Mia Kalef https://miakalef.com/ Mia Kalef and The Secret Life of Babies Tue, 23 Nov 2021 14:18:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://miakalef.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/cropped-cerimonalist-32x32.png Mia Kalef https://miakalef.com/ 32 32 Coming Soon: Incarnational Gestures Audio Series https://miakalef.com/coming-soon-incarnational-gestures-audio-series/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=coming-soon-incarnational-gestures-audio-series Tue, 23 Nov 2021 14:18:10 +0000 https://miakalef.com/?p=3014 When I began teaching Incarnational Gestures at the beginning of the Pandemic, people asked if I would record them.  At the time I was suggesting songs that could go with them, so people might download them and make their own playlist to use while watching the class recordings.  Well, I finally got my hands on Read more about Coming Soon: Incarnational Gestures Audio Series[...]

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Let Us Go Down Some More https://miakalef.com/2945-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=2945-2 Mon, 03 Aug 2020 19:10:10 +0000 https://miakalef.com/?p=2945 Time and our bodies carry on while we practice planning without a certain future.  I find it more real, harder, far more vulnerable, and more rewarding.  How do we live into what once was a square chart of certainty, called a calendar, and its remains, the continual question mark of, “should we plan it or leave Read more about Let Us Go Down Some More[...]

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Responding To Corona With Corona https://miakalef.com/shifting-the-globe-with-a-different-crown/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shifting-the-globe-with-a-different-crown Fri, 20 Mar 2020 18:25:54 +0000 https://miakalef.com/?p=2921 Coronavirus is not the only cell to wear a crown.  Oocytes, or female eggs are crowned by a mantle called Corona Radiata.  It is an egg’s outermost layer of cells.  This corona speaks the language of a chaperone and elder.  While wearing her crown, this chaperone sees you through the most meaningful early times of your Read more about Responding To Corona With Corona[...]

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Extreme Health States And What To Do https://miakalef.com/extreme-health-states-and-what-to-do/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=extreme-health-states-and-what-to-do Wed, 12 Feb 2020 17:59:00 +0000 https://miakalef.com/?p=2912 Hierarchy gets a bad rap.  Power, one of hierarchy’s main qualities, does too.  Freedom, and the balance of our human right to sovereignty rides on who has power, who doesn’t, and what those with power do with it.  I’m curious about how hierarchy and power apply to extremes health states, ones when a person is Read more about Extreme Health States And What To Do[...]

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What Happens When The First Two Cells Meet https://miakalef.com/what-happens-when-the-first-two-cells-meet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-happens-when-the-first-two-cells-meet Mon, 24 Jun 2019 22:30:55 +0000 https://miakalef.com/?p=2885 I’m sitting amongst a group of deep-living women.  I know this by how they speak of themselves; one speaks of death, and its provocative place in her art-making.  Another, after decades of moontimes, tearfully names that it has ended, and how that too is a dying and a birth.  Another of her melding into the land Read more about What Happens When The First Two Cells Meet[...]

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Do Your Ancestors’ Experiences Live On In You?– Part 2 https://miakalef.com/do-your-ancestors-experiences-live-on-in-you-part-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=do-your-ancestors-experiences-live-on-in-you-part-2 Mon, 25 Feb 2019 22:54:59 +0000 https://miakalef.com/?p=2814 continued from last post… Objects in the Field can also be the legacy of familial violence, sexual abuse, addiction, emotional unavailability — incidents and habits that likely originated in personal hardships, and were fortified by cultural norms. The continual presence of these habits in the Family Field can influence how babies are conceived, how they Read more about Do Your Ancestors’ Experiences Live On In You?– Part 2[...]

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Do Your Ancestors’ Experiences Live On In You?– Part 1 https://miakalef.com/do-your-ancestors-experiences-live-on-in-you-part-1/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=do-your-ancestors-experiences-live-on-in-you-part-1 Mon, 25 Feb 2019 22:48:58 +0000 https://miakalef.com/?p=2812 The Family Field model is a way of looking at connections between our own and our family members’ past experiences and how they affect the present. The model is based on scientific research into electromagnetic and morphogenetic fields, as well as epigenetics. In order to understand the Family Field, we first need to know what Read more about Do Your Ancestors’ Experiences Live On In You?– Part 1[...]

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Build Resilience With Gentleness https://miakalef.com/build-resilience-with-gentleness/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=build-resilience-with-gentleness Thu, 03 Jan 2019 01:54:51 +0000 https://miakalef.com/?p=2786 Up until the advent of pre and perinatal psychology and health, it was thought that giving babies and young children the added challenge of crying themselves to sleep, not soothing them when they’re hurt, and other human-induced early ordeals would make them more resilient, more capable, and more indenpendent. The only thing was that the Read more about Build Resilience With Gentleness[...]

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When Chemical Trauma Turns to Paranoia https://miakalef.com/2768-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=2768-2 Mon, 03 Dec 2018 00:01:27 +0000 https://miakalef.com/?p=2768 Gary had irrational fears.  One was that he might accidentally become poisoned, another was that he might be penetrated by malevolent forces against his will.  A third was that if people around him were on medications or drugs, he too would become medicated in the same way–as though he had taken the substances himself. Common Read more about When Chemical Trauma Turns to Paranoia[...]

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When Someone You Barely Know Changes Your Life https://miakalef.com/when-someone-you-barely-know-changes-your-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=when-someone-you-barely-know-changes-your-life Mon, 15 Oct 2018 18:25:21 +0000 https://miakalef.com/?p=2736 I think it’s probably happened to you–a chance or even planned meeting–during which the person you encounter turns out to be a messenger.  Something they say, model, or does leaves you with a knowing that you must change. It happens to me about every ten years The change can be in what work you do, how you Read more about When Someone You Barely Know Changes Your Life[...]

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