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21/08/2025

Breathing into Innocence - Healing Unresolved Birth Imprints with Warm Water Breathwork

Free talk with Binnie Danby and Elmer Postle
Thursday, 28 August 2025 at 19h UK time

Since July 2023, Craniosacral practitioner and cameraman Elmer Postle and originator of SOURCE Process and Breathwork Binnie A. Dansby, have been working on the film project ‘Breathing into Innocence’.

The film examines the profound impact of birth; how our earliest experiences may shape key life choices, and how, through breathwork and mindful support, we can begin to affirm or release those patterns.

In this conversation, Elmer and Binnie will introduce the concept behind the film as well as the SOURCE Process and Breathwork, a healing and awareness-based practice that Binnie has developed and taught over the past 35 years.

Birth matters. Understanding how it influences our lives, and how we can work with that influence brings potential for profound healing, both personally and collectively.

Join here: https://www.ourbirthjourney.com/course/breathing-innocence

20/08/2025

Is it true that exposing a fetus to (classical) music during pregnancy can enhance their brain development? And if so how?

In this class, John Wilks, a trained musician himself, explores the fascinating relationship between sound, music, and fetal development.

Join us for an insightful session that blends science, music, and prenatal awareness to better understand how what we hear might shape early development.

Music and Pregnancy: Can Listening to Mozart Really Make Babies Smarter?Thursday, 21 August 2025 at 19h UK time

Register here: https://www.ourbirthjourney.com/course/music-pregnancy

19/08/2025

In Memory of Franklyn Sills

It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of Franklyn Sills, a visionary teacher, author, and pioneer in the fields of Craniosacral Therapy, Polarity Therapy and pre- and perinatal work. His work has left a profound and lasting legacy, reshaping the understanding and clinical practice for countless practitioners around the world.

Franklyn had a remarkable ability to synthesize diverse perspectives from different traditions and weave them into a cohesive and deeply meaningful whole. Through his ground-breaking books and teachings, he laid the foundation for the development of biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, forever transforming the landscape of the field.
I first encountered Franklyn's teaching at Karuna Institute in the mid-1990s. Franklyn was beginning to introduce the biodynamic principles inspired by pioneers such as William Sutherland and Rollin Becker, alongside a growing emphasis on the influence of birth and prenatal experiences on our psyches and nervous systems.

He and Maura Sills brought leading-edge voices into the conversation, inviting teachers like William Emerson to Karuna, and incorporating the insights of Peter Levine, Stephen Porges, Ray Castellino, and Erich Blechschmidt among others. Franklyn had an infectious enthusiasm for new ideas and would often immerse himself in emerging developments with great depth. His lectures were both intellectually rich and soulfully engaging, often laced with his characteristic humour, which brought a warmth and humanity to his teaching.

Franklyn also had a gift for collaboration and mentorship. He welcomed others such as Claire Dolby, Satya Shepherd, Kathryn Ukleja and of course Cherionna to join him in teaching at Karuna, each of them contributing unique perspectives on the prenatal and perinatal dimensions of healing.

Perhaps one of Franklyn's most touching qualities was his openness and humility. He was candid about his own personal challenges, which created a deeply accepting and transformative learning environment. This honesty fostered a space where profound healing and growth could take place for students and teachers alike.

I feel deeply privileged to have known and worked alongside Franklyn, both as a student, teacher and as a colleague during my time as Chair of the Craniosacral Therapy Association. His influence has been immeasurable, and he will be missed dearly, both personally and professionally.

With gratitude and remembrance,

John Wilks and the Our Birth Journey Team

18/08/2025

It’s in the nature of IVF to create a surplus of embryos. What happens to them once a successful pregnancy has been achieved – apart from just storing them?

One option is to discard them. It sounds rather insensitive but once the parents have given consent to disposal, the embryos are thawed and then removed as medical waste.

Unused embryos can also be donated to science. While that may gives us ideas of all sorts of experimentation, most are used to train embryologists.

Donation to infertile couples is another option. This is a complex process with various degrees of anonymity.

Lastly, parents can request to take their embryos home. This is more of a symbolic gesture seeing that as soon as the straws are removed from the nitrogen container the embryos thaw and die. but for some this offers a way of finding closure.

14/08/2025

Music and Pregnancy: Can Listening to Mozart Really Make Babies Smarter?

Live Class with John Wilks
Thursday, 21 August 2025 at 19h UK time

There’s a lot of buzz around the idea that listening to music, especially classical music during pregnancy can enhance a baby’s brain development. But how much of this is true, and what do we actually know about how music affects a baby in the womb?

In this class, John Wilks explores the fascinating relationship between sound, music, and fetal development. He’ll delve into how babies perceive sounds in utero, from muffled external sounds like speech, singing or musical instruments, to internal rhythms such as the mother's heartbeat and digestion.

Whether it’s mum singing lullabies, playing classical pieces or heavy metal, we’ll look at how different types of music interact with the baby’s sensory world and emotional environment particularly the relationship between both mum’s and baby’s heartbeat and sounds coming from outside.

Join us for an insightful session that blends science, music, and prenatal awareness to better understand how what we hear might shape early development.

Register here: https://www.ourbirthjourney.com/course/music-pregnancy

10/08/2025

Absolutely fascinating class on venteuse and forceps trauma with a moving case story presented by Alex Caiano and in-depth treatment suggestions by Karlton Terry.

This case study shows wonderfully how babies tell their story if we are prepared to listen. Karlton gives lots of tips on how to hold space for both baby and parents.

We have combined both recent classes into one course. You can watch a 13 minute trailer here:

https://www.ourbirthjourney.com/course/treating-forceps-venteuse-trauma/

08/08/2025

You may have heard about the recent scientific breakthrough in Japan that brings us a step closer to what’s called ‘ectogenesis’ – extra-uterine gestation.

What the Japanese scientist achieved is to sustain goat embryos in a transparent bio-bag supplied with oxygenated synthetic amniotic fluid for several weeks. Sensors in this artificial womb constantly collect data which are then processed by AI so that the environment can be constantly monitored and adjusted – the equivalent of umbilical support.

While eerily reminiscent of Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’, the possibility of creating human life independently of a physical uterus and connected individual, is seen by many as a path to benefits such as eliminating health risks associated with pregnancy, the possibility of saving extremely premature babies, giving people unable to carry a child the option of becoming a parent without surrogacy.

We’re not quite there yet, though. According to experts, we could possible see the use of artificial wombs in neonatal care within the next 10-15 years. However, as always when technology enters the territory of Life itself, ethical questions arise...

06/08/2025

Working with Forceps and Venteuse Trauma
Live Class with Karlton Terry
Thursday, 7 August 2025 at 19h UK time

This class follows up from “How to Treat Babies Born with Forceps or Vaccum” and is designed to provide treatment suggestions about how to treat forceps and venteuse babies, children of all ages as well as adults.

We will follow the treatment progress of a venteuse baby and learn how people born with by this kind of birth intervention create behaviour and belief patterns and act them out throughout life, but also how these patterns were healed.

Registere here: https://www.ourbirthjourney.com/course/forceps-vacuum-2

04/08/2025

We seem to have the ability to pick up on the emotions of others from quite early in life. Infants even respond to emotional expressions of other babies with something called emotional contagion, one the most evolutionarily ancient forms of social connection.

A recent study involved 10-11 months old infants with different social and cultural backgrounds and used thermal imagery to monitor not just behavioural but also physiological responses. The researchers found that the babies reacted to the emotional expressions of their peers on both a behavioural and physiological level with crying eliciting the strongest response.

The evidence of the ability to share emotions early in life raises a lot of questions about how and when emotional contagion develops into empathy – or doesn’t.

02/08/2025

This clip is from the fascinating class Karlton gave last Thursday on forceps and vacuum births. Karlton gave us some historical context for these interventions together with a clear overview of how this is done from an obstetrical perspective.

The important aspect from a pre- and perinatal angle is, of course, the experience of the baby and the imprints this experience creates.

We are looking forward to the follow-up class to this one next week, 7th August when we will learn more bout treatment protocols.

https://www.ourbirthjourney.com/course/forceps-vacuum-2

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