Pre- & Perinatal Somatic Process Workshops
The degree of connection between mother and child (and father too) during pregnancy as well as bonding and attachment after birth makes a substantial difference in the life of the entire family. Research shows experiences prenatal and around birth have deep, lasting effects and pattern our lives in many ways. Many life issues – physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, developmental, and parent-infant bonding – may be linked to prenatal and birth experiences. A Pre- & Perinatal Process Workshop is an intensive, personal approach that works to repattern trauma and to support deep healing in the somatic and interpersonal realms. These workshops develop ways to promote healthy births, and protocol for therapeutic interventions and healing around trauma.
Process Workshops
- Seattle, Washington – January 21-24, 2010
- Haines, Alaska – May 4-7, 2010
- Cortes Island – July 25-28, 2010
A total of four Process Workshops must be taken for a Certificate of Completion of the Somatic Training in Pre- & Perinatal Psychology & Therapy.
Sensory Awareness Workshops
We are naturally born as vital, fully sensory beings. Traumas, tensions, even some education can diminish our vitality, creating unrest and insecurity in our lives. Sensory Awareness – the practice of deeply exploring our sensations, our actions and interactions, through practical sensing experiments – can guide us back to our natural resources and lead us to more authenticity and vitality. Through Sensory Awareness we can recover ways of living more fully in the world, rediscovering the wisdom and interconnection of our whole selves and reclaiming our natural being.
Upcoming Workshops
- Seattle, Washington – April 10-11, 2010
- Haines, Alaska – May 8-14, 2010
- Cortes Island, B.C., Canada – July 11-24, 2010 (a two-week workshop. taking one week is possible)
T’ai Chi Ch’uan Weekend Workshops
Seattle, Washington
- Weekend Workshop — March 13-14, 2010
Cortes Island, B.C., Canada
- Beginning T’ai Chi Ch’uan – August 6-11, 2010
- Continuing T’ai Chi Ch’uan – August 11-18, 2010
Pre- & Perinatal Somatic Process Workshop, January 21-24, 2010 — Seattle, Washington
The field of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Therapy has grown from research showing that babies within the womb, during birth, and post natally feel, have consciousness and memories, and react specifically to their experiences. These experiences affect greatly not only early childhood and development, but continue all the way through our lives into adulthood. Evidence confirms that many health issues – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual — are linked to prenatal and birth experiences and parent-infant bonding. Patterns for ones ability to deal with stress and trauma are also laid down in these early times. They inform us and follow us throughout our lives. These early responses that go so deep are developed before we are pre-verbal. If they are traumatic much of the work to resolve such trauma must engage on the pre-verbal level. Process workshops are excellent ways to work with such issues.
Dr Raymond Castellino, DC has developed these birth process workshops for adults out of his work with babies, infants and families. The nature of working in small groups enables us to transform material that inhibits the fulfillment of our potential — our birthright. Working somatically within this process workshop setting can have deep, profound and often comparatively quick resolution to issues that have seemed to resist other therapeutic attempts.
The workshop setting offers the opportunity to uncover, explore and support healing, with understanding and compassion, our own prenatal and birth imprinting. By connecting to this early layer of physical and emotional experience, within a safe, sustaining environment, there is the potential to repattern our bonding and attachment, clarify, ease, and transform early trauma and current unsupportive reactions. In small group settings (no more than seven participants over three days or two days with four or five participants), each participant is supported in his/her exploration of whatever issue they choose – somatic, early life trauma, pre- or perinatal issues, relationship, etc. This in turn can offer us more choice around how we respond to our relationships and open us to deeper, more loving experiences.
This workshop is experiential in nature and is not offered as training. It provides an opportunity for participants to deepen their level of awareness of prenatal and birth process.
Each participant is required to be in attendance for the entire workshop as s/he is an important part of the surround. The initial phase of the workshop is about developing a safe and nurturing environment, then each participant has the opportunity to work on their chosen issue as the remaining members provide support with and under the direction of the leader. Upon application for this workshop participant will be sent a questionnaire. Answering the questions will begin the personal preparation for the workshop.
January 21-24, 2010
Seattle, Washington
Registration for this workshop will be confirmed after questionnaire is filled and returned to leader.
Tuition: $600 US
Register with Judyth: 415-548-0365 or: judyth@judythweaver.com
PLEASE REGISTER EARLY, these workshops are limited and fill up quickly
NOTE: Pre- and Perinatal Process workshops by Judyth are approved for 23.5 units of CEU’s by the American College of Nurse-Midwives.
Learn more about Pre- and Perinatal Therapy
Sensory Awareness Workshop — Nature and our Nature — Haines, Alaska May 8-14, 2010
We are naturally born as vital, fully sensory beings. Traumas, tensions, even some education can diminish our vitality, creating unrest and insecurity in our lives. Sensory Awareness – the practice of deeply exploring our sensations, our actions and interactions, through practical sensing experiments – can guide us back to our natural resources and lead us to more authenticity and vitality. Through Sensory Awareness we can recover ways of living more fully in the world, rediscovering the wisdom and interconnection of our whole selves and reclaiming our natural being.
In this workshop, participants will explore their sensations and responses internally and externally, in relationship with others, with nature and with our human nature. These explorations can bring a trust and security that may assist us in finding the ability and pleasure of responding more sensitively and authentically in our lives. As we find our natural vitality we can relate more fully with others, find peace and satisfaction in our selves, and the ability to extend it further into the world.
Register with: Judyth Weaver: judyth@judythweaver.com or at www.judythweaver.com
or with Marian Clara Cunningham: 360-483-6192 claratara@gmail.com
Pre- & Perinatal Somatic Process Workshop May 4-7, 2010, Haines, Alaska
The field of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Therapy has grown from research showing that babies within the womb, during birth, and post natally feel, have consciousness and memories, and react specifically to their experiences. These experiences affect greatly not only early childhood and development, but continue all the way through our lives into adulthood. Evidence confirms that many health issues – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual — are linked to prenatal and birth experiences and parent-infant bonding. Patterns for ones ability to deal with stress and trauma are also laid down in these early times. They inform us and follow us throughout our lives. These early responses that go so deep are developed before we are pre-verbal. If they are traumatic much of the work to resolve such trauma must engage on the pre-verbal level. Process workshops are excellent ways to work with such issues.
Dr Raymond Castellino, DC has developed these birth process workshops for adults out of his work with babies, infants and families. The nature of working in small groups enables us to transform material that inhibits the fulfillment of our potential — our birthright. Working somatically within this process workshop setting can have deep, profound and often comparatively quick resolution to issues that have seemed to resist other therapeutic attempts.
The workshop setting offers the opportunity to uncover, explore and support healing, with understanding and compassion, our own prenatal and birth imprinting. By connecting to this early layer of physical and emotional experience, within a safe, sustaining environment, there is the potential to repattern our bonding and attachment, clarify, ease, and transform early trauma and current unsupportive reactions. In small group settings (no more than seven participants over three days or two days with four or five participants), each participant is supported in his/her exploration of whatever issue they choose – somatic, early life trauma, pre or perinatal issues, relationship, etc. This in turn can offer us more choice around how we respond to our relationships and open us to deeper, more loving experiences.
This workshop is experiential in nature and is not offered as training. It provides an opportunity for participants to deepen their level of awareness of prenatal and birth process.
Each participant is required to be in attendance for the entire workshop as s/he is an important part of the surround. The initial phase of the workshop is about developing a safe and nurturing environment, then each participant has the opportunity to work on their chosen issue as the remaining members provide support with and under the direction of the leader. Upon application for this workshop participant will be sent a questionnaire. Answering the questions will begin the personal preparation for the workshop.
Register with Judyth: 415-548-0365 or: judyth@judythweaver.com. Or with Marian Cunningham: 907-767-5653/360-483-6192cell Or: claratara@gmail.com
PLEASE REGISTER EARLY, these workshops are limited and fill up quickly
NOTE: Pre- and Perinatal Process workshops by Judyth are approved for 23.5 units of CEU’s by the American College of Nurse-Midwives. Learn more about Pre- and Perinatal Therapy.
Pre- & Perinatal Somatic Process Workshop, July 25-28, 2010 — Cortes Island, B.C.
The field of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Therapy has grown from research showing that babies within the womb, during birth, and post natally feel, have consciousness and memories, and react specifically to their experiences. These experiences affect greatly not only early childhood and development, but continue all the way through our lives into adulthood. Evidence confirms that many health issues – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual — are linked to prenatal and birth experiences and parent-infant bonding. Patterns for ones ability to deal with stress and trauma are also laid down in these early times. They inform us and follow us throughout our lives. These early responses that go so deep are developed before we are pre-verbal. If they are traumatic much of the work to resolve such trauma must engage on the pre-verbal level. Process workshops are excellent ways to work with such issues.
Dr Raymond Castellino, DC has developed these birth process workshops for adults out of his work with babies, infants and families. The nature of working in small groups enables us to transform material that inhibits the fulfillment of our potential — our birthright. Working somatically within this process workshop setting can have deep, profound and often comparatively quick resolution to issues that have seemed to resist other therapeutic attempts.
The workshop setting offers the opportunity to uncover, explore and support healing, with understanding and compassion, our own prenatal and birth imprinting. By connecting to this early layer of physical and emotional experience, within a safe, sustaining environment, there is the potential to repattern our bonding and attachment, clarify, ease, and transform early trauma and current unsupportive reactions. In small group settings (no more than seven participants over three days or two days with four or five participants), each participant is supported in his/her exploration of whatever issue they choose – somatic, early life trauma, pre or perinatal issues, relationship, etc. This in turn can offer us more choice around how we respond to our relationships and open us to deeper, more loving experiences.
This workshop is experiential in nature and is not offered as training. It provides an opportunity for participants to deepen their level of awareness of prenatal and birth process.
Each participant is required to be in attendance for the entire workshop as s/he is an important part of the surround. The initial phase of the workshop is about developing a safe and nurturing environment, then each participant has the opportunity to work on their chosen issue as the remaining members provide support with and under the direction of the leader. Upon application for this workshop participant will be sent a questionnaire. Answering the questions will begin the personal preparation for the workshop.
Registration for this workshop will be confirmed after questionnaire is filled and returned to leader.
Register with Judyth: 415-548-0365; June, July & August: 250-935-8500 or: judyth@judythweaver.com
Tuition: $600 US
PLEASE REGISTER EARLY, these workshops are limited and fill up quickly
NOTE: Pre- and Perinatal Process workshops by Judyth are approved for 23.5 units of CEU’s by the American College of Nurse-Midwives. Learn more about Pre- and Perinatal Therapy
Sensory Awareness on Cortes Island, B.C., Canada – Nature and our Nature
from July 11-24, 2010
Tuition: $550 US. per week. If registration by June 1st. After June 1st tuition is $600 US. per week. Deposit $200 US.
If you are attending both weeks tuition will be $1100. US.
Meals and accommodations extra.
(There are camping/lodging possibilities on Judyth’s property as well as B&B’s in the neighborhood and a motel. Please tell Judyth when registering what you would like.)
Register with: Judyth Weaver – 415-548-0365 or judyth@judythweaver.com.
After June 15th – 250-935-8500.
T’ai Chi Ch’uan Weekend Workshop — Seattle, Washington
March 13 & 14, 2010
This workshop is for anyone who practices at least the first section of Professor Cheng Man-Ch’ing’s short yang form. A mid-winter chance to brush up on your form, renew your knowledge and strengthen your practice. There will be morning and afternoon sessions and a chance to watch videos of some great masters in the evening.
Tuition: $250.00 US/Can equivalent Please register by February 27th: judyth@judythweaver.com
Sensory Awareness Workshop — Becoming More Whole — April 10 & 11, 2010
April 10 & 11, 2010 – Seattle, Washington
In this weekend non-residential workshop participants will explore and investigate their natural resources and impulses…what makes us whole and human. We are naturally born as vital, fully sensory beings. Traumas, tensions, even some education can diminish our vitality, creating unrest and insecurity in our lives. Sensory Awareness, the practice of deeply exploring our sensations, our actions and interactions, can guide us back to our natural resources and lead us to more authenticity and vitality. Participants will explore their sensations and responses internally and in relationship with others. These explorations can bring a trust of ourselves that may assist us in finding the ability and pleasure of responding more sensitively and authentically. As we find our natural vitality we can relate more fully with others, find peace and satisfaction in our lives and the ability to extend it further into the world.
Saturday & Sunday – 10-12 & 2-4
Tuition: $200 US
Register with Judyth: judyth@judythweaver.com or cell phone: 415-548-0365
The Miracle of Birth – Uniting Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science
Read more about the congress here. 
Download the PDF: The Miracle of Birth.
Teaching Adults How to Understand Babies
At “The Miracle of Birth Congress.”
Thursday, April 23, 2009 — 9:30AM-4:30PM
Judyth Weaver
This experiential workshop will teach simple exercises that can be used to assist adults to learn more about the child’s experiences-from the inside out-somatically as well as emotionally and intellectually. The more fully teachers, therapists, medical professionals, parents and other adults understand the situation of the child, the more sensitive and connected they can be to those children. They can communicate more intuitively and coherently with children. Playing roles of baby and adult in turn will give participants understandings and skills that can support health and communication during pregnancy, can set the temperament for the passage of birth, promote empathy, build healthier connections and bonding with the newborn, and develop sensitive interactions that support relationships into childhood and beyond. These exercises can be used to teach adults to become more attuned to children, help children of all ages to repair and resolve traumatic experiences, and help adults understand their own past traumas and how to repair and resolve them.
Take a one-day experiential workshop with Judyth on how to teach adults to understand babies!
Download the PDF: Teaching Adults How to Understand Babies
Sensory Awareness on Cortes Island, B.C., Canada – Nature and our Nature, July 11-24, 2010
See below: video of Sensory Awareness Workshop on Cortes Island 2006.
The practice of deeply exploring our sensations, our actions and interactions, can guide us back to our natural resources and lead us to more authenticity and vitality. In this workshop, participants will explore their sensations and responses internally and externally, in relationship with others, with nature and with our human nature. These explorations can bring a trust and security that may assist us in finding the ability and pleasure of responding more sensitively and authentically in our lives. As we find our natural vitality we can relate more fully with others, find peace and satisfaction in our selves, and the ability to extend it further into the world. Time to rest, swim, play, and enjoy beautiful Cortes Island will be an integral part of this workshop.
from July 11-24, 2010
Tuition: $550 US. per week. If registration by June 1st. After June 1st tuition is $600 US. per week. Deposit $200 US.
If you are attending both weeks tuition will be $1100. US.
Meals and accommodations extra.
(There are camping/lodging possibilities on Judyth’s property as well as B&B’s in the neighborhood and a motel. Please tell Judyth when registering what you would like.)
Register with: Judyth Weaver – 415-548-0365 or judyth@judythweaver.com.
After June 15th – 250-935-8500.
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Training Courses
Somatic Study Group in Pre & Perinatal Psychology & Therapy
T’ai Chi Ch’uan Workshops on Cortes Island, B.C., Canada
T’ai Chi Ch’uan – An Exercise for Life — Beginning Workshop
August 6-11, 2010
T’ai Chi Ch’uan has been known for generations as an exercise for longevity and relaxation and is now amazing contemporary researchers with results of enhanced immune systems, better balance, more flexibility and strength. This exercise, suitable for all ages and body types, is a moving meditation that centres and calms our minds as well as being a form of healing, of self-defense, and physical re-education.
Learn the first section of Grandmaster Cheng Man-Ch’ing’s short Yang form. Come to understand the dynamics of gravity, energy, allowing yourself to be supported and moving with relaxation and grace. Morning practice begins with meditation, Qi Gong and T’ai Chi practice before breakfast. Daily sessions include thorough explanations of philosophy and examples of how T’ai Chi enhances our health, coordination, and stress reduction. No previous experience needed.
Judyth’s careful approach presents T’ai Chi as an integral way of life and as an essential exercise available to anyone. Judyth rarely offers a beginning workshop independently. Join her this year on her deck overlooking a magnificent view of water & mountains to learn, relearn, or just deepen your practice with beginner’s mind.
Tuition $500 US/Canadian equivalent. $200 US deposit to reserve space in workshop.
Meals and accommodations extra. There are tenting possibilities on Judyth’s property and/or bunking spaces in sleeping lofts of the studio.
Please register directly with Judyth Weaver: (415) 548-0365/ June, July & August: 250-935-8500 or through this website.
T’ai Chi Ch’uan – An Exercise for Life / A Way of Life — Continuing the form
August 11-18. 2010
This workshop reviews the first section and teaches the complete short Yang form of T’ai Chi Ch’uan as taught by Grandmaster Cheng Man-Ch’ing. It is open to participants of Judyth’s earlier T’ai Chi workshop (Aug 6-11) and to others who practice at least the first section of this form.
This is a good chance to brush up lapsed practices, deepen your understandings and meet and share playing T’ai Chi Ch’uan with others. Applications of the form and sensing hands (tui shou) will be introduced.
Please register for Continuing T’ai Chi Ch’uan directly with Judyth Weaver: (415) 548-0365/ June, July & August: 250-935-8500 or through this website.
Tuition: $600.US/Can equivalent. $200 deposit to reserve space in workshop.
Meals and accommodations extra. There are tenting possibilities on Judyth’s property and/or bunking spaces in sleeping lofts of the studio.
T’ai Chi Sword Form
A number of classes for sword form will be held for those students who are interested. there will be an additional fee for these. Please state upon registration if you are interested.
Judyth O. Weaver received authorization to teach T’ai Chi Ch’uan from Grandmaster Cheng Man-Ch’ing’s Shr Jung Center for Culture and the Arts in 1971, and has been teaching regularly since then. She has taught throughout the world, always focusing on the authenticity, purity and simplicity of this short Yang form in order to promote self-help, relaxation, and coordination of body, mind and spirit. Judyth created the T’ai Chi Ch’uan program at Naropa Institute (now Naropa University) in Boulder, Colorado in 1974, and headed that program for three years. She also gives classes, workshops, and private lessons in California and Seattle, Washington as well as on Cortes Island when she is there.
View from Judyth’s property on Cortes Island