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Jeannine Parvati (June 1, 1949 – December 1, 2005) was a bicultural child of a Jewish mother and Native American reservation-raised father. An advanced yoga teacher (yogini), midwife, herbalist, published author, poet and mother of six children, she was also an international activist on the matters of homebirth, lotus birth/navel integrity, unassisted childbirth and newborn rights issues. Though her maiden name was O'Brien, she was also known by married names Medvin and Baker at different periods of her life. ==Biography== Born in North Hollywood, California, to a Jewish mother and Native American father, Jeannine O'Brien migrated to the San Francisco Bay Area and Sebastopol areas in the late 1960s, where she became a yoga student of Baba Hari Dass while attending Sonoma State University and majoring in psychology, pursuing graduate studies with the primal psychology scholar Graham Farrant. She was an early contributor to the fields of natural health and healing, studying yoga asana and meditation. Parvati chose to give birth to all of her children without the use of drugs, which she discusses in her early writings.〔Prenatal Yoga & Natural Childbirth, New Atlantic Publishing, 2001. Pages 1–10〕 Parvati first book, ''Prenatal Yoga & Natural Childbirth'', was the first text in the Western world on the subject, written during her studies with ashtanga yogi Baba Hari Dass from whom she received the name Parvati. In the Hindu myth, Parvati is the female counterpart of the male principle, Shiva. She endures much to stay true to her spiritual devotion, and eventually merges with Shiva. Jeannine Parvati's contribution to the realm of prenatal yoga was groundbreaking, and in the following years, other authors such as yogini Geeta Iyengar and Janet Balaskas expanded the Prenatal Yoga realm with texts which further asserted benefits of yoga for healthy pregnancy and childbirth preparation, eventually resulting in one of the most popularized trends for modern women. Parvati followed this work with ''Hygieia: A Woman's Herbal'' as her master's thesis in psychology at San Francisco State University, and later, co-authored with her second husband and under the last name Parvati-Baker ''Conscious Conception: Elemental Journey through the Labyrinth of Sexuality''. Parvati practiced as a spiritual midwife in Sonoma County, California for over ten years, before moving to rural southern Utah where she continued her practice and taught Prenatal Yoga while raising a family. She founded Hygieia College, a mentorship program, through which she matriculated over 500 students both locally and internationally. A keynote speaker at many professional herbalism and midwifery conferences, and a newborn rights activist working to eradicate infant/child circumcision (both male and female), Parvati Baker was awarded a Lifetime Achievement recognition by the International Symposium on Genital Integrity. A self-described "wordsmith", she coined the popular word ''freebirth'' to describe unassisted childbirth in a positive mode, despite the practice's many well-established risks. She also coined the lesser known, phenomenological ''Birthkeeper'' to describe the spiritual midwife in a traditional shamanic or yogini role. Parvati Baker died December 1, 2005, aged 56, after a two-year battle with Hepatitis C in Utah. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jeannine Parvati Baker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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