Calling You Home - Birth Process Workshop
May
17
to May 19

Calling You Home - Birth Process Workshop

  • 672 2nd Avenue San Francisco, CA, 94118 United States (map)
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Brief Description of Event: May 17-19, 2024

(Fri 4-8pm, Sat and Sun 9-6pm)

Location: 672 2nd Ave, San Francisco, CA 94118

Participants: 3 people

Fee: Sliding scale $400-1000 / person

To Register: Contact Livia at livia.ondi.lmft@gmail.com or 415-206-2868


Who is this for?

If you want to :

experience deeper intimacy in your relationships with romantic partners, family, and friends

feel greater emotional safety and comfort when being alone

connect with a deeper purpose and confidence in life and carry through with intentions and projects

be more at home in your body and experience more balance in your nervous system

transform repetitive destructive emotional and thought patterns (anger, fear, sadness) that hinder your well-being

heal from traumatic birth and family history

If you are:

a parent who experienced traumatic labor

a birthing professional who supports families during the prenatal, perinatal, and postpartum period

a professional who supports children and families during early years of bonding and socialization

a professional who supports adults resolving attachment and relational wounds and related somatic patterns



Each participant’s turn is a unique, somatically oriented healing journey. Gentle facilitation and the format are designed to support connecting with non-verbal implicit memories and energetic imprints held in our body and psyche from early developmental periods. In the safety of connection, participants will receive new experiences in an embodied way that allows lasting change in one’s entire being on all levels of the psyche, body, and soul. This workshop is complementary to ongoing psychotherapy and other healing relationships.

About the Facilitator

Livia Ondi, LMFT, has been studying prenatal, birth, and early attachment patterns for over two decades. She is trained as an early childhood mental health clinician and somatic psychotherapist and studied extensively with Myrna Martin to become a birth process facilitator. In addition, she is currently in training for biodynamic craniosacral therapy. Livia blends her warm presence, somatic skills, and knowledge of attachment and relationship dynamics in a unique and enlivening way. She has a private practice in San Francisco where she supports young children and families during pregnancy, birth, and the first 5 years; provides couples therapy; and somatic therapy for adults.

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In-Person Womb Surround
Jun
6
to Jun 9

In-Person Womb Surround

Faciliator: Eileen Sendrey, RCST® CMT

Four consecutive days each, beginning 9:00 am PST each day with ending time undetermined.).

Thursday - Sunday, June 6, 7, 8 & 9 2024 (up to 6 participants)

Workshops located in Santa Cruz, CA -- Exact address will be provided when you register.

INVESTMENT

Registration: $1250
A $500 payment of the tuition and completed contract due to register.

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Calling You Home - Birth Process Workshop
Sep
6
to Sep 8

Calling You Home - Birth Process Workshop

  • 672 2nd Avenue San Francisco, CA, 94118 United States (map)
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Brief Description of Event: SEPT 6-7, 2024

(Fri 4-8pm, Sat and Sun 9-6pm)

Location: 672 2nd Ave, San Francisco, CA 94118

Participants: 3 people

Fee: Sliding scale $400-1000 / person

To Register: Contact Livia at livia.ondi.lmft@gmail.com or 415-206-2868


Who is this for?

If you want to :

experience deeper intimacy in your relationships with romantic partners, family, and friends

feel greater emotional safety and comfort when being alone

connect with a deeper purpose and confidence in life and carry through with intentions and projects

be more at home in your body and experience more balance in your nervous system

transform repetitive destructive emotional and thought patterns (anger, fear, sadness) that hinder your well-being

heal from traumatic birth and family history

If you are:

a parent who experienced traumatic labor

a birthing professional who supports families during the prenatal, perinatal, and postpartum period

a professional who supports children and families during early years of bonding and socialization

a professional who supports adults resolving attachment and relational wounds and related somatic patterns



Each participant’s turn is a unique, somatically oriented healing journey. Gentle facilitation and the format are designed to support connecting with non-verbal implicit memories and energetic imprints held in our body and psyche from early developmental periods. In the safety of connection, participants will receive new experiences in an embodied way that allows lasting change in one’s entire being on all levels of the psyche, body, and soul. This workshop is complementary to ongoing psychotherapy and other healing relationships.

About the Facilitator

Livia Ondi, LMFT, has been studying prenatal, birth, and early attachment patterns for over two decades. She is trained as an early childhood mental health clinician and somatic psychotherapist and studied extensively with Myrna Martin to become a birth process facilitator. In addition, she is currently in training for biodynamic craniosacral therapy. Livia blends her warm presence, somatic skills, and knowledge of attachment and relationship dynamics in a unique and enlivening way. She has a private practice in San Francisco where she supports young children and families during pregnancy, birth, and the first 5 years; provides couples therapy; and somatic therapy for adults.

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4-day in-person womb surround workshop
May
18
to May 21

4-day in-person womb surround workshop

  • Chardonnay Circle Petaluma, CA, 94954 United States (map)
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A 4-day in-person womb surround workshop including 2 - 1.5hr online integration sessions over the following two weeks (all vaccination statuses welcome, we will use a testing protocol for covid safety)

Facilitator: Scott Engler, MA, RCST®

(Approved by Castellino Foundation Training)

May 18 – 21, 2023 in Petaluma, CA, at Scott’s home

5 participants & 1 or 2 assistants

$850, $200 deposit to hold space by April 18  or full price $850 after April 18

To Register: https://heartofstillness.com/workshops/may2023-womb-surround-workshop-sebcst

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In-person womb surround workshop
Nov
10
to Nov 13

In-person womb surround workshop

A 4-day in-person womb surround workshop including 2 - 1.5hr online integration sessions over the next two weeks

(all vaccination statuses welcome, we will use a testing protocol for covid safety)

Facilitator: Scott Engler, MA, RCST®

(Approved by Castellino Foundation Training)

November 10 – 13, 2022

in Petaluma, CA, at Scott’s home

5 participants & 2 assistants

Facilitated by Scott Engler

$750 paid by August 1

or $850 after August 1

To Register:

https://www.heartofstillness.com/workshops/november2022-womb-surround-workshop-sebcst

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Womb Surround Workshop
Jun
16
to Jun 19

Womb Surround Workshop

  • Chardonnay Circle Petaluma, CA, 94954 USA (map)
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An In-person womb surround workshop facilitated by Scott Engler, RCST®, at his home in Petaluma (Covid testing please, see details on website). Together we will find the mutual healing that can arise when a group listens to one-another with attunement inside and with each other.

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December Womb Surround Workshop in Petaluma, CA
Dec
1
to Dec 4

December Womb Surround Workshop in Petaluma, CA

Facilitated by Scott Engler with 5 participants and an assistant. See the website link for registration details. It will be held in Scott's home in Petaluma, our 2nd in-person womb surround this year. It is non-residential - participants are responsible for their own housing. As we will meet in person without masks, please be fully vaccinated. Scott will have a high-quality air purifier running. Depending on the public covid status at the time, we may all take tests in preparation just before beginning.

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Western Massachusetts, USA  Process Workshop Facilitated by Elsa Asher
Oct
7
to Oct 11

Western Massachusetts, USA Process Workshop Facilitated by Elsa Asher

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October 7-11, 2020

Maximum 7 Participants

To register click here, and if you have any questions please contact Elsa Asher elsa@elsaasher.com.

The cost is $850.

NOTE: Accommodations are available at the venue. Rooms are not private, unless no one else books the same room. It is $50/night a bunk bed and $60 a full bed. There are 2 full beds and 8 bunks. To book a room, email Elsa Asher elsa@elsaasher.com with your room request.

Description

Elsa creates safety and a nurturing “womb surround” to do deep regressive work through establishing interactive, empathetic and contact principles for the participants so they can actively support each other throughout the workshop. Each participant has an approximately 1.5 to 2 .5 hour session facilitated by Elsa to explore one’s own physical and emotional patterns from prenatal, birth or early origin.

Each Session is followed by a sharing of group members, integration and discussion. Participants heal and re-pattern early trauma and then bring this healing to their current primary relationships and life. Not all sessions involve prenatal/birth/attachment themes.  All sessions are unique and participants also do important work from other periods of their life.  Each participant's intention set for the workshop is the guiding theme for their session.

The Goal of a Womb Surround Process Workshop is to support participants to heal and re-pattern prenatal, birth and attachment imprinting within a safe container. Connections are made with current themes and behaviors in the participant’s life. This workshop is helpful for professionals who wish to experience the profound changes possible with healing of prenatal, birth and attachment issues. This is directly applicable to most professional practices involving the healing arts.

The space for the workshop is wheelchair accessible.

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Vitality, Clarity & Connection: Womb Surround Process Workshop
May
17
to May 20

Vitality, Clarity & Connection: Womb Surround Process Workshop

  • Morgan Hill, CA United States (map)
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Vitality, Clarity & Connection: Womb Surround Process Workshop with  Eileen Sendrey

What happens to us when we're young is foundational to our mental emotional, physical, health and how we form relationships. An important part of healing as an adult is to receive support for challenge/disruptions in early experience. We can't change the past, but we can change how we relate to that past and how we manifest in the present. In this group work (with up to 6 participants), each participant takes a turn, working with an intention for health. In this turn they discover how early adverse experiences affect behaviors and choices today and how to transform this by gaining access to our own innate intelligence.

Benefits reported by individuals experiencing this work:

- Increased health mentally and emotionally -- particularly in the felt sense of safety and love
- Increased health physically -- digestion, structural benefits and other body functions
- Increased health in immune function and vitality
- Increased sense of peace, feeling grounded and wellbeing
- Healthier response to stress
- Increased connection and sense of belonging in relationships
- Increased clarity in finding ones direction, meaning and purpose in life
- Ability to move through and transform compulsive patterns which hold us back from what we desire in life.

INVESTMENT
Early Bird Rate (paid in full 6 weeks before start of Workshop): $750
Registration : $800

A non-refundable deposit of $150 holds your space

http://eileensendrey.com

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Western Massachusetts, USA  Process Workshop Facilitated by Eileen Sendrey
Apr
30
to May 4

Western Massachusetts, USA Process Workshop Facilitated by Eileen Sendrey

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April 30 - May 4, 2020

Maximum 7 Participants

To register, please contact Eileen Sendrey eileensendrey@me.com

The cost is $850.

Description

Eileen creates safety and a nurturing “womb surround” to do deep regressive work through establishing interactive, empathetic and contact principles for the participants so they can actively support each other throughout the workshop. Each participant has an approximately 1.5 to 2 .5 hour session facilitated by Eileen to explore her/his own physical and emotional patterns from prenatal, birth or early origin.

Each Session is followed by a sharing of group members, integration and discussion. Participants heal and re-pattern early trauma and then bring this healing to their current primary relationships and life. Not all sessions involve prenatal/birth/attachment themes.  All sessions are unique and participants also do important work from other periods of their life.  Each participant's intention set for the workshop is the guiding theme for their session.

The Goal of a Womb Surround Process Workshop is to support participants to heal and re-pattern prenatal, birth and attachment imprinting within a safe container. Connections are made with current themes and behaviors in the participant’s life. This workshop is helpful for professionals who wish to experience the profound changes possible with healing of prenatal, birth and attachment issues. This is directly applicable to most professional practices involving the healing arts.

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Womb Surround Process Workshop by Susan Hall
Mar
13
to Mar 15

Womb Surround Process Workshop by Susan Hall

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Birth Process Workshop, Redwood City, CA

Facilitated by Susan Hall

The intention of a Birth Process Workshop is to create safety in a nurturing small group container in order to do deep healing work.

Participants have the opportunity to heal and re-pattern early experiences and then bring this healing to their current primary relationships. Each participant has a long session to explore her/his/their own physical and emotional patterns from prenatal, birth or early life experiences with support from the whole group.

Sharing of group members, integration and discussion follows each individual session. Not all sessions involve prenatal, birth or attachment themes. Each session is unique and participants may also do important work from other periods of their life. The intention of each participant is the guiding theme for the individual session.

This format was created to support the most powerful transformations that can happen in a safe and nurturing small group. Profound emotional and physical changes can occur when we heal early issues in a safe and supportive space. Principles of safety are followed so that participants can actively support each other through the workshop. The long amount of time together allows integration of material from each of the sessions. Each person also receives a debriefing time, which further supports integration of the session.

Participants need to arrange to attend the entire workshop, as this is important for each person to feel safety and security in the group.

For more information and to register, please contact Susan at hall.health@gmail.com

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Womb Surround Process Workshop Facilitated by Elsa Asher & Kate White
Mar
5
to Mar 8

Womb Surround Process Workshop Facilitated by Elsa Asher & Kate White

  • 2421 Fourth Street Berkeley, CA, 94710 United States (map)
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CO-FACILITATED BY ELSA ASHER, MS, RSCT®, CD(DONA) AND KATE WHITE, MA, CMT, RSCT®, CEIM

This is a small group workshop is based on the work of Ray Castellino, DC (retired), RPP, RCST®. Castellino is a master of sensing into the patterns that can arise from difficulties from the prenatal and perinatal period. He developed a training for a specific form where professionals could learn about the many patterns that can be generally associated with historical trauma, conception, prenatally, birth and attachment in the postpartum period. His observations, somatic skills, and passion for healing early overwhelming events in the nervous system of the families he was seeing came about after he started treating babies. Seeing how families' experiences affected the baby, he began to work with small groups to create a therapy that would help the whole family. The training he still offers creates practitioners in this field. This small group workshop is the product of the training and form he developed. It is ideal for creating a safe container and experiential exploring prenatal and perinatal somatic patterns and your own early history, especially finding places where there is coherency, or health in the nervous system. Using your adult presence, the group consciously creates the blueprint in human development, one of flow, connection, and safety. We offer:

  • Whole body learning

  • Experiential interpersonal neurobiology

  • Embodiment practices to access blueprint in the body

  • Tools to improve your educational efforts in prenatal and perinatal somatic health

  • Didactic debriefing for each pattern for integration and understanding

  • Further resources for learning provided upon request

DETAILS

Fee for this workshop is $725, due one month before the surround, by February 5, 2020

To Register: Pay a fee of $150 to hold your spot, remainder of the fee is due by February 5. You can also pay in full. A complete form will need to be filled out and emailed/mailed to Kate at 658 Tyree Lane, Charlottesville, VA. Checks can also be mailed there, made out to CPPP.

Location: Bridge Between the Worlds, 2395 Paddock Wood Road Keswick, Virginia 22947

Hours: 10 am start February 28, end by 5 pm March 1, 2020

For more information contact Kate White, 434-996-2002, katercst@gmail.com

The work has brought me into deeper contact with myself through the stories alive in my body. Through our session, I gained a new relationship with my nervous system and tools for self-regulating - tracking my states of activation and rest, and using this awareness to expand my capacity for presence.
— Cedar Ranney, Oakland, California

ABOUT THE EARLY PERIOD AND SMALL GROUP LEARNING

The foundation of the Womb Surround Process Group is that whatever happens for the developing baby inside the mother is influenced by what went on around him or her as well has what organically arises in the womb. There are many examples of how this can show up in an adult, including

  • Our ancestral influences

  • How we are conceived, and into what time, place or feeling state in our parents

  • In utero development, including the events, feelings and emotions of the family around the developing baby

  • Birth process

  • Postpartum events, especially separations

  • Attachment patterns

A small group of people comes together for each workshop and forms a "surround," or a container for the person who wants to explore their history and repattern overwhelming events that have left an imprint that is still causing difficulty today. Autonomic nervous system patterns are taught and discussed, then practiced. Overhwhelming imprint patterns can look like:

  • Not feeling fully alive

  • Difficulty with intimate relationships

  • Deep feelings of ambivalence toward life

  • Chronic pain or health conditions

  • Patterns that often show up that talk therapy can't seem to change

  • Feeling held in chronic double binds, or feeling like there is no way out

These patterns are somatic, or held in the body, and implicit, or held in an unconscious way. We can often still feel these patterns when something in present time triggers this deeply held body memory that is often coupled with overwhelming feelings, such as panic, anxiety, rage, dissociation and more. The facilitator employs very specific principles and a form that allows individuals to drop into these early patterns and repattern, with the consciousness of the group mind. The pace is slow, and the process pendulates between the present and the wellspring of coherency he or she first establishes, and the history that is overwhelming in small, digestible pieces. Then, the facilitator debriefs the session later so that the person taking a turn and the group can learn more about the pattern. It is an excellent way to learn as well as heal.

These small groups offer an epigenetic form of healing while learning. We now know that an environment around a cell can influence whether or not genes are turned off or on. In a sense, working with positive, slow group energy, the issue at hand can be shifted with this experience. Participants report greater clarity, better health, great insights, and positive connections with others. It is also an opportunity to learn about helpful patterns around many of the issues of being human. Teaching supports understanding our interpersonal neurobiology and how our younger selves made sense of our lives by bringing these patterns to consciousness. It is great for parents as well as other curious adults, and for couples wanting to conceive.

This workshop is co-facilitated by Kate White and Elsa Asher. Elsa has special training in understanding the health and connections from ancestors. Carrying ancestral trauma is very common, and it often plays a role in how we see ourselves and our world. Come and work on your patterns and gain greater health today.

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Vitality, Clarity & Connection-- Womb Surround Workshop by Eileen Sendrey
Jan
30
to Feb 2

Vitality, Clarity & Connection-- Womb Surround Workshop by Eileen Sendrey

January 30 - February 2, 2020

Vitality, Clarity & Connection

A WOMB SURROUND WORKSHOP WITH EILEEN SENDREY

What happens to us when we're young is foundational to our mental emotional, physical, health and how we form relationships. An important part of healing as an adult is to receive support for challenge/disruptions in early experience. We can't change the past, but we can change how we relate to that past and how we manifest in the present. In this work we do this by gently touching into the challenge/disruption/wound, with support, skill and resource, to re-wire your brain and nervous system, thus experiencing the support and love needed. I am facilitating a 3 person 3 day workshop to do this profoundly transformative work together.

The method is based in applied attachment theory, current research of understanding the brain and nervous system, mindfulness, principles of biodynamic craniosacral therapy, prenatal and birth psychology, and somatic trauma resolution.

Thursday: Begins 5:00 pm with ending time around 9:00 pm.
Friday and Saturday: Begins 9:00 am with ending time undetermined.
Sunday: begins 9:00 am until about 3:00 to 5:00 pm

LOCATION

Morgan Hill/Gilroy, California. Address provided upon registration.

INVESTMENT

Early Bird Rate if fully paid two months before workshop start date: $650
Registration: $700
A non-refundable deposit of $150 holds your space

Please visit the website for more details https://www.eileensendrey.com/processworkshop or email eileensendrey@mac.com.

*Photo Credit: Ray Castellino

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Process Workshop Facilitated by Elsa Asher
Jan
24
to Jan 26

Process Workshop Facilitated by Elsa Asher

  • 2421 Fourth Street Berkeley, CA, 94710 United States (map)
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SMALL GROUP WORKSHOP DESIGNED TO HEAL EARLY TRAUMA, RESOLVE CHALLENGES DURING YOUR OWN PRENATAL OR BIRTH EXPERIENCES, DEEPEN RELATIONSHIP SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE A FIELD OF HEALTH AND SECURE ATTACHMENT

Process Workshops are based on the form and principles of Womb Surrounds developed by Ray Castellino, DC [retired], RPP, RPE, RCST® and Birthing Yourself Process Workshops led by Myrna Martin, MN, RCC, RCST®. This form creates a safe, comfortable and responsive circle for you to set an intention and bring attention, awareness and support to an aspects of your life where you feel stuck. Through this process, with the participation of the group and skilled facilitation, you will discover how to transform and repair the pattern, and then bridge this to the rest of your life. Feel more connected in primary relationships, create healthy boundaries, connect to a deep sense of purpose, experience personal empowerment, have choice in your responses rather than habitual reaction, and learn tools for navigating transition.

DATE

January 24-26

We begin at 6pm on Friday, January 24, and then at 10am on Saturday and Sunday, January 25 and 26. We end when we are finished for the day, usually by dinner time but we don’t have a fixed end time, so please don’t make any evening plans for Friday - Sunday.

RATE

Pay What You Can* on a scale of $850-$150

*I usually charge $850, but I am offering these winter workshops on a sliding scale to make this work available to people who couldn’t otherwise afford it

Please email me if you have any questions. If you haven’t worked with me before, I’ll email you an intake form for you to fill out before the workshop.

The work has brought me into deeper contact with myself through the stories alive in my body. Through our session, I gained a new relationship with my nervous system and tools for self-regulating - tracking my states of activation and rest, and using this awareness to expand my capacity for presence.
— Cedar Ranney, Oakland, California
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From Early Trauma to Wholeness, a Womb Surround Workshop by Scott Engler
Jan
23
to Jan 26

From Early Trauma to Wholeness, a Womb Surround Workshop by Scott Engler

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From Early Trauma to Wholeness, a Womb Surround Workshop

January 23-26, 2020, in Petaluma, CA

Facilitated by Scott Engler, MA, BCST, RCST®


Cost: $700, discounted price $650 if paid by October 15, 2019

Deposit of $200 possible with final payment due December 23, 2019.


More details and registration:

https://www.heartofstillness.com/petaluma-jan-23-26


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Ancestral Lineage Healing Intensive (Portland, OR)
Jan
18
to Jan 20

Ancestral Lineage Healing Intensive (Portland, OR)

  • Portland, OR United States (map)
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Ancestral Lineage Healing Intensive (Portland, OR)

Co-led by Larisa Noonan and Elsa Asher.

Everyone has loving and wise ancestors, and by reaching out for their support we access tremendous vitality for personal and family healing. In addition to supporting repairs with living family, our ancestors encourage healthy self-esteem and help us to clarify our destiny, relationships, and work in the world.

Participants will learn to relate safely and directly with family ancestors, both helpful guides and the dead in need of assistance. The work will closely follow Dr. Daniel Foor’s book, Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing. Expect to engage lineage ancestors in heart-centered ritual through prayer/song, visioning practices, and group dialogue. There are no prerequisites, however, prior experience with inner work and relating with spirit guides/teachers are both helpful.

Folks new to ancestor work, adoptees, and those with a tough experience of family are warmly welcome. The training will be a trauma-aware, multicultural ritual container that embraces the relationship of ancestral engagement with cultural healing and decolonization work.

We are strongly committed to keeping the work accessible to people of diverse backgrounds and variable means while also supporting our teaching staff. Folks of African, Native, and other historically persecuted ancestries (as well as folks serving such populations) are welcome to join if needed on the lower-priced end of registration as available. If you would like to help us to keep this work accessible or if you have enjoyed financial assistance previously and wish to extend this gift to others, please consider donating to our scholarship fund. For details see: ancestral lineage healing intensives.

Cost and Details

This intensive is Saturday-Monday, from 10am to 5:30pm each day, with a lunch break (lunch not included). Cost for this three-day intensive is $450 (or 4 payments of $118). We have reserved a third of spaces at scholarship rates, with a few partial scholarship spaces at $350 (or 4 payments of $92), and a few half scholarship spaces at $225 (or 4 payments of $60). All spaces are on a first-come first-served basis, with the remaining available options showing on the registration page. Please mindfully select the option that best fits your needs.

Larisa Noonan (Salem, OR) has specialized for nearly two decades in trauma healing, embodiment skills, and supporting healthy boundaries. She weaves ritual and nature reconnection into all of her offerings, and she is passionate about ancestral healing, supporting grief and loss, recovery from religious fundamentalism, and work with chronic pain/illness. She lives with her husband and son in Oregon’s Willamette Valley on the ancestral homelands of Kalapuyan peoples. Her ancestors are from France, the Netherlands via Ukraine, Germany, and Switzerland and her spiritual orientation is rooted in earth-honoring ritual, embodying ancestral gifts, and reclaiming animist values. For more info: www.larisanoonan.com.

Elsa Asher (Berkeley, CA) is a somatic therapy practitioner and professor of Narrative Medicine. Their work focuses on ancestral lineage healing as part of a larger field of intergenerational and developmental trauma healing and cultural repair. Elsa has received kehunah as a Hebrew ritualist and facilitates lifecycle rituals. They are grounded in the animist ways of their people, who are Sami, Ashkenazi and Sephardi Hebrew people, Scots-Irish, Western and Southern European, and Native North American. Elsa lives on Ohlone land in Northern California. For more info see: www.elsaasher.com

We acknowledge this event is taking place on the ancestral lands of diverse Chinook, Cowlitz, and Clackamas peoples. Folks whose ancestors are indigenous to this area are welcome to join this event by donation or gifting. We encourage people to become educated on the history and find ways to support contemporary Chinook, Cowlitz, and Clackamas indigenous causes and organizations.

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Birthing Yourself Process Workshop Facilitated by Susan Hall
Jan
16
to Jan 18

Birthing Yourself Process Workshop Facilitated by Susan Hall

January 16- 18, 2020

Birthing Yourself Process Workshop facilitated by Susan Hall

USING principles of safety and a form designed to create safety in small groups, Susan will gently support 4 participants in this nurturing 3 day “womb surround” to do deep healing work and to support each other throughout the workshop. Each participant has an approximately 1.5 to 2 .5 hour session facilitated by Susan to explore and release difficult physical and emotional patterns from prenatal, birth or early origin.

EACH SESSION involves intention setting as a guide for the healing and re-patterning of early trauma and attachment imprints. Participants can then bring this healing to their current relationships and life. Not all sessions involve prenatal/birth/attachment themes. All sessions are unique and participants also do healing work originating from other periods of their life. The sessions draw on the work of Ray Castellino and Myrna Martin, attachment research, pre and peri natal psychology, biodynamic craniosacral therapy, and somatic trauma resolution.

Thursday January 16, 2020 at 9 am -
Friday January 18, 2020 9am to 5pm
Redwood City, CA
Facilitated by Susan Hall with Mia Nomoto assisting.
To register, please contact: hall.health@gmail.com
Cost: sliding scale from $150 to $650. A $150 deposit is required at registration.

http://www.iahp.com/craniohealth

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Process Workshop Facilitated by Elsa Asher
Jan
3
to Jan 5

Process Workshop Facilitated by Elsa Asher

  • 2421 Fourth Street Berkeley, CA, 94710 United States (map)
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SMALL GROUP WORKSHOP DESIGNED TO HEAL EARLY TRAUMA, RESOLVE CHALLENGES DURING YOUR OWN PRENATAL OR BIRTH EXPERIENCES, DEEPEN RELATIONSHIP SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE A FIELD OF HEALTH AND SECURE ATTACHMENT

Process Workshops are based on the form and principles of Womb Surrounds developed by Ray Castellino, DC [retired], RPP, RPE, RCST® and Birthing Yourself Process Workshops led by Myrna Martin, MN, RCC, RCST®. This form creates a safe, comfortable and responsive circle for you to set an intention and bring attention, awareness and support to an aspects of your life where you feel stuck. Through this process, with the participation of the group and skilled facilitation, you will discover how to transform and repair the pattern, and then bridge this to the rest of your life. Feel more connected in primary relationships, create healthy boundaries, connect to a deep sense of purpose, experience personal empowerment, have choice in your responses rather than habitual reaction, and learn tools for navigating transition.

DATE

January 3-5

We begin at 6pm on Friday, January 3, and then at 10am on Saturday and Sunday, January 4 and 5. We end when we are finished for the day, usually by dinner time but we don’t have a fixed end time, so please don’t make any evening plans for Friday - Sunday.

RATE

Pay What You Can* on a scale of $850-$150

*I usually charge $850, but I am offering these winter workshops on a sliding scale to make this work available to people who couldn’t otherwise afford it

Please email me if you have any questions. If you haven’t worked with me before, I’ll email you an intake form for you to fill out before the workshop.

The work has brought me into deeper contact with myself through the stories alive in my body. Through our session, I gained a new relationship with my nervous system and tools for self-regulating - tracking my states of activation and rest, and using this awareness to expand my capacity for presence.
— Cedar Ranney, Oakland, California
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Birthing Yourself Process Workshop Facilitated by Susan Hall
Jan
2
to Jan 3

Birthing Yourself Process Workshop Facilitated by Susan Hall

January 2 - 3, 2020

Birthing Yourself Process Workshop facilitated by Susan Hall

USING principles of safety and a form designed to create safety in small groups, Susan will gently support 2 participants in this nurturing 2 day “womb surround” to do deep healing work and to support each other throughout the workshop. Each participant has an approximately 1.5 to 2 .5 hour session facilitated by Susan to explore and release difficult physical and emotional patterns from prenatal, birth or early origin.

EACH SESSION involves intention setting as a guide for the healing and re-patterning of early trauma and attachment imprints. Participants can then bring this healing to their current relationships and life. Not all sessions involve prenatal/birth/attachment themes. All sessions are unique and participants also do healing work originating from other periods of their life. The sessions draw on the work of Ray Castellino and Myrna Martin, attachment research, pre and peri natal psychology, biodynamic craniosacral therapy, and somatic trauma resolution.

Thursday January 2, 2020 at 9 am -
Friday January 3, 2020 9am to 5pm
Redwood City, CA
Facilitated by Susan Hall with Mia Nomoto assisting.
To register, please contact: hall.health@gmail.com
Cost: sliding scale from $150 to $650. A $150 deposit is required at registration.

http://www.iahp.com/craniohealth

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Vitality, Clarity & Connection -- Womb Surround Workshop
Dec
8
to Dec 11

Vitality, Clarity & Connection -- Womb Surround Workshop

December 8 to 11, 2019

Vitality, Clarity & Connection

A WOMB SURROUND WORKSHOP WITH EILEEN SENDREY

What happens to us when we're young is foundational to our mental emotional, physical, health and how we form relationships. An important part of healing as an adult is to receive support for challenge/disruptions in early experience. We can't change the past, but we can change how we relate to that past and how we manifest in the present. In this work we do this by gently touching into the challenge/disruption/wound, with support, skill and resource, to re-wire your brain and nervous system, thus experiencing the support and love needed. I am facilitating a 3 person 3 day workshop to do this profoundly transformative work together.

The method is based in applied attachment theory, current research of understanding the brain and nervous system, mindfulness, principles of biodynamic craniosacral therapy, prenatal and birth psychology, and somatic trauma resolution.

Thursday: Begins 5:00 pm with ending time around 9:00 pm.
Friday and Saturday: Begins 9:00 am with ending time undetermined.
Sunday: begins 9:00 am until about 3:00 to 5:00 pm

LOCATION

Morgan Hill/Gilroy, California. Address provided upon registration.

INVESTMENT

Early Bird Rate if fully paid two months before workshop start date: $650
Registration: $700
A non-refundable deposit of $150 holds your space

Please visit the website for more details https://www.eileensendrey.com/processworkshop or email eileensendrey@mac.com.

*Photo Credit: Ray Castellino

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From Early Trauma to Wholeness, a Womb Surround Workshop
Dec
5
to Dec 8

From Early Trauma to Wholeness, a Womb Surround Workshop

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From Early Trauma to Wholeness, a Womb Surround Workshop

December 5-8, 2019, in Petaluma, CA

Facilitated by Scott Engler, MA, BCST, RCST®

& Sarah Theismann, MA, SEP, CSP

Cost: $850, discounted price $800 if paid by September 15

Deposit of $200 possible with final payment due November 5.


More details and to register:

https://www.heartofstillness.com/womb-pet-dec-5-8


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From Early Trauma to Wholeness, a Womb Surround Workshop
Oct
3
to Oct 6

From Early Trauma to Wholeness, a Womb Surround Workshop

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From Early Trauma to Wholeness, a Womb Surround Workshop

October 3-6, 2019, in Petaluma, CA

Facilitated by Scott Engler, MA, BCST, RCST®

Cost: $700, discounted price $650 if paid by August 19

Deposit of $200 possible with final payment due September 3.


More details and to register:

https://www.heartofstillness.com/womb-pet-oct-3-6


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From Early Trauma to Wholeness, a Womb Surround Workshop
Jun
20
to Jun 23

From Early Trauma to Wholeness, a Womb Surround Workshop

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From Early Trauma to Wholeness, a Womb Surround Workshop

Facilitator - Scott Engler MA, BCST, RCST®

June 20-23, 2019, in Petaluma, CA


Cost: $700, early discounted price $650 if paid by May 25

Deposit of $200 possible with final payment due June 6.

https://www.heartofstillness.com/womb-petaluma-jun20-23

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May
9
to May 12

WOMB SURROUND PROCESS WORKSHOP with Sarah Theismann

Womb Surround Process Workshop with Sarah Theismann

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Date: May 9-12, 2019, Thursday: 12pm - evening, Friday - Sunday: 8:45am - evenings

Location: Berkley, CA

Limit 5 Participants

Early Bird: $700 USD (April 1, 2019)  /  Regular: $800 check only
Payment Due: 2 weeks before the workshop, non-refundable registration fee of $200


Womb Surround Workshops

Is there a pattern in your life that you want to change?

Have you been working on this pattern for a long time without making lasting changes, despite getting support from qualified practitioners?

Do you feel there is some support you need with embodying your consciousness more fully?

These are the questions I ask my clients to determine whether they are working with an early, preverbal imprint, originating from anywhere between conception and the first few years of life. Repatterning these imprints requires specific ways of working with the body and the relational / attachment systems, so a new, embodied way of being in relationship to your self, others and all of creation can be found. The most effective way I have found to heal early imprints are Womb Surround Workshops.

Developed by Dr. Ray Castellino, Womb Surrounds are held in a small group format of 4-6 participants. In this setting you will be able to experience the social nervous system of the group field in a safe, collaborative way - something many of us never got to feel in our families of origin.

You will have the opportunity to reconnect with deeper layers of your consciousness and get support for embodying them more fully in your present day self. Our early imprints, whether they are preverbal, ancestral, or collective are what can get in the way of bringing our transcendent self into this human experience. The integration of these two - embodied human self and consciousness - is what to me this work is ultimately about. I would be honored to support you in this. 


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Born to a German father and Hungarian mother, Sarah grew up in the Alps in Germany and Austria. She studied art, movement and dance in Munich. After moving to California in 2001, she began to pursue studies of healing through the body: she became a Pilates and Yogilates instructor, pursued a B.F.A. in Painting and Performance Art and attended the Tamalpa Institute (movement based expressive arts therapy) as well as holistic massage school. During this period she also obtained her Certificate as a Sexological Bodyworker from the Institute for Advanced Studies of Human Sexuality in San Francisco and studied varied approaches to intimacy coaching.

She found the focus of her work in her studies of Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing™ and Ray Castellino's Prenatal and Birth Therapy. Deepening her commitment to healing through the body, she obtained an M.A. in Clinical Psychology with a Specialization in Somatic and Pre/Perinatal Psychology.

Sarah has been studying in-depth with Ray Castellino since 2010 and sees his teachings as the true foundation of her work. She feels honored to be offering his findings and principles to her clients. To deepen her understanding of the roots of Ray's work in Dr. Randolph Stone's teachings, Sarah is currently studying Polarity Therapy with Dr. Jim Feil. Sarah lectures and teaches on the intersection of PPN Psychology and adult intimate relationships. Read more…

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Apr
18
to Apr 21

WOMB SURROUND PROCESS WORKSHOP with Sarah Theismann

Womb Surround Process Workshop with Sarah Theismann

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Date: Apr 18 - 21, 2019, Thursday: 12pm - evening, Friday - Sunday: 8:45am - evenings

Location: Boulder, CO

Limit 5 Participants

Early Bird: $775 USD (pay in full by March 1, 2019) /  Regular: $875 check only
Payment Due: 2 weeks before the workshop, non-refundable registration fee of $200


Womb Surround Workshops

Is there a pattern in your life that you want to change?

Have you been working on this pattern for a long time without making lasting changes, despite getting support from qualified practitioners?

Do you feel there is some support you need with embodying your consciousness more fully?

These are the questions I ask my clients to determine whether they are working with an early, preverbal imprint, originating from anywhere between conception and the first few years of life. Repatterning these imprints requires specific ways of working with the body and the relational / attachment systems, so a new, embodied way of being in relationship to your self, others and all of creation can be found. The most effective way I have found to heal early imprints are Womb Surround Workshops.

Developed by Dr. Ray Castellino, Womb Surrounds are held in a small group format of 4-6 participants. In this setting you will be able to experience the social nervous system of the group field in a safe, collaborative way - something many of us never got to feel in our families of origin.

You will have the opportunity to reconnect with deeper layers of your consciousness and get support for embodying them more fully in your present day self. Our early imprints, whether they are preverbal, ancestral, or collective are what can get in the way of bringing our transcendent self into this human experience. The integration of these two - embodied human self and consciousness - is what to me this work is ultimately about. I would be honored to support you in this. 


sarah_theismann.jpg

Born to a German father and Hungarian mother, Sarah grew up in the Alps in Germany and Austria. She studied art, movement and dance in Munich. After moving to California in 2001, she began to pursue studies of healing through the body: she became a Pilates and Yogilates instructor, pursued a B.F.A. in Painting and Performance Art and attended the Tamalpa Institute (movement based expressive arts therapy) as well as holistic massage school. During this period she also obtained her Certificate as a Sexological Bodyworker from the Institute for Advanced Studies of Human Sexuality in San Francisco and studied varied approaches to intimacy coaching.

She found the focus of her work in her studies of Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing™ and Ray Castellino's Prenatal and Birth Therapy. Deepening her commitment to healing through the body, she obtained an M.A. in Clinical Psychology with a Specialization in Somatic and Pre/Perinatal Psychology.

Sarah has been studying in-depth with Ray Castellino since 2010 and sees his teachings as the true foundation of her work. She feels honored to be offering his findings and principles to her clients. To deepen her understanding of the roots of Ray's work in Dr. Randolph Stone's teachings, Sarah is currently studying Polarity Therapy with Dr. Jim Feil. Sarah lectures and teaches on the intersection of PPN Psychology and adult intimate relationships. Read more…

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Grounding - Deepening Through our Layers with Renee Hella
Nov
10
to Nov 11

Grounding - Deepening Through our Layers with Renee Hella

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Two Day Workshop with Renee Hella

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November 10 - 11th, 2018

Two day experiential workshop in Lillooet, British Columbia followed by (4) 60 min Skype sessions once a week of grounding meditations and experiential exercises over the next month.


CAD $400 (non-refundable deposit $40)


Finding our roots and working through our layers to our Deeper Selves is a great way to come into better embodiment and presence.
Being more present in all of ourselves makes us more resilient and grounded in our relationships to others, whether they are our children, clients, lovers or friends.

This workshop will cover various ways to more completely come into our bodies through working with feeling our pelvic bowl, gut and the various ways that we can feel rooted. We will work with our ancestral history in order to feel more supported by what has come before us.

After our two day workshop we will come together once a week as a group for 60 min skype grounding meditations and group feedback to better integrate and deepen our presence.


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Renee Hella is a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy teacher and has been facilitating deep healing work for more than 15 years.
Renee’s work is a path of feeling her roots and grounding into her own body by continuously exploring how she can more fully embody her ‘Deeper Self’.
When supporting clients and groups she leans back into the support of the Earth and our ancient Grandmothers’.
This practice gives more depth, safety, wisdom and multi-dimensional support to the work the group does.

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Birthing Your Self Process Workshop
Oct
20
to Oct 22

Birthing Your Self Process Workshop

Facilitated by Janet Evergreen and Zakira Beasley; graduates of Myrna's PPN training and experienced facilitators.

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October 20-22, 2018  9a-6p                  Charlottesville, Virginia

Cost $500 plus $45 for lunch and snacks

 

During three full days, participants have the opportunity to heal and re-pattern early experiences and bring this healing to their current primary relationships and life. Each participant has an approximately 1.5 to 2.5 hour session to explore her/his own physical and emotional patterns from prenatal, birth or early origin.

Individual sessions are followed by a sharing of group members, integration and discussion.

To register please contact Janet Evergreen at: janet@janetevergreen.com

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Process Workshop with Renee Hella
Sep
28
to Oct 1

Process Workshop with Renee Hella

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Repatterning Workshop with Renee Hella

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Sept 28 - Oct 1st, 2018: 9am to evening each day

Location: Lillooet, British Columbia.

Limit 5 Participants

CAD $700* (non-refundable deposit $70)
*Price includes one follow-up session which can be either a craniosacral therapy session or a Pre and Perinatal session over Skype


Each participant has about a 2.5 hour session. Sessions can go longer depending on the material surfacing. The whole group stays in support of whoever is doing their work.
What comes forward in the sessions will depend on the participants intention, how safe and supported they feel in the group and what is present in the greater field dynamics of family and culture.

Because this group work supports deep shifts in the physical body as well as in our emotional, intellectual, ancestral and energetic fields it has the potential to heal the foundational roots of many difficult and long-held/hidden patterns.

Each session is followed by a sharing of all the group members own experience during the session and time for integration.


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Renee Hella is a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy teacher and has been facilitating deep healing work for more than 15 years.
Renee’s work is a path of feeling her roots and grounding into her own body by continuously exploring how she can more fully embody her ‘Deeper Self’.
When supporting clients and groups she leans back into the support of the Earth and our ancient Grandmothers’.
This practice gives more depth, safety, wisdom and multi-dimensional support to the work the group does.

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Whole Person Somatic Movement & Therapy Program
Sep
13
to Jun 17

Whole Person Somatic Movement & Therapy Program

 
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 The 220-hour program in AUSTIN, TEXAS consists of six 5-day modules over the course of two years, with additional hours of practice, observation, and self-reflection. Topics addressed in the program will be:

  • The role of the senses and perceptual processing in development, attachment, and bonding

  • The Basic Neurological Patterns: automatically developing motor patterns that form the vocabulary of normal movement and influence brain development

  • Reflexes, righting reactions, and equilibrium responses

  • Attachment theory and practice

  • The role of neurobiology in development

  • Embryology

  • The importance of eliciting delight in the process of parenting, caregiving, and therapy.

    • UNIT ONE BEGINS SEPTEMBER 13 - 17, 2018

Co-directed by Margery Segal and Mark Taylor
802-324-1731
explore@wholemovementcenter.com

The Whole Person Somatic Movement Program trains psychologists and therapists, yoga & movement professionals, and body workers to incorporate developmental movement principles into their work.

Personal embodiment—both body awareness and the capacity for kindness, appreciation, and wonder at one’s own body wisdom—is a primary tool to support transformation on physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levelsThe program is based on the knowledge that human development occurs first through the language of movement and touch and relationship, and provides educators, therapists, and creators with a psychophysical model both for supporting motor development and repatterning behavior. It includes instruction in movement facilitation, touch skills, creative expression, and psychodynamic facilitation.

Find out who is attending/or who is interested on the Facebook Event Page

View the Full Schedule at: Whole Movement Center

EMAIL MARGERY WITH QUESTIONS or REGISTER: margerysegal@gmail.com

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Exploring Cord Dynamics with Renee Hella
Sep
7
to Sep 10

Exploring Cord Dynamics with Renee Hella

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Four Day Workshop with Renee Hella

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September 7 - 10th, 2018

A four-day somatic exploration, following the model of the Pre and Perinatal Psychology trainings, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and Qi Gong in Lillooet, British Columbia.

In this workshop we will dive into an exploration of cord dynamics. Cord dynamics originate from when we were growing our bodies in the womb via our umbilical cord.

CAD $700* (non-refundable deposit $70)
*Price includes one follow-up session which can be either a craniosacral therapy session or a Pre and Perinatal session over Skype

As we grew our body our nourishment came to us through our umbilical cord. Many of our dynamics around digestion, receiving, and boundaries come from this original place.

The spiraling nature of these dynamics also show up in how we birth ourselves and our projects, and how we deepen into the layers of ourselves. We will do some work with labyrinths to assist the felt sense of this deepening.

We will also explore our bellies with a Qi Gong form that unwinds our guts and deepens our experience of our naval and the felt sense of the phantom umbilical cord that still connects us to our mother earth and our roots through our gut connection and our microbiome.

This workshop is open to individuals who are interested in working with their ‘umbilical affect’. We will be somatically exploring our very early experiences, from an evolutionary perspective as well as from a personal perspective i.e. our time growing in the womb. This can bring up challenging experiences so participants need to have a certain level of grounding and ability to hold their witness-self. Participants need to fill out an application and do a Skype interview to apply.


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Renee Hella is a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy teacher and has been facilitating deep healing work for more than 15 years.
Renee’s work is a path of feeling her roots and grounding into her own body by continuously exploring how she can more fully embody her ‘Deeper Self’.
When supporting clients and groups she leans back into the support of the Earth and our ancient Grandmothers’.
This practice gives more depth, safety, wisdom and multi-dimensional support to the work the group does.

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European Continuum Practitioner Program in the Swiss Alps
Aug
7
to Aug 21

European Continuum Practitioner Program in the Swiss Alps

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Schweibenalp is a powerful place and one of the most beautiful retreat centres in Europe: An ancient Celtic druid site, above the world on 1100 m heights, overlooking the majestic mountain-chain and the turquoise Lake of Brienz, it simply feels rapturous to be there. Walking to the nearby waterfalls and meditating at the ritual fireplace supports the process. In the summer we can also swim in the lake and practice Continuum in the surrounding nature.

Megan and Volker are both Continuum Teachers and Continuum Practitioners, mentored
by Emilie Conrad, founder of Continuum. They both completed the Continuum Practitioners Program in 2010. They were taught and mentored by Emilie Conrad and Robert Litman.

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Twin Dynamics and Co-Resonance with Renee Hella
Jul
20
to Jul 23

Twin Dynamics and Co-Resonance with Renee Hella

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Four Day Somatic Exploration with Renee Hella

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July 20 - 23rd, 2018

A four-day somatic exploration in Lillooet, British Columbia.

Exploring and working with twin dynamics is a powerful way to learn how to work with our potent ability to resonate with each other. This dynamic shows up in so many ways including our shadow-side as well as in our gut-brain-microbiome interactions. We will be exploring how and if our concepts of boundaries are changing with our new understanding of ourselves as symbiotic beings.

CAD $700* (non-refundable deposit $70)
*Price includes one follow-up session which can be either a craniosacral therapy session or a Pre and Perinatal session over Skype

This is a largely experiential workshop and we will take time to integrate and process the material that arises from our experiences.

This is a very sensitive dynamic so care will be taken with accepting participants. Participants need to have a certain level of grounding and ability to be with difficult feelings.They need to be able to maintain a certain level of witness-self.

Participants will need to fill in an application form and do an interview either in person or via Skype to be approved to join the workshop.

Spaces are limited


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Renee Hella is a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy teacher and has been facilitating deep healing work for more than 15 years.
Renee’s work is a path of feeling her roots and grounding into her own body by continuously exploring how she can more fully embody her ‘Deeper Self’.
When supporting clients and groups she leans back into the support of the Earth and our ancient Grandmothers’.
This practice gives more depth, safety, wisdom and multi-dimensional support to the work the group does.

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