Author Archives: Judyth O. Weaver, PhD.

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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Somatic Study Group in Pre & Perinatal Psychology & 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. These issues that arise before we are verbal need to be met and repatterned at that same level. Working somatically and experientially can offer deep, profound, resolution to problems that influence our development, bonding, attachment and interpersonal relationships. Continue reading

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Sensory Awareness: Awakening and Responding. Kyoto, Japan: October 12-14, 2013

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. Continue reading

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Mission Statement (translated from Japanese)

With support from Sensory Awareness Foundation, we gladly announce the establishment of Sensory Awareness Japan in December 2011. Continue reading

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Elsa Gindler and her influence on Wilhelm Reich and Body Psychotherapy (2009)

I was very honored to be invited to be a keynote presenter at the European Association for Body Psychotherapys November, 2008 conference in Paris, France. Continue reading

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Sensory Awareness on Cortes Island, B.C., Canada – Nature and our Nature, July 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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Pre- & Perinatal Somatic Process Workshop, April 10-11, 2010 – Seattle, Washington

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 Workshop – Becoming More Whole – April 10 & 11, 2010

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. Participants will explore their sensations and responses internally and in relationship with others. These explorations can bring a trust of ourselves that may assist us in finding the ability and pleasure of responding more sensitively and authentically. Continue reading

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T’ai Chi Ch’uan Weekend Workshop – Seattle, Washington, March 2010

This workshop is for anyone who practices at least the first section of Professor Cheng Man-Ch’ing’s short yang form. A mid-winter chance to brush up on your form, renew your knowledge and strengthen your practice. There will be morning and afternoon sessions and a chance to watch videos of some great masters in the evening. 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]

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

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Touching Our Human Essence – Leading Sensory Awareness Classes in Different Cultures (1997)

My teacher asks me what the differences are of leading the work in different cultures. My answer is basically, “none.”The culture that Sensory Awareness works with is the human culture; the specific country, language, or way of dressing is not the level where we meet. Our work goes underneath the vagaries of cultural experience and reaches down to the foundational essence of human nature. Continue reading

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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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Pre- & Perinatal Somatic Process Workshop, October 2-5, 2008, Mill Valley, CA

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. Continue reading

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Sensory Awareness: Touch and Presence – Kyoto, Japan, May 2008

How we come into contact with people, physically, emotionally and energetically lays down patterns for how our relationships will develop. How we are in touch with ourselves patterns how we will be with others and whether our presence is healing or challenging. This workshop will focus on clarifying how we are with ourselves, how we come to be with others, and how we can work on healing, helping and supporting. Continue reading

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Sensory Awareness: Modern Life and Inner Nature – Megamiyama, Japan, April 2008

This workshop will address the contrasts between our natures and our technologically-oriented lives. Through our explorations we may discover ways to use our innate wisdom to support and even protect us and learn how to resource ourselves, with nature and with technology, to be more natural and healthy in our everyday lives. Continue reading

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Perinatal Psychology for Health and Healing Workshop at Esalen Institute, March 14-16, 2008

In an experiential format, this program will explore embryological and infant development, the effects of various life occurrences, ways to promote healthy births, and protocols for therapeutic interventions and repairing trauma. The workshop will teach listening, acknowledging, attuning, and somatically tracking movement patterns and the fluctuation of the nervous system-thereby offering the support that may not have been there in the past and perhaps providing resolution to issues that have seemed to resist other therapeutic attempts. Continue reading

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Sensory Awareness Workshops, February 2008

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, can guide us back to our natural resources and lead us to more authenticity and vitality. Continue reading

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Experiences in the Zen Monastery (2007)

I have been asked to write about my experiences in the Zen monastery in Japan. Here is a little bit about what for me was a magnificent life-changing experience. Continue reading

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T’ai Chi Ch’uan: Aug 19-26, 2007 on Cortes Island, 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 who practice at least the first section. Continue reading

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Sensory Awareness: June 30-July 1, 2007 in Bellingham, Washington

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, can guide us back to our natural resources and lead us to more authenticity and vitality. Continue reading

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Sensory Awareness Study Group, February 2007

In this study group participants will explore their sensations and responses internally and in relationship with others. These explorations can bring a trust of ourselves that may assist us in finding the ability and pleasure of responding more sensitively and authentically. Continue reading

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Pre- & Perinatal Process Workshop: April 21-23, 2006 in Mill Valley, California

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. In small group settings, each participant is supported in his/her exploration of whatever issue they choose. Continue reading

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Emotional First Aid (2006)

Emotional First Aid is a term that can be used for a type of body/mind integrative psychotherapeutic process used in situations calling for immediate, direct response such as a person might need in an acute or subacute situation of distress or overwhelm. Emotional first aid is different in each situation. There are no rules, except these: To be open minded to the possibility that very severe or acute body symptoms may be caused by acute emotional repression. To be on the lookout for clues in the actual life situation of the person who comes for help. To know that words alone cannot always relieve the energy stasis. Continue reading

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More Background About Sensory Awareness (2003)

Sensory Awareness is the practice of coming more in touch with oneself. Not attached to any theory or method, the work transcends dogmas, disciplines, and forms. It brings us to immediate, direct experience through which we can rediscover and return to our own natural ways of being – to our birthrights. Continue reading

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