Yearly Archives: 2008

Sensory Awareness – The Heart of Somatic Psychotherapy: From Sensory Awareness to Somatic Psychotherapy (2008)

I wrote this article to be included in the proceedings of the 5th National Conference of the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy, held in Philadelphia, Pa., July, 2008, in relation to my presentation there. The title of this Conference is “Getting to the Heart of the Matter,” my article and my presentation is about how Sensory Awareness is the heart of somatic psychotherapy. Continue reading

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Eva Renate Reich

Eva was the eldest daughter of Dr. Wilhelm Reich and one of his original students. She became deeply engaged in the field of orgonomy and worked with her father on a variety of experimental works. Continue reading

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Memories of Eva Reich

A dear friend and mentor, at one point, Eva asked me to be her biographer. We would sit in her warm farmhouse in the evenings and she would tell me stories of her life. I’d like to share some of them with you. Continue reading

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Pre- & Perinatal Somatic Process Workshop Cortes Island, B.C. June-Aug, 2009

The workshop setting offers the opportunity to uncover, explore and support healing, with understanding and compassion, our own prenatal and birth imprinting. By connecting to this early layer of physical and emotional experience, within a safe, sustaining environment, there is the potential to repattern our bonding and attachment, clarify, ease, and transform early trauma and current unsupportive reactions. Continue reading

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The Miracle of Birth – Uniting Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science, April 2009

I was Co-chair of this Miracle of Birth Congress. We attracted people from countries that never previously had attendees. We took the Congress out of a city hotel and brought it into Nature. :-) Many said it was the best Congress ever. Continue reading

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Teaching Adults How to Understand Babies-April, 2009

Playing roles of baby and adult in turn will give participants understandings and skills that can support health and communication during pregnancy, can set the temperament for the passage of birth, promote empathy, build healthier connections and bonding with the newborn, and develop sensitive interactions that support relationships into childhood and beyond. Continue reading

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Sensory Awareness – The Heart of Somatic Psychotherapy [Japanese, 2008]

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Somatic Reclaiming: A Mind/Body/Spiritual Integrative Process

Developed By Judyth O. Weaver, Somatic Reclaiming is based in the practice of awareness – sensory, structural and emotional. The presence of awareness is essential to any element of lasting change. Only with awareness, and the experiencing of what we are doing and feeling, can we have the choice and the ability to change – or not change – as we so desire. Continue reading

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Why Pre- & Perinatal Psychology and Therapy? (2008)

In my work I have encountered many people seeking various types of counseling saying something like “I have done so much therapy/analysis/etc. Some of it was very good, but there is still something I have not been able to access-it seems there is something missing.” The field of PRE- & PERINATAL PSYCHOLOGY AND THERAPY, which is now more appropriately being called PRIMARY PSYCHOLOGY & THERAPY, has a critical place in the realm of helping people understand and heal their life-long traumas. Continue reading

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