What's New at the Center
TWO CLASSES COMING EARLY APRIL!
Bowen for Mothers and Babies
with John Wilks In person workshop Crossings Wellness Center Silver Spring, MD April 4-7, 2024 $725 CEUs Pending from NCBTMB 4 spots left This course is designed to provide both an understanding of the Bowen Technique and the practical hands-on skills that enable participants to work safely and effectively with mothers and babies in a clinical setting.
The Bowen Technique is a powerful but gentle approach to addressing a wide variety of symptoms and conditions that mothers and babies frequently present with, both prenatally and postnatally. Expand for More Info
The course will teach practical skills to address the following:
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Embryology Qigong: Nervous System Origins and Qi Practice
The Online School welcomes back Bob Lehnberg for another popular Embryology Qigong course! We will learn the embryological processes and apply them to qigong forms of stillness and movement practices. 6 week live online series April 8 - May 13, 2024, 10:30 - Noon (EST) Plus additional one-hour discussion class May 20th, 10:30-11:30 AM (EST) The nervous system develops from the ectoderm germ layer of the embryo. We create the nervous system as a means of communication for the body. This includes the brain and spinal cord, cranial nerves, peripheral nerves, the enteric nervous system, glial cells, and the epidermis. The development of this system is inherent in us. We will learn the embryological processes and apply them to qigong forms of stillness and movement practices. All forms in class are simple to learn and adaptable to individual circumstances.
Applying principles of embryology to qigong may sound complex, however, the application to qi movement practice is simple. We use the in-formation of the embryo to re-member the formative processes in the present. Expand for class content
Session 1: Overview. The ectoderm forms the neural tube, the neural crest, and the epidermis. All are expansive in nature. We will re-member the formation of the neural tube, spinal cord, and early brain. The relationship of these structures allows us to root and rise through our back midline. Session 2: Brain Formation and Cranial Nerves. Folding of the early midbrain allows an ease in our central nervous system, providing an effortless alignment of our neck and head. Qigong, in our modern day, is useful for reducing the effects of stress on our nervous system. We can use simple nerve releasing movements to let go of some of the unnecessary holding in our nerve tissue. Session 3: Enteric Nervous System. An independent system in itself, the enteric nervous system is in the gut, the small intestine, large intestine, and mesentery. In the small intestine, it is central to practices for the lower dantien including breathing and initiating movement in the lower energy field. Session 4: Autonomic and Somatic Nervous Systems. The parasympathetic and sympathetic systems form our “ground of being” and “pathways of awareness,” respectively. We can experience them as wuji (emptiness) and flow of awareness. They underlie our outer body expression through the somatic system. We will explore this in practice as stated in the adage “mind moves qi, qi moves blood (body fluids), and blood moves body.” The converse is also possible, “body moves blood (body fluids), blood moves qi, qi moves mind.” Session 5: Glial Cells. Glial cells form the non-conductive part of our nervous system communication network. They are essential in the flow of communication. As a group of cells, they calibrate and organize spatial information both within the body and beyond the body. We will consider two specific types of glial cell, myelin cells and astrocytes. Session 6: Class Review Session 7: Class Discussion |
Foundations Courses now Enrolling for New York City, Arizona, Australia and Virginia
This Foundations course in Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics™ offers the basic building blocks for working early overwhelming states that may occur starting preconception, including conception, pregnancy, birth and attachment. 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. Come, study, learn, heal.
Current healing science now includes overwhelming childhood experiences and ancestral patterns; the prenatal and perinatal period is the missing piece. This introductory workshop will give you tools so you can normalize early difficulty and have a skill base to help families get the best possible start and individuals onto the healing path. The first step is working with your own internal states and is vital to the relationship you establish with your client base. Our course combines early trauma resolution with midwifery model of care. Expand for more info
Learning Objectives. Participants will:
See also more information on our new website about our training programs at ppnsomatics.com, The Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics Institute: Discover Your Professional Pathway. |
The Embryo In Us - Human as Embryo
Understanding ourselves as Embryo and how that relates to our consciousness and psychosomatic being A four-day course divided into two 2-day webinars August 30-31 and September 6-7 2024 9am - 6pm EST The Embryo in Us ~ Human as Embryo is Jaap's seminal course that will help you understand our deepest mysteries held in our bodies. It is the fourth time that this webinar has been presented by the Center. This time the course will be taught live over two two-day webinars in August and September 2024.
As a bonus for registering, participants will have free time-limited access to a Dropbox page where they will find all the articles and chapters Jaap has ever published. All the videos and animations shown during the course plus the entire PowerPoint presentation that is used, can be viewed and downloaded as well. expand for more info
Each day there will be three sessions: 9:00 am - 12:00 am EST, Lecture with a short break (5 – 10 minutes) 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST. Lecture with a short break (5 – 10 minutes) 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm EST, Lectures & Activities plus room for Questions & Answers Course Contents A detailed overview of the course content can be found on Jaap's website www.embryo.nl, in particular https://www.embryo.nl/template-course-embryosophy/ Day One: The Undivided Embryo (8/30)
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A PPNCenter and CvilleBabyBodywork video:
Sleep and your Baby Join us as Kate White and Dr. Hannah Marshall answer questions about sleep for infants, babies, children and families. With Heather Zivkovich. Recorded at the monthly CvilleBabyBodyWork free clinic held the second Friday of each month. On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL_Pgyc-Yqo |
PPNCenter and CvilleBabyBodywork video:
Let's Talk about Car Seat Restraint A 30-minute workshop: Learn tips to strategize helping baby feel secure and safe while being restrained and separated. On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gJZvwz50_0&t=1378s |
Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics Training
Podcasts and Presentations
Join Us at The Hearth: A Gathering Place for Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics
See our latest Conversation What is Sequencing? |
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.
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! |
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
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 |
Kate on the MagaMama Podcast |
Interviews with Kate:
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Attachment Theory Podcast with Kate White
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Supporting excellence
in pre and perinatal health
and healing locally . . .and beyond
in pre and perinatal health
and healing locally . . .and beyond