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Baby Dynamics™

I have spent many years learning to work with babies and their parents to help get young families off to the best possible start.  With Baby Dynamics, I support study groups for professionals to work with babies.  I am often asked how one can learn these skills; what is the best book or class or technique.  There is so much to learn, and also, so little, that can make a huge difference for human at this crucial early time, preconception through the first year of life.  While I have studied with many teachers, my best teachers have been the babies and families.  These groups involve didactic teaching of a long list of specific skills that we will practice on each other, and then offer to the community in the form of a Free Clinic, followed by a debrief of working with the families.  Practitioners will work in dyads and tryads.  

This study group is designed for 6 learners who want to work with babies.  We will meet once a quarter (every 3 months) for 8 hours (one day) starting at 10 am.  Orientation:
  • Check ins (10:00 - 10:45) (What is your intention, challenge, and what helps integration?)
  • Didactic teaching (11:00 -12:00 ) (Special topics, hand holds and more)
  • Lunch: 12:00-12:30
  • Partner exchanges (12:30-1:30)
  • Free Clinic for Families with Babies (2 pm - 4 pm)
  • Debrief (4:30 - 6 pm)
Curriculum:
  • Practitioner skills
  • Prenatal and  Perinatal Principles
  • Baby Physiology and Anatomy, assessment tools
  • Dysfunction that can present for baby bodywork
       Cranial nerve dysfunction, tongue tie, torticollis, plagiocephaly
  • Cranial holds with a focus on specific impacts of birth and the prenatal period
  • Breastfeeding overview and the role of baby bodywork
  • Prenatal dynamics (imprints) and what that looks like in babies (preconception to birth)
  • Birth dynamics (imprints) and what that looks like in babies (many different kinds of birth)
  • Supported Attachment for breastfeeding and listening to the baby's story
  • Supporting mothers and fathers in the postpartum period (family work)
  • Antenatal and Perinatal Anxiety and Depression and bodywork
  • Helping babies settle
  • The role of movement (play) in helping babies, especially TummyTime! and "rounding out"
  • Touch therapies for babies
  • Infant massage, CST and anatomy trains for babies
  • Working with birthing and postpartum families
  • Working with pregnant mothers (Spinning Babies or the Miles Circuit)
  • The importance of movement for pregnant mothers

Optional but Important:  Womb Surround Process Workshops for Working With Your Own Patterns

Ideally, if you can gather a group 5 professionals who would like to learn, you can host and get the course for free.  This group should be within driving distance of Charlottesville, VA so I can support you and your Free Clinic.  You will get access to my youtube channel of presentations, a set of my posters, extra support from the Pre and Perinatal Education Program that I run, and one check in mid month.  

Fee: $100 per month for 9 months starting in September.  Classes only run during the school year.

Prerequisites: License to touch (massage therapy), some Craniosacral Therapy.  Best practice includes certified infant massage instructor.

​Textbooks:  
  • Craniosacral Therapy for Children: Treatments for Expecting Mothers, Babies, and Children by Daniel Augustoni.
  • Impact of Birthing Practices on Breastfeeding 2nd Edition by Linda Smith
  • ​SANDOZ COURSE CRANIAL NERVES anatomy and clinical comments by Linda Wilson-Pauwels
  • Dental Anatomy Coloring Book 2nd Edition by Margaret J. Fehrenbach RDH MS (Editor)
  • Dancing with Yin and Yang by John Chitty
  • Working with Babies, A Five-Part Therapy Method for Infants and Their Families by John Chitty
​CEUs: Pending

Cancellation Policy:  Refund in full if two weeks before the date; half one week before; no refund after that.  If you cancel because of illness or emergency, funds can be transferred.

By listening intently and offering gentle feedback, Kate reminded me how miraculous it was that I was creating another human. She helped empower me as a woman. I left feeling better all over – inside and out!
The Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs

103 Caty Lane
​Charlottesville, VA 22901
Email: Katercst@gmail.com

Telephone: 434-996-2002
  • Home
    • About Pre and Perinatal Health and Healing >
      • Layers of Experience When Working with Earliest Trauma in Adults
    • PPN Student Support
    • About Us
    • Privacy Policy
    • Blog: From the Baby's Perspective
    • My Operating Principles
  • Services
  • Workshops and Trainings
    • Free Content
    • PPN Lectures and Education
    • Workshops >
      • Workshop in Australia >
        • Welcome and Logistics
      • Advanced Somatic Resolution Skills for Perinatal Trauma
      • Jim Feil: Managing Major Transitions
      • Leading Edge Somatic Skills >
        • Leading Edge Series I
    • Trainings >
      • Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics
      • Foundations in Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics >
        • Foundations Retreats
        • Testimonies from Students
      • Somatic Wholeness
      • Stories from the Field
    • Process Workshops and Retreats
  • Online Learning Center
    • For Trauma Therapists
    • For Birth Professionals
    • For Somatic Therapists
    • Recorded Courses SALE
    • A More Beautiful Life Podcast
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    • Products
  • Contact Us