Somatic Study Group in Pre & Perinatal Psychology & Therapy

Acquire deeper understanding and experience of early imprints; gain new skills for daily life and professional practice.

This study group will offer opportunities for participants to learn, explore and work experientially with their own history and experiences, and to receive support and supervision in helping integrate this work into their personal and professional life.

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.

This study group is for teachers, psychologists, therapists, counselors, medical professionals, parents and those who wish to become parents, and for all who want to learn about themselves and to work deeply with traumas that often result in insecurities and difficulties in life, learning and happiness.

Participants will acquire deeper knowledge and experience of themselves and others, and will gain new skills and techniques to use in their daily lives and in their professional practices.

This somatically-orientated, experiential Study Group is divided into six modules meeting several months apart:

1. Presence, awareness, attunement. Preconception and conception.
2. Embryology. Bonding and attachment.
3. Birth imprinting.
4. Medical, chemical and surgical imprinting. Assisted reproductive technology.
5. Adoption, abortion, miscarriage. Life, death, loss, double binds, twin dynamics.
6. Ancestral influences, Family and group dynamics

Each module in this training will offer opportunities for participants to learn, explore and work experientially with their own history and experiences, and to receive support and supervision in helping integrate this work into their personal and professional life.Participants must commit to attending all modules.

Requirements for Enrollment:

Application “¢ Interview “¢ Participation in one Process Workshop with Judyth.

Please register early. Enrollment is limited.

Post-graduate training for professionals will continue after completion of the study group.
This will focus on deepening practitioner skills through:

Practica “¢ Case studies “¢ Supervision

CEUs for MFTs will be available through Santa Barbara Graduate Institute.

A total of four weekend Process Workshops must be taken for a Certificate of Completion of the Study Group. Process Workshops, in addition to the training, will be offered periodically throughout the training period.

Judyth O. Weaver, Ph.D., has studied prenatal and perinatal psychology/ therapy with Eva Reich (daughter of Wilhelm Reich), William Emerson, and Ray Castellino. She is certified by Dr. Castellino in Prenatal and Birth Therapy as well as in leading Process Workshops. Judyth is also certified as a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, as a Reichian Therapist, a Rosen Method Senior Teacher, a Sensory Awareness Leader, a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and a T’ai Chi Ch’uan Teacher.

She was professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) for 25 years. She is co-founder of the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute (SBGI), and creator and founding chair of its Somatic Psychology Program. Judyth has developed her own method of body/mind/spiritual integrative counseling called Somatic Reclaiming. She has been a counselor for over 40 years.

Judyth’s life-long studies have been in movement, body/mind/spiritual integrative practices, Buddhism, and Taoism. She spent 1966 to 1968 in a traditional Zen Buddhist monastery in Japan, where she was the only woman to study and practice. In 1971 she was authorized to teach Professor Cheng Man-Ch’ing’s short Yang Form of T’ai Chi Ch’uan. She continues her spiritual studies, maintains a private practice in Mill Valley, Ca. and Seattle, Wa., and regularly teaches workshops and classes in Japan, India, Russia, Canada and throughout the U.S.

Photos from recently completed Nelson, B.C. training. Click on a photo for a larger view.