We, women of the asphalt

have no wise-eyed elders

to explain to us and guide us.

With bugaboo-measured motherhood

we are but orphaned children when

faced with our own selves.

so long ago severed

from the Goddess

I. Czarnawska Iliev

Our busy lives, whether spent worrying about financial situation, tending to older children or developing a successful career, rarely give us an opportunity to look for the true meaning of things we are experiencing. In the modern times, a pregnant woman is largely treated like a “sick” person, a “patient”, and once she gives birth, she should “get back to normal” as soon as possible.

Yet childbirth is but an integral part

of our wonderful nature as women. Every woman's body has an innate knowledge of how to create new life and how to bring this life into the world, we only need to re-learn how to access that wisdom, liberate it from our conditioning and inhibitions and let it work its miracle.

Fortunately, the importance of re-gaining woman's natural power is increasingly acknowledged. Since the 1970-ies, more and more people around the world have worked to change mainstream assumptions about pregnant woman as a patient, about birth pain, the unimportnace of the baby's first few hours of life and safety of hospitals. This movement was born in a few places simultaneously, always presenting a strikingly lower percentage of complications, difficult births and emergency cesearians. It's “classics” include, in the USA, such prominent midwives as Ina May Gaskin (“The Farm” in Texas, USA), Pam England (Birthing From Within in New Mexico), M. Mongan (a “hypnobirthing” pioneer); in France the work and thought of obstetrician Frederick Leboyer (a birth bible/poem: “Birth Without Violence”) and a surgeon turned midwife Michel Odent, and, last but not least, the Russian midwives who pioneered water-birth.

We are a part of this wonderful movement, enabling woman to go back to their natural roots.

The aim of SBS is to re-kindle the magic of pregnancy, birth and motherhood, which used to be honoured as powerful rites of passage