Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. I am Michael Ostrolenk, a therapist, coach and educator and I am your host. Today’s guests are Dr Stuart Sovatsky and Victoria Rose. Today is a trialogue on re-sacralizing conception, pregnancy, birth and family life. Shout out to Apeiron Center for Human Potential which just launched our Limitless Body: A 16-Week Weight Loss Program, for those who’ve tried everything and are ready to finally achieve and sustain their desired results: https://www.more-being.com/limitlessbody Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.com VICTORIA'S BIOS & LINKS: Victoria is a pre- and perinatal psychology and health educator, birth visionary and traditional birth witness, registered massage therapist, Reiki Master for fertility, pregnancy, birth and postpartum, ceremonialist, contemporary vegetalista, and ayahuasca preparation and integration guide. Victoria has been studying ancient tradition amazonian medicine for nearly a decade, which has included spending extensive periods of time living and working alongside her beloved master teachers and their families in the Peruvian jungle. Among her vast experience sharing the healing of this wisdom tradition around the world, she’s had the privilege of working as a ceremony and retreat facilitator at Riosbo Research and Healing Center located in the heart of the Allpahuayo Mishana National Reserve along the bank of the Nanay River in the Amazon rainforest, where the first-ever government-funded scientific research studies looking at the impacts of Ayahuasca on mental health and DNA expression are being hosted. • Website: https://luminousbirth.earth • IG: @luminousbirth • Facebook: www.facebook.com/birthingluminousbeings • Email address: birthingluminousbeings@gmail.com • Riosbo Ayahuasca Retreat and Research Centre: https://www.ayahuascafoundation.org/riosbo-ayahuasca-research-center • Sacred Birthing School: https://sacredbirthingschool.weebly.com • APPPAH: https://birthpsychology.com STUART'S BIO & LINKS: Receiving its top Club Scholarship, Stuart was degreed in Religion & Ethics from Princeton University in 1971 with a thesis on Nietzsche & Advaita. He was first in the US to bring yoga to incarcerated youth & to the homeless mentally-ill, schools and police departments in the mid1970s & was first choice to clinically-direct the Ram Dass Prison Ashram. He is the author of Advanced Spiritual Intimacy, Words From The Soul, Advanced Spiritual Intimacy, The History of Yoga in America in the Columbia University Desk Reference on Eastern Religion [contract] & over forty yoga & clinical articles & chapters & was interviewed by the Science Editor for The New York Times on kundalini-tantra. His academia.com articles are commonly in the top 1% of 23million. https://princeton.academia.edu/StuartSovatsky https://tinyurl.com/ydhzw8sr https://www.stuartsovatsky.com/ Facebook https://tinyurl.com/ya5rw4yo • Website: https://luminousbirth.earth • IG: @luminousbirth • Facebook: www.facebook.com/birthingluminousbeings • Email address: birthingluminousbeings@gmail.com • Riosbo Ayahuasca Retreat and Research Centre: https://www.ayahuascafoundation.org/riosbo-ayahuasca-research-center • Sacred Birthing School: https://sacredbirthingschool.weebly.com • APPPAH: https://birthpsychology.com We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI