Birth Without Violence ~ Frederick Leboyer
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<br /><br />I simply LOVE LOVE LOVE this MAN for the beauty of his soul, the brilliance of his mind, the softness in his voice and his kind nature...<br />These videos are so touching !<br /><br />His book "Birth Without Violence" is AMAZING!! Though I have heard about it and knew about his revolutionary vision of how babies should be welcome in this world, I have only very recently read it. It's impressive, really, not only by its scientific content, also by the artistic, poetic expression... capturing all aspects of this miracle: medical, spiritual, philosophical... It's really a pleasure to read his words!! He seems from another dimension!! I wonder how is it that a man was able to come with these thoughts and not a woman who one would expect to understand best what a child birth means both for the child and a woman. Yet... this man's extraordinary ability to fully understand what goes through their minds and hearts in those moments...is what stunned me the most! Maybe he was a woman in another life....who knows! just an angel sent by God to teach humans how to be and how to act human!!<br />Ohh God, why aren't all doctors like him!!?? :bowdown:<br /><br />"Birth Without Violence" by Frederick Leboyer ~ Birth Without Violence - Part One<br />"Birth Without Violence" by Frederick Leboyer ~ Birth Without Violence - Part Two<br />"Birth Without Violence" by Frederick Leboyer ~ Birth Without Violence - Part Three<br />"Birth Without Violence" by Frederick Leboyer ~ Birth Without Violence - Part Four <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Source: Frederick Leboyer<br />Dr. Frederick Leboyer was the first physician to challenge society's deeply held beliefs about awareness in the newborn. His pioneering works on birthing, including “Birth Without Violence”, have forever revolutionized the course of prenatal care and the way babies are introduced to the world. He also pioneered introducing infant massage to the Western world.<br /><br />Frederick Leboyer first visited India in 1959 and spent two months of every year there in the following two decades. He developed a keen interest in yoga and its applications for pregnant women and new mothers, particularly the use of breathing and sound.<br /><br />In Frederick’s book “Loving Hands”, he details the techniques of infant massage and throughout the book follows a young mother, Shantala. He first met, observed and photographed her with her baby outside a hostel in Calcutta. He says, “I stopped short, struck by what I was witnessing: In the midst of filth and misery, a spectacle of purest beauty. A silent dialogue of love between a mother and her baby.” There he learned how to use the flowing rhythms of the art of baby massage to communicate love and strength to infants.<br /><br />Frederick Leboyer, through these two books and other publications, has contributed, perhaps more than anyone else in the twentieth century, that the emotional environment of birth has a profound impact and life-long effects on everyone.<br /><br />Dr. Frederick Leboyer states, “Being touched and caressed, being massaged, is food for the infant.<br />Food as necessary as minerals, vitamins, and proteins. Deprived of this food, the name of which is love, babies would rather die. And they often do.”<br /><br />The art of infant massage has been practiced throughout the ages in India as a sacred art, handed down from generation to generation, from grandmother to mother to daughter. This form of massage can be traced to its origin in Kerala in the South of India.<br /> <br />Frederick Leboyer Books<br /><br /> Leboyer Frederick. Birth Without Violence. Date Published: 1975<br /> Leboyer Frederick. Loving Hands: The Traditional Indian Art of Baby Massage. Date Published: 1976<br /> Leboyer Frederick. Inner Beauty, Inner Light. Date Published: 1978<br /> Leboyer Frederick. Shantala<br /> Leboyer Frederick. The Art of Breathing. Date Published: 1991<br /> Frederick Leboyer, Peter Lorie, Joseph Chilton Pearce, George Meredith.<br /> The Wonder of Childhood: Recaptured<br /> <br />
[size=14pt]“Yes, we should not forget that the five senses are one. <br />And all of them extensions of the skin”<br /><br />- Frederick Leboyer[/size]
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