Somatic Wholeness:
​Recognizing, Understanding and Healing Earliest Trauma

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star,
          Hath had elsewhere its setting
               And cometh from afar;
          Not in entire forgetfulness,
          And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
Heaven lies about us in our infancy
~ Excerpt from Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
William Wordsworth, 1770 - 1850

A study group for touch professionals wanting to recognize, understand and heal earliest trauma in adult populations
One full day quarterly in 2019
Learning objectives:

• Understand autonomic nervous system threat responses, and gain skills to shift them into healthy functional states.
• Recognize and promote health and wholeness.
• Be able to hold space with deep listening, touch skills, and principles related to prenatal and perinatal somatic health. 
• Recognize and normalize difficult birth patterns for mothers and their partners.
• Recognize and normalize difficult conception, in utero, birth and after birth patterns from the baby's experience.
• Gain facilitation skills for birth story process for mother, partner, and baby.
• Learn bodywork approaches to healing early developmental trauma, and appropriate verbal skills

“We are Spirit, Matter and Soul. You make your body from your soul, not the other way around.” ~ Jaap van der Wal
 
If you embrace your soul, you live your purpose. We are whole first. Then often we split because of the shock of embodiment but it does not have to be that way. If we can hold the Whole, normalize difficulty with somatic and practitioner skills, we can prevent and heal earliest trauma. ~ Kate White

Morning: Didactic Teaching and Dyadic/Triad exercises
Afternoon: Table Exchanges
Time: 9 am - 5:30 pm with 1.5 hours for lunch
Fee: $120 per class 4 Classes starting 2019
Fee:  $150 per class, October 28 in Silver Spring, MD, at the Potomac Massage Training Institute