Global Community
A growing list of organizations and resources that have influenced this work. Scroll down for a list of recommended books.
Association of Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health
Birth Psychology is a field of study that explores the lifelong impact of our earliest conscious awareness beginning in the womb. Discover resources, peer reviewed journals, and the amazing PPN Educators Certification Program!
The Sacred Birthing School, Kaua’i, Hawaii
“The Sacred Birthing School offers an approach to birth where a sacred energy field is anchored, allowing the high spiritual potential of the whole being to incarnate as perfectly as possible in a physical body in order to retain the energetic excellence and vast consciousness of the newborn. See courses and offerings by founder and director, Barbara Essman.”
Where Science Meets Spirituality
The first-ever scientific study looking at Ayahuasca’s impact on mental health and DNA expression.
Touch the Future Academy
“Home of the Joseph Chilton Pearce Library, find decades of video and audio content on critical themes around pregnancy, birth, bonding, parenting, the origins of love and violence, athletics, optimum states of learning and performance, expanding human potential, the awakening of intelligence, imagination and play, and so much more.”
Riosbo Ayahuasca Retreat and Research Center
“The Ayahuasca Foundation’s retreat center in Peru, offering healing retreats and courses led by Shipibo curanderos. Since 2017, the center has hosted research into the effects of ayahuasca and plant medicine treatment in its native environment and strives to influence the development of psychedelic therapy principles and practices.”
Dr. Simon Ruffell MBChB (MD) MRCPsych PhD(c)
“Psychiatrist and Senior Research Fellow spearheading the most recent and cutting-edge scientific research on ayahuasca in a traditional framework. These studies include looking at the psychotherapeutic and neurobiological processes associated with ayahuasca’s effects on personality structure and mental health and epigenetic outcomes.”
Paola Zuazua
“Paola Zuazua is recognized over the globe for her one of the most unique perspectives from functional nutrition to epigenetics and pre- and perinatal development of psychology and health. Her multidisciplinary approach provides a large perspective of how our being, our wellbeing, our health its shaped from our early lives. Paola helps from one side, parents for their children, and from the other, individuals for themselves to learn to take control of how our DNA expresses with key actionable interventions.”
Primal Health Research Database
“Created by widely respected French Obstetrician Michel Odent, primal health research explores the correlations between the 'primal period' (fetal life, perinatal period and year following birth) and health and personality traits in later life. This is a user friendly platform that delivers tons of useful information around the the prenatal origins of human health and the new generations of scientific research.”
The Evolved Nest
“A breakthrough concept that integrates findings across fields that bear on child development, child raising and adult behavior. The Evolved Nest promotes optimal health and wellbeing, cooperation, and receptive and sociomoral intelligences. Societal moves away from providing the Evolved Nest have contributed to the ill being and dysregulation we see in one another and society. Learn how to nest your children and re-nest yourself.”
MICROBIOME COURSES
Also known as Microbirth School, this is an online school with over 36,000 health professionals enrolled as students. The school offers CPD accredited evidence-based online courses about the infant microbiome and the science of breast milk.
Microbirth
MICROBIRTH is an award-winning documentary that explains the critical microscopic events happening during pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding. These events can impact lifelong health and the film raises questions about the future of our species. MICROBIRTH has won 3 major science film festivals and had over 1,000 public screenings around the world.
The Microbiome Effect
The book written by Toni Harman and Alex Wakeford (the filmmakers behind Microbirth), published by Pinter & Martin. The book delves deep into the critical microscopic events happening during birth and breastfeeding and features interviews with the 11 top University professors featured in the film. THE MICROBIOME EFFECT has been translated into multiple languages and is available worldwide in all major book publishes.
Dr. Sarah Buckley
“GP/family physician with qualifications in GP-obstetrics and family planning. Dr Buckley’s work critiques current practices in pregnancy, birth, and parenting from the widest possible perspectives, including scientific, anthropological, cross-cultural, psychological, and personal. She encourages us to be fully informed in our decision-making; to listen to our hearts and our intuition; and to claim our rightful role as the real experts in our bodies and our children.”
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