Today I have a guest who is going to charm you like you haven’t been charmed quite yet. She has the best accent and a very warm heart. Deborah Claire Bagg is the owner and founder of the yoga studio, LoveisJuniper in Brooklyn- which is a yoga center, flower shop and has treatment spaces. Deborah is a yoga teacher, yoga teacher trainer, doula, somatic therapist and new mom. I met her online- but we had a lot of worlds in common as she went to Naropa and I lived in Boulder for five years. She came for a session when I was working in Brooklyn and then immediately invited me to teach at her new space that opened this year. She is a wise woman, and has immersed herself in the feminine arts.
We are going to talk about the journey of same sex fertility, the road to starting a non-traditional family and the vulnerability of the first year of motherhood.
What Deborah Shares:
- The wild and epic road of same sex fertility, especially when you find yourself there unexpectedly
- How yoga practice impacts birth
- The vulnerability of being a new mother
- Gems of postpartum wisdom for the journey
What You’ll Hear:
- Becoming a same-sex mother by surprise (2:16)
- Opening a yoga center with a 4-month-old baby (5:00)
- Preference for a known donor (6:50)
- The actual “how” of getting pregnant (12:40)
- Her journey with a miscarriage (14:50)
- Well woman care with midwives (15:30)
- Headstanding to get pregnant (18:40)
- What is fertility beyond sperm and egg? (21:00)
- IUI at home (22:00)
- Pregnancy- ecstatic misery (25:50)
- Asking for reassurance (30:00)
- Deborah’s birth chant (33:35)
- The surprises of postpartum (36:00)
- Her old self fed her new self (38:30)
- In woman-centered yoga practice, motherhood not included (39:00)
- In any big change in life you have to go through all the seasons (42:00)
Audio glitch (45:30)
- Postpartum time= a lifetime inside of seconds
- Lessons learned from postpartum from the inside (48:00)
- It’s difficult to mother when you don’t have a connection to your body (50:00)
- All that was born from her journey to motherhood to one year (52:00)
- Tap into the wider field before crisis. Grander field of wisdom that is waiting. (54:40)
