Judyth O. Weaver is a multifaceted teacher and counselor, incorporating extensive training in diverse areas. She holds a Ph.D. in Reichian Psychology.
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Sensory Awareness Workshop – Cortes Island July 7-20, 2012 Japanese version
Click on the title of this post to download the higher resolution PDF as well as visiting the new Sensory Awareness Japan site. Continue reading
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Somatic Perinatal Process Workshop Cortes Island, B.C.
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. Continue reading
What is a somatic perinatal process workshop and how does it work?
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. Continue reading
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T’ai Chi Ch’uan Workshop In Seattle – March 24 & 25, 2012
Review, refresh, renew your T’ai Chi practice. Workshop will be at MotionSense Movement Education Continue reading
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T’ai Chi Ch’uan – in Mérida, Mexico January 23-27, 2012
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. Continue reading
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T’ai Chi Ch’uan – An Exercise for Life / A Way of Life – Continuing the form, August 2011
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. Continue reading
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T’ai Chi Ch’uan Workshops on Cortes Island, B.C., Canada, August 2011
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. Continue reading
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Sensory Awareness: Awakening and Responding. Kyoto, Japan: October 15-16, 2011
Sensory Awareness focuses on the reality of one’s 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. Continue reading
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Sensory Awareness Podcast (2012)
Judyth is interviewed about Sensory Awareness for the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy’s (USABP) Somatic Psychotherapy Perspectives. Continue reading
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Sensory Awareness: Awakening and Responding. Kyoto, Japan: October 8-10, 2011
Sensory Awareness focuses on the reality of one’s 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. Continue reading
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Somatic Reclaiming Podcast (2011)
Judyth is interviewed about her work and Somatic Reclaiming for United States Association for Body Psychotherapy’s (USABP) Somatic Psychotherapy Perspectives. Listen to the podcast here.
Everyday Meditations Podcast
Judyth is interviewed by Serge Prengel for Proactive Change. Click Here.
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Interviews in Mexico: Zen Buddhism in Japan, 1960’s (Part 1)
February 2010 I gave workshops at the Zendo Una Gota in Mazatlan, Mexico. While I was there I was interviewed about my experiences and how I found Zen in Japan in 1966. Part 2 of these interviews is here.
Interviews in Mexico: Zen Buddhism in Japan, 1960’s (Part 2)
Part 2 of Judyth Weaver’s interviews in Mexico: Zen Buddhism in Japan, 1960’s Continue reading
Drishi Point Yoga Interview
Judyth is interviewed about her work and Pre- and Perinatal Somatics for Drishi Point, a Vancouver-based Yoga radio show. Listen to podcasts here. Continue reading
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T’ai Chi Sword Form classes during Continuing T’ai Chi Ch’uan Retreat, August 7-14, 2011
A number of classes for sword form will be held for those students who are interested. There will be an additional fee for these. Please state upon registration if you are interested. Continue reading
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Keynote speech at the JASSP
In October, 2014, I had the honor of being asked to present one of the three keynote speeches at the first conference of the newly formed Japan Association for Somatics and Somatic Psychology in Tokyo. Continue reading
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Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Therapy
Often we find that the problems we encounter in life have their roots in the imprinting we experience before and during birth and through early childhood. Continue reading
My Connection with Reichian Therapy and Wilhelm Reich
I came to working in this field of somatics and somatic psychology by searching for answers for my own physical and psychological questions. Continue reading
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Beginners’ T’ai Chi Ch’uan Workshop in Mazatlan, May 2011
Five days of learning the first section of Professor Cheng Man-Ch’ing’s short yang form. Continue reading
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Sensory Awareness: Touch, Presence and Peace, Tokyo, Japan – October 5-6, 2013
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. Continue reading
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Workshop at the JASSP
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Sensory Awareness Workshop in Mazatlan, April 2011
Sensory Awareness, the practice of deeply exploring our sensations, our actions and interactions, can guide us back to our natural resources and lead us to more authenticity and vitality. In this workshop, participants will explore their sensations and responses internally and externally, in relationship with others, with nature and with our human nature. Continue reading
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Sensory Awareness Workshops In Hiroshima, Japan, March 2011
Sensory Awareness, the practice of deeply exploring our sensations, our actions and interactions, can guide us back to our natural resources and lead us to more authenticity and vitality. In this workshop, participants will explore their sensations and responses internally and externally, in relationship with others, with nature and with our human nature. Continue reading
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The Wilhelm Reich Project
The Wilhelm Reich Pardon Project was an effort to encourage individuals to write letters describing Reich’s beneficial impact on their lives and work, and requesting that Reich receive a posthumous pardon. Continue reading
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How I Teach T’ai Chi Ch’uan
I feel very fortunate to have had contact with Professor Cheng Man-Ch’ing in the late 1960s and early ’70s. I first went to him to be treated from his vast knowledge of Chinese medicine. I would wait through many hours of T’ai Chi Sword form in his New York Chinatown studio before having my appointment with him. It was all very informative and healing. Continue reading
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Preventing Trauma in Infants (2010)
Prior to the conference Mary sent we panelists an email with some questions. Continue reading
Somatic Awareness/Sensory Awareness – A Path of Unraveling Trauma (2010)
The theme of “unraveling trauma” is a very important choice of words to describe the way we must work with trauma. Continue reading
T’ai Chi Ch’uan – in Mazatlan, Mexico, February 2011
Open to all who know at least the first section of Cheng Man-Chings short yang form and who want to deepen their Tai Chi Chuan practice. Continue reading
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Sensory Awareness Workshop – Nature and our Nature – Haines, Alaska, September 11-13, 2010
We are naturally born as vital, fully sensory beings. Traumas, tensions, even some education can diminish our vitality, creating unrest and insecurity in our lives. Sensory Awareness – the practice of deeply exploring our sensations, our actions and interactions, through practical sensing experiments – can guide us back to our natural resources and lead us to more authenticity and vitality. Continue reading
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Pre- & Perinatal Somatic Process Workshop September 7-10, 2010, Haines, Alaska
The workshop 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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Pre- & Perinatal Somatic Process Workshop, July 25-28, 2010 – Cortes Island, B.C.
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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Sensory Awareness on Cortes Island, B.C., Canada – Nature and our Nature, July 11-24, 2010
The practice of deeply exploring our sensations, our actions and interactions, can guide us back to our natural resources and lead us to more authenticity and vitality. 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. Continue reading
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