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learn! Join my 2023 Birth Companions program: a year long course that will be online with the chance to meet up every few months. You find your own mentor if possible. Affordable pricing. I am really excited about passing on my skills to others! I want to provide women with the knowledge to attend and recognize healthy pregnancy birth and postpartum journeys; to recognize when things are changing; to have some skills for preventative and healing care without going to techniques that are forbidden by the state.
join my Care for the Healer Activist seminar! 8 weeks, 7 healers, 6 senses, 5 texts, 4 elements, 3 hours, 2 moons, 1 love. 
want to run this summer with some other folk on my mountain hideaway? retreat!
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 birth As always I am here for you if you're wondering where, how, with whom you will be bringing your baby into this world.
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About me!
my name is Rivka Cymbalist. 
I've lived in many places and traveled even more.
I have five sons and one husband.
I've assisted at hundreds of births. I honor undisturbed birth.  I honor women and their bodies. I believe it is time for women to take their own power and use it for peace.
My PR for a half marathon is 2:21:49
We had a mixed organic farm in Umbria for a few years.
I founded a radical volunteer doula organization in 2003.
I was always a cat person, now I'm a dog person.
I went to Greece in 2017 to work with people in the refugee camps.
My son and I own a cafe.
I love to throw parties, but then I don't talk much.
Books and reading keep me sane, more or less.
My father was a scientist who played the piano.
My mother was an artist who taught mathematics.
I have two sisters, younger.
My favourite poem is Ithaka, by Cavafy.
My favorite movie is Down by Law.
I can play the clarinet, and the saxophone.

  • peace
  • learn
  • birth
  • products
  • retreat