Sexual Healing for Empowered Birth with Stacey Ramsower

***\*This episode is taken from a class offered to our student community by the amazing Stacey Ramsower. We are honored to share it here on the Sacred Window podcast as an opportunity to support our listeners.*** Sexual Healing for Empowered Birth What does sexuality have to do with birth? In this conversation, Stacey Ramsower explores the deep connection between sexuality, embodiment, consent, and empowered birth. Drawing from her lived experience, work as an Ayurvedic full-spectrum doula, holistic pelvic floor bodyworker, intimacy and communication coach, and sex-positive childbirth educator, Stacy invites us to look beneath the surface of our experiences and examine the patterns we carry into pregnancy, birth, relationships, and postpartum. Our early experiences can shape how we understand our bodies, pleasure, safety, boundaries, and self-worth. These imprints can live in the nervous system and influence how we respond to touch, communicate our needs, and advocate for ourselves during significant life transitions. In this episode, Stacey explores the Wheel of Consent and the importance of understanding the difference between giving, receiving, allowing, and tolerating touch. She also discusses the relationship between voice and the pelvic structures, the role of autonomy in birth, and how learning to say "no," "maybe," or "I've changed my mind" can become a powerful practice of self-authorship. The conversation also includes an embodied practice using sound and the three diaphragms of the body, offering a way to connect with the pelvic floor, respiratory diaphragm, and thoracic diaphragm while cultivating a deeper sense of coherence and presence. Together, we explore: • How sexuality and birth are connected through the physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual layers of our experience • How early family and cultural messages can shape our relationship with sexuality and intimacy • The ways inherited patterns can influence our relationships, boundaries, and sense of self • The Wheel of Consent and developing greater awareness around giving and receiving touch • Why consent is an ongoing practice that can be communicated, felt, changed, and withdrawn • The relationship between voice, the nervous system, the pelvic floor, and birth • How birth can bring deeply held patterns and experiences to the surface • The importance of self-authorship and communicating our needs • Using sound and embodied awareness to support connection and coherence • Creating safer spaces where sexuality, birth, boundaries, and healing can be explored openly This conversation is an invitation to become more curious about your own body, your own patterns, and your own capacity to know what you want. Because empowered birth is not only about what happens to the body. It is also about having a voice, experiencing choice, and knowing that your needs and boundaries matter. **Guest:** Stacey Ramsower Ayurvedic Full-Spectrum Doula, Holistic Pelvic Floor Bodyworker, Trauma Resolution Practitioner, Intimacy and Communication Coach, Sex-Positive Childbirth Educator, and Doctoral Student in Psychology. Links: Stacey Ramsower, MA ❤️‍🔥 (@stacey\_ramsower) • Instagram profile Learn more about the Center for Sacred Window Studies and explore upcoming community gatherings and educational opportunities at Sacred Window Studies. \- Begin your own journey into nourishment and postpartum wisdom: https://sacredwindowstudies.com/free-cookbook/ \- *Are you feeling the call to know more about Conscious Postpartum Care?* Reach out! ⁠Schedule a time with Christine⁠ to find out how this work can transform your care business or provide a meaningful career path. Here is the ⁠link⁠ to our free class @‌sacredwindowstudies Join our ⁠Facebook Group⁠ Podcast Music is Composed by Sara Emmitt, graduate of the Center for Sacred Window Studies. You can hear more of Sara’s incredible music at www.saraemmitt.com.