A Unique Transdisciplinary Series Bringing More Awareness to the Baby's Experience
January 25, February 1, 8, 15, 22, and March 1
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Eastern time
5 Speakers and a Panel Talk
​$75 and $125
There are about 1.5 million adopted children in the United States, which is 2% of the population, or one out of 50 children. Relinquishment or separation is the wound for many of these children. The process of adoption affects adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents and other birth and family members throughout life. This 6 week course offers lectures by experts in prenatal and perinatal somatic psychology, attachment, infant mental health and more who have spent decades understanding the impact of relinquishment, separation and adoption on the baby and parents. It will also include perspectives from therapists who specialize in adoption and foster care and therapists who treat adults with the early adoption experience.
List of Speakers and Dates:
  • January 25, 2022: Karen Doyle Buckwalter: Using Theraplay® to Strengthen Attachment and Connection with Adoptive Parents and Their Children
  • February 1, 2022: Michael Trout and Rebecca Molitor: Supporting Connection Between First Mothers and Their Unborns as an Antidote to Dissociation
  • February 8, 2022: Alison Greene-Barton: Conscious Adoption: A Personal Story
  • February 15, 2022: Kristin Sipley: The Journey of the Adoptee: A Glimpse into the Baby's Experience
  • February 22, 2022: Becky Zal-Sanchez, LCSW: Raised by Committee: Restoring a Child's Identity and Security After Time Spent in Foster or Kinship Care
  • March 1, 2022: Panel Talk​: Includes Jenni Alpert (aka CAMI)
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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Schedule an Online Appointment
Our Foundations Course Returns: November 2021, then again January and March 2022, in person and streaming.
Required for our training that starts in May 
For In-Person Training, we are adapting the Test to Stay Approach as our COVID policy
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

Courses in the Online Classroom

New for 2022!

Live Qigong of Embryology Class with Bob Lehnberg
Mondays Each Month unless otherwise indicated
Starts Monday, January 3, 2022
10:30 am - 11:50 am Eastern Time
​$75 per month
Qigong, energy cultivation, is a simple practice. Embryology is an act of re-membering, of listening to the echo of our formation and growth. Principles underlying our embryological development can enrich our qigong practice and embodiment. No embryology or qigong experience is needed. The principles and movements of embryology can serve as a basis for future study. These principles are universal and underlie many practices of energy and cultivation. ​Embryological processes and body-based qigong practices we will consider include:
  • Egg and sperm; stillness - movement
  • Early cell division; membrane - fluid balance
  • Yolk sac and amnion; internal and external Seas of Qi
  • Primitive streak; onset of our mesoderm, sense of weight and width
  • Allantois; our lower dan tien
  • Notochord; our soft spine
  • Blood vessel formation; spatial support for our heart, middle dan tien
  • Caudal eminence; grounding our spinal cord and central nervous system
  • Limb buds; sprouting and spiraling our arms and legs
  • Releasing our coccyx from our lower limbs; lateral weight shift
  • Pro-kidneys; lengthening our back and easing energy expenditure
  • Embryonic breathing; abdominal organs and membranes
  • Neuroenteric canal; balancing front body and back body
  • Central channel; seated meditation
April 21-24 2022
Live In-Person Workshop with Virtual Option
The Journey Space, Glen Echo, MD
$795 US ($695 paid 1 month in advance)
Streaming Attendance Available
​10 am - 6 pm ends at 4 pm Sunday

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

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Interviews with Kate:

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
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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