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Bayo Akomolafe

5 courses
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Sophie Strand

3 courses
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Satish Kumar

1 courses
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Vandana Shiva

6 courses
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Veronica Strang

1 courses
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Manda Scott

2 courses
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Beloved Sara Zaltash

1 courses
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David Abram

2 courses
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Dr Andreas Weber

5 courses
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David Whyte

1 courses
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Helena Norberg-Hodge

2 courses
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Dr. Predrag Slijepcevic

1 courses
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Charles Eisenstein

3 courses
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Aisha Paris Smith

2 courses
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Brontë Velez

3 courses

Samara Concepción

Samara Concepción is a holistic birthkeeper, a women’s health practitioner, and a multi-disciplinary artist, based in London.

Samara Concepción is a holistic birthkeeper, a women’s health practitioner, and a multi-disciplinary artist, based in London. She is devoted to elevating women’s experiences of womanhood, pregnancy, birth and motherhood through reacquainting them with their deepest source of truth and power, which is their innate body wisdom. Samara is the host of the Birth: A New Story podcast, which is a gathering place for visionary voices to explore what it means to be human and welcome new life into the world with reverence, and is the director of the emerging documentary film by the same name.

Birth: A New Story Picture

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Birth: A New Story

Join Samara Concepcion in creating a new story about birth with some of the world’s leading experts in philosophy, midwifery, and holistic health. Guided by renowned teachers like Charles Eisenstein, Mia Kalef, Jennie Joseph and more, you’ll explore the profound power of birth to shape our lives and collective wellbeing.

The Ecology of Death Picture

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The Ecology of Death

Sierra Campbell teaches to embrace death as a sacred part of life’s cycle. Through “mortality ecology,” discover how decay and regeneration connect life, death, and the natural world—deepening your bond with nature, self, and others.

Birth and Belonging Picture

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Birth and Belonging

A conversation between Samara Concepcion, host of the Birth: A New Story course, and Mia Kalef, to explore how our earliest experiences in the womb and at birth connect us or disconnect us from our sustainable place in the ecosystem.

Webinar: Birth and Belonging Picture

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Webinar: Birth and Belonging

“Our world can only mean to us what we meant to the world that raised us.” Mia Kalef Join a conversation between Samara Concepcion, host of the Birth: A New Story course, and Mia Kalef, to explore how our earliest experiences in the womb and at birth connect us or disconnect us from our sustainable place in the ecosystem. Learn how, through pregnancy and birth, we all receive imprints that inform our relationship to life, the world we live in, and our sense of belonging within it. This conversation will seek to reveal how we can collectively co-create the world we want to live in through the way we approach pregnancy and birth as experiences that lay the foundations for all that is to come.