Rock Your Goddess Life

Dr. Maggie Ney is a licensed, board-certified naturopathic doctor and co-director of the Women's Clinic at Akasha. She specializes in female hormone balancing and healthy aging. TOPICS: Pre-conception nutrition and how to prepare the optimal environment for your baby + Key supplements every pregnant woman should take + How to balance your hormones and experience a healthy and joyful pregnancy + The importance of rest + Tips for a natural birth

Sonia Choquette is a world-renowned author, storyteller, vibrational healer, and six sensory spiritual teacher. Her books have sold over a million copies worldwide including her New York Times bestseller The Answer Is Simple. TOPICS: How to cultivate your child's intuitive spark + How parental challenges can be truth serum and behavior problems call us to a higher expression + How motherhood can invite the best of you to shine + How to teach your child to listen to his or her heart and trust themselves + The most empowering thing a parent can do + How you can honor your child's unique spirit + How to empower your child to be a conscious global citizen + How to have a fun, playful and empowering relationship with your child.

Laura Shanley is an author, freelance writer, speaker and childbirth consultant. She is one of the leading voices in the natural birth movement. She is the author of Unassisted Childbirth. TOPICS: How to trust your body and become empowered around giving birth naturally + Laura's four unassisted births + What we can learn from other about mammals giving birth + How to shift your perspective from our culture's focus on birth being dangerous and painful to birth being a joyful, positive experience + Why women need to take responsibility for their birth and babies.

Dr. Gayle Peterson is an international expert specializing inprenatal and family development. She trains professionals in herprenatal counseling model and is the author of An EasierChildbirth, Birthing Normally and Making Healthy Families. TOPICS: Howto stay connected to your dreams and desires as you transition intomotherhood + How being a mother is a contribution to the world+ How mental and emotional issues can impact your birth+ Why it's important to get clear about what you want for yourfamily + How your family blueprints impact your birth andparenting + How to navigate the pain of childbirth + Whylove is as important to your child as career andfinances.

Leo Babauta created Zen Habits, a Top 25 blog (according to TIMEmagazine) with 260,000 subscribers, and the best-selling booksfocus, The Power of Less, and Zen To Done. He is a formerjournalist of 18 years, a husband, father of six children, and in2010 moved from Guam to San Francisco, where he leads a simplelife. TOPICS: Whatun-schooling is + why and how to un-school your children + Howto live frugally and eliminate debt and financial struggles+ Why it's important for you to help cultivate self-relianceand self-sufficiency in your children + How to be a presentand loving parent while being creative and productive + How tokeep your intimate relationship alive and fresh + Why it'simportant for your children to take breaks fromtechnology.

Mama, founder and co-owner of VIRAYOGA in New York City, Elena in internationally acknowledged for her potent teaching and coaching, offering her students ways to approach our world with realistic reverence and gratitude. Author of Art of Attention, and coach for the Handel Group, Elena's been featured in Yoga Journal, the New York Times and Origin Magazine. TOPICS: Elena's yoga and nutrition practices to optimize her pregnancy + How your emotional states influence your children + The importance of listening—to your body, your baby and your life + How to keep your heart open and live with gratitude + How to stay balanced in the post-partum phase.

Sheri Winston offers empowering, enlightening erotic education for everyone as a teacher of Wholistic Sexuality. She's an award-winning author & founder of the Center for the Intimate Arts, and has a background as a nurse-midwife, gynecology practitioner, registered nurse, holistic healer, doula & massage therapist. Sheri's book, Women's Anatomy of Arousal: Secret Maps to Buried Pleasure, won the AASECT* 2010 Book of the Year Award. Her upcoming book, Succulent SexCraft: Your Hands-On Guide to Erotic Play and Practice, promises to be an even greater success! TOPICS: Hot tips for sex during pregnancy + Why orgasms are so beneficial for your health and your birth preparation + The fact that labor, arousal, birth and orgasm share the same equipment/pathways and why that matters + How to enter an altered state of consciousness during birth and why that's important + Breastfeeding as an orgasmic experience (!)

Carla Stang received an honors degree in Anthropology at the University of Sydney and completed her doctorate in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of A Walk to the River in Amazonia: Ordinary Reality for the Mehinaku Indians. TOPICS: What modern women can learn from the Amazonian women’s experience of pregnancy and birth + How to appreciate your pregnant body + Self-care during pregnancy and why it’s important + Why co-sleeping and breastfeeding help with sleep deprivation.

Natalia Rose is a Clinical Nutritionist and the author of The Raw Food Detox Diet, Raw Food Life Force Energy, The New Energy Body and Detox for Women! TOPICS: What a Life Force family is and how to create one + How to create a foundation for your family to really thrive + How to have the confidence and courage to be the best parent you can be + How to support, love and protect your children + Why self-care and healthy habits are crucial to parents + How to let go of perfectionist tendencies and expectations and really learn who your child is + Why a healthy relationship is so important to your child's health.

Dr. Jack Newman is the leading researcher in the field of breastfeeding. He is the author of Dr. Jack Newman's Guide to Breastfeeding, The Ultimate Breastfeeding Book of Answers, The Latch and Other Keys to Breastfeeding Success. TOPICS: How breastfeeding is about more than just nutrition + How formula can make your baby sick and set them up for a lifetime of disease + What to do about a low milk supply + Dealing with pain during or after breastfeeding + Why putting your baby on a feeding schedule is a terrible idea.