The field of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Therapy has grown from research showing that babies in the womb, during birth, and post natally feel, have consciousness and memories, and react specifically to their experiences. These experiences greatly affect 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.
Process workshops are excellent ways to work with such issues. Dr Raymond Castellino, DC has developed these birth process workshops for adults out of his work with babies, infants and families. The nature of working in small groups enables us to transform material that inhibits the fulfillment of our potential — our birthright. Working somatically within this process workshop setting can have deep, profound and often comparatively quick resolution to issues that have seemed to resist other therapeutic attempts.
This workshop setting offers the opportunity to, with understanding and compassion, uncover, explore and support healing of our own prenatal, birth and other early imprinting. By connecting to these layers of physical and emotional experience within a safe and sustaining environment, there is the potential to repattern our bonding and attachment and clarify, ease, and transform early trauma and current unsupportive reactions. In a small group setting each participant is supported in his/her exploration of whatever issue they choose – somatic, early life trauma, pre or perinatal issues, relationship, etc. This can offer us more choice around how we currently respond to our relationships and open us to deeper, more loving experiences.
These workshops are experiential in nature and are not offered as training. They provide an opportunity for participants to deepen their level of awareness of prenatal and birth process. Each participant is required to be in attendance for the entire workshop as s/he is an important part of the surrounding presence. The initial phase of the workshop is about developing a safe and nurturing environment, then each participant has the opportunity to work on his/her chosen issue as the remaining members provide support with and under the direction of the leader. Upon application for this workshop participant will be sent a questionnaire. Answering the questions will begin the personal preparation for the workshop.
Tuition is $650. Upon application and deposit the participant will be sent a questionnaire. Answering the questions begins the personal preparation for the workshop.
PLEASE REGISTER EARLY, these workshops are limited and fill up quickly.
REGISTER with Judyth: 206-361-4124; June, July & August: 250-935-8500 or: judyth@judythweaver.com
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