About Judyth
Overview
Judyth O. Weaver is a multifaceted teacher and counselor, incorporating extensive training in diverse areas. She holds a Ph.D. in Reichian Psychology. She is the Creator and Founding Chair of the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute Ph.D. Program in Somatic Psychology and teaches there and in the Somatics Masters Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (San Francisco, CA) and throughout the world.
She is certified in Reichian Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, massage, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Pre- and Perinatal Therapy and as a teacher of T’ai Chi Ch’uan, Rosen Method and Sensory Awareness.
A former modern dancer, she lived in Japan 1965-1968, studying classical dance (Kabuki and Noh), tea ceremony, and other aspects of Japanese culture. She lived and studied in Shofukuji, a traditional Rinzai Buddhist monastery, under Yamada Mumon Roshi. Since 1969 she has taught and led workshops at Esalen Institute in California, Hollyhock Farm in Canada, and other centers, as well as in Russia, Japan, Taiwan, and India.
Her life-long studies have been in dance, body/mind/spirit integrative practices, Buddhist practice and Taoism. Judyth lives in Mill Valley, California, and has a grown daughter and son and two grandaughters.
She maintains a private practice in Somatic Reclaiming, her development of body/mind/spiritual integration.
SOMATIC PSYCHOLOGY
Judyth has been professor of Somatic Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies and in the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute’s Somatic Psychology program (the first in the world to offer a Ph.D. in Somatic Psychology and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Somatics).
SENSORY AWARENESS
A student of Sensory Awareness since 1968, she is authorized by Charlotte Selver to offer this work and leads workshops in Sensory Awareness throughout the world.
Sensory awareness workshop video
SOMATIC EXPERIENCING
Judyth is certified as a practitioner of this innovative approach, developed by Peter A. Levine, Ph.D., for working with shock and trauma affect.
T’AI CHI CH’UAN
Judyth has studied T’ai Chi Ch’uan since 1968 and in 1971 received permission to teach from Grandmaster Cheng Man-Ch’ing’s Shr Jung School for Culture and the Arts. She created the T’ai Chi program at the Naropa Institute (now Naropa University) in Boulder CO. She is senior student in this country of Pang Jeng (Ben) Lo. She teaches Cheng Man-Ch’ing’s Yang style short form in diverse locations and offers regular t’ai chi retreats in California, in Mexico and on Cortes Island in British Columbia, Canada.
PRE- AND PERINATAL THERAPY
Judyth is certified by Ray Castellino to conduct pre- and perinatal process workshops, and she offers them in various locations. She works individually with infants and their families, and individually and in groups with adults to help repair issues around birth trauma and related situations. She will be offering a two-year training course in this work in Mill Valley, California, starting October of 2007.
BIODYNAMIC CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY
Judyth is a student of the fluid tide method of biodynamic craniosacral therapy, having completed an American training with Franklyn Sills.
REICHIAN THERAPY
Judyth began studies in this work with Phil Curcuruto in 1974. Certified in Reichian Therapy through International College, she subsquently studied with Al Bauman and, since 1985, with Dr. Eva Reich.
SOMATIC RECLAIMING
Judyth has developed her own method of body/mind/spiritual integrative therapy which she calls Somatic Reclaiming.
