Meet Maha
Award Winning Independent
International Childbirth Educator
Maha Al Musa is the founder and creator of EmbodyBirth and BellydanceBirth Maha’s signature childbirth education and preparation program for mothers-to-be and birth professionals since 1997. She is the author of Dance of the Womb: The Essential Guide to Belly Dance for Pregnancy and Birth book, creator of the follow on BellydanceBirth®
Practice Video Series Dance of the Womb: A Gentle Guide to Belly Dance for Pregnancy and Birth, international speaker, natural birth and breastfeeding advocate, and a mother to 3 beautiful children, all born as nature intended.
Maha gave birth to her last, daughter Aminah when she was 46 years of age, a home water lotus birth and breastfed her till she self-weaned at 8.5 years, when Maha was 54. They have both been featured and interviewed on various TV shows both national and international, magazines and online publications.
Awards & Endorsements
Maha is the winner of the One World Birth “Birth Hero National Award”, Australia, 2011.
Dance of the Womb: The Essential Guide to Belly Dance for Pregnancy and Birth book – Living Now Book Awards Gold Medalist in the Exercise/Fitness Category, 2009. Learn more here.
Dance of the Womb: A Gentle Guide to Belly Dance for Pregnancy and Birth DVD – Winner of About.com’s Best Pregnancy Fitness DVD, 2013, now encapsulated within Maha’s BellyDanceBirth Bundle. Learn more here.
Her book, Dance of the Womb: The Essential Guide to Belly Dance for Pregnancy and Birth available in both hardcover and ebook formats is a world-first resource for exploring the physical, emotional and spiritual benefits of belly dance as a prenatal exercise and process during labour.
The book has been endorsed by renowned birth luminaries such as Dr. Michel Odent, Sheila Kitzinger, Dr. Sarah
Buckley and Dr Christiane Northrup. Dance of the Womb has also been translated into Chinese and French.
Her BellydanceBirth® Practice Video Series has been endorsed by NACE Australia and the Australian Doula
College.
Speaking & Events
Maha has presented at numerous birth conferences events and seminars within Australia and internationally and has spoken/been interviewed on various podcasts and online publications. Here are just a few of her appearances over the years:
En Ze Women’s and Children Hospital (Taizhou), Mother and Baby Show – Shandong TV, (Jinan Shandong), China (2019).
Featured keynote speaker at the China Annual Midwives Conference, (Shandong Province), lectures at Elizabeth Private Maternity Hospital, (Ghuanzhou), Zhongshan Xialan People’s Hospital, (Zhongshan City) and Southern Medical University, (Ghuanzhou), China (2018).
Human Rights in Childbirth Conference, Mumbai, India (2017).
Birth Keeper’s Summit, USA (2016).
Midwifery Today Conference, Byron Bay, Australia (2014).
Australian Doula College annual retreat NSW (2014).
Australian Breastfeeding Association Queensland Branch conference (2013).
SQUAT Birth Conference, San Francisco, USA (2013).
Australian Midwives Conference, Queensland branch (2012, 2011).
Bankstown Midwifery Training day (2011).
Australian Midwives National Conference Sydney Australia (2011).
Featured speaker at Tweed Heads Midwives Annual Meeting (2009).
Featured keynote speaker at Capers Birth Conference alongside Dr. Michel Odent (2008).
Featured keynote speaker at Homebirth Conference Sydney alongside Sheila Kitzinger (2007).
