The Yoga of Childbirth: home-birthing a mountain

The Yoga of Birthing Child and re-birthing Self

By Ally Guidesmith

Our son was nameless his first ten days in the world.

I had felt certain his name from his beginnings in the womb was “Kailash”, but my husband disagreed with my intuitive divining. So we began ruminating as we gazed at him reflectively, as he alternated between wakefulness and slumber. I was passionately sure that his name would reflect a mountain from the Himalayas, likely due to my profound experiences trekking these divine and…