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Classes
I have two class series available:
 Get
Ready for Your Baby and for Parenthood - Before
Conception
A four part class series for people who want to prepare before pregnancy,
starts November 2009 and requires a commitment
to all four classes.
Journey Into Life: Touch the Source
Begin to explore how your Conception, Womb
Life and Birth Experiences are affecting
you every day. Three part series. Read more
about this class...
Get
Ready for Your Baby and for Parenthood - Before
Conception
A four
part series beginning November 12th, 2009 and
will cover the following important
areas of preparation:
• Learning to track
yourself, ground, and center - essential tools for conscious parenting.
Conscious parenting means being aware
enough of yourself to know when you
are making decisions from a grounded
and centered place, and when you are
not. This requires a basic level of
tracking skills and I will be teaching
and developing these with you throughout
the series. Many of us have been unable
to inhabit our bodies fully or consistently
as a result of early stress and trauma.
I will teach you a simple exercise
for coming into your midline, and another
for grounding and clearing your space.
Both these exercises are really easy
to use and
make a huge difference to the way you
feel, and your level of presence in
your life and body. It's impossible
to be aware of what you are doing as
a parent if you
are not present, so we will be building
and practicing these new practical
tools with each other throughout the
series. I will also ask you to play
with them in between classes, and to
share your experiences of this with
the group. These new skills will positively
affect your family's quality of life,
bonding, and your birthing outcomes.
• The latest
research and teachings in Prenatal
and Peri-natal Psychology & Health. Karen belongs to the
Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology
and Health and has access to the
latest research findings in this exciting field.
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Group support - we will come together in a community
of support to share our knowledge and experience
with each other and co-create a safe environment
for this very important work.
PREPARATION BEFORE CONCEPTION AFFECTS
BIRTH OUTCOMES
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Becoming aware of your own journey into
life because
that affects the way you bring in your children, and can restrict
your choices and affect birth outcomes. • Communicating
with the spirit of your baby.
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Exploring the parenting
you received:
From conception onwards the parenting
you received can be repeated with your
own children, really affecting the
kind of parent you want to be now. Remember
your childhood
experiences, make space in yourself
for new choices, and build new resources
that support the parent you want to
be
now. This
includes looking at your ancestral
imprints and
making
choices about what you do and don’t
want to pass on to your own children.
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Pelvic Bowl Health: Somatic/emotional/spiritual
preparation for baby.
Women can hold stress, trauma and early imprints
in their womb/reproductive systems.
Using gentle somatic
exercises
we will see what needs supporting to
create a healthy nest for your baby’s
first nine months. This is not about having
to heal everything that you are carrying,
but more about raising your awareness of
what is likely to affect your parenting,
gestation and
birthing
and bonding experiences. When you can recognize
a sensation in your body, or a particular
felt-sense, as a familiar imprint from
'back then', then
you have the skill of differentiation,
and this is very important for good parenting.
I will teach you this.
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How do we remember our earliest
experiences and how do they imprint in
us? You will learn about the nature
of early memory through experiential
exercises and Karen’s
experience and knowledge.
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You will each answer the question “What
will it take for me to be ready? ” Out
of this we will take time to set important
intentions for
the series and for your future
parenting goals.
SUPPORT
TO BUILD INTERNAL RESOURCES - BECOME
THE PARENT THAT YOU WANT TO BE!
For: First time parents,
and existing parents who are preparing to have
a baby. Location: Sebastopol,
CA
Cost: $65 per class
- $230 for whole series if paid at registration.
A commitment to all 4 classes is necessary. Couples
coming together a joint cost of
$100 per class, and $360 for you both
if paid in full at registration. Costs are negotiable, please call me.
Times: 6.30 – 9.30
Thursday evenings November 12th, 19th & 26th,
& Dec. 3rd, 2009.
 Journey Into Life: Touch
The Source - a three part series
Much of our current beliefs, and
the way we create our world, originates
in this early time of our life. Becoming
aware of these influences allows us to
better understand ourselves, our patterns
of behavior, and how we relate to others,
including our children.
This short three part series offers you the opportunity to begin exploring your Journey Into Life. This series is not a deep process group, it is an opportunity to begin exploring your origins. For deeper work go to 'One on One' or 'Womb Process Workshops'.
Would be of interest to:
- Pre-pregnant and pregnant couples
- Counselors, therapists, healers, etc who would like more awareness of this crucial developmental period
- Birthing professionals such as doula’s, midwives, and childbirth educators
- Parents who want to understand the origins of their own behavior, in order to become better parents, and who also want to gain some insight into their children's journey in to life
- Seekers who desire to know more about how their early Soul, cellular and limbic imprints are present in their life now
Explore your epic Journey Into Life as
a spirit who came here to be in a body.
That adventure is different for each one
of us, and shapes the way we feel in, and
about, our bodies. These very powerful early experiences usually
remain outside of our consciousness, and
can be running our lives.
It is our limbic brain, our cells and our energetic body that imprints
these early experiences into our body,
and leaves us with somatic memories that
we enact in our life continually. We can
easily access these memories.
SPECIAL OFFER for people who have completed this series: $80 discount on three individual or couple's sessions.
Class 1: Conception
Conception is our first experience of embodiment. It is also the
point at which we receive our first impressions
of sexuality and relationship. The kind
of relationship our parents had, and the
way we were conceived, has a deep impact
upon us all. Was it loving and passionate?
Were our parents conscious? Were they present?
Were alcohol or drugs used, or negative
or invasive energy?
How is our conception present in our life and relationships now?
How do we come to beginnings in our life?
How do we come into our body? How has our
conception imprinted our sexuality, and
our beliefs about relationship and intimacy?
There will be a brief talk, and an experiential exercise to help
with the exploration of your conception,
followed by some group sharing, and questions
and answers.
Class 2: Prenate's have their Own Experience
Were you alone in the womb? Was it an inviting womb in which you
were wanted and prepared for? How is the
prenatal environment in which you marinated,
and the events at that time, present in
your life now? Early imprints laid
down in the womb can go on affecting our
lives profoundly.
Some of the aspects of our life that are touched and shaped by this
period of development include our birth,
bonding, relationships, health, spirituality,
attachment patterns, and how we birth and
parent our kids.
There will be a brief talk, and an experiential exercise to help with the exploration of your time in the womb followed by some group sharing, and questions and answers.
Class 3: Birth Sequencing in Your
Daily Life
Is it true that a cesarean birth is easier? What effect can a ‘good’ birth have upon our sense of ourselves, and on our ability to competently move through projects from beginning to end? Did you know that the relationship that twins have in the womb, continues outside the womb?
In the first class I will have given you a simple writing/awareness
exercise that you can explore
over the next couple of weeks. This will
help you to see what your birth
sequence is, and how it is present in your
life every day! We will share our explorations
of this sequencing, and you will also have
a chance to share any information and 'family
stories' that you have been able to discover
from family members, your parents, etc
about your birth.
General information: In the first meeting I will
ask you to make some inquiries in your
family about what was going on when you
were in the womb, to gather the birth stories,
and to get really curious about that early
time of your life. I will also give you
information for a writing exercise that
I ask you do do over the series, the results
of which will be shared in the group in
Class 3 in which it will give you information
about your birth.
Is your life being run by your prenatal and birth imprints?
Please register beforehand, as early as possible, to avoid disappointment.
Cost: $35 - $15 (sliding scale) per meeting, in Sebastopol, 7.15pm
- 9.15pm
Series Dates: Contact
me for 2010 group's
This course is also available privately to closed groups and small organizations, and can be modified to suit your needs. |
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“Journey Into Life was very inspiring.
It was an enlightening taste to wet the appetite, though I got an
enormous amount out of this class series.You do a beautiful job
of holding the space and guiding the group. It was fascinating,
and important and meaningful for me to be witnessed. Thanks so much
for doing this work and for sharing it with others.” -K.
Hill M.A., C.D
"Interesting, informative and eye opening. You are amazingly insightful - a surprisingly beneficial class." -Jane Pritchard, Jin Shin Jyutsu Practitioner. |
