by Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova

DVD length: 26 min and 40 min versions both included.

This special Educational Edition of Birth as We Know It. It features two beautiful versions of the original feature film, tailored with Educators, Midwives and Physicians in mind.

Director Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova shares her experiences as one of the co-creators of the Conscious Birth movement in Russia during the early 1980's. It included a very effective birth preparation program which culminated in summer birth-camps at the Black Sea where women gave birth to their babies in warm shallow lagoons.

The movie features eleven natural births, including home birth, water birth, birth of twins, breech delivery and an astounding self-birth by Tanya Sargunas - a world renowned Spiritual Midwife and pioneer of Conscious Birth in Russia. The midwife community calls this film "the most profound and comprehensive guide to conscious birth in the world", because it delivers a powerful transmission of what it really takes to give birth consciously and gracefully.