 |
| Click here to book Judith Halek for a media appearance, lecture or as a documentarian. |
BIOGRAPHY (Go to Credentials)
Since 1987, Judith Elaine Halek, director of Birth Balance, has played an increasingly vital role in the dissemination of "alternative" birth information and practices throughout the United States and abroad. Ms. Halek has attended more than 1100 births in homes, hospitals and birth centers and helped over 1,800 couples welcome their babies into the World. She assisted the first underwater homebirth in Manhattan, the only underwater vaginal breech birth in a U.S. hospital, and the first water birth in a prominent New York City hospital.
Ms. Halek is an accomplished birth photographer, filmmaker, writer, speaker, childbirth
educator, labor support doula, hypnotherapist, birth counselor, pre/postnatal fitness and body-worker. With a burgeoning archive of labor and birth documentation across all media (print, still photography, audio, video), Ms. Halek is considered the east coast resource center for water birth.
Ms. Halek’s accomplishments: 19 photographs featured in film, “Orgasmic Birth,” published Book/DVD, “Perceptions, Reflections, Connections,” featured birth photographs in numerous, news media, films and websites. Creator and developed, “Awakened Birth, YOUR Journey to Empowerment.”
Ms. Halek was featured in, "Gig, Americans Talk About Their Jobs At The Turn Of The Millennium." Susan Faludi, of The Village Voice, reports, "The most joyous worker in the book. One of the few who seem to wear their work like a natural skin. She alone of all the chroniclers in Gig experiences her calling as connected with the life force."
Ms. Halek’s clients: Elle MacPherson, Kate Winslett, Ricki Lake, Tonya Pinkins, Rachael Weisz, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard, Maria Hinojosa, Daily Show’s, Samantha Bee and Jason Jones, Isabel Rose, Amy Stiller.
Click here to book Judith Halek for a media appearance, lecture or as a documentarian. |
 | 
|