Today, Shayoon tells us the stories of the births of her two sons: her first in Ibiza, Spain, with a male doctor in her home, and her second, a freebirth in Bali. In this episode, Shayoon speaks of her experiences with typhoid during pregnancy, the healing powers of plant medicine, consistently clearing fear and stress from her birthing space- and how she experienced complete healing in her maternal lineage through remaining true to trusting in her body.
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The Roar of the Wild Woman: Shayoon's Freebirth in Bali

The Free Birth Society Podcast features honest, gripping, inspiring, and transformative freebirth stories hosted by the founder Emilee Saldaya in conversation with wild women worldwide. 

In the vast tapestry of childbirth experiences, a thread runs undisturbed, unmedicated, and true to its ancestral roots: freebirth. This differs from your usual home birth with doulas or midwives in attendance. Freebirth stands apart, where birthing is solely in the hands of the birthing woman, accompanied only by her intuition, rhythms of nature, witnessed by her family.

The Free Birth Podcast invites you to a unique corner of the universe where we dive deep into the raw essence of birth, untamed and unassisted. Pushing against the tides of modern obstetrics and its violent approach, we venture into stories of women who've boldly chosen to claim this primal rite of passage. Here, we're not merely sharing tales; we're challenging the status quo and redefining the very narrative of childbirth.

As we unravel discussions on rights in childbirth, dissect varied care models, and amplify the unfiltered voices of freebirthing women from around the planet, our purpose remains clear: to spotlight the distinction and significance of wild birth. This isn't an argument against the myriad ways women choose to birth, but rather an affirmation that freebirth has its revered space in the continuum of birth choices.

Join us in celebrating a movement that underscores the powerful message and has changed the lives of thousands: Birth, in its purest form, is not a medical event but a profoundly personal journey. 

The Free Birth Society Podcast is your compass to navigate and rediscover that journey.

*Freebirth = Birthing in the absence of any hired professionals, away from medical institutions or their agents. Also known as family birth, unassisted birth, wild birth. 

*Sovereign birth = Birthing outside of the medical paradigm, inclusive of births with authentic midwives and doulas. We include many stories on the show where women birthed outside of the medical system with doulas and radical birth keepers.  While these births are not freebirths, they are certainly sovereign births!

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Birthing in the Bliss of a Women’s Flourishing Community with Sister Nettle
We are closing our Season 7 with the story of one of our own, from one of my dearest, our creative director at Free Birth Society, Meg, aka @sister.nettle. Meg’s got a simple yet deeply inspirational story of how she got available for all the good things in life, and made the changes needed to have it all. 
If you’re stressing about how you’ll survive without weekly episodes, don’t worry, we’ve got something to take the edge off. We’re finally ready to launch our Freebirth Collection on our Youtube channel! We’re going to be dropping birth vids on our channel Monday, Wednesday, and Friday all summer long. Go subscribe to Free Birth Society on YouTube now and look out for it next week! 
It’s been a wonderful year with you women, we’ll be back in the fall with Season 8! 
Here’s what you’ll hear in this episode:
✨Meg’s first birth with licensed midwives, and her lack of sisterhood during that time in her life.
✨The word-spell her medwife cast about her son’s “big” head.
✨Attending MRF and her spiritual awakening.
✨How she found Free Birth Society and became a part of the team.
✨The intensity and mystery of late pregnancy.
✨Her grounded, spacious birth of her daughter with myself and her husband by her side.
✨Her breastfeeding journey, and how she chose to be unavailable for pain and struggle.
✨How she became the change she wanted to see in her life, and created a web of sisterhood.
 
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Birthing in the Bliss of a Women’s Flourishing Community with Sister Nettle

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Today is all about (and for!) the birth partner. I do what I can in an hour to offer my transmissions to you of 20 years in birth work, and having worked with thousands of fathers and partners to the birthing woman.
Fathers - this episode is for you!
I’ll cover the most common questions and concerns I get from fathers and offer my wisdom on the logistics and energetics of how to be the best ally in her sovereign birth that you can be.
The ability to educate mothers, fathers, and families on true sovereign birth is something we truly need more of in this world, which is why birth education is one of the core elements we teach on in our newest year-long program, The Matribirth Midwifery Institute. We are unlike any other midwifery school and bring together the study of independent midwifery, holistic health & healing, a full childbirth education curriculum, birth-coaching and trauma debrief training, a transformational self-mastery program, and how to build your lighthouse birth business!
Here’s what you’ll hear in this episode:
✨ The role of the birth partner and how to act from a space of respect and trust.
✨What normal birth is as well as some variations of normal.
✨The physiology of undisturbed birth.
✨Mothers don’t *need* anything, but what she might *want* in the birth process.
✨What the phases of labor often look like, and how to offer support during each.
✨The birth of the placenta and immediate postpartum.
✨How to navigate the big “what if” question.
✨How to “Be the oak tree,” and protect her space.
 

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The (free)Birth Partner Episode

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Matriarchy is an inspiring and critical topic that is incredibly important to me and all I do.   
So, today on the show, we’re going to talk about it! Dr. Jessica Spring Weappa has a PHD in matriarchal studies, presented at the first Matriarch Rising Festival, and is my guest today on the podcast to blow all our minds!  Imagine a society where mothers are centered, where the highest currency is a mother’s love; a culture with no rape, no domestic violence, no fear of death, where relationships aren’t based in top down hierarchy.  
This is matriarchy.   
Jessica touches on gifting economies, nature as nourishment, and the spiritual commonalities within matriarchal societies across the planet. She has devoted her life to studying these concepts and finding ways we can rewild.  
We must do deep work and deprogramming to break the spell of patriarchy and find comfort, rather than fear, in centering women and mothers.  
If you want to dip a toe in, or dive headfirst, come to my women only life changing gathering, Matriarch Rising Festival. It will change your life, it will blast your heart open, and you will return home renewed and full of deep aliveness.   
Go to matriarchrisingfestival.com and grab your ticket; I’ll see you in June!  
Here's What You’ll Hear in This Episode:  
✨How Jessica couldn’t look away from questions she had about mothering today. 
✨Her story of domestic violence and single motherhood. 
✨Understanding matriarchy through critiquing patriarchy. 
✨The insignificance of fathers in matriarchal societies 
✨Why our society fears matriarchy. 
✨Capitalism as a perversion of a gift giving economy. 
✨How our current economy is dependent on free labor of mothers. 
✨How our court system is rooted in matricide. 
✨How care ethics should be based on mother/child imprinting. 
✨Ingredients for creating matriarchy today.
 
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⭐ Don't miss the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute,  Enrollment opens May 20th!!
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Cultures with No Rape: Exploring Commonalities Among Matriarchal Societies

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Today on the show I welcome one of my closest friends and favorite people, Julia. Julia lives here in community with us, and so I’m extra excited to have her on to share her story. Julia is a truly wild mother of 3, turns out - soon to be 4, a homesteader, a gorgeous and insanely talented homemaker, and really just the embodiment of strength, fortitude, and integrity. Can you tell I adore her? She has freebirthed twice, and the second time she *literally* labored right here on my land, the Matriarch Rising Festival grounds! How magical is that? 
Julia began her mothering journey quite young, having found her sweetheart at age 17. When Julia found herself unexpectedly pregnant she was already living outside mainstream culture and knew she didn’t want to birth in the hospital. Sadly though, the medical midwife she hired found ways to create drama throughout her pregnancy and birth. 
A huge awakening, followed by a move from L.A. to North Carolina to figure out this homestead life, brought Julia’s and my family together in organic friendship. It’s all very cute, she invited me to be her birth attendant, our husbands met and fell in love, and the rest is herstory. Though she and her family have certainly faced challenges living this rural farm lifestyle, Julia consistently devotes herself to her family, community, and the fullness of her family’s vision. 
Julia’s two freebirths were very different experiences. The birth of her son although powerful and sweet, hit her very hard, so for the birth of her daughter she *chose* pleasure and presence. 
Julia’s story is such a powerful reminder that we can make big choices in our lives and really manifest our dream reality. Come see the beautiful land Julia fell in love with too, at Matriarch Rising Festival this summer! Go to Matriarchrisingfestival.com to get your tickets today. Once you experience community here, you may just have to return home and create it for yourself! Julia will be leading the toddler yoga and mother meet ups at MRF, so come join in and say hi to my bestie. 
Here’s what you’ll hear in Julia’s story: 
✨How she loved being pregnant for the first time, but was constantly fear mongered by her medical midwife. 
✨Her first drama filled first birth with a licensed midwife. 
✨Covid in L.A. and her family’s big leap relocating to North Carolina. 
✨Homesteading while pregnant and the fast and really rocking freebirth of her son. 
✨Rural living and her family’s various moves to find their farm land here in WNC. 
✨The intensity of the end of her pregnancy. 
✨The fast but dreamy and pain-free freebirth of her daughter. 
✨Her community supported postpartum. 
✨Experiencing three generations of women at MRF.
 
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⭐ Don't miss the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute,  Enrollment opens May 20th!!
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From Veganism and Medwives to Farming and Freebirth: The Magical Life of Julia Hempe

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Jalynn was aware that the medical system was dangerous for her, as a woman, and a black mother. Thankfully, her first birth was fairly straight forward. She left the birth center clear that she would not go back, not because it was traumatic, but because it simply wasn’t worth leaving her house for. 
With her second, Jalynn stepped into full responsibility with a wild pregnancy and the freebirth of her dreams surrounded by sisterhood and support in a community ashram. She fully actualized her dream birth. 
We’re talking about an epic birth space decorated by a dear sister, friends chanting and vocalizing with her during birth, live flute music, and plants infused with affirmations by Toni Jones herself. It was no fear, all flow, with Jalynn completely centered and held by her community, which transitioned into a brilliantly supported postpartum as well.
Jaylnn goes on to fully integrate this huge uplevel and leave nursing school to pursue a truly holistic path, which is unfolding and gaining power as she does the work to shine her light and show women the way out of the system and into sovereign birth-work.
Here’s what you’ll hear in Jalynn’s Story:
✨Her weariness of the hospital, the racist roots of obstetrics, and the high maternal death rate of black moms.
✨Her desire to find a black woman to support her, but the difficulty she experienced finding midwives of any race to respect and honor her choices.
✨How her first birth sparked an insatiable desire to step into her authentic self.
✨The spiritual confirmation she experienced learning about freebirth and the dangers of ultrasound.
✨Her intuitive self care during her wild pregnancy.
✨Her magical birth surrounded by sisters and fully supported postpartum.
✨Choosing authentic birth education over certified nursing or doula work in the system.
 
⭐ Matriarch Rising Festival: Get your tickets NOW! - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com 
⭐ Don't miss the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute,  Enrollment opens May 20th!!
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The Roar of the Wild Woman: Shayoon's Freebirth in Bali

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