Prenatal Yoga & Natural Birth Jeannine Pavati Baker

Beverly Stokes

Beverly Stokes, CMA, RSME is a Certified Movement Analyst and Registered Somatic Movement Educator. She is the Founder/Director of Amazing Babies Moving and President of Move Alive Media Inc. Amazing Babies Moving is a global interactive network that provides Parenting Through Movement Programs and Products for parents, educators and professionals who work with families.

Issue: 
Publication Date: 
October 1987
Starting Page: 
63
Page Count: 
1
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Jeannine Parvati Baker

Jeannine Parvati Baker has published in many journals on the psychological and spiritual aspects of fertility. Jeannine is the author of Prenatal Yoga & Natural birth, Hygieia: A Woman's Herbal and co-author with Frederick Baker of Conscious Conception: Elementary Journey Through the Labyrinth of Sexuality. Address correspondence to the author at Box 398, Monroe, UT 84754, USA.

Reviewed Title: 
Prenatal Yoga & Natural Birth
Reviewed Publisher: 
Freestone Publ. Co., P.O. Box 989, Monroe, Utah 84754, 1986.

This new edition of "Prenatal Yoga and Natural Birth" illustrates an intimate personalized journey into the childbirth experience. Jeannine Pavati Baker, a world renowned midwife has ritualized this experience through the use of gentle movements, sound and meditations. She has provided a variety of postures and their transitions so that each woman can choose the most effortless and efficient way of executing these movement sequences for her own particular body structure. It is important to read the physiological description of the exercises as well as looking at the photographs for the best inner alignment.

The exercises in this book can be used as a guide to approach childbirth consciously through the practice of prenatal yoga based on a synthesis of a traditional discipline and natural childbirth experience to integrate the soul in the body.

Beverly Stokes

Toronto, Canada