Flagstaff Birth Network

Come & join us for the Second Annual “Mother’s Day Birth Fair”.

This event will be a great opportunity for people to learn more about the Flagstaff Birth Network, and resources available in Flagstaff to pregnant women and parents.

Date: Saturday May 9th
Time: 3-6 pm
Location: Heritage Square (downtown Flagstaff)

Schedule of Events
3pm Mothers Acting Up Proclamation
3:15 Brian David guitarist
3:45 Music Together
4:15 Mamas fashion show
4:45 Chuck Cheesman
5:15 Hilary Giovale belly dance

Kidz Corner
Fun Mother’s Day crafts &
activities for kids!
Booths from mother-baby friendly
businesses & organizations

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Date:  April 20th, 2009

Time:  7:00 pm

Place:  Flagstaff Healing Arts

119 S. Paseo Del Flag

Flagstaff, AZ 86001

Dr. Kären van der Veer brings over ten years of clinical experience to the joy of helping women and their families have healthier babies. It is her greatest privilege to serve those seeking the best alternative and complementary, drug-free medical care to benefit themselves and their babies.

With a life-long interest in the field of medicine, Dr. van der Veer originally pursued conventional medical training at the University of Arizona despite her reservations about having a dominantly pharmaceutical-based practice. At the end of her pre-medical education she was introduced to Naturopathic Medicine and was enamored with its holistic, patient-centered approach to health. She found that the principles of Naturopathic Medicine seemed amazingly simple, balanced and profound and were more in alignment with her own philosophies and intention.

Since graduating from Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine in 1998, Dr. van der Veer has dedicated herself to treating a wide spectrum of illness and chronic disease, and to helping women and families have healthier pregnancies and healthier babies. She has played an essential role in establishing Naturopathic Medical programs at two separate Phoenix based non-profit organizations and has trained medical students from all over the U.S. in the field of Naturopathic Medicine.

In addition to private practice Dr. van der Veer serves as medical faculty at SCNM, is known for her motivational style of speaking and lectures extensively on a wide range of health and medical topics. Trained in counseling, she lends her compassionate listening ear to the art and practice of medicine.

Currently, Dr. van der Veer maintains a general medical practice and focuses on working with women and their partners to achieve healthy pregnancies, post-partum experiences, babies and families through the use of Natural therapies.

She employs a wide range of Naturopathic modalities for supporting new life including diet and nutritional counseling, supplements and nutritional medicine, botanical (herbal) medicine, homeopathy and acupuncture (for local clients/patients). She works with women, their partners, family and children from preconception through pregnancy and the postpartum experience, and from infancy through childhood. Preconception detoxification, pregnancy health and nutrition, postpartum recovery, postpartum depression, infant and child health and nutrition, ADD/ADHD and childhood allergies are areas of special expertise.

On a personal level, Kären’s life is characterized by great passion and devotion. She maintains a great love for art, dance, music and sustainable ecology and is wildly in love with her two children, Aevan and Liliana.

Date:  May 18, 2009

Time:  7:00 pm

Place:  Flagstaff Healing Arts, LLC

119 S. Paseo Del Flag

Flagstaff, AZ 86001

Dr. Kymberlee Wilkens is a 2002 Summa Cum Laude Palmer Graduate.  She is the mom of Kyler (6) and Kyra (3) both of whom were born peacefully in their home in Flagstaff.  Having children immersed Dr. Wilkens in a wonderful community of young families where she has had the blessing of offering the benefits of chiropractic care to pregnant women and their children for the last six years.  She is a member of the American Chiropractic Association, the International Pediatric Chiropractic Association and a certified Webster Technique provider.

The Webster Technique is a specific pelvic analysis and balancing protocol which reduces pelvic torsion thereby eliminating torquing of the uterus which allows babies to obtain optimal positioning in utero.  Dr. Wilkens feels especially passionate about informed choice and ensuring all pregnant mothers have access to a thorough source of information regarding the risks and benefits of all the healthcare choices available to her and her family.  She believes all babies should be given the best chance for entering the world peacefully.

The Flagstaff Birth Network is proud to announce a special showing of “Orgasmic Birth”!  The documentary is touted to be powerful, passionate and thought provoking, with commentary by a dozen preeminent health professionals and 11 women and their partners who share their birthing journey.  Orgasmic Birth dismantles untruths about labor and birth that women have been told for generations. The women in the film are transfigured and transformed by the power of their own bodies.  Come and discover this “best labor secret” (also recently covered by ABC 20/20 piece).

Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Time: 6:30 pm

Location: Theatrikos, 11 W Cherry Ave, Flagstaff, AZ 86001

Cost: $8

An opportunity to ask questions will take place after the showing with local birth and health professionals participating in the informal Q & A.

Advanced tickets can be purchased online through Tuesday March 3rd, 2009.  Remaining tickets will be sold at the door on March 4th.

Buy Your Ticket Now!

(this event is over)

Audiences around the world are cheering Orgasmic Birth, a documentary film by internationally respected childbirth educator, doula, and birth activist Debra Pascali-Bonaro that asks: What would happen if women were taught to enjoy birth rather than endure it?
Five years in the making, Orgasmic Birth challenges cultural myths by revealing the emotional, spiritual, and physical heights attainable through birth. Viewers witness the passion of birth as women give birth in unhurried, non-medicalized settings—including hospital birth centers—where they feel supported and safe.
The film, recently shown at the prestigious Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, will be featured this fall on ABC-TV’s news magazine “20/20”.
Birthing experts who provide commentary in the film include women’s health advocate and bestselling author Christiane Northrup, MD; Marsden Wagner, MD, MS, former director of Women’s and Children’s Health for the World Health Organization; and other leaders in the field. They explain that a pleasurable birth is an integral part of women’s sexuality and a neglected human right.
Orgasmic Birth had its world premiere on May 16, 2008 at the fifth annual World Respected Childbirth Week conference in Prague, Czech Republic. The United States premiere was held in Cleveland, Ohio, on May 18, followed by screenings in more than a dozen states, with many still to come. The film is being shown across Europe, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Israel, and more.
The DVD, subtitled in French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, has a remarkable score by John McDowell, who wrote the music for the Oscar-winning documentary Born Into Brothels.  Copies of the DVD and original soundtrack CD are now available through the website, www.orgasmicbirth.com. DVDs and CDs continue to be sold for screening events at universities and for other educational uses, facilitated by the site’s comprehensive Screening Planner.

Pam England is coming to Flagstaff and offering three workshops the weekend of February 6, 7, and 8 as a part of her Arizona tour though Flagstaff, Prescott, Phoenix and Tucson.  Register through her website or call (805) 964-6611.

Pam England is the author of “Birthing From Within”, a mother, former midwife and an artist with an inspiring new vision.

An evening talk will be offered on Friday, February 6th from 6:30 – 8:30 p in historic downtown Flagstaff and the Saturday and Sunday workshops (9:00 a – 6:00 p) are being held over at the North Country Health Care building off of N 4th St.

England’s Saturday one-day workshop (Birth & Life as a Hero’s Journey) quickly cuts through assumptions and old ways of thinking, freeing participants to envision and enact an inspiring new paradigm for life transitions, birth preparation, and finding new meaning in all of their stories. Pam England poetically and passionately tells beloved, ancient hero myths that parallel our own lives and births. She illustrates the heroine’s journey and outlines the timeless tasks we must complete to achieve personal freedom and spiritual growth. (Contact hours available). More information available.

Sunday’s one-day workshop is called “Birth Story Medicine” and will also be held at North Country Health Care.  Women tell their birth stories to be social, to instruct, to brag, and in search of healing.  When pregnancy, birth or postpartum are the source of grief, anger, or confusion, then the parent or professional tells their story in search of “medicine,” healing words, a new insight, forgiveness of themselves or another. This workshop revives the nearly forgotten role of the story-listener who listens in such a way she helps the teller heal her own story.  Learn how to listen deeply to hear the buried “seed” of the trauma. (Contact hours available).  More information available.

The evening talk is $18 in advance and $25 at the door.  The one day workshops are each $150 in advance and $175 at the door.

Tickets are now on sale for the

Birth On Labor Day (BOLD)

performance of Karen Brody’s play, Birth.

Performance Dates: Saturday & Sunday, August 30th & 31st, 2008

(Labor Day Weekend!) at 7:00 p.m.

Venue: The Doris Harper White Theatre (Theatrikos) -

Address: 11 West Cherry Ave.

(corner of Beaver and Cherry) in Flagstaff

Tickets available at the box office or by calling 774-1662

Ticket price: $12

All proceeds to benefit: The Flagstaff Birth Network

Performance to be followed by a talk back with local birth professionals.

Birth is a documentary style play which tells the stories of 8 low-risk women giving birth in America today. This play touches the birthing community on many levels and inspires a discussion about the need for mother-friendly, mother-centered birth experiences.

Bring your spouse, bring your girlfriend, bring your mother.
FINAL NOTE: Last year’s one performance of Birth sold out in one hour. GET YOUR TICKETS IN ADVANCE!

visit www.BOLDaction.org for additional details.

This event is finished.  We expect to experience BOLD again in 2009.