What's New at the Center

Developmental healing, for developmental wounds
This series of online lectures delivers a detailed map of seven universal stages of psycho-emotional development. This map enables us to decipher human suffering as our attempt to complete key developmental steps that were arrested in our formative years, from conception to 25 years. 

This map of the seven rites of passage (seven stages of core psycho-emotional development) is a lens of compassion, redefining our dysfunctional behaviours and ‘disorders’ as memory: archival footage of experienced shock, overwhelming loss, violations, denials of our developmental needs.

Other offerings we're working on...

New Course coming this fall with Nir Esterman: Shadow Constellations for Prenatal and Perinatal Professionals - An Embodied In-Depth Shadow Integration
This training is for therapists, teachers, coaches, facilitators and practitioners from all fields, who wish to expand their understanding on the Jungian Shadow in the professional settings, to receive tools for personal and professional Shadow work and to undergo and personal & professional process of integrating with Shadow self-parts which are especially important for professional helpers. More information and to register in the Online School.
A NEW Offering by the Fantastic Carey Benenson Taussig, DO - starting in September
In this course, Carey will teach her 7-step protocol on how to approach Long COVID and other long haul syndromes with links to allergies, hormonal dysfunction, and even autoimmune tendencies. This course will be excellent for manual therapists, energetic workers and trauma therapists.​ This is a cutting-edge course and integrates work from both the cranial, visceral, massage, and field of trauma providing a 7-step protocol of care.
Where do we come from? What has the embryo to teach us our being mind AND body, spirit AND matter? 
Join the renowned Jaap Van Der Wal in a two-day summary webinar and exploring the possible impact these phases and events have for our psychological existence, on our mind.

Welcome to the Center

The Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs provides a place for parents, the public and professionals to get information, classes, therapy, and products that support health from preconception, pregnancy, birth and the first 18 months of life.  Practice and pedagogy weave together bodywork, trauma healing, neuroscience, epigenetics, attachment, and more.

We welcome you to the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs, whether you are here for more specific information, to sign up for a class or workshop, or just to explore the readings, videos and other offerings you will find here.

​Special Feature: 10 Things to Know About Babies
We're putting together this fun Public Service messaging campaign - keep watching for all 10 things and finally what you can do about it!
Working with Adults who have Earliest Wounds: A PPN Somatic Perspective

Course starts May 3 
In-Person Early Embryology Qigong workshop with Bob Lehnberg

June 24 & 25 3033
Our earliest layers of experience form the roots of health on every level: body, mind and spirit. These earliest experiences include preconception, conception, the prenatal period, birth and after birth. Many practitioners of all kinds now seek to know more about how to work with earliest trauma in adults, especially with the increased awareness of developmental or complex trauma, and in the impact of the Adverse Childhood Experiences study.
This class covers some basic principles and forms of qigong and how we may be in-formed through accessing embryological foundations. Opening the body and experiencing simplicity allows us to resolve to the present. This integrated class provides a frame and context for applying some essential aspects of embryology to qigong.
No prerequisite of embryology or qigong is needed to attend this in-person retreat.
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Often called early developmental trauma, recognition, reaching and healing ruptures or interruptions in development from this early time are increasingly seen as the cracks in the foundation of human health. Current healing science now includes overwhelming childhood experiences and ancestral patterns; the prenatal and perinatal period is the missing piece.

Once the patterns from earliest trauma are recognized, they cannot be unseen. Our challenge is to give the tools of recognition to practitioners of all kinds while laying the groundwork for prevention, which is doable in our world today.

We have invited five practicioners who work in the field of prenatal and perinatal somatics to help share with you tools, skils and their approach to helping with adults with earliest wounds.

May 3: Kate White - Heal the Roots so the Tree can Thrive: Working with Adults who have Earliest Trauma
May 10: Alison Greene-Barton - Welcoming Who You Are from Spirit Form into Physical Form
May 17: Anna Chitty - The Transformative Power of Presence
May 24: Eileen Sendrey - Touching the Earth: Mind-Body Connection as a Foundation for Somatic Practitioner Skills
May 31: Kristin Sipley - Shifting Perspectives: Shining a Light on the Threads of Health
June 7: Panel Discussion
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Qigong (chi gung) is a way of bringing forth our natural vitality.  Qi (chi) is the energy that moves through all life.  Gung implies cultivation, practice and developing relationship with this vitality. Just as we may cultivate a garden or practice a musical instrument, so we may practice qigong to nurture the life force within ourselves.

Embryology is the study of the first 8 weeks of our intrauterine life; it is a process of development. Space existed before we came to be. Space informs us and we inform space. Through time, particular embryological structures arise and fade away. We hold the memory of these early phases of our existence and can re-member the range of foundational vibrational and cellular states. Today, our cells hold the experience and embodiment of each moment of embryological development and how we choose to embody space. Underneath emotion and thought is the direct consciousness of being.

​This class is appropriate for:
  • The novice with no experience of qigong or embryology.
  • The experienced practitioner who wants to deepen and expand their practice.
  • Those interested in applying embryological principles with practical experience.​
See What Our Students Learn
Course Closed until 2024
​6 Lectures you can purchase in our classroom:
  • Answering the Call
  • Preconception Dynamics
  • Conception Dynamics
  • Implantation, Discovery and 1st Trimester Dynamics
  • 2nd & 3rd Trimester/Intrauterine Constraint
  • Physiological Birth and the Baby’s Experience
$69
Other Material and information
Listen to Kate on the Field Dynamics Podcast
Kate was a recent guest on the Field Dynamics Podcast where she gives us an overview of pre and perinatal care, her skillset in presence and reading the space between people, and the influence of pioneers in the field Ray Castellino and William Emerson. They discuss the body as memory, and the layers and imprints of pre-conception, pre-natal and birthing trauma. She shares the commonality of the "double bind" and a "stuck place" in life as a result of inherited or birth trauma. Listen to this an much more: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1958873/12407389
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Kate on the MagaMama Podcast

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Episode 107: Repairing Pre and Perinatal Trauma and Listening to Babies with Kate White
Interviews with Kate:

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Attachment Theory Podcast with Kate White
Impact of Pre and Perinatal Influences on Attachment

Part One
Part Two
Episode 8: The Impact of Birth Trauma on Babies and Their Families
Returning to the Womb to Heal, with Kate White
Healing Trauma Before Birth, Jennetta Billhimer with Kate White: Healing For Parents
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