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This gathering addresses the unspoken, the magical, the unseen side of midwifery, the wounds and the gifts that we bring to our practice, and how to be together in a way that teaches us how to listen, with the ears of our heart, to the reflection of ourselves in each other. Student midwives will become good at the medical side of Midwifery, that’s a given. This gathering is different, it is addressing the unspoken, the magical, the unseen side of midwifery, the wounds and the gifts that we bring to our practice, how we can be in integrity in a system that often lacks respect for the powerful forces of life and birth.

And most importantly how to be together in a way that acknowledges the hardships, gives real support, teaches us how to listen with the ears of our heart to the reflection of ourselves in each other. 

We can then take this embodied experience of presence, trust and kindness to the families whose care is entrusted to us. We can be stronger from having experienced it.

About Marie-Louise Lapeyre

I was born and grew up in France and my lineages are from France, Switzerland, Denmark and Italy.

My life has been a series of awakenings through many rites of passage. A long journey through grief, after immigration, after losing a baby, losing my fertility and having chemotherapy when I was in my 20s.

A life long connection with the natural world was formed when I lived in the mountains of France, in a remote village called Dormillouse. We lived by what the mountains and the seasons dictated; in extreme conditions through long snowy winters, with no electricity, no roads and no running water. It was a time of deep reciprocity with the Earth.

Midwifery has taught me everything that is important about life. About being present to someone else’s process. About the importance of kindness and its impact on a birthing family. As a midwife I learned how to take care of the physical while travelling in the metaphysical. Not making one more important than the other.

As a Grandmother I am incredibly passionate about the communication and connection between humans and the other than human beings that inhabit our planet. I see Ancestral Lineage Repair as a powerful modality to reconnect with the wellness of our lineages. The rituals that were ours before we got colonised out of our tribal ways, out of our connection and reciprocity with animals, plants, mountains, and to our sacred place in it all. I see birth as a powerful healing rite of passage. How a human is born into the

world impacts the whole world.

I would like to thank and honour my teachers and the people who accompanied the steps in my life.

My daughter and four grand-children, Jeanine Parvati Baker, Patch Adams, Jane Hardwick Collings, Tara Brach, Daniel Foor, the plants in my garden and the mountains of France, the land of Australia, all the women and babies I have been privileged to attend.  All my sweet and loving friends

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