Brief Description of Event: Residential Birth Process Workshop
Divine Structure School, Charlemont, MA

Facilitator: Livia Ondi, LMFT
Assistants: Vileena Purpuri, RCST & Dr Kate Klemer

We invite you to join our sacred circle where you can reconnect with your essence and heal impacts of unresolved transgenerational, pre- and perinatal, birth, and early attachment dynamics. We utilize somatic healing practices to slow down and listen to the tides and forces that shaped our body, sense of self, and the templet of being in relationship. In our circle of secure connection, it becomes possible to experience living and relating from our blueprint and health.

June 12-16, 2025 (7 participants)
Price: $950 (Early Bird: $800 before March 1st) 25% Discount available for Black and Indigenous People Lodging on site: $50/night

To register, please email livia.ondi.lmft@gmail.com

A 4-day in-person womb surround workshop.

Begins: Thursday afternoon 1:00pm, then daily from 9:00am through about 7pm or whatever time we are done each day. Days 2 and 3 will be the longest, and the last day we end between 3 and 5. Please don’t schedule anything else for your evenings.
Note: Please book your own room & board in the area - this event is not residential.

Follow-up Integration sessions included: Your payment includes two 1-1/2 hr follow-up meetings on Zoom the first and third week following the retreat to add support for integrating your time here.

Facilitator: Scott Engler, MA, RCST®

(Approved by Castellino Foundation Training)

Held In-person at Scott’s home in Cotati

5 participants & 1 assistant

Payment: Full price $825, or deposit $200 to hold your space and pay remaining $625 by January 7. Full price only after January 7.

A 4-day in-person womb surround workshop.

Begins: Thursday afternoon 1:00pm, then daily from 9:00am through about 7pm or whatever time we are done each day. Days 2 and 3 will be the longest, and the last day we end between 3 and 5. Please don’t schedule anything else for your evenings.
Note: Please book your own room & board in the area - this event is not residential.

Follow-up Integration sessions included: Your payment includes two 1-1/2 hr follow-up meetings on Zoom the first and third week following the retreat to add support for integrating your time here.

Facilitator: Scott Engler, MA, RCST®

(Approved by Castellino Foundation Training)

Oct 31 - Nov 3 in Petaluma, CA, at Scott’s home

5 participants & 1 assistant

Payment: Full price $775, or deposit $200 to hold your space and pay remaining $575 by October 1, full price only after October 1.

5 days for 4 participants

Event Dates and Times: Dates: Oct 3 – 7, 2024
Cost: CAD $900 (non-refundable deposit $100)
Times: 9:30am – 5:30pm (completion time varies)
Location: Lillooet, BC (St’at’mic territory)

Facilitator: Renee Hella

These deeply land-based somatic re-patterning workshops are also called Process Workshops or Womb Surrounds. This format of workshop was originally developed by Ray Castillino. I did my training with Myrna Martin and also spent time with Ray Castillino. The land-based format of these workshops is based on Indigenous Tools For Living developed by Shirley Turcotte.

The first day we will go to a glacial creek and smudge to prepare for the workshop. On the last day we will do a sweat and have a meal of locally caught wild salmon to complete the circle. This will be facilitated by Wesley Joseph from Xaxli’p Band.

Please note: Since spaces are limited please fill out the application form and get confirmation before making payment. If I haven’t already met and worked with you, I will contact you for an online interview. Upon confirmation we will also ask you to fill out a Birth History and Intention form.

A 4-day in-person womb surround workshop.

Begins: Thursday afternoon 1:00pm, then daily from 9:00am through about 7pm or whatever time we are done each day. Days 2 and 3 will be the longest, and the last day we end between 3 and 5. Please don’t schedule anything else for your evenings.
Note: Please book your own room & board in the area - this event is not residential.

Follow-up Integration sessions included: Your payment includes two 1-1/2 hr follow-up meetings on Zoom the first and third week following the retreat to add support for integrating your time here.

Facilitator: Scott Engler, MA, RCST®

(Approved by Castellino Foundation Training)

Sep 19-22 in Petaluma, CA, at Scott’s home

5 participants & 1 assistant

Payment: Full price $775, or deposit $200 to hold your space and pay remaining $575 August 19, full price only after August 19

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.

Faciltated by Sarah Theismann https://www.somatictraumahealing.com/

There is still space in our Womb Surround Workshop in Oakland in August!

Womb Surrounds are all about embodying our deeper self in our life, our relationships, our profession - everywhere. The way we embody our self is impacted by our earliest time: conception, pregnancy, birth and the period after birth. Womb Surrounds were created by Dr. Ray Castellino and offer a spacious container to find new ways of being in connection.

When: August 29 - September 1, 9:30am - approx. 7pm

Where: Oakland, CA

What: 4 person, 4 day workshop

Cost: $1000

If you want to find out if this or another Womb Surround might be for you, send me an email.

Email sarah@somatictraumahealing.com to register

Faciltated by Sarah Theismann https://www.somatictraumahealing.com/

Our Birth Sequencing imprints impact how we move through our life, our relationships, our decision making processes, how we follow our dreams, how we embody ourself in our professional life - really anything we do from birth to death.

This lab gives you the opportunity to explore your sequencing imprints in a

5-week class series. The class is based on Ray Castellino’s teachings on birth sequencing, a brilliant body of work.

5 meetings, 90min each

Cost: Early Bird: $250 ($50 per meeting) / Regular: $300 ($60 per meeting)

Dates: August 6, 13, 20, 27, September 3

Start time: 9am PT / 12pm ET / 6pm CET

Early Bird ends July 26!

Spots are limited to insure enough support for every person.

You will also receive a free 30min support call with me during the course.

Email sarah@somatictraumahealing.com to register

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.

A 4-day in-person womb surround workshop.

4 Days starting Friday afternoon 1:00pm, then daily from 9am through about 7pm or whatever time we are done each day. Days 2 and 3 will be the longest, and the last day Monday we end between 3 and 5. Please don’t schedule anything else for your evenings.

Note: Please book your own room & board in the area - this event is not residential.

Follow-up Integration sessions included: Your payment includes two 1-1/2 hr follow-up meetings on Zoom the first and third week following the retreat to add support for integrating your time here.

Facilitator: Scott Engler, MA, RCST®

(Approved by Castellino Foundation Training)

May 24-27 in Petaluma, CA, at Scott’s home

5 participants & 1 assistant

Payment: Full price $775, or deposit $200 to hold your space and pay remaining $575 April 24, full price only after April 24.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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