Jewishly Fertile:
Meeting Your Child Halfway
With Julia Indichova author of Inconceivable & The Fertile Female
Jewishly Fertile:
Meeting Your Child Halfway
With Julia Indichova author of Inconceivable & The Fertile Female
“By refusing to accept many doctor’s “no” as final, Julia Indichova took control of her body and through that decision brought a life that would otherwise have not been born into the world. Hers is a compelling story of the triumph of hope over hopelessness: of how human beings can, with determination, alter their destiny.”
Rabbi Joseph Telushkin,
author of The Book of Jewish Values
I sought your nearness,
with all my heart
I called you.
And going out
to meet you
I found you coming
toward me.
-Yehuda Halevi
?Judaism regards the gift of bearing children as the most valued of blessings, reinforced not only by religious imperatives to “be fruitful and multiply,” but also by the collective awareness of the recurring devastating depletion of Jewish demographics.
For Julia Indichova, born and raised in a small Hungarian community of Holocaust survivors in postwar Czechoslovakia, the diagnosis of infertility became a turning point in her life placing her on the path of healing her familial legacy of losses and reclaiming the treasures of her spiritual inheritance.
n her second book, The Fertile Female, she writes: “My life grew out of the ashes of World War II in 1949. My inconceivable daughter Adira was born in April of ’94. To some that inversion is nothing but a meaningless coincidence. To me those numbers are a teaching of the Great Reversal, part of the call all of us humans are asked to heed: the call to keep turning our curses into blessings.”
Some of the topics we’ll cover:
Bereishit as the blueprint for experiencing creation as a conscious revelatory process
Drawing strength and guidance from the stories of our matriarchs
The “Catch 22” of Longing for a Child
Dream reading: reading our letters from G-d
Co-creating conception-friendly inner and outer space
Protecting ourselves from the collective panic of the last good egg
Food choices that enhance our hormonal and reproductive health
Assisted reproductive technology as an instrument of healing or harm
The use of language as an instrument of creation
Tuning into guidance through the Fertile Heart toolkit
Infertility as a call to engage more actively in Tikkun Olam
What to Expect
This workshop is for anyone wrestling with fertility related difficulties or for those younger women and men who wish to enhance and protect their reproductive health and extend their child-bearing years.
Ready? This link will take you to the registration page
About Julia Indichova:
Recognized internationally for her work as a fertility educator and activist, Julia Indichova is the author of Inconceivable, the first book about infertility written from a patient’s point of view. She is the founder of www.fertileheart.com, a global community focused on life-affirming approaches to reproductive difficulties, adoption, and pregnancy. The Indichova Baum Ovum Work (I.B.O.W.) documented in her second book The Fertile Female (Adell Press 2007) is an original health and fertility enhancing practice which evolved through a decade and a half of counseling and research. Fertile Heart offers retreats and online workshops. Julia Indichova’s work has been endorsed by leading reproductive endocrinologists and her story and program was featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, Oxygen, Discovery Health, Health magazine, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle and other outlets. After 9/11 Julia initiated The Turn It Around Project focused on applying the I.B.O.W. tools to the peace efforts.
