You can support the film HERE Imogen love is a British Caribbean London-based birth doula, sound therapist, artist and mother. Imogen is a multi instrumentalist, having worked with sound as a tool for self connection for over 20 years. Imogen offers heart-led holistic support for pregnancy, birth and postpartum. Her care addresses the mind and body using complimentary sound, meditation, nutrition and exercises. Imogen’s visual practice has seen her art direct and photograph commercial fashion ca...
Apr 16, 2025•25 min
Use the community code SAMARA-10 for a 10% discount on the Birth: A New Story Course Through the lens of philosophy, pre and perinatal psychology, traditional midwifery, anthropology and modern medicine, this course invites us to widen our understanding about birth and its deep interrelationship with the rest of our lives. It explores what is possible beyond the dominant story about birth and how we can collectively create a new story that is in service of thriving life....
Feb 27, 2025•57 min
Through the lens of philosophy, pre and perinatal psychology, traditional midwifery, anthropology and modern medicine, this course invites us to widen our understanding about birth and its deep interrelationship with the rest of our lives. It explores what is possible beyond the dominant story about birth and how we can collectively create a new story that is in service of thriving life. USE THE DISCOUNT CODE SAMARA-BIRTH-10 to get 10% off the course. You can register HERE...
Jan 28, 2025•55 min
This episode is a rich conversation between Theodore Lowry, host of the Story Paths podcast , and myself. It was an absolute pleasure to be interviewed by Theodore and to have the opportunity to bring all my contemplations, research and sensing together into a wholesome conversation which completes the first season of the birth a new story podcast, before I take a pause to give my full attention to the film which is entering its post production phase. In this conversation we explore how birth, l...
Sep 08, 2024•1 hr 19 min
Eva Maria Bredler is a PhD student, editor, and dancer from Germany. In her PhD, she’s exploring human rights in the context of pregnancy and childbirth. Her work seeks to bring the body back into the law – a sphere mostly inhabited by rational, autonomous legal subjects without bodies or relationships. As such, the law is unable to grasp pregnancy and childbirth as connected and embodied experiences. While doing research at the University of Oxford, she fell in love with social dancing. Trained...
Jul 01, 2024•1 hr 8 min
Matiga is a Space holding Birthworker & Massage therapist from South East London. Walking with women and families along different stages of their maternal journey, she is honoured to witness the transition to earthside by many bright souls that have trusted her presence. Matiga is currently being gently called to support during the other major life transition, that being departures, and she is excited to see where the roads lead next. To learn more about Matiga's offerings, please visit http...
Jun 01, 2024•25 min
Raised in the hip hop and muslim community in South London, Nicola Mahdiyyah Goodall has been involved in birth for almost thirty years. She was guided by her adopted mama Rifat Peggy Nafisa Brown - a traditional midwife taught by God, her local Grand Midwives and her local indigenous elders in Portland. Officially trained in 2002 with Michel Odent as one of the first Paramana Doulas. She works actively not only as a doula, but is also part of many different initiatives which promote good health...
May 01, 2024•44 min
In this conversation, Samara Concepción invites Natalie Feary to share how she created the conditions within and around herself to experience an ecstatic home birth after a difficult J incision caesarean. Natalie is a mother to two children aged 9 and 5 and was born and grew up in London with a Mexican mother and English father. She has worked extensively as a politics and business journalist for both print and broadcast media and is the co-owner of two Mexican restaurants by the name of Santo R...
Apr 01, 2024•55 min
This episode is my second interview with birthkeeper, birth educator and birth activist, Kemi Johnson. In this episode we focus on dissolving some of the most deeply ingrained myths about birth with the intention of creating new possibilities for families beyond the dominant story about birth. Kemi Johnson is an experienced Birthkeeper, former NHS and former Independent Midwife in the UK. She provides services to women and families who are seeking more than the conveyor-belt style of care and ed...
Mar 01, 2024•42 min
Kemi Johnson is an experienced Birthkeeper, former NHS and former Independent Midwife in the UK. She provides services to women and families who are seeking more than the conveyor-belt style of care and education that the NHS is providing people with currently. As well as working with first-time mothers-to-be, Kemi also helps people unravel their thoughts regarding previous birth experiences. They walk away lighter, more informed and able to plan future births with strength and confidence restor...
Feb 01, 2024•57 min
Wholistic Sexuality teacher Sheri Winston is a groundbreaking, award-winning author and teacher who offers empowering, entertaining erotic education for everyone. She’s the author of the award-winning Women’s Anatomy of Arousal: Secret Maps to Buried Pleasure (which I personally couldn’t recommend enough) and Succulent SexCraft: Your Hands-On Guide to Erotic Play and Practice. She’s also a contributor to the award-winning Secrets of the Sex Masters . Sheri is the founder of the Intimate Arts Cen...
Jan 01, 2024•1 hr
I deeply believe that the way we welcome new life into our world touches all of us, whether we are aware of it or not. I see pregnancy, birth, the postnatal period and parenting as the foundations of our collective health. The lives and losses of lives in Palestine have ripple effects on the unfolding of our human story. What could be more important, more precious, to society, governments and our collective humanity than caring for the source of all human life itself? This project is a Prayer fo...
Dec 13, 2023•6 min
My invitation, through this meditation, is to help create the space that is needed to go within and feel all that there is to feel, in the trust that this will, in time, deepen our relationship with what is truly being felt within us. Here’s my offering to you this month, loved ones, and I hope it opens/nourishes you in some way. With immense Love, Samara Music composed by Tommy Khosla...
Dec 01, 2023•12 min
Carly Mountain is a writer, psychotherapist and women’s initiatory guide, who specialises in working with sexuality, relationships and embodiment. She is author of Descent & Rising: Women’s Stories & the Embodiment of the Inanna Myth. Carly facilitates people at the threshold of change to deepen intimacy with themselves and their lives. Her writing and work seeks to uncover what has been exiled or hidden within, that is longing to be remembered and reconnected with. A mythopoetic process...
Nov 01, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Mars Lord is a life coach and a birth activist. A triple award winning doula, mentor, educator and coach with over 15 years of experience. Mars created Abuela Doulas, a doula preparation course primarily, but not exclusively, for Black and Brown women, and is the Founder of BLA (Black Lives Abuela) Scholarship. This scholarship is to help Black women who wish to become doulas to train and not be held back by socio-economic disadvantage. She is Inclusion Consultant to several large companies caus...
Oct 01, 2023•1 hr
Naolí Vinaver is a Mexican midwife who combines traditional Mexican and contemporary home birth practices, with a profound respect for the physiology of natural birth, having attended over 1800 home births in both Mexico and Brazil. Naolí is a passionate speaker and educator, teaching hundreds of workshops and seminars in over 30 countries around the world. In this interview Naoli shares her love for the journey of expansion, discovery and transformation that every woman embarks on through pregn...
Sep 01, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Jennie Joseph is a British-trained midwife who fights to ensure every person has their healthiest possible pregnancy, birth and postpartum experience with dignity and support. Jennie created The JJ Way® which is an evidence-based, maternity care model delivering readily-accessible, patient-centred, culturally-congruent care to women in areas that she terms 'materno-toxic zones'. Jennie is the Founder and President of Commonsense Childbirth which operates a perinatal training division, a clinical...
Aug 01, 2023•40 min
Mia Kalef is a Chiropractor, Craniosacral Therapist and founder of Emerging Families, a program of therapy, education, and research for the Pre and Perinatal Period. She works with families throughout the childbearing years to resolve the effects of Pre and Perinatal challenges and with adults retrospectively. She is the author of ‘The Secret Life of Babies: How Our Prebirth and Birth Experiences Shape Our World’ and ‘It’s Never Too Late: Healing Prebirth and Birth At Any Age’, which is a practi...
Jul 01, 2023•31 min
In this conversation, Samara Concepción invites Natalie Gyte to share her free birth experience and the journey which led her to that choice. Together, they explore pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period as a continuum, rather than separate chapters. Natalie is a new Mama to Rose, and a partner to Luke. She has played basketball for England and for team Great Britain at the junior Olympics and has competed in boxing for 8 years - winning a national title in 2019. Natalie is currently navigati...
Jun 05, 2023•53 min
Birth: A New Story is a gathering place for visionary voices to explore what it means to be human and welcome new life into the world with reverence. Samara Concepción is a birth doula and a women’s health practitioner based in London. These conversations intend to offer you a holistic perspective on pregnancy and birth. One which deeply values your innate body wisdom and the inherent intelligence of birth.
Jun 05, 2023•1 min
In this time of great transition on Earth, Te Kaha's heart-led mission is to be a guide in the transformation and empowerment of others, in their essential reconnection with themselves and with the natural world, as shown to him by his tīpuna (ancestors). For more information about Te Kaha and his offerings, please visit his website: https://www.tekahapounamu.com/home...
Sep 08, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 6
The New Story about Birth recognises that the health and well-being of fathers is essential to our societal health. The changes that accompany pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period are significant, but so is the role that men play in this transformation. A partner’s quality of presence and influence through this time is momentous. How could men be better supported on their journey to fatherhood? Join Adam Jackson, Aubert Bastiat and Samara Concepción to explore the sacred role of the father ...
Sep 08, 2022•58 min•Season 1Ep. 5
The New Story about Birth is wet, wild and sexy. Intimate, untamed and undisturbed. Birth, like sex, is an altered state - When we don’t interfere with the magnificent design of birth. When a birthing woman feels safe, unobserved, undisturbed and free to follow her innate body wisdom, her body starts releasing a fine combination of hormones, including oxytocin and beta-endorphin, which lead her into an altered state or birth trance. This state is essential to the optimal unfolding of birth. Oxyt...
Sep 08, 2022•55 min•Season 1Ep. 4
The New Story about Birth recognises that the health and well-being of mothers, babies and families is integral to the health of society as a whole. How would we welcome our children into the world in the new story of interbeing? Join this conversation between Charles Eisenstein and Samara Concepción to explore how we can restore the radical power of birth to its ancient roots in service of thriving life.
Sep 08, 2022•51 min•Season 1Ep. 3
The New Story about Birth values the innate body wisdom of women and babies. Join this conversation between Kelly Brogan and Samara Concepción to explore how we can reclaim reverence for the mystery and inherent intelligence of birth in a time that perceives childbirth as an inherently dangerous event that requires medical management.
Sep 08, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 2
In support of the forthcoming film Birth: A New Story, join this conversation with School of Mythopoetics co-founder Ian MacKenzie and actor Jacob Fortune-Lloyd. Jacob Fortune-Lloyd - Executive Producer Jacob is an actor, theatre and filmmaker based in London. His acting projects include The Queen's Gambit, Wolf Hall, and the upcoming See How They Run and The Power. He has performed on London's West End, volunteer co-produces Matchstick Theatre Company in South East London, and is currently co-d...
Sep 01, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 1
