Open to all who know at least the first section of Cheng Man-Ch’ing’s short yang form and who want to deepen their T’ai Chi Ch’uan practice.

Tuition for workshop: $600.US.  Travel, accommodations extra.

Classes begin 10AM, Monday, January 23rd, and will end 12 Noon, Friday, January 27th.

Classes will be each morning and will focus on form correction and deepening one’s practice and understanding. Afternoons are free for leisure time, exploring the area’s stunning Mayan ruins, perhaps some group trips, or resting.

Please register with Judyth with full payment by December 1st, 2011.

phone: (206) 361-4124   or email: judyth@judythweaver.com

Please note:  registration will only be secured when full tuition is received.  Please send to 13017 10 Ave NW, Seattle, Wa 98177.

TWO DAY SENSORY AWARENESS WORKSHOP JANUARY 21 & 22 is a wonderful preparation for t’ai chi practice as well as finding quiet and relaxation in our daily lives. Tuition: $200.US.  4 Sessions am & pm.

IF BOTH WORKSHOPS ARE TAKEN TOTAL TUITION WILL BE $700.US.   To be paid in advance please.  THANK YOU

Weekend of March 24 & 25, 2012 with Judyth Weaver

Saturday 1-3pm and 4-6pm

Perhaps we’ll have dinner together?

Sunday 10-12 noon and 2-4pm.

Workshop will be at MotionSense Movement Education: 7001 Third Avenue NW, Seattle.

Tuition: $250.00 to be paid in advance will confirm your reservation.

Please send to: 13017 10th avenue NW, Seattle, WA 98177

Looking forward to continuing our working/playing T’ai Chi Ch’uan!

If you are looking for accommodations Dibble House B&B is highly recommended: 206-783-0320.

February 24-27, 2012 — Seattle, Washington

Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Therapy is based on research showing that babies within the womb, during birth, and postnatally feel, have consciousness and memories, and react specifically to their experiences. These experiences greatly affect not only early childhood and development, but also continue all the way through our lives into adulthood. Evidence confirms that many health issues—physical, mental, emotional and spiritual—are linked to prenatal/birth experiences and parent-infant bonding.

Research from many disciplines now proves the importance in a person’s life of the quality of conception, gestation, and the process of the birth itself. All have significant influence on how the child is welcomed and related to at the beginning of life and thus on that child’s later life, development, and achievements. In addition, the amount of connection—bonding and attachment in the early days after birth—makes a great difference in how the infant will thrive or not, in the love and intimacy engendered between infant and parent, and even in how other family members will relate to each other.

Patterns for ones ability to deal with stress and trauma are also laid down in these early times. These patterns develop while we are preverbal and can influence and follow us throughout our lives. If these patterns are traumatic, much of the work to resolve such trauma needs to engage and be repatterned on the preverbal level. Working somatically can offer deep, profound, and often comparatively quick resolution to problems and issues that seem to resist other therapeutic attempts.

The importance of this is demonstrated by the pioneering work of Dr. Frank Lake, followed by Dr. Eva Reich; by even earlier research and psychotherapy of Dr. Wilhelm Reich in the 1940’s; and by more recent work of Dr. William Emerson,Ph.D., Dr. Raymond Castellino, D.C., and Sir John Bowlby.

Process workshops offer an excellent way to work with such issues. Working in small groups with support enables us to transform material that inhibits the fulfillment of our potential—our birthright. This setting offers the opportunity to uncover and explore, as we wish, our own prenatal and birth imprinting; it supports our healing. Connecting to this early layer of physical and emotional experience, within a safe and sustaining environment, gives us the potential to repattern our bonding and attachment and clarify, ease, and transform early trauma and current unsupportive actions.

In a small group setting each participant is supported in exploring whatever issue s/he chooses—somatic, early life trauma, pre- or perinatal issues, relationships, etc. The initial phase of the workshop is about developing a safe and nurturing environment with interactive, communicative skills to engender a sense of safety, support, and mutual understanding among all the participants. Each participant then has the chance to work on their chosen issue as the others provide support under the direction of the leader. Each session is followed by individual and group sharing, integration, and processing. This process of healing and repatterning early trauma and current dysfunctional behavior can have profound effects throughout one’s life, offering us more choice around how we respond to our relationships and opening us to deeper, more loving experiences.

The workshop is suitable for adults preparing for conception and birth, as well as for those who wish to work on their own prenatal or birth trauma or other behavioral or emotional issues. These workshops are also recommended for professionals in various fields as they can develop deeper levels of awareness applicable to any personal or professional practice. This work is safe and considerate of those who might be pregnant and can be very helpful for those trying to conceive.

Process workshops are experiential in nature. Each participant is required to be in attendance for the entire workshop as s/he is an important part of the support environment. Upon application for the workshop, the participant will be sent a questionnaire relating to his/her early history and current situation. Answering the questions begins the personal preparation for the workshop.

Questionnaire to be submitted in advance of workshop to 13017 10th Ave NW, Seattle, Wa 98177 with payment of

Tuition: $650.US

Judyth O. Weaver, Ph.D., has studied prenatal and perinatal psychology and therapy with Eva Reich (daughter of Wilhelm Reich), William Emerson, and Ray Castellino. She is certified by Dr. Castellino in Prenatal and Birth Therapy and as a Certified Leader of these Process Workshops. She is also certified as a Rosen Method practitioner and senior teacher, a Sensory Awareness leader, T’ai Chi Ch’uan teacher, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy. Judyth was professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies for 25 years and is co-founder of the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute and creator and founding chair of its Somatic Psychology Program. She has also developed her own method of body/mind/spiritual integrative counseling called Somatic Reclaiming.

Judyth’s life-long studies have been in movement, body/mind/spiritual integrative practices, Buddhism, and Taoism. She spent several years in a traditional Zen Buddhist monastery in Japan, where she was the only woman to study and practice. She continues her spiritual practice, maintains a private practice in Seattle, Washington and Cortes Island, B.C., Canada. Judyth travels and teaches workshops and classes internationally. For contact or further information: 206-361-4124 or: judyth@judythweaver.com www.judythweaver.com

How do we live?  Are we awake and do we respond fully and appropriately or is our response to life… to anything… mechanical and perhaps not really our own?  Are we creative and spontaneous or are we following perhaps some old rules we have been given?  Can we be resilient and appropriate to what is asked of us?  Sensory Awareness gives us chances to look at, feel and respond to our inner needs. Focusing on the reality of ones experience we can  find the organic and deeply true response. When we are more fully connected and authentic, we can then also extend our realities outward into our communities and the world. This workshop is experiential.  Focusing on our breath, our sensations, our actions and reactions allows each of us to acknowledge our true essence and fully respond to what is being asked of us in our lives.

This workshop will be held at the Zendo Una Gota and you will be able to join their regular zazen schedule if you wish.

Judyth has studied with Charlotte Selver since 1968, and was authorized by her to offer classes in Sensory Awareness.  She teaches through the U.S. and internationally with regular workshops in Japan and Canada.

 Tuition: $200 U.S.      4 Sessions AM & PM.

Please register with Judyth by December 1st, 2011.

phone: (206) 361-4124   or email: judyth@judythweaver.com

In this workshop, participants will explore their sensations and responses internally and externally, in relationship with others, with nature and with our human nature. These explorations can bring a trust and security that may assist us in finding the ability and pleasure of responding more sensitively and authentically in our lives. As we find our natural vitality we can relate more fully with others, find peace and satisfaction in our selves, and the ability to extend it further into the world. Time to rest, swim, play, and enjoy beautiful Cortes Island will be an integral part of this workshop.

Tuition:  $600 US for one week.  $1100 US for two weeks.  Meals and accommodations extra.
Inexpensive camping & bunking possibilities are available through Judyth.

For more information and registration please contact: judyth@judythweaver.com  206-361-4124
Summer phone on Cortes: 250-935-8500

Sensory Awareness focuses on the reality of ones experience and finding the organic and deeply true response. This workshop is experiential. Focusing on our breath, our sensations, our actions and reactions allows each of us to acknowledge our true essence and fully respond to what we are being asked in our lives.

For more information and registration:  Please contact:

Yuka Saito goodtohearyou@yahoo.co.jp

or

judyth@judythweaver.com

xxx

August 9-12, 2012

T’ai Chi Ch’uan has been known for generations as an exercise for longevity and relaxation and is now amazing contemporary researchers with results of enhanced immune systems, better balance, more flexibility and strength. This exercise, suitable for all ages and body types, is a moving meditation that centres and calms our minds as well as being a form of healing, of self-defense, and physical re-education.

Learn the first section of Grandmaster Cheng Man-Ch’ing’s short Yang form. Come to understand the dynamics of gravity, energy, allowing yourself to be supported and moving with relaxation and grace. Morning practice begins with meditation, Qi Gong and T’ai Chi practice before breakfast. Daily sessions include thorough explanations of philosophy and examples of how T’ai Chi enhances our health, coordination, and stress reduction. No previous experience needed.

Judyth’s careful approach presents T’ai Chi as an integral way of life and as an essential exercise available to anyone. Judyth rarely offers a beginning workshop independently. Join her this year on her deck overlooking a magnificent view of water & mountains to learn, relearn, or just deepen your practice with beginner’s mind.

Tuition $550 US/Canadian equivalent. $200 US deposit to reserve space in workshop.

Meals and accommodations extra. There are tenting possibilities on Judyths property and/or bunking spaces in sleeping lofts of the studio.

Please register directly with Judyth Weaver: 206-361-4124/ June 17, July & August: 250-935-8500 or through this website.

Judyth O. Weaver received authorization to teach T’ai Chi Ch’uan from Grandmaster Cheng Man-Ch’ing’s Shr Jung Center for Culture and the Arts in 1971, and has been teaching regularly since then. She has taught throughout the world, always focusing on the authenticity, purity and simplicity of this short Yang form in order to promote self-help, relaxation, and coordination of body, mind and spirit. Judyth created the T’ai Chi Ch’uan program at Naropa Institute (now Naropa University) in Boulder, Colorado in 1974, and headed that program for three years. She also gives classes, workshops, and private lessons in Seattle, Washington where she lives, in Mexico in the winter, and on Cortes Island, B.B., Canada during the summers.

View from Judyth's workshop location in Canada

This workshop reviews the first section and teaches the complete short Yang form of T’ai Chi Ch’uan as taught by Grandmaster Cheng Man-Ch’ing. It is open to participants of Judyth’s earlier T’ai Chi workshop (Aug 9-12) and to others who practice at least the first section of this form.

This is a good chance to brush up lapsed practices, deepen your understandings and meet and share playing T’ai Chi Ch’uan with others. Applications of the form and sensing hands (tui shou) will be introduced.

Tuition: $650.US/Can equivalent. $250 deposit to reserve space in workshop.

Meals and accommodations extra. There are tenting possibilities on Judyth’s property and/or bunking spaces in sleeping lofts of the studio. (Students lodging on the t’ai chi property will be asked to also contribute a few hours share-work-fun on the grounds –pulling weeds, etc.– one afternoon during the retreat.)

Please register for Continuing T’ai Chi Ch’uan directly with Judyth Weaver: 206-361-4124. June, July & August: 250-935-8500, or through this website.

Judyth O. Weaver received authorization to teach T’ai Chi Ch’uan from Grandmaster Cheng Man-Ch’ing’s Shr Jung Center for Culture and the Arts in 1971, and has been teaching regularly since then. She has taught throughout the world, always focusing on the authenticity, purity and simplicity of this short Yang form in order to promote self-help, relaxation, and coordination of body, mind and spirit. Judyth created the T’ai Chi Ch’uan program at Naropa Institute (now Naropa University) in Boulder, Colorado in 1974, and headed that program for three years. She gives classes, workshops, and private lessons in Seattle, Washington where she lives, in Mexico in the winter, and on Cortes Island, B.C., Canada during the summers.

View from Judyth's workshop location in Canada

Judyth O. Weaver received authorization to teach T’ai Chi Ch’uan from Grandmaster Cheng Man-Ch’ing’s Shr Jung Center for Culture and the Arts in 1971, and has been teaching regularly since then. She has taught throughout the world, always focusing on the authenticity, purity and simplicity of this short Yang form in order to promote self-help, relaxation, and coordination of body, mind and spirit. Judyth created the T’ai Chi Ch’uan program at Naropa Institute (now Naropa University) in Boulder, Colorado in 1974, and headed that program for three years. She gives classes, workshops, and private lessons in Seattle, Washington where she lives, in Mexico in the winter, and on Cortes Island, B.C., Canada during the summers.

View from Judyth's workshop location in Canada