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Updated 07/09/2003
Jeannine Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Receiving Award
Jeannine just received the Lifetime Achievement Award at NOCIRC's 7ISGI (The International Symposium on Human Rights and Modern Society) in Washington, D.C. April 7th -- the plaque says,

"For her lifetime activism in support of (the) normal and natural, especially the bodily integrity of infants and children."



JP says, " responded like a cross between Denzil Washington & Hally Berry when they received their "best" Awards -- I do hope my acceptance remarks had the most gracious parts of each. I am still in shock as it was a total suprise -- to see my colleagues from around the world on their feet applauding and beaming love to me --- it was overwhelming. I was almost speechless.

"(By the way, I like this Award better than the Academy Awards -- not only because I go it, but rather than being honored for acting out other people's lives, I got the highest award for playing my own life.)

"I am grateful to you for your part and thank you for continuing to be in my life just the way you are. Looking forward to the next time Grandmother Spider spins our webs together.
For the Babies,
With Love, Jeannine"


Speech Accolades from around the world about the Lifetime Acheivement Award;

Dear Parvati:
I am not surprised to know you received this wonderful award. If it were up to me, I would have awarded this to you 21 years ago when I first met you. I too, stand up and applaud you for your integrity, your love, your wisdom, your sense of humor, your devotion to friendship, family, mothering and the children of the world. You live your life in truth and purity and you continue to influence and challenge those around you to stand up and be the best they can be.

I honor you and I congratulate you on this award. But I also believe it is simply a token of what you stand for and what you continue to bring to the world. There is no award high enough or big enough to honor the Earth Mother who brings healing, health and peace to all who know her.

My hat is off to you dear friend. I send you much love and light.
All ways.
Andrea Frank Henkart,
Psy.D.(c)
Marin County, CA


WOW!!
Congratulations.
Thank you so much for sharing that and yourself.
Lyle Bennet
Trilight Herbs
www.trilightherbs.com


Yeah Jeannine! You are the woman. No, I could never see you speechless, and I am so happy for you getting this type of an award before you leave the planet and while still such a relatively young woman!
Love, Jenny Hatch
Natural Family Co.
Boulder, CO


Hello JP~ I just quickly opened your message and am SO PROUD of you. The words that you share and placing it along the Academy Awards are so appropriate. How HIGH can it go when you get an award for being you and living your life, absolutely awesome.
Also, this message is REALLY about you, so dear earth GOD US web weaver, go ahead and BEAM.
Diana Bria-Wharton
CPA

That's wonderful! Congratulations!

Michael Horowitz & Cynthia Palmer
Fitzhugh-Ludlow Library
Shaman Woman, Mainline Lady
Sisters of the Extreme


JEANNINE--

CONGRATULATIONS

Jim Prescott Ph.D.
Rock A Bye Baby


Dear Jeannine,

Congratulations and many blessings on your future work! I look forward to meeting you in person one day soon.

Love, Liz O'Shea
Super! Superb! Well deserved!
Congratulations & love, Amy Russell
Poet in Sonoma County, CA

Congratulations on the award--though you're already famous with God, right?

Ron Peet
a.k.a. Reinaldo Garcia


Dear Jeannine!

My most heartfelt congratulations! i am happy for and proud of you (and, as always, feel very blessed knowing you)! Yes, living your life the way you do is a great gift to us all who know you. Let me beam my love to you, too!

Love,
Anka Niedzweski
Hygieia Student
Switzerland


Jeannine:
Congratulations!! You are so amazing and all your hard work shows by receiving this award. Keep on walking your talk and telling your story I know that we all need to hear it.

Blessings to you and yours,
Beth Lampe Horton


Congrads JP!!!!
Of course you would receive it!
Sending you applause and love!!!!
Love always,
Kyera Shim
Los Angeles, CA


Congratulations! We'll talk soon.
Love, Kip King
Actor
Sherman Oaks, CA


Dear Jeannine,
Congratulations! How exciting!
Blessings, Mary Beard
Santa Rosa, CA


How wonderful, mama!
Loi Caitlin Medvin
SPRN Austin TX


Congratulations!
What a marvelous honor!

Ilana Stein, CD (DONA)
Manager, BirthFocus
Childbirth Educator, Hypnotherapist, Mentor & Doula Trainer
Co-Founder, Metropolitan Doula Group
NYC, NY


Dear Jeannine,

That is wonderful news, so nice that someone who has done all the work you have done is honored for something REAL and not just something glamorous, which our society seems to do.

Many blessings, Marcia Starck
Medical Astrology


AWESOME!!! I can think of no one more deserving and I mean that. I’m as proud as you are and as happy.
Blessed be!

Rosemary Gladstar
United Plant Savers
Sage Foundation
E Barre VT


Jeannine,
Excellent.
Re: Academy Awards . . .
Of course acting at its best is going inward to find the true self, which we are rarely allowed in the "real" world.
Jock Doubleday
Natural Woman, Natural Man


This is wonderful, Congrats.!.. LOVE from our home to yours.
Lightness,
Donna Yemaya
Austin TX


Dear Jeannine,

I am so pleased to share your news and it makes me so happy to know that what you defend, stand for, live for will continue, perhaps more so as a result of this award, to touch an increasing number of individuals. This award seems a just and timely recognition of what our world needs. I have plunged back into CC these past few days and can't begin to describe the effect of what I've read. Thank you again for sharing all that is in this work.
I have so much to share with you and await the right moment to start my spinning,
Love, Samantha Price
Hygieia Student, France

Congratulations Jeanine on the award...You are truly an inspiration as a fellow human/ mother/all around cool woman!

Love
Cheryl Tait-Morrison
Hygieia Student
Asheville, North Carolina


Jeannine!!!

That is absoltely WONDERFUL news about your receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from NOCIRC! Raj was also very thrilled when I told him about it and sends his congratulations. One of the many special things about you to us is that you know what to say to get your point across no matter how controversial AND endearing your audience. I was especially impressed with the way you brought up the subject of abortion mentioned in your Spring Newsletter. Brilliant!

You are so right about getting an award for being yourself-can't beat that.

Love,

Janine Kam-Lal
Hygieia Graduate
Sunnyside, NY


Dear Jeannine,

I do share your happiness. I am most happy for you and proud of you too for the good work you have done and will I'm sure continue to do. Any help I may have indirectly given you is gladly given. Yes, let us go forward and work on new projects together.

Much love to you, my fine friend and people helper.

Jeremy Seligson
Queen Jin's Handbook of Pregnancy
South Korea


Congratualtions on a much desereved award and recognition of all your labors of love, Jeannine.
Namaste` Christina Ryan
Hygieia Student
Jamaica


Awesome...you deserve it dear midwife, goddess and witch...bravo for making your mark in the mythological!!! and I agree about it being better than the academy's awards...for living YOUR life, not acting out someone else's!!! would love to hear more about that event...looking forward to your spring newsletter...again bravo ~!~
& all the best, you deserve it!!!...besos y bendiciones!!!
Luz del Castillo
Mexico


Congratulations Jeannine...

You truly do inspire so much.
Sending much love and light your way.
Blessings....

Rene LaFaurie
Filmaker
Moab, UT and Miami, FL


Sweetheart,

I'm sorry for my delay in replying--was out of the country most of March and April and am only now catching up on email. Just wanted to say congratulations and you deserve it!!

Lots of love,

Robbie Davis-Floyd PhD.
www.davis-floyd.com


Much Congratulations, Old Friend. You are so deserving of this award. I'm thrilled that you have received it. Much love to you.

Peggy O'Mara
Mothering Magazine


Dear Jeannine,

I am most pleased to share in your happiness for receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at NOCIRC's 7ISGI .
Congratulations. You deserve it.
I am proud to know you.

With warm regards,

Thomas Verny
The Secret Life of the Unborn Child
Quebec, Canada


CONGRATUATIONS. I'm very happy that you have once again been honored as you should always be!! Once again much joy to you and yours on your recognition.
Luv,
Risa Lynn Klein
New York City


Dear Jeannine blessing and love to you and your family!

I was really delighted to read you and about this AWARD, thank you for all your inspiration and work for being part of each others life.

Lots of love to you,
Noelle Rizatto
Hygieia Student Italy


Jeannine,

Congratulations on this beautiful event. I think it is wonderful that your colleagues recognize your work while you are doing it; that they see the brilliance in you, your life and your activism; and that you were able to receive it. As always, it is inspiring to observe your life. Love and blessings to you again. I'm so excited for your honoring!

Shannon Thompson
Founder/Executive Director
Shakti Rising
San Diego CA


Dear Jeannine,

That's AWESOME! Congratulations. That's gotta be the most wonderful feeling. I'm so happy for you.

You are an inspiration to me. How good to see that yes, it is possible to get what you know you deserve for doing what you know is right, for being true to yourself. I knew it was! (Or at least, I always suspected!)

Thankyou for telling me this. Amazingly---or not!---it's just what I needed to hear right now. I love you. I'm proud to know you. I'm happy for you. But I'm not surprised.

Keep up the good work of being You.

Anne Pyterek
Hygieia Student
Chicago IL


Dear Jeanine;

That is wonderfull. You definitely deserve it. It is wonderfull to see how much a few people can do to make a difference, to make a noise that is really heard, and in turn inspires others... and they do their own good work, and the chain effect continues. So many strong woman and men in the women´s health and birth area have inspired me here so far away from a good strong holistic birth movement... who knows what I will end up doing??? I can only ponder and dream for the moment, but I am sure that it will be big.

Take care and congratulations.

Aiyana Gregori


CONGRATULATIONS -
you earned it and deserve to be acknowledged for raising consciousness of others. You are an inspiration to me.

Love, Rama Burns
Spiritual Sister
Licensed Psychotherapist
Specializing in prenatal and postpartum well-being
Sebastopol CA


Congratulations! -- Henci Goer
Thinking Woman's Guide
http://www.goer.org/Henci/betterbirth/


Hi Jeannine,
I read all the comments, they were great....
"I wonder if Oscar is intact?"
Anna Verwaal, RN, CLE. Birthconsultant,
Topanga Canyon
PS I'm off to Holland soon for the congress, sooo looking forward to hear what is going on in Europe about pre- and perinatal issues.
Greetings, Anna


Bonjour,

Toutes mes plus sincères félicitations pour cette haute distinction qui vous a été attribué et que vous avez bien mérité ! Croyez bien que je suis très heureux pour vous.

Cordialement,
Altobino
France

<Transalation:>

Hello,

All my more sincere congratulations for this high distinction that you has been attributed and that you have well-earned ! Believe although I am very happy for you.

Cordially,
Altobino
France


Congratulations and love to you Jeannine!!
You work so tirelessly......and all for such a worthy cause!! You are so deserving - so glad to hear your passion and integrity has been recognised so highly.
Blessings,
Melinda (Australia)


Dear JP-Best Friend Honey,

What a lovely, heartwarming message!

The best part for me is having been able to do our work together. No one else has been touched in the same way that I am touched like you are. Our moment at the top of the steps of the Capitol last year is something that I shall always remember and treasure.

Thank you!

Love, Marilyn

////////////

Jeannine Parvati Baker wrote:
Each night before I go to sleep, I feel a deep gratitude to you, personally, for making this possible. If I had never met you, I would be still doing my little part to honor families. Yet by knowing you, I have gone beyond all hope to become the intactivist I am today. I owe you everything. You are my role model, my best friend honey, and the recipient of the JP AWARD FOR AWESOMENESS!

////////////

It was well deserved, dearest Best Friend Honey!

Love, Marilyn Milos
Director, NOCIRC-International
www.nocirc.org
nocirc@cris.com


Dear Jeannine,

Thank you for this wonderful news!! I'm happy that you received this important award. Good for you and good for us that you're with us! Yes, you've done remarkable things knowing well that there has been, and that there continues to be, so much fear and hatred of the truth, but then it's people just like you that lead others to understanding and to needed change, and lead all of us to victory.

Stan Emerson
Circumcision Awareness Educator
Intactivist
Milwaukee WI


Thank you for sharing with us this great information. I am sure you will continue your work in favor of the children with or without this award. But it is important that people recognize the merits.

Let us pray for peace.

Sami Aldeeb, Doctor of Laws
Swiss, Christian of Palestinian Origin
Swiss Institute of Comparative Law
Lausanne, Switzerland
Homepage: http://go.to/samipage
Email: aldeeb@bluewin.ch
Author of a book on male and female circumcision:
http://www.lpj.org/Nonviolence/Sami/lastbook.htm


I have always enjoyed Gurdjeff's book "Meetings with Remarkable Men" I do believe they need to add a chapter for a very remarkable woman. CONGRATULATIONS. It is nice to have been associated with You and Your family these many years.
Love and best wishes,
Bill and Barbara Vande Sluis
Maya Harmony Center
Glenwood UTB


Jeannine,
Thanks for including me in this message. AND CONGRATULATIONS! Yes, better than an Oscar--you didn't just act the part; you were yourself!

David Chamberlain, Ph.D.
Psychologist
Author, The Mind of Your Newborn Baby (3rd ed.) 1998
Editor, Birthpsychology.com
Nevada City, CA


Ah Jeannine
I am so pleased to hear this. You do truly deserve this and so much more for the power of your commitment and the passion of your speech. I am honored to be your friend and sister. Until we share again, much love and respect,
Tamara Slayton
Founder Menstrual Health Foundation
Coming of Age Program
and the Initiative for the
Renewal of Modern Culture
and Jeannine's girlfriend!
Tamara Slayton
Menstrual Health Foundation
Graton CA


Congratulations!!!! What an honour....one which you deserve of course...So pleased for you. Enjoy your celebrations.

Love, Veronika Robinson
The Mother Magazine
U.K.


Brava!! Congratulations!! You certainly deserve LOTS of rewards.
Lots of love from the green Weed.
Susun Weed
Wise Woman Center
Woodstock NY


Dear Jeannine, I am so pleased to share your news and it makes me so happy to know that what you defend, stand for, live for will continue, perhaps more so as a result of this award, to touch an increasing number of individuals.This award seems a just and timely recognition of what our world needs.I have plunged back into Conscious Conception these past few days and can't begin to describe the effect of what I've read. Thank you again for sharing all that is in this work.I have so much to share with you and await the right moment to start my spinning.
Love, Samantha Price
Hygieia Student
France


Jeannine
You are one of my favorate women...That's for sure.
In the comming weeks I will transcribe our interview
and help your message wing its way around the world.

Much love
Michael Mendizza
Touch The Future
Nevada City CA


JP!!
Wow! and CONGRATULATIONS!!! Am so happy to hear such wonderful, exciting news of this well deserved award! but then you lead a pretty wonderful exciting life!!
Sara Wolf
Hygieia Student
Venice, CA


Mazel Tov.
I am putting together the appropriate gift to help celebrate one of your many achievements. It may take a few weeks, but keep an eye (and ear) out for it. Much love and congratulations to you. I know my babies say thank you.
Love,
Sal Paradis
Hygieia Student
NYC & AUS


CONGRATULATIONS!!!! You deserve it!!
Love, Laura Shanley
Bornfree! The Unassisted Childbirth Page:
http://ucbirth.com


... and do you think any of us are surprised, my friend? you certainly deserve it.
did you wear a swank, see thorough evening gown?
With all love and sharing of your joy!
Aviva Jill Romm Hygieia Graduate
Natural Health After Birth


Well you've been a serious inspiration to me, that's for sure

Love,
Dan Russell
Drug Wars


Oh Jeannine:
Congratulations! This is truly a worthy cause (GI). I continue to think how I can bring this message to people in my life - mainly women since moms seem to be the ones who make these decisions as they go to their doctors and allow this to happen to their sons - almost in total ignorance without a thought to what they are doing.

I tread very carefully since there is a lot of defensiveness and foolish comments thrown out (like the time my sister was pregnant a few years ago and I said if it's a boy "I hope you will seriously consider not circumcising because....." And she said, "It's just a little skin."

I think that a lot of my life choices are not seen as truly wise (by my extended family), but just an aberration of what is normal - ha! I continue to have this feeling that 20-40 years will have to pass before they are enlightened, but I do my best to share what I know when I can.

Lynn Griesemer
Unassisted Homebirth


'bout time. How totally wonderful!! Next step is the Nobel. Get ready... To you, the most, me thinks, deserving person in the world.
yours, FinnPo
Earth Birth Research OR


Hi Jeannine, I am so happy for you. You are an inspiration. It is about time that you are recognized for being the power-full, heart-full, wisdom-full woman that your are.
I Love You,
Stephanie Scheck
Jamul CA


Mazel Tov!!!! Way better than the Academy Awards, and you deserve it!!!
Love, Nicki Scully
Shamanic Journeys


Congratulations come from all our hearts. And the hearts of all the intact babies--many now men!!!
Love, Joan, Stu, Harmony & Lokahi
Oakland CA


Congratulations to you and your boldness in sharing your joy with others. Your contribution to the many faces of parenting education is laudatory and I applaud you as well. I would have loved to have heard and seen your acceptance speech.
Love and Blessings to you and your Lifetimes of achievement. Do you remember we were doing this as Essene's as well? Why is it that what is such obvious common sensibilitities to us is so foreign to most? Unfolding Consciousness IS a Mystery.
Love,
Carista Luminere-Rosen
Marin County CA


Congratulations, Jeannine! Wonderful news and you deserve it.
Barbara Findeisen
APPPAH President


Dear Jeannine,

All my heartfelt congrats to you! You deserve it!
Much Love, Angela Mandato


Jeannine,

Congratulations! I love you sister, mother, daughter, goddess.

Theresa Byrnes
Artist
NYC & Sydney AUS


Congratulations, Jeanine. I know that there are many people who feel you are worthy of an award for the many things you do to touch their lives, I am one of them. I am very honored to have you as a comrad and am very, very happy to see you recognized for who you are! Keep on doing what you were born to do and spread the passion! Keep the fire in your heart fed,
Love, Terry Rader
North Carolina


Jeannine:I just read your sweet note again where you spoke so nicely of me to Liz.(Elizabeth Noble) and bang the next thing this!! Congratulations.You are so courageous,smart and deserving.Good for you. And thank you for your support in SF. I'm one of the people who loves you too.
Leo Sorger, MD
St Thomas, V.I.


Congratualtions on a much desereved award and recognition of all your labors of love, Jeannine. Namaste`
Christina Ryan
Hygieia Student
Jamaica


Dear Parvati

Wonderful news- congratulations!! You are truly healing the earth here, for mothers, fathers and babies. Do we get photos?? Love to you, and thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Sarah Buckley MD
Queensland AUS


Dear Jeannine,
Thank you so much for sharing your good news and the appreciation and recognition of your beingness and doingness from those around you! I so look forward to when our paths cross again. Sending you Love, Love, Love!
Margaret Horton
Santa Cruz CA


Dearest Jeannine,

You are most deserving of this great award, for your committment to the cause has been unswerving under thick and thin. I hope someone caught a picture of you or maybe a video. For all the children who are most grateful to you and their future I also applaud you for your dedication. I am sure you will send a write up to APPPAH! and Midwifery and any other organization that you are involved with. From these shores I send you much love and light, may your path continue to open windows and doors for those unrepresented.
Giselle Whitwell
LA CA


You are so amazing !!
So much love to you.
Jordyn Stanton
Shakti Rising
San Diego CA


I am so happy that other people realize how amazing you are. You most definitely deserve that award. I feel so lucky that I have met you. You have inspired me in so many ways and I know I am a better mother because I met you. I also know I am a better person as well.

Hope all is well in your family and with you. Sounds like it is.
Talk to ya soon

Nancy
NYC Film maker






Review of Prenatal Yoga & Natural Childbirth - Silver Anniversary edition
By Robin Lim
Author and Midwife


My copy arrived by mail. I felt the stork had dropped a bundle on my doorstep. I so loved the first and later editions of Prenatal Yoga, and was nervous to see how 'she' had matured.

First - the cover is delicious. Inside I found everything I always loved about Prenatal Yoga. The photos. The YOGA. The stories. A poem I treasure. Everything new in this book is ancient knowledge, wise words which I as a woman need to read over and over again.

This book and I have a long 'herstory'. In 1975 to 76 I was a pregnant teenager. My midwives in Santa Barbara loaned me their 1st edition copy of Prenatal Yoga. I loved it so much that I bought one for myself. Following Jeannine's simple instructions for centering and healing my body through yoga, I achieved a blissful pregnancy, and an ecstatic passage into motherhood.

I have always believed that, the quality of an expectant woman's fine level of feeling during pregnancy, greatly influences the wholeness of the baby's soul. Today, as I write, that first baby of mine, Déjà, is in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is a U.N. delegate at the World Summit on Sustainable Development. She is an advocate for human rights regarding HIV/AIDS policies for the poor. Today I cannot help but wonder if the quiet neck rolls, cat stretches, pythons, pelvic rocks and deep delicious breathing I did, daily while she grew under my heart, had an effect.

The book Prenatal Yoga & Natural Childbirth, guided me through all five pregnancies. I have lost this book so many times. Loaned it out, given it away. Always when she comes home to me, I rejoice, and gobble up each word.

As a midwife I plan to have many copies in my lending library. I do find that the women I help who practice prenatal yoga, have smoother deliveries. This makes my job less stressful. With the release of the silver anniversary edition I am certain that the next generation of mothers and their babies will be blessed. As a grandmother I intend to keep it on my shelf forever.


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