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Podcast: Sex Birth Trauma with Kimberly Ann Johnson
Episode: Uma Dinsmore-Tuli on Yoga, Feminism and the Postpartum Period
Description: "If you actually understood what a woman has been through: the conception journey, pregnancy, birth, the whole process—what's happening demands full respect and a deep care. To imagine that people would just snap back into their size 0 jeans and walk out, it begs disbelief. There's no respect for what's arisen. And in the yoga world, we've fed right into that." Uma Dinsmore-Tuli is a yoga teacher, a yoga teacher trainer, and wrote the tome Yoni Shakti: A Woman's Guide to Power and Freedom through Yoga and Tantra, which connects feminism, blood rites, and yoga. ...