EP10: Jennifer Laurin on Tantra 101, Right Relationship, and Unconditional Family
Jennifer Laurin is the creator and founder of Shunya Gates Temple and a Certified Tantra Counselor. A yoga practitioner and meditator, she is at work on a book entitled Unconditional Family, based on her own experience of maintaining family while dissolving marriage. In this episode, Jennifer shares: What Tantra is Why both men and women […]
EP9: Tema Mercado on Midwifery, Xicana Cultural Legacies of Birth, and Postpartum Care
Tema Mercado is a Xicana mother of five children, wife and licensed midwife. I asked her to be on the Magamama podcast because I have had the privilege of watching her practice midwifery. I wanted to ask her about her dual practice in Tijuana and San Diego, to hear about how the birth center project […]
EP8: Juna Mustad on Intuition, Anger, and Boundaries with Love
In this episode, Juna and Kimberly talk about intuition. What exactly is intuition? How do you tap into it? What is its role in therapy? As a practitioner, how do you capitalize on your intuition, and also develop accurate discernment? Juna shares some of her gems and insights from her upcoming book, A Good Girl’s […]
EP7: Maggie Rintala on Training, “Fitness,” and DNS for Prenatal and Postpartum Recovery
This podcast we talk about how Maggie giving birth to her two children radically changed her life and her career for the better. We talk about the personal changes within that drew her to find the support she was looking for and her approach to healthy exercise during pregnancy and postpartum recovery. Maggie Rintala is […]
EP6: McLean McGown on Postpartum Doulas, Postpartum Care, and Mothering the Mother
When we recorded this episode she is 1 day shy of 40 weeks! Her daughter, Goldy Wolf, was born three days after we talked. McLean McGown is a mother, wife, Postpartum Doula, Yoga & Pilates teacher, Nutritionist, Buddhist and yoga practitioner living in Los Angeles. Through her own pregnancy and birth experiences, McLean started learning […]
EP5: Keli Garza, aka Steamy Chick, on Vagina Steaming and Radical Women’s Health Care
This podcast is a steamy one. I met Keli at a vagina steaming workshop and was immediately captivated by her wealth of knowledge, background in quantitative analysis, and grassroots approach to women’s health. This podcast is all about vagina steaming, and how it can treat almost every gynecological issue. I know the term “vagina steaming” […]
EP4: Kristin Hauser on Conscious Birthing, Postpartum Recovery and Chinese Medicine
In this Magamama episode, we talk to Kristen Hauser about the choices she made in her recent birth experience and why she trusted her instinct to choose this route; how it truly takes a village and how important the healing experience is. We also discuss Chinese medicine and postpartum care. She also shares her own […]
EP3: Layla Centorrino, the Artemis Woman, on Chakras and Energetics of Childbirth and Postpartum
Magamama interviews Layla Centorrino– a teacher and practitioner for over thirty years including work such as transformational bodywork, counselor, yoga, colon hydrotherapy, shamanism, energy medicine, and psychic clairvoyance. She is the owner of The Artemis Woman. She is the creator of Conscious Coupling and Uncoupling process, creator and doula of conscious baby-making. Layla Centorrino is […]
EP2: Tobin Zivon on Relationship and Intimacy Games
Tobin Zivon is a longtime friend and soul ally of mine. He is also an accomplished spiritual teacher and counselor, and a man I trust to share the masculine perspective with the Magamama community. He authored the Art of Mindful Living: You Can’t Stop the Waves, But You Can Learn To Surf, and has been […]
EP1:Christiane Pelmas on Relationships, Codependence, and Mother as Soul Guide
In this inaugural episode of the Magamama podcast, Kimberly Ann Johnson is joined by Christiane Pelmas who shares her wisdom as a psychotherapist, Sexological Bodyworker, wise woman, author and mother. She tells me just before the episode that she is not interested in being interviewed. She’s interested in co-created conversation. Nevertheless, she is a truth […]
