From London to Woodstock in Search of a Child: Medical Tourism in Reverse
As Americans seek fertility treatments abroad, an international contingent finds answers in New York's Hudson Valley
WOODSTOCK, N.Y., June 30, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Amy Smearsol has travelled to Woodstock from Switzerland, hoping to reverse an allegedly irreversible infertility diagnosis. She conceived without medical intervention three months after attending author Julia Indichova's, seven hour Fertile Heart OVUM workshop. Similarly to Smearsol, participants from the UK, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, and Oman have found answers in New York's Hudson Valley after years of heartbreak.
The current economic, scientific and medical elements are pushing the boundaries of natural human desire – to have a baby – like never before.
- Reproductive medicine has advanced to the point that many causes of "infertility" can be resolved.
- The vast majority of Americans do not have healthcare coverage to pay for medical miracles.
- Couples from abroad are being halted in their family-building dreams by restrictive government regulations.
The medical tourism industry has started to broaden its appeal as desperate couples seek whatever means they can afford to have a baby of their own. Couples who have all but exhausted their finances on treatment, acupuncture and expensive supplements, in a one last shot at pregnancy, resort to reproductive tourism, with Argentina, Thailand, India being some of the most frequent destinations.
But in the world of human fertility, a medical tourism in reverse has been taking place in tranquil upstate New York. Author Julia Indichova works from her Fertile Heart Studio, urging men and women to view themselves as their own best expert advisors and actively create the lives they want -- even the lives of their longed-for children.
Indichova's work strikes a particular chord here in Woodstock, where the population of locals and tourists actively seek a healthier and more mindful lifestyle, from the popular and oft-reported on farm to table food movement, to the many alternative health and medical practices that populate the region. The community itself, Indichova notes, has an almost holistically idyllic connection that binds it together – no doubt one of the reasons Woodstock has served as welcoming community for social change since the early 20th century. Fertile Heart takes its place here among so many like-minded practitioners.
The role of a fertility counselor is not something Julia Indichova, a former language teacher at Columbia University's American Language Program, envisioned for herself. Her current work grew out of her personal experience after being diagnosed with allegedly incurable infertility in 1992.
In the last two decades, Indichova's Fertile Heart™ Ovum Program was endorsed by leading reproductive endocrinologists as well as practitioners of myriad holistic modalities. The seven-hour in-person workshop, followed up by online support, includes instruction on nutrition, imagery, movement, dream work and use of language as an instrument of creation. The cost of the workshop -$349 per person, $549 per couple –is a welcome antidote to the skyrocketing fees of all reproductive health related services. For many of the participants, the process reduces the need for multiple treatments. In some cases it eliminates the need for technology and pharmaceuticals.
For a video with excerpts and success stories, visit: http://www.fertileheart.com/home/fertility-success-stories-video/
Says Indichova, "Among the women and couples who have attended Fertile Heart mind body workshops, the average length of trying to conceive has been three years, usually involving an average of three failed mainstream medical treatments. And even in this population, I have witnessed women with as many as 14 failed treatment cycles conceive naturally after less than a few months of a physical and emotional renewal."
See a case history of one of Indichova's client here: http://www.fertileheart.com/5-failed-ivfs-4-cancelled-ivfs-6-failed-iuis-a-fertile-heart-baby-a-story-of-hope/
Check Fertile Heart Event's Page for the next available full-day workshop in Woodstock or the next Introductory Teleconference Series: http://www.fertileheart.com/events/
Julia Indichova's work and story have been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, Oxygen, Discovery Health, Huffington Post,and other outlets. Indichova's profile is featured in the 9 People to Watch This Year (2016) Cover Story of the Hudson Valley Magazine. After 9/11 Julia initiated The 9// Bowing Project focused on applying the tools of her fertility program to the peace efforts.
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