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Summary: Prenatal Yoga & Natural Childbirt
Review: As a midwife I keep reading and rereading this book. I just ove it. Any woman expecting a baby should have this book, to guide her. Thank heaven for Jeannine Parvati Baker and her wise words.
Rating: 
Summary: An honest review
Review: I enjoyed Prenatal Yoga and Natural Childbirth 2 Ed
by Jeannine Parvati Baker. I knew what to expect because I first learned about JPB and this book before I purchased it. Every midwife is different, just as every birthing mother is different. I enjoy Jeannine Bakers philosophy, outlook, and tone. Her spirit radiates through this book, and her spirit is calming. Jeannine's birth experiences are positive and empowering. Prenatal Yoga was a tool she used to achieve such positive experiences. I took many tools from the book, which I used while birthing my children. We must strengthen our bodies, minds, and souls to achieve an enlightened birth experience. We must find our own truths about God and the universe so we may teach our children. Prenatal Yoga and Natural Childbirth shares the answers JPB has found during her journey on this earth. I recommend this book to mothers seeking to brighten their horizons, and to professionals looking to share what this book offers to others.
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Summary: A personal story
Review: I loved this book. When I read it I felt like someone out there was really in touch with the other side of birth, someone not afraid to live the ecstatic reality of creation in her own life as well as while giving birth.
I know in my bones that Jeannine Pavrati Baker is holding the space for the birth of a new/ancient reality that is of utmost importance in our times: Freebirth.
The gentle yoga is powerful and easy to follow. The birth stories are treasures I will read over and over.
I highly recomend this book.
Rating:
Summary: Prenatal Yoga and Natural Childbirth
Review: My copy arrived by mail. I felt the stork had dropped a bundle on my doorstep. I so loved the first and later editions of Prenatal Yoga, and was nervous to see how 'she' had matured.
First - the cover is delicious. Inside I found everything I always loved about prenatal yoga. The photos. The YOGA. The stories. A poem I treasure. Everything new in this book is ancient knowledge, wise words which I as a woman need to read over and over again.
This book and I have a long 'herstory'. In 1975 to 76 I was a pregnant teenager. My midwives in Santa Barbara loaned me their 1st edition copy of Prenatal Yoga. I loved it so much that I bought one for myself. Following Jeannine's simple instructions for centering and healing my body through yoga, I achieved a blissful pregnancy, and an ecstatic passage into motherhood. I have always believed that, the quality of an expectant woman's fine level of feeling during pregnancy, greatly influences the wholeness of the
baby's
soul. Today, as I write, that first baby of mine, Déjà , is in
Johannesburg, South Africa. She is a U.N. delegate at the World Summit on Sustainable Development. She is an advocate for human rights regarding HIV/AIDS policies for the poor. Today I cannot help but wonder if the quiet neck rolls, cat stretches, pythons, pelvic rocks and deep delicious breathing I did, daily while she grew under my heart, had an effect.
The book Prenatal Yoga & Natural Childbirth, guided me through all five pregnancies. I have lost this book so many times. Loaned it out, given it away. Always when she comes home to me, I rejoice, and gobble up each word. As a midwife I plan to have many copies in my lending library. I do find that the women I help who practice prenatal yoga, have smoother
deliveries. This makes my job less stressful. With the release of the silver anniversary edition I am certain that the next generation of mothers and their babies will be blessed. As a grandmother I intend to keep it on my shelf forever.
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Summary: Prenatal yoga: union with the Goddess
Review: Prenatal yoga is the perfect companion for a beautiful, conscious birth. Here is a book for women who embrace the true meaning of what yoga is: Union with the absolute. It is not merely a book of postures for improving common pregnancy discomforts, but a true guide to being a woman with child, in all that this encompasses: living in our bodies as in the temple of the Goddess and of the child to come, embodying the tremendous energy and power that are ours to reclaim through the initiations of pregnancy and childbirth. Along with potent asanas preparing women for the journey of childbirth and becoming aligned and established in their true selves, are the author's own odyssey and growth into motherhood.This is a very personal book, both because Jeannine Parvati Baker invites us into her sacred space, and because she constantly invites us to find our own sacred space through the postures, conscious parenting decisions, and contemplation. It is a book to treasure and return to long after pregnancy, simply to steep in the sancticity of pregnancy. It is one of those gems of childbirth publications that makes you want to find a quiet space to relish being woman, and simply being. In addition, Prenatal Yoga not only is an honest look at the state of birth in the modern world, but a relief from those books that anesthesize families into thinking everything will be just fine if only they choose the right doctor. Through the examples of Baker's six births, ranging from doctor assisted to finally a freebirth, waterbirth, lotus-birth, the book urges women to look within to find their truth. She narrates how her truth was to birth ecstatically with the Goddesses and her partner as sole support. It is a choice she presents as both accessible and responsible when well-prepared. Finally, you will enjoy Prenatal Yoga for the quality of the prose, the vivid poetry, and beautiful photographs of the author and her growing family. A must-read!
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Summary: This book is wonderful
Review: Review of Prenatal Yoga & Natural Childbirth - Silver Anniversary edition
by: Jeannine Parvati Baker
by: Robin Lim My copy arrived by mail. I felt the stork had dropped a bundle on my
doorstep. I so loved the first and later editions of Prenatal Yoga, and
was nervous to see how 'she' had matured.
First - the cover is delicious. Inside I found everything I always
loved about prenatal yoga. The photos. The YOGA. The stories. A poem I
treasure. Everything new in this book is ancient knowledge, wise words
which I as a woman need to read over and over again.
This book and I have a long 'herstory'. In 1975 to 76 I was a
pregnant teenager. My midwives in Santa Barbara loaned me their 1st
edition copy of Prenatal Yoga. I loved it so much that I bought one for
myself. Following Jeannine's simple instructions for centering and healing
my body through yoga, I achieved a blissful pregnancy, and an ecstatic
passage into motherhood.
I have always believed that, the quality of an expectant woman's fine level
of feeling during pregnancy, greatly influences the wholeness of the baby's
soul. Today, as I write, that first baby of mine, Déjà , is in
Johannesburg, South Africa. She is a U.N. delegate at the World Summit on
Sustainable Development. She is an advocate for human rights regarding
HIV/AIDS policies for the poor. Today I cannot help but wonder if the
quiet neck rolls, cat stretches, pythons, pelvic rocks and deep delicious
breathing I did, daily while she grew under my heart, had an effect.
The book Prenatal Yoga & Natural Childbirth, guided me through all
five pregnancies. I have lost this book so many times. Loaned it out,
given it away. Always when she comes home to me, I rejoice, and gobble up
each word.
As a midwife I plan to have many copies in my lending library. I do find
that the women I help who practice prenatal yoga, have smoother deliveries.
This makes my job less stressful. With the release of the silver
anniversary edition I am certain that the next generation of mothers and
their babies will be blessed. As a grandmother I intend to keep it on my
shelf forever.
Rating:
Summary: This book is wonderful
Review: Review of Prenatal Yoga & Natural Childbirth - Silver Anniversary edition
by: Jeannine Parvati Baker
by: Robin Lim My copy arrived by mail. I felt the stork had dropped a bundle on my
doorstep. I so loved the first and later editions of Prenatal Yoga, and
was nervous to see how 'she' had matured.
First - the cover is delicious. Inside I found everything I always
loved about prenatal yoga. The photos. The YOGA. The stories. A poem I
treasure. Everything new in this book is ancient knowledge, wise words
which I as a woman need to read over and over again.
This book and I have a long 'herstory'. In 1975 to 76 I was a
pregnant teenager. My midwives in Santa Barbara loaned me their 1st
edition copy of Prenatal Yoga. I loved it so much that I bought one for
myself. Following Jeannine's simple instructions for centering and healing
my body through yoga, I achieved a blissful pregnancy, and an ecstatic
passage into motherhood.
I have always believed that, the quality of an expectant woman's fine level
of feeling during pregnancy, greatly influences the wholeness of the baby's
soul. Today, as I write, that first baby of mine, Déjà, is in
Johannesburg, South Africa. She is a U.N. delegate at the World Summit on
Sustainable Development. She is an advocate for human rights regarding
HIV/AIDS policies for the poor. Today I cannot help but wonder if the
quiet neck rolls, cat stretches, pythons, pelvic rocks and deep delicious
breathing I did, daily while she grew under my heart, had an effect.
The book Prenatal Yoga & Natural Childbirth, guided me through all
five pregnancies. I have lost this book so many times. Loaned it out,
given it away. Always when she comes home to me, I rejoice, and gobble up
each word.
As a midwife I plan to have many copies in my lending library. I do find
that the women I help who practice prenatal yoga, have smoother deliveries.
This makes my job less stressful. With the release of the silver
anniversary edition I am certain that the next generation of mothers and
their babies will be blessed. As a grandmother I intend to keep it on my
shelf forever.
Rating: 
Summary: a beautiful book
Review: This is a beautiful book, and Jeannine's birth stories are inspiring. At first I didn't believe it was possible that she experienced pain-free births, until I read other books and learned that it's not only possible but attainable! (Check out "Hypnobirthing" by Marie Mongan.) I only give the book 4 stars, however, because I bought it for the yoga, which is scantily covered in only 1 chapter of this slim book. If you're trying to save money and not buy every single book out there, choose another book with much more information and many more birth stories, such as Birthing From Within or Ina May's Guide to Childbirth.
Rating:
Summary: a beautiful book
Review: This is a beautiful book, and Jeannine's birth stories are inspiring. At first I didn't believe it was possible that she experienced pain-free births, until I read other books and learned that it's not only possible but attainable! (Check out "Hypnobirthing" by Marie Mongan.) I only give the book 4 stars, however, because I bought it for the yoga, which is scantily covered in only 1 chapter of this slim book. If you're trying to save money and not buy every single book out there, choose another book with much more information and many more birth stories, such as Birthing From Within or Ina May's Guide to Childbirth.
Rating:
Summary: Prenatal Yoga and Natural Childbirth 2 Ed
Review: This is THE book that I have purchased again and again for women friends and family embarking on this mega heart-womb journey. I also keep giving my own copy away and having to replace it. As a pre-natal hatha yoga teacher, I always turn my sudents on to it. Instructions are clear, pictures are great but more than anything it's warm, delightful, funny, calming and a celebration of family. Really it's a book about true love.
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