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 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 Today’s guest is Victoria Rose BIO & 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. She has apprenticed with elder and birth pioneer Barbara Essman, founder and director of The Sacred Birthing School on Kaua’i Hawaii - with whom she’s completed several trainings and certifications in conscious conception, pregnancy and birth, birthing the next generations, and conscious death. She’s an active member and student of APPPAH, the Association of Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health. 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. Victoria is the founder of Luminous Birth - a living transmission that directly supports the highly sophisticated beings that are currently incarnating on planet earth. Luminous Birth an authentic weaving of modern scientific discovery and ancient wisdom and exploration of the prenatal origins of human and societal health. Victoria works predominantly online, supporting women and couples all over the world to navigate the psycho-spiritual dimensions of birth. She provides radical birth preparation and education that equips them to conceive, grow, and birth their babies IN LOVE, free of industrial obstetrical mediation and intervention. One of her main areas of work is guiding adults back to transcribe the living memories of their own birth and pre-birth, conception and pre- conception experiences, in order to reclaim the energetic excellence of their own true essence, remember their power and purpose, and revitalize their health, life, work, and relationships. She believes this is the work of our time: coming back into right-relationship with nature, and consciously engaging as active participants in our lives. Victoria is a whole-hearted believer that in order to create a new world we must birth a new humanity, and we must remember the that health of women determines the families, which determines the health of communities, and therefore the health of our world. We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI