ ~An Interview with Elena by Imani Mamalution~
A Message from Elena Tonetti-Vlaimirova:
Conscious Pro-Creation as a Pathway to Freedom from Addictions
In my many interviews, I’ve described the mechanism of correlation between the way we were born and the quality of our emotional life as adults. Limbic imprint is an inborn capacity of the nervous system to absorb and memorize non-cognitively all of the information from the surrounding environment during the pre-verbal formative period from conception, through gestation, birth, and the first few years of life. It means that if the baby was predominantly saturated with mother’s ‘Love Hormones’, Oxitocin and other dopamines, the baby grows well and feels safe about coming into this family. If, on the other hand, the baby was exposed to predominantly stressful experiences, that would mean adopting negative sensory overload as the norm by the baby’s limbic brain and nervous system. Against any logic, loneliness and suffering would register as ‘comfort zone’, as the cortex (logic) is not developed yet and cannot cognitively rationalize that it’s not a desirable experience. It is no coincidence that the drug culture of the 1960’s exploded after medical drugs were introduced into delivery rooms during the 1940’s. It set up the whole generation to depend on chemicals as a way of dealing with life. The greatest irony is that it is our inherent desire to feel good, about ourselves and the world around us, to find that ‘paradise lost’ – the sense of belonging to some omnipresent loving Source –it is exactly what drives the unskilled search towards the quick fix of addictive behaviors. Ramana, one of the legendary yogis of India, once said that when he experienced Enlightenment, it lasted for 15 seconds, but it had enough impact on him to spend the rest of his life in devotion to this moment. For women, this kind of experience of Enlightenment is biologically available every time they go into labor to deliver a baby. The amount of Oxytocin her brain is capable of releasing would be sufficient for her to enter that state of being. It is the natural bliss that is supposed to become the baby’s emotional ‘basic settings’. When a woman’s body is doing its work without interference from her own anxiety, she is capable of experiencing pure ecstasy during delivery. Her hormones ‘dialogue’ with the baby’s hormones, ‘wiring’ the baby’s ‘settings’ onto a deep sense of well-being and fearless attitude towards life and melded in sweet connection with the mother, who is felt by the baby as a nurturing, loving Source of Existence. That is the most basic sensation every one of us has the right to experience at birth, because that is how female procreational neuro-biology and hormonal landscape is supposed to function. Unfortunately, so far, it is only a privilege of so few... Because if a woman was not born well herself, her body doesn’t know that it knows how to produce enough oxytocin during delivery. The good news is that it’s possible to re-train our nervous system to the sufficient production of oxytocin by writing a new script for our own birth and triggering the creation of new reference points that includes feelings of safety and nurture. We can learn to be truly kind to ourselves. It’s, in most cases, harder than learning to walk or speak, if we were imprinted on suffering from the beginning of times... This is exactly why the longest journey one will ever undertake is the journey from the head to the heart. Because if the feelings are emotionally disconnected from physiology, one cannot tell the difference between love and lust, with no reference point of what it’s supposed to feel like – be safe, loved, respected.
For those adults who are already born into less than blissful circumstances, I offer my ‘Limbic Imprint Re-Coding’ workshops, designed to create new ‘reference points’ in our nervous system. It is for anyone, women and men, who want to feel vibrant, creative and are searching for ways of expanding their capacity for joy, deep sense of well-being, intimacy and gratitude for being alive. It is for those who are interested in healing their emotional body from the time they were conceived or from giving birth. To summarize: it is for those who are looking to harmonize their creative flow, whether they are pregnant with an art project or a child. For more info please visit: www.birthintobeing.com.
We need to put birth into the context of life, so women don’t feel helpless when it comes to delivery and don’t look for somebody to give their power away (a midwife, a partner, or some expert, who thinks he knows about birth just because he went to school). There is so much more to giving birth than the eye can see! It’s a deeply mystical, shamanic experience, that’s why it has a rank as a rite of passage, initiation into Motherhood in indigenous cultures, in spite of it also being a normal anatomical function.
It is an ultimate activation of the Divine Feminine in a woman. Afterwards, her creativity, grasp of life's mysteries, are available to her - if she chooses to pay attention. Of course, if there is a real medical indication, we are very grateful that the professional help is available in the hospitals! But in a healthy society, C-section should not be over 10-12%, speaking very conservatively, - it’s a dangerous major abdominal surgery with lots of negative psychological side-effects for both the mother and child. In some countries C-section rates are now up to 85-95% ! It’s in women’s hands to educate themselves and know what they can do. And breastfeeding is a purely shamanic act, too, – a woman’s body produces on demand the most nurturing substance in the world, out of non-existence! It brings an enormous oxytocin production for both, mom and the babe!
Conscious Pro-Creation movement is marching the world! It is an answer to fear based, violent, addictive life-style - to raise a new generation of humans who are not programmed on pain and suffering and are free to live by the law of common sense and simple compassion towards each other, which is human's natural state of being.
I have put together a very effective set of exercises and processes, which result in reprogramming of limbic imprint. Please, check my schedule for an event near you.
