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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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New course starts May 3:  Working with Adults who have Earliest Trauma: A PPN Somatic Perspective. This course is modeled after the recent Birth Trauma and the Professional course, with guest instructors and a panel discussion at the end. Look for the notice lower on this page, or see it in the Online School.
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.

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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.

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​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!
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Courses In-Person and in the Online Classroom

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March 31 - April 3, 2023
$1400 AUD, $930 US
​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.  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.
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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.

Learning objectives. Participants will be able to:
  • Identify the layers of earliest experience according the prenatal and perinatal time
  • Practice skills being, relationship and listening
  • Engage in skills of inquiry and the felt sense to shift state
  • Name states of regulation and stress/threat responses
  • Understand implicit baby experience, a hummingbird sip
  • Appreciate adaptation responses from early developmental trauma
  • Provide skills for self and co-regulation to integrate implicit memory
  • Assess imprints through visual recognition of compression and vector from birth
  • Identify the 5 part sequence connected to birth imprints, and where clients may have a sequencing issue
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February - March 2023
$115 - 6 80 minute classes

Blood originates in the mesoderm. As a yin tissue, it offers us a sense of grounding and connection with the earth; iron in blood has an affinity with the iron in the center of the earth. Embryologically, development of channels and vessels support the movement of blood which swirls and creates the heart center. The heart resides at the center of spirilic movement, clarity, and rejuvenation.
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Blood originates in the mesoderm. As a yin tissue, it offers us a sense of grounding and connection with the earth; iron in blood has an affinity with the iron in the center of the earth. Embryologically, development of channels and vessels support the movement of blood which swirls and creates the heart center. The heart resides at the center of spirilic movement, clarity, and rejuvenation.
Embryologically, positioning and development of the heart precedes and guides organization of the brain. Development of the thoracic diaphragm and heart are also deeply connected. Coordinating breathing and heart rhythms can lead to deep serenity and One-ness.
One intention of cultivating qi is developing relationship to the physical, emotional, and energetic aspects of our being. Developmental, movement and embryological principles of Body-Mind Centering© will be applied to simple-to-do qi-movement forms, breathing, and practice.
Original embryology illustrations are included with the live course.




Curriculum
Class 1: Mesoderm. Arising from interplay of endoderm and ectoderm to become extraembryonic mesoderm and intraembryonic mesoderm.
Class 2: Primitive Streak. The primitive streak gives rise to the notochord and the foundation of the early heart.
Class 3: Blood Islands. Blood islands form in the mesoderm of the connecting stalk and yolk sac. Vacuoles form and coalesce to create channels and early blood vessels. These early vessels have an inherent peripheral pulsation.
Class 4: Heart Formation. The heart forms outside of the embryo and draws down into its home in the center of the cathedral of ribs. This is the seat of the middle dantian.
Class 5: Thoracic Diaphragm. The heart and thoracic diaphragm are formed of tissues from several origins. Breathing and heart rhythm have an early embryological connection.
Class 6: Bone Marrow. Blood is eventually formed in the bone marrow and balances the energy expended in the brain and upper dantian.
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Working with Adults who have Earliest Wounds: A PPN Somatic Perspective

Course starts May 3 
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.
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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
MORE INFORMATION and to register
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See What Our Students Learn
Course Closed until 2024
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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
$69
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Other Material and information
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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

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Episode 8: The Impact of Birth Trauma on Babies and Their Families
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Returning to the Womb to Heal, with Kate White
Healing Trauma Before Birth, Jennetta Billhimer with Kate White: Healing For Parents
Supporting excellence
in pre and perinatal health
​and healing locally . . .​and beyond​
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 PPN Health >
      • Ten Things About Babies
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    • About the Center
    • About Us
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    • Calendar of Events
  • Workshops & Trainings
    • Free Content
    • PPN Lectures and Education
    • Workshops >
      • Workshop in Australia >
        • Welcome and Logistics
      • Early Embryology Qigong Workshop
      • Advanced Somatic Resolution Skills for Perinatal Trauma
      • 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
    • For Trauma Therapists
    • For Birth Professionals
    • For Somatic Therapists
    • Recorded Courses SALE
  • Store
    • Products
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