To birth a child is to birth a new cosmology, world, and future into being.
Motherhood as collective labour. An invitation to remember birth as communal, embodied, and deeply human—rather than fearful, medicalised, and isolated. To enter the Sinapupunan (womb) is to confront the politics of birthing; how birth has become dominated by the medical system, how fear has been instilled, and how this has created layers of generational trauma around birth. In many ways, women have been robbed of their true instinctual intelligence: the natural power to birth.
We are being called to return, remember, and repair our relationship with the collective Sinapupunan (womb). It involves not only the Mother, but the whole village.
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In exchange for this film, we welcome your donation to our Collective Midwifing fund as we are in the midst of birthing, within the next few weeks, and hope to navigate post partum with ease and support. Make your contributions here.
With gratitude and love, Ché, Chloe, and Luaña
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Nanay / Mothers: Catalina Africa, Mara Herrera, Jeanne Nicole Lizares, Jennifer Maramba
Tampok / Feature: Ibu Robin Lim
Konsepto at Direksyon / Concept and Direction: Chloe Calderon Chotrani
Tagapag-edit ng video / Video Editing: Ira Noefe
Tunog / Sound: Utara Mata
Pasasalamat / Gratitude: Babaylan J., Bumi Sehat Bali, Maria Teresa Fabros Calderon, Lola Betty Calderon, Chévanni Beon Davids, Luaña
Iprinodyus ng / Production by: Body as EarthCanada Council of the Arts, Greenhouse Theatre, Daloy Dance Company
Greenhouse Theatre:
We are an ecosystem of nomadic and diasporic scarborough-rooted artists engaging the arts to catalyze legacies of regenerative consciousness and creative resilience. We engage with living arts as embodied practices of ritual, storytelling, and rites of passage in this time of deep social and ecological transformation
Chloe Calderon Chotrani:
Chloe is a somatic practitioner, craniosacral therapist, movement artist, and facilitator. She created Body as Earth as a space for remembering the body as a living territory shaped by land, culture, and ancestral interruption. Having lived many years in silence, Chloe supports people in attuning to the unspoken stories held in the body, softening rigidity shaped by collective trauma, and reconnecting to forms of belonging amidst planetary crisis.
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
Abdominal/Womb Bodywork
Trauma-informed facilitation
Somatic therapist & educator
Decolonial education
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Chloe is based in Bali, Indonesia. Available worldwide.
On maternity leave from May 15, 2026 onwards until further notice.
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Biodynamic Somatic Therapy (BST) is a gentle, hands-on approach that works with the body’s natural rhythms to reorganise from misaligned or overworked states into more fluid, available, and spacious states of internal harmony.
Rooted in Craniosacral dynamics, BST focuses on the spine—the core of the central nervous system—helping to address chronic pain, fatigue, anxiety, insomnia, and the lingering effects of trauma.
