The field of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Therapy has grown from research showing that babies within the womb, during birth, and post natally feel, have consciousness and memories, and react specifically to their experiences. These experiences affect greatly not only early childhood and development, but continue all the way through our lives into adulthood. Evidence confirms that many health issues – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual – are linked to prenatal and birth experiences and parent-infant bonding. Patterns for ones ability to deal with stress and trauma are also laid down in these early times. They inform us and follow us throughout our lives. These early responses that go so deep are developed while we are still pre-verbal. If they are traumatic much of the work to resolve such trauma must occur on the pre-verbal level. Somatic Process Workshops are excellent ways to work with such issues.

This 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 resolve early trauma and current unsupportive reactions; it enables us to transform material that inhibits the fulfillment of our potential – of our birthright. Working somatically within this setting can have deep, profound and often comparatively quick resolutions to issues that have seemed to resist other therapeutic attempts.

In small group settings (no more than seven participants over three 1/2 days or two 1/2 days with four or five participants), each participant is supported in his/her exploration of whatever issue they choose – somatic, early life trauma, pre or perinatal issues, relationship, work, etc. This in turn can offer us more choice around how we respond to our relationships and open us to deeper, more loving experiences. The workshop is suitable for adults who wish to prepare for conception and birth, for those who wish to work on their own pre-natal or birth trauma or various other issues that have not yet resolved. This work is safe and considerate of those who might be pregnant and very helpful for those trying to conceive. Mainly it supports any person who wants to learn more about him/her self and history and how it affects present life.

This workshop is experiential in nature. It provides an opportunity for participants to deepen their level of awareness of prenatal, birth, and somatic processes. Each participant is required to be in attendance for the entire workshop as s/he is an important part of the surround. The initial phase of the workshop is about developing a safe and nurturing environment, then each participant has the opportunity to work on their chosen issue as the remaining members provide support with and under the direction of the leader. Upon application for this workshop the participant will be sent a questionnaire. Answering the questions will begin the personal preparation for the workshop.

Holding this workshop on Cortes Island adds the wonderful element of nature surrounding and supporting us. Deer walk by the windows of the studio, eagles and other birds sing to us, the warm water of the Samish Sea invites us. Accommodations can be arranged to stay on Judyth’s property for the privacy and serenity of the workshop.

Tuition is $650. for the 3 1/2 day workshop. $200 deposit due three weeks prior to workshop. Judyth O. Weaver, Ph.D. RCST, SEP, is certified by Ray Castellino in Prenatal and Birth Therapy and to lead Process Workshops, as a Rosen Method practitioner and senior teacher, as a Sensory Awareness leader, T’ai Chi Ch’uan teacher, SE Practitioner and in Craniosacral Biodynamic Therapy. She teaches and maintains a private practice here and internationally.

Learn more about Pre- and Perinatal Therapy

The field of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Therapy has grown from research showing that babies within the womb, during birth, and post natally feel, have consciousness and memories, and react specifically to their experiences. These experiences affect greatly not only early childhood and development, but continue all the way through our lives into adulthood. Evidence confirms that many health issues – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual – are linked to prenatal and birth experiences and parent-infant bonding. Patterns for ones ability to deal with stress and trauma are also laid down in these early times. They inform us and follow us throughout our lives. These early responses that go so deep are developed while we are still pre-verbal. If they are traumatic much of the work to resolve such trauma must occur on the pre-verbal level. Somatic Process Workshops are excellent ways to work with such issues.

This 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 resolve early trauma and current unsupportive reactions; it enables us to transform material that inhibits the fulfillment of our potential – of our birthright. Working somatically within this setting can have deep, profound and often comparatively quick resolutions to issues that have seemed to resist other therapeutic attempts.

In small group settings (no more than seven participants over three 1/2 days or two 1/2 days with four or five participants), each participant is supported in his/her exploration of whatever issue they choose – somatic, early life trauma, pre or perinatal issues, relationship, work, etc. This in turn can offer us more choice around how we respond to our relationships and open us to deeper, more loving experiences. The workshop is suitable for adults who wish to prepare for conception and birth, for those who wish to work on their own pre-natal or birth trauma or various other issues that have not yet resolved. This work is safe and considerate of those who might be pregnant and very helpful for those trying to conceive. Mainly it supports any person who wants to learn more about him/her self and history and how it affects present life.

This workshop is experiential in nature. It provides an opportunity for participants to deepen their level of awareness of prenatal, birth, and somatic processes. Each participant is required to be in attendance for the entire workshop as s/he is an important part of the surround. The initial phase of the workshop is about developing a safe and nurturing environment, then each participant has the opportunity to work on their chosen issue as the remaining members provide support with and under the direction of the leader. Upon application for this workshop the participant will be sent a questionnaire. Answering the questions will begin the personal preparation for the workshop.

Tuition is $650.US for the 3 1/2 day workshop. $200 deposit due three weeks prior to workshop.

This workshop is held in Judyth’s home/office in Seattle.  There are many various

B&Bs and other lodgings in the area.  There is also the possibility of staying at Judyth’s house for a nominal fee if that is desirable.   Please let Judyth know.

Judyth O. Weaver, Ph.D. RCST, SEP, is certified by Ray Castellino in Prenatal and Birth Therapy and to lead Process Workshops, as a Rosen Method practitioner and senior teacher, as a Sensory Awareness leader, T’ai Chi Ch’uan teacher, SE Practitioner and in Craniosacral Biodynamic Therapy. She teaches and maintains a private practice here and internationally.

Learn more about Pre- and Perinatal Therapy

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

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

Touch, Presence and Peace

Sensory Awareness is the practice of becoming more conscious of what we do and how we do it.  Knowing and following our instincts can give us a great deal of understanding and peace. This workshop is experiential.  We will focus on our breath, on our sensations and reactions, and how we come in touch with ourselves and others .   Exploring this allows each of us to acknowledge our true essence thereby bringing more peace to ourselves and into the world.

For more information and registration:  Please contact:

Sensory Awareness Japan
hello@sensoryawareness.jp

or

judyth@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. When we are more fully connected and authentic, we can then also extend our realities outward into our communities and the world.

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:

Sensory Awareness Japan
hello@sensoryawareness.jp

or

judyth@judythweaver.com