We are located in beautiful Charlottesville, VA, home of the University of Virginia,
​Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, and more.  
​Our office is located at 103 Caty Lane, Charlottesville, VA 22901

Supporting excellence in pre and perinatal health and healing locally  . . . and beyond
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Our Foundations Course Returns: November 2021, then again January and March 2022, in person and streaming.
Required for our training that starts in May 

On online learning community offers courses for professionals and experiences for learners to learn about the impacts of earliest trauma and how to heal it. There are courses for birth professionals, mental health workers, bodyworkers, professionals who work with babies, and more. You can get tastes of our work and podcasts at our patreon channel, A More Beautiful Life. 

See Our Online Classroom: 
​Prenatal and Perinatal Healing Online

BLACK FRIDAY SALE: Purchase these three Series for $250, (normally $425), for a limited time. Sales ends November 30, 2021. 

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Courses in the Online Classroom

New for 2022!

January 15, 2022
9 am - 5 pm Eastern time
$75 for parents
$125 for professionals

El Jardín Birth and Family began the Birth in Pieces project in 2015. A labor of love, this project spanned multiple years and took various twists and turns as we interviewed more and more women. Patterns emerged. We realized that these individual narratives, together, painted a picture of modern birth culture. What's wrong with birth in the USA? It's time to ask mothers. We need to have ways to prevent and heal birth trauma. This is a vital time of life that can set a human being on a trajectory for health or for neurodevelopmental challenges as a baby, child, and adult. We are interested in supporting families to heal to they can thrive. Prenatal and Perinatal Healing Online is pairing with Kathleen Kendall-Tackett to support several series that feature professionals and their ways to support healing with birthing families and birth professionals. Birth in Pieces is our first series. It will feature:

• 9 am: The viewing of Birth in Pieces followed by a discussion with Kathleen Kendall-Tackett and Kate White about birth trauma

Presentations with practitioners who work with birth trauma:

• 11 am: Kathleen Kendall-Tacket: Birth Trauma: Causes and Consequences of Birth-Related PTSD
• 12:30 pm Kate White: "I Had A Baby:" A Three-Fold Path to Heal Birth Trauma
• 2:30 pm Kimberly Ann Johnson
• 3:45 pm Molly Caro May: The Reparative Possibility in a Birth Story

See the Speakers and Topics, Register

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

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Podcast with Kate White

Impact of Pre and Perinatal Influences on Attachment

Part One

Part Two

Interviews with Kate:

• Zero To Three featured Kate in their Member Corner in May 2019. See the feature here.
• Listen to this Interview with Kate White on her work with mothers and babies! It was completed by Rebecca Thompson Hitt, Director and Founder of The Consciously Parenting Learning Center.
• Enjoy this podcast with Dr. Jay Warren about my work with families recovering from difficult births: Why Didn't Anyone Tell Me?
• Listen also to a talk about prenatal and perinatal patterns in The Body Awake, with Liam Fowler.
• Listen to a podcast on Prenatal Bonding with Kristy Rodriguez on purenature.com here
• Mindful Birth Podcast with Holly Lammer: Kate White, a craniosacral and massage therapist, prenatal and h childhood educator.
• Setting the P.A.C.E, Precognitive Adverse Childhood Experiences, an episode of Hanging on for Hope with  Andrea Fitmom: An Interview with Kate White

February 16-March 9, 2022
Wednesdays
12 Noon Eastern time
on Zoom, sliding scale $200-$250

These four modules will explore different aspects of the roots and importance of Action, Movement and Behaviour in the body’s Formative Process. The Formative Embodiment model is built from a triangular conversation of muscle, cortex and emotion. The implications of this perspective can provide therapists, coaches, educators and artists with additional tools and possibilities which can amplify the depth and efficacy of their work in unexpected ways. Each module will develop its ideas based extensively on Stanley Keleman's writings, and enriched by influences from Polarity Therapy, Craniosacral Biodynamics, and Pre- and Perinatal orientation.
Session 1: Anatomic structure is behavior
Session 2: Action is organized in a layered pattern
Session 3: Life is an on-going organising and formative process
Session 4: Somatic-emotional exercises

More Information and Registration

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​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

Returning to the Womb to Heal, with Kate White

Healing Trauma Before Birth, Jennetta Billhimer with Kate White: Healing For Parents