Our Birth Journey Professionals

27/11/2025

Different Doorway – Birth Learnings of the Caesarean Born Experience
Free Talk with Jane English and Sara Devoy
Monday, 8 December 2025 at 19h UK time

In her pioneering book “Different Doorway: Adventures of a Cesarean Born”, Jane English describes her personal exploration of the physical, social, and psycho-spiritual aspects of being born by what she calls ‘non-labour’ caesarean. Although Jane’s book was published forty years ago, her visceral reflections are as relevant as ever for all curious about caesarean birth dynamics.

We are delighted to welcome Jane to Ourbirthjourney for a live conversation with Sara Devoy. Coming into the world by means of surgery profoundly impacts the baby and person they will become. In a world where up to 40% of babies are born surgically, depending on the country, developing an understanding of their experience and an appreciation of the differences with vaginal births is both important and enriching. The emphasis of this event will be on the recognition of the ‘birth learning’ to be gained rather than the trauma to be replayed.

Join us for this lively event where we also welcome the input of anyone in the audience who is caesarean born.

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In this live conversation, Jane English and Sara Devoy will discuss the different aspects of what it means to be Caesarean born.

26/11/2025

Birth Journey Constellations - Fallopian Free Fall
Live Workshop with Nir Esterman
Sunday, 7 December 2025 at 15h – 18h30 UK time

Once we have gone through the ‘free fall of incarnation’, and conception has succeeded, we experience another ‘fall’ before the time of implantation when we’re a lot closer to coming into form.

At around day 4 of gestation the fertilised egg, now a multi-celled ‘morula’ exits the Fallopian tube and, as a blastocyst, starts free floating in the uterus for a few days before hatching. This phase is characterised by existential uncertainty as there is no guarantee the newly formed blastocyst will be successful in finding the uterine lining and attaching to it.

In this workshop, we will explore our experience of the ‘Fallopian fall’, how it has affected and imprinted us early on, and look at our relationship with the potent life force that carried us beyond the Fallopian fall. Being in touch with this force can help us orient and get our needs met throughout life.

During the constellation, we hold space for ourselves and the other participants. Together, we connect and bring to life what was in a way that supports what can be. Constellations offer a deep, often transformative healing movement of reconciliation that takes us closer to our potential for a vital and present life.

Learn more: https://www.ourbirthjourney.com/course/fallopian-free-fall

26/11/2025

Future Gateways and the Penetrating Vessel
Live Class with Suzanne Yates
Thursday, 4 December 2025 at 19h UK time

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the ‘Penetrating Vessel’, one of the ‘extraordinary’ meridians, is deeply connected to gestation and birth. As the ‘Sea of Blood’ it provides the fetus with the nourishment it requires as it grows.

The Penetrating Vessel develops during pregnancy through the mother/baby relationship and is deepened or modified during birth and early postpartum. The imprints we carry from our birth in this regard, influence our capacity to nourish ourselves and others.

In this class, Suzanne Yates will explain what the Penetrating, aka ‘Nourishing’ Vessel, is and how it can help support our capacity to self-nourish and nourish others at any stage of life. A guided movement and visualisation practice will give us an idea of how to work with the Penetrating Vessel.

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In this class, Suzanne Yates will explain what the Penetrating is and how it can help support our capacity to self-nourish and nourish others at any stage of life. A guided movement and visualisation practice will give us an idea of how to work with the Penetrating Vessel.

24/11/2025

Our body holds our entire history but also innate wisdom and intelligence in its cells and fluids. Paying attention to this subtle and quiet language can help us discover inner resources we didn’t know we had.

Join us for a live workshop designed to help us listen to our tissues, bypassing the "thinking mind" in order to uncover deeper bodily wisdom.

Tissue Intelligence – Listening to Our Cells and Fluids
with Joan Davis
Thursday, 27 November 2025 at 19h – 21h UK time

Joan will guide participants through the practice and encourage open-minded exploration. We may discover a greater sense of intimacy with ourselves with the possibility of finding a depth of Recognition, Acknowledgement and Unconditional Acceptance.

Find out more: https://www.ourbirthjourney.com/course/tissue-intelligence

22/11/2025

Another beautiful class with Ian Rees who helped us explore our inner dynamics relative to feeling held and nourished, receiving and relating from the perspective of your earliest experiences but supported by our adult self.

You can watch a trailer here: https://www.ourbirthjourney.com/course/body-mystery-layers

20/11/2025

Tissue Intelligence – Listening to Our Cells and Fluids
Live Workshop with Joan Davis
Thursday, 27 November 2025 at 19h – 21h UK time

How may we access the innate ‘intelligence’ of our fluids, cells and tissues from our current adult age and from a resourced place in present time? More importantly, how is this intelligence recognised and if so, how might that impact our whole being?

These questions represent a starting point for a form of somatic practice developed by Joan Davis - a synthesis of decades of study and trainings in the fields of Process Oriented Psychology, developmental processes, embryology, early infant trauma and many more.

The practice prioritises listening to our tissues, bypassing the "thinking mind" in order to uncover deeper bodily wisdom. While the work isn’t exclusively about birth, it may reveal pre- and perinatal patterns organically through somatic awareness.

In this two hour workshop, Joan will guide participants through the practice and encourage open-minded exploration. We may discover a greater sense of intimacy with ourselves with the possibility of finding a depth of Recognition, Acknowledgement and Unconditional Acceptance.

Find out more: https://www.ourbirthjourney.com/course/tissue-intelligence

19/11/2025

Do ART conceived children know about their origin? How does medically assisted conception show in a child’s behaviour? How can parents hold their children within this particular context?

A fascinating insight into the psychological aspects of assisted reproduction by Klaus Käppeli. This first course module covered the child’s perspective. Over the next few weeks, we will hear the parent’s reality and the challenges a therapist working with ART families may face.

You can watch a trailer of this first module here: https://www.ourbirthjourney.com/course/assisted-reproductive-technologies

18/11/2025

Join us for the third live session of the Body of Mystery Series with Ian Rees

In this class Ian will help us explore holding and growth which have a connection to the experience of womb and womb as world. We will contemplate the relationship between the centre, the circumference and the layers of patterns that build up around the core. We explore the holding and containing aspects of awareness and trusting the process of inquiry.

This work is based on a contemplative model of conscious incarnation seeing the process of incarnation as a moment by moment recreation and recapitulation of our shaping from our inception right through our history to the present moment.

Thursday, 20 November 2025 at 19h UK time

Registration: https://www.ourbirthjourney.com/course/body-mystery-layers

17/11/2025

Tissue Intelligence – Listening to Our Cells and Fluids
Live Workshop with Joan Davis
Thursday, 27 November 2025 at 19h – 21h UK time

How may we access the innate ‘intelligence’ of our fluids, cells and tissues from our current adult age and from a resourced place in present time? More importantly, how is this intelligence recognised and if so, how might that impact our whole being?

These questions represent a starting point for a form of somatic practice developed by Joan Davis - a synthesis of decades of study and trainings in the fields of Process Oriented Psychology, developmental processes, embryology, early infant trauma and many more.

The practice prioritises listening to our tissues, bypassing the "thinking mind" in order to uncover deeper bodily wisdom. While the work isn’t exclusively about birth, it may reveal pre- and perinatal patterns organically through somatic awareness.

In this two hour workshop, Joan will guide participants through the practice and encourage open-minded exploration. We may discover a greater sense of intimacy with ourselves with the possibility of finding a depth of Recognition, Acknowledgement and Unconditional Acceptance.

Find out more:

In this workshop, Joan Davis will guide participants through the practice of listening to our tissues in order to uncover deeper bodily wisdom. While the work isn’t exclusively about birth, it may reveal pre- and perinatal patterns organically through somatic awareness.

15/11/2025

What does conception through assisted reproductive technologies mean for the child coming into the world that way? And for the parents who journey along an arduous path?

This three part live course with Swiss psychotherapist Klaus Käppeli will highlight the impact ART procedures can have on both child and parents. We will learn about the innate knowledge the child’s body has regarding its origins, how parents can be supported when they enter this uncharted territory, and challenges a therapist may come up against when working with these families.

Klaus Käppeli will cover this topic also from the perspective of the mystery as to why a soul chooses this arduous and challenging path into the world and touch upon psychological, philosophical, and theological questions.

Join us on Mondays, 17/24 November and 1 December 2025 at 19h UK time for

Waiting for a Child – The Challenging Path of Assisted Reproductive Technology

Find out more: https://www.ourbirthjourney.com/course/assisted-reproductive-technologies