February 19, 2025 5:30 PM UTC
Samara Concepción is a holistic birthkeeper, a women’s health practitioner, and a multi-disciplinary artist, based in London.
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Carly Mountain is a writer, psychotherapist and women’s initiatory guide, who specialises in working with sexuality, relationships and embodiment.
Learn moreThis conversation between Samara Concepcion, host of the Birth: A New Story course, and Carly Mountain, will explore how the descent and rising of childbirth relates to the myth of Inanna and how essential the initiation of childbirth is for our personal and collective health.
Birth, by design, is an altered state of consciousness that intends to take a birthing woman beyond her usual self so that she can be transformed on every level as she enters motherhood. This journey of descent and rising is the core initiation of the feminine. Just like the goddess Inanna descended into the underworld to be stripped from all that she thought she was, to later return to the world more whole than before, a birthing woman will undergo a similar experience of death and rebirth.
Carly Mountain is a writer, psychotherapist and women’s initiatory guide, who specialises in working with sexuality, relationships and embodiment. She is author of Descent & Rising: Women’s Stories & the Embodiment of the Inanna Myth. Carly facilitates people at the threshold of change to deepen intimacy with themselves and their lives. Her writing and work seeks to uncover what has been exiled or hidden within, that is longing to be remembered and reconnected with. A mythopoetic process that leads us back into intimacy with all that we have been estranged from, so that we can become more of who we are, and have always been.
Samara Concepción is a holistic birthkeeper, a women’s health practitioner, and a multi-disciplinary artist, based in London.
Learn moreSamara 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.
Carly Mountain is a writer, psychotherapist and women’s initiatory guide, who specialises in working with sexuality, relationships and embodiment.
Learn moreCarly Mountain is a writer, psychotherapist and women’s initiatory guide, who specialises in working with sexuality, relationships and embodiment. She is author of Descent & Rising: Women’s Stories & the Embodiment of the Inanna Myth. Carly facilitates people at the threshold of change to deepen intimacy with themselves and their lives. Her writing and work seeks to uncover what has been exiled or hidden within, that is longing to be remembered and reconnected with. A mythopoetic process that leads us back into intimacy with all that we have been estranged from, so that we can become more of who we are, and have always been.