Ariela Sharon is a spiritual childbirth coach and ritualist, living in Jerusalem. She brings a deep understanding of the divine feminine and Judaic spiritual wisdom to her birth work. This interview contains many nuggets of practical ways to integrate spirituality and ceremony in our birth work and lives. Each of us, podcast hosts, has a Jewish blood lineage and it was very precious to learn more about the jewels in our history. At the time of this interview, Ariela was 6 weeks postpartum from a beautiful home birth.

The following are some of the nuggets of this Interview:

• Birth is Ceremony and we can infuse it with ritual
• We need birthworkers like Lael who is spiritual and loves women. Spirituality is touching our souls with our bodies
• In the Jewish traditions, the number one quality of women who support birth was faith
• How to pray: you don’t care how you look when you pray or when you birth. It doesn’t matter if you are crying or screaming, your prayer is yours, different than tradition, it is another type of prayer, a spontaneous prayer.
• Birth knowing is a woman’s world. we can’t make rituals for them, it’s the woman who knows best. It the woman needs to break shabbat to give birth, she can, she can do whatever she wants. it’s a duty for her to know about it,, it’s not ok to hand it over, she has the responsibility, she has to know about her body, physiology, emotionally, a lot of women haven’t been socialized to take responsibility.
• How can you connect what you are feeling in your body with what you are feeling in your spirit. What’s connecting me to the creator universe for me?! Not someone else’s prayer
• I bless all the women listening to this to have someone in their lives can hold space for them. When someone really has faith in you, there is a total shift in the birth.

Website: https://www.arielasharon.com/