Dr. Ela Manga is an integrative medical doctor, highly attuned to the relationship between different systems in the body. She has deep experience of how the breath plays a leading part in how we live and how we die. Her work is radical and gentle, profound and compassionate.

Veteran teaching midwife Ciske van Straaten has vast experience of helping to bring life into the world, and has also been intimately involved in death. What has this taught her? What have these two moments got in common? How do they relate to each other, in the cycle of life?