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Robert Bruce Newman
Robert Bruce Newman (b. 1936) is the creator of the Calm Birth method and director of MediGrace. From his years of work with doctors, childbirth educators, midwives, nurses, and doulas, has come a new childbirth method. It's based on methods he learned and was authorized to teach during his more than 20 years of apprenticeship with Tibetan meditation teachers and doctors.

Robert has presented more than 100 hospital and conference training seminars in the Calm Birth method since 1997. He has presented the method at four congresses of the Association of Pre and Perinatal Psychology and Health, at the University of Michigan Medical School, and at Bastyr University. He has taught at the University of Colorado, Naropa University, and the City University of New York.

His books include: Calm Birth: New Method for Conscious Childbirth (North Atlantic Books, 10/05); Childbirth Meditation: the Calm Birth Method (Portal Center Press, 11/2012); Empowered Care: Mind-Body Medicine Methods (Portal Center Press, 12/2012). Published feature articles include: The Emergence of Mind/Body Medicine (Sentient Times, 8/99).