Upcoming Courses, Lectures, and Workshops:
Womb Surround Process Workshops
The Goal of a Womb Surround Process Workshop is to support participants to heal and re-pattern prenatal, birth and attachment imprinting within a safe container. Connections are made with current themes and behaviors in the participant’s life. This workshop is helpful for professionals who wish to experience the profound changes possible with healing of prenatal, birth and attachment issues. This is directly applicable to most professional practices involving the healing arts.
Dates
April 30—May 4, 2020
Lead Instructor: Eileen Sendrey (eileensendrey@me.com)
May 28—Jun 1, 2020
Lead Instructors: Elsa Asher (elsa@elsaasher.com) and Susan Hall (hall.health@gmail.com)
Maximum 7 participants each
Cost: $850
Please contact the instructors to register
Learn more: April-May and May-June
Dates
April 30—May 4, 2020
Lead Instructor: Eileen Sendrey (eileensendrey@me.com)
May 28—Jun 1, 2020
Lead Instructors: Elsa Asher (elsa@elsaasher.com) and Susan Hall (hall.health@gmail.com)
Maximum 7 participants each
Cost: $850
Please contact the instructors to register
Learn more: April-May and May-June
Pre and Perinatal Training And Education
The Health Model: Establishing Safety within and without, learning from the inside out. This training is designed to build skills for grounding, tracking, supporting and resourcing self and others, always finding our way to the original blueprint for health. Participants will be introduced to pre and perinatal psychology and attachment through the lifespan. We will build therapeutic verbal, somatic and emotional skills to support self and clients to resource and connect with the health that is always present. This model emphasizes developing the structure and support for safe therapeutic exploration, staying connected to adult resources so integration can occur. Participants will establish the skills of connection with healthy boundaries, differentiation, and somatic tracking of sensations and emotions. We will develop tools for working with belief systems, claiming disowned parts of the self and creating dialogue and integration between these parts.
We will first establish the foundational knowledge of health in the primal period. It includes a solid understanding of pre and perinatal psychology and health with effective tools to support clients and these issues. Following that we will go into more depth and add breadth in specific areas.
Trainees come from a very wide range of professional background and skills. They include craniosacral therapists, psychologists and other therapists working with families, couples, individual adults, medical and alternative health professionals and everyone associated with child bearing and early years.
The training is highly experiential so trainees must be prepared to do their own early imprint resolution work, and connect with the underlying blueprint.
Approximately 1/2 of the time in each module is experiential, and outside the training participants will do creative home projects, reading and process workshops.
Training Format:
October 15-19, 2020 - Module 1: Attachment, Myrna Lead Teacher
January 14-18, 2021 - Module 2: Pre Conception & Conception, Elsa Lead Teacher
April 1-4, 2021 - Module 3: Vaginal Birth, Eileen Lead Teacher
June 24-28, 2021 - Module 4: Chemical Imprinting, Myrna Lead Teacher
September 9-13, 2021 - Module 5: Surgical Imprinting, Susan Lead Teacher
December 2-6, 2021 - Module 6: Double Binds, Myrna Lead Teacher
Total Cost: $6,000
To learn more and register, follow this link
We will first establish the foundational knowledge of health in the primal period. It includes a solid understanding of pre and perinatal psychology and health with effective tools to support clients and these issues. Following that we will go into more depth and add breadth in specific areas.
Trainees come from a very wide range of professional background and skills. They include craniosacral therapists, psychologists and other therapists working with families, couples, individual adults, medical and alternative health professionals and everyone associated with child bearing and early years.
The training is highly experiential so trainees must be prepared to do their own early imprint resolution work, and connect with the underlying blueprint.
Approximately 1/2 of the time in each module is experiential, and outside the training participants will do creative home projects, reading and process workshops.
Training Format:
- 6 modules of 5 days each
- One pre-training Process Workshop and two more during the training, with Myrna, Eileen, Elsa or Susan
- Videotaping will be used extensively for home training and reflection. Regular group supervision via the internet included.
- An Introduction to Somatic Experiencing, Somatic Trauma Resolution or Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
- One Process Workshop with Myrna Martin, Eileen Sendrey, Elsa Asher or Susan Hall (or another Certified Process Workshop Facilitator)
October 15-19, 2020 - Module 1: Attachment, Myrna Lead Teacher
January 14-18, 2021 - Module 2: Pre Conception & Conception, Elsa Lead Teacher
April 1-4, 2021 - Module 3: Vaginal Birth, Eileen Lead Teacher
June 24-28, 2021 - Module 4: Chemical Imprinting, Myrna Lead Teacher
September 9-13, 2021 - Module 5: Surgical Imprinting, Susan Lead Teacher
December 2-6, 2021 - Module 6: Double Binds, Myrna Lead Teacher
Total Cost: $6,000
To learn more and register, follow this link
Instructors:
Myrna Martin, RN, MN, RCC, RCST®
Myrna has been working with people as a nurse, family therapist, biodynamic craniosacral therapist and somatic therapist for 45 years. Myrna practices early trauma resolution work with babies and young children and their families as well as adults. This work is focused on healing disruptions in attachment, such as prematurity, low birth weight, hospitalizations, adoption, postpartum depression, difficult births, and other misattunements.
Myrna has an MN from University of Calgary in Family Therapy. She is teacher of Integrative Body Psychotherapy, and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and is a Registered Clinical Counsellor. She was Director of Nelson and Area Mental Health Services for many years. Since 2001 Myrna has been in private practice and created EarthSky Foundation for teaching and therapeutic services in her community. She teaches a professional training in pre and perinatal /attachment therapy internationally.. She facilitates many seminars and Intensives around the world, including Summer Residential Intensives at her retreat center in Nelson, BC. Myrna recently received the 2019 David Chamberlain Lifetime Acheivement Award from the Association of Pre and Perinatal Psychology and Health at their International Congress.
Myrna has been working with people as a nurse, family therapist, biodynamic craniosacral therapist and somatic therapist for 45 years. Myrna practices early trauma resolution work with babies and young children and their families as well as adults. This work is focused on healing disruptions in attachment, such as prematurity, low birth weight, hospitalizations, adoption, postpartum depression, difficult births, and other misattunements.
Myrna has an MN from University of Calgary in Family Therapy. She is teacher of Integrative Body Psychotherapy, and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and is a Registered Clinical Counsellor. She was Director of Nelson and Area Mental Health Services for many years. Since 2001 Myrna has been in private practice and created EarthSky Foundation for teaching and therapeutic services in her community. She teaches a professional training in pre and perinatal /attachment therapy internationally.. She facilitates many seminars and Intensives around the world, including Summer Residential Intensives at her retreat center in Nelson, BC. Myrna recently received the 2019 David Chamberlain Lifetime Acheivement Award from the Association of Pre and Perinatal Psychology and Health at their International Congress.
Eileen Sendrey, CMT
Eileen Sendrey has a private practice in Morgan Hill, CA, as a Pre- and Peri-Natal Educator and Practitioner. She works with families during pre-conception, pregnancy, and after birth with infants, children, and teens. Additionally, she facilitates 'Connected Families' group classes supporting healthy family relationships. Eileen facilitates group work in her Womb Surround Process Workshops and somatic process for individuals to heal early developmental trauma. She has studied and apprenticed with Myrna Martin and Ray Castellino. She has been a Certified Breema Practitioner and Instructor for 23 years; She is a Whole Birth Yoga Instructor and California Certified Massage Therapist with over 25 years experience practicing massage and (BCST) Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy.
Eileen Sendrey has a private practice in Morgan Hill, CA, as a Pre- and Peri-Natal Educator and Practitioner. She works with families during pre-conception, pregnancy, and after birth with infants, children, and teens. Additionally, she facilitates 'Connected Families' group classes supporting healthy family relationships. Eileen facilitates group work in her Womb Surround Process Workshops and somatic process for individuals to heal early developmental trauma. She has studied and apprenticed with Myrna Martin and Ray Castellino. She has been a Certified Breema Practitioner and Instructor for 23 years; She is a Whole Birth Yoga Instructor and California Certified Massage Therapist with over 25 years experience practicing massage and (BCST) Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy.
Elsa Asher, MS, RCST
Elsa is a practitioner of somatics with a specialty in healing developmental and intergenerational trauma. They hold a master’s degree in Narrative Medicine, multiple certifications in bodywork and somatic therapy, and smicha (ordination) as a Kohenet. Elsa works with the modalities of Prenatal, Birth and Attachment Therapy, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, and Ancestral Lineage Healing and support individuals and families, and facilitates workshops and trainings. Elsa’s ancestors are Jews from the Pale of Settlement and England with earlier roots in the Near East, Scot-Irish settlers who lived on occupied Tsalagi land, and Scandinavian settlers from Sapmi who lived in the Dakotas. www.elsaasher.com. Pronouns: they/them/theirs.
Elsa is a practitioner of somatics with a specialty in healing developmental and intergenerational trauma. They hold a master’s degree in Narrative Medicine, multiple certifications in bodywork and somatic therapy, and smicha (ordination) as a Kohenet. Elsa works with the modalities of Prenatal, Birth and Attachment Therapy, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, and Ancestral Lineage Healing and support individuals and families, and facilitates workshops and trainings. Elsa’s ancestors are Jews from the Pale of Settlement and England with earlier roots in the Near East, Scot-Irish settlers who lived on occupied Tsalagi land, and Scandinavian settlers from Sapmi who lived in the Dakotas. www.elsaasher.com. Pronouns: they/them/theirs.
Susan Hall, MA, RCST
Susan Hall has a 25 year private practice in Redwood City, CA as a pre and peri natal practitioner and educator, and as a biodynamic craniosacral therapist. She offers both individual sessions and small group workshops oriented around healing difficult early imprints and developmental/somatic trauma. She is a graduate of Myrna Martin's advanced pre and peri natal training, and has completed requirements to become an Approved Biodynamic Craniosacral Teacher by the Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America. Her background includes a Masters degree in Counseling and Transpersonal Psychology, as well as competencies in numerous somatic modalities, including somato-emotional release, acupressure, jin shin do, and massage of various kinds. Susan enjoys her 3 canine beloveds with her partner of 22 years, and is open to developing secure attachment with an adopted feline coming into the family of her 26 year old son. She also is immensely grateful to share the study and healing of pre and peri natal psychology with her 3 beloved sisters.
Susan Hall has a 25 year private practice in Redwood City, CA as a pre and peri natal practitioner and educator, and as a biodynamic craniosacral therapist. She offers both individual sessions and small group workshops oriented around healing difficult early imprints and developmental/somatic trauma. She is a graduate of Myrna Martin's advanced pre and peri natal training, and has completed requirements to become an Approved Biodynamic Craniosacral Teacher by the Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America. Her background includes a Masters degree in Counseling and Transpersonal Psychology, as well as competencies in numerous somatic modalities, including somato-emotional release, acupressure, jin shin do, and massage of various kinds. Susan enjoys her 3 canine beloveds with her partner of 22 years, and is open to developing secure attachment with an adopted feline coming into the family of her 26 year old son. She also is immensely grateful to share the study and healing of pre and peri natal psychology with her 3 beloved sisters.
Alchemical Alignment™
Bodywork for Trauma Resolution and Embodiment of Spirit
Fall 2020—Spring 2021
Instructor: Brigit Viksnins
There is a new paradigm in working with health and trauma. Join our four-level training program, Alchemical Alignment: Bodywork for Trauma Resolution and Embodiment of Spirit, to learn a leading edge healing system that works.
We work with undigested life experience which is creating difficulty in present time. This can have occurred at any time: from before conception (ancestral/epigenetic) through gestation, birth, early attachment (pre and perinatal times), childhood, teen years and adulthood.
Now that cutting edge science and therapeutic processes are all proving the body bears the burden, consumers are turning to those who work with the body to find relief. Training in theory, verbal skills, and hands-on application, however, is at the leading edge of understanding, and is not so easy to find.
You as a student practitioner learn to work with the felt sense of health and embodied wholeness first, and then the waves of information that the body provides -- among which are fight, flight and freeze symptoms.
In class we practice specialized touch and attention skills, and unique verbal skills.
The subtle yet profound skills of this course will change your perceptions of healing work. Powerful in its simplicity, Alchemical Alignment brings a potent new paradigm to the world of trauma resolution and embodiment of spirit.
Each participant will be asked to continue to work within the scope of their current practice. This training, while thorough, does not license participants to have a touch practice, or to call themselves trauma experts.
All practice work in class will be done with bodies clothed, while standing, seated, or lying on treatment tables.
The training is appropriate for practitioners working with the health of the body, mind and/or spirit. A minimum of one year in full-time practice (2-3 years part time) is requested. Preference registering is given to those intending to attend the entire program.
Homework required: regular meditation, movement, readings, peer exchanges, receiving professional sessions and giving practice sessions. Alignment Sequence download included.
Participation eligibility to be determined by instructor.
Student Feedback: “Alchemical, transformational, magical healing is what occurs in this class! The training is very experiential, and you walk away transformed while intimately embodying the methods to be able to guide someone through the threshold of their trauma. And, this work can easily be integrated with any type of bodywork you do!”
Dates:
Level 1 Oct 1-4, 2020
Level 2 Dec 10-13, 2020
Level 3 Feb 11-14, 2021
Level 4 Apr 15-18, 2021
Learn more about the training here.
Email Alchemical Alignment to receive an application.
Fall 2020—Spring 2021
Instructor: Brigit Viksnins
There is a new paradigm in working with health and trauma. Join our four-level training program, Alchemical Alignment: Bodywork for Trauma Resolution and Embodiment of Spirit, to learn a leading edge healing system that works.
We work with undigested life experience which is creating difficulty in present time. This can have occurred at any time: from before conception (ancestral/epigenetic) through gestation, birth, early attachment (pre and perinatal times), childhood, teen years and adulthood.
Now that cutting edge science and therapeutic processes are all proving the body bears the burden, consumers are turning to those who work with the body to find relief. Training in theory, verbal skills, and hands-on application, however, is at the leading edge of understanding, and is not so easy to find.
You as a student practitioner learn to work with the felt sense of health and embodied wholeness first, and then the waves of information that the body provides -- among which are fight, flight and freeze symptoms.
In class we practice specialized touch and attention skills, and unique verbal skills.
The subtle yet profound skills of this course will change your perceptions of healing work. Powerful in its simplicity, Alchemical Alignment brings a potent new paradigm to the world of trauma resolution and embodiment of spirit.
Each participant will be asked to continue to work within the scope of their current practice. This training, while thorough, does not license participants to have a touch practice, or to call themselves trauma experts.
All practice work in class will be done with bodies clothed, while standing, seated, or lying on treatment tables.
The training is appropriate for practitioners working with the health of the body, mind and/or spirit. A minimum of one year in full-time practice (2-3 years part time) is requested. Preference registering is given to those intending to attend the entire program.
Homework required: regular meditation, movement, readings, peer exchanges, receiving professional sessions and giving practice sessions. Alignment Sequence download included.
Participation eligibility to be determined by instructor.
Student Feedback: “Alchemical, transformational, magical healing is what occurs in this class! The training is very experiential, and you walk away transformed while intimately embodying the methods to be able to guide someone through the threshold of their trauma. And, this work can easily be integrated with any type of bodywork you do!”
Dates:
Level 1 Oct 1-4, 2020
Level 2 Dec 10-13, 2020
Level 3 Feb 11-14, 2021
Level 4 Apr 15-18, 2021
Learn more about the training here.
Email Alchemical Alignment to receive an application.
Instructor:
Brigit Viksnins, MAT, SEP, RCST®, BCTMB
Brigit is an advanced bodyworker, and the creator of the training program Alchemical Alignment and the movement/embodiment meditation The Alignment Sequence. She is also a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, and Massage Therapist. She has undergrad and graduate degrees from Georgetown University. She has had a successful private bodywork practice in the Washington, DC area since 1996. Brigit is a first-generation Latvian American, from a lineage rich with healers, midwives and teachers.
Brigit is an advanced bodyworker, and the creator of the training program Alchemical Alignment and the movement/embodiment meditation The Alignment Sequence. She is also a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, and Massage Therapist. She has undergrad and graduate degrees from Georgetown University. She has had a successful private bodywork practice in the Washington, DC area since 1996. Brigit is a first-generation Latvian American, from a lineage rich with healers, midwives and teachers.