Into the wild I'm going, into the wild I am, it's been a wild freedom child since I left my roots back home.

Into the wild I'm going, into the wild I am, it's been a wild freedom child since I left my roots back home.

Welcome to the Free Birth Society podcast. This is a radical space for women who are ready to celebrate their autonomous choices in birth, motherhood, and beyond.

Together, we'll learn about wild birth through personal narrative, we'll explore the politics of birth, and we'll analyze everything that relates to our lives as women from a feminist perspective.

Here's your host Emily Salda.

Imagine a land where women and girls run wild and free, where we're supported to feel, encourage to express, and where we experience true collective healing, a place where we can play laugh and howl under the moon.

Here, you can let your guard down, and come back to the essence of wild womanhood, your nervous system, finally able to relax, in the total absence of men and the total presence of sisterhood.

Women call this the magic place, and as female only spaces continue to dwindle securing land of my own for women's festivals has been a lifelong dream come to fruition.

So, I'm thrilled to announce and invite you to the second annual matriarch rising festival that will take place here in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, June 19th through the 24th.

This is an exclusive wild woman's summer solstice gathering, a week of dancing, nude sunbathing, communing with the elements singing and falling in love with what it means to be alive as a woman.

Tickets are officially on sale, and they will sell out so head over to matriarchrisingfestival.com for all the details and to get your ticket.

Can't wait to see you there.

This week on the show, we have Maria from Finland. She tells us about her conscious conception journeys, beginning with meeting her husband and ceremony after a spiritual awakening.

And then a near death accident that solidified her journey of following her heart and her gut instincts in wild pregnancy and free birth.

We also discuss lotus birth, the necessary social aspect of postpartum care, and remembering the ancient ways of sacred birth.

Thank you, Emily. It's a honor to be here to share my story.

Yeah, it's really exciting. And I think that you're our first woman from Finland representing.

Yeah, I know. Wow. That's so amazing. I know so many women in Finland who has free birthed, and I guess who has also inspired me to free birth, how I got into this.

Yeah, I guess I will start my my story when I'm at my husband, because I guess that time was the time that I really realized that I am becoming a mother.

Yeah, don't you have some cute story with your husband that like he knew before you did or he like was like you're going to have we're going to have kids together.

Wasn't there something cute about that. Yeah.

Yeah, we met in a ceremony or we met like five years prior, we have known each other five years prior to when we actually got together.

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