Advanced Bodywork for Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics
First Training Start in Fall 2025, Location TBA
We have designed a touch training for the advanced trauma professionals working with adults to integrate earliest experiences starting preconception.
Each module combines elements of prenatal and perinatal somatics, embryology, practitioner skills development and a specific touch sequence that operates as a container for the adult.
Each module combines elements of prenatal and perinatal somatics, embryology, practitioner skills development and a specific touch sequence that operates as a container for the adult.
This bodywork training combines elements of:
- Somatic Trauma Resolution and 5 Categories of Practitioner Skills
- Embryology and Body-Mind Movement
- Energetic Bodywork: Biodynamics and Polarity
- Full Spectrum Touch Skills Combining 5 Kinds of Touch in a Sequence
It is a 9 module training, in 3 Levels:
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Level One: Basic Patterns
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Level Two: Intervention Imprints and Trauma Patterns
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Level Three: Advanced PPN Patterns, Working with Double Binds
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Prerequisites:
- Foundations in Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics (required if you have not taken IPPD or other PPN training) OR
- Womb Surround workshops with Kate White or Frank Carbone
- Somatic skills training, including Somatic Experiencing, Touching Trauma, Somatic Resilience and Regulation, Transforming the Experiential Brain, Alchemical Alignment, Blueprint Resonance and Verbal Skills
Good Basic Training assists in integration of this advanced training, including:
- Massage Therapy
- Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
- Polarity Therapy
Meet Our Teaching Team
Frank Carbone
Frank offers support and guidance in experiential and creative ways to explore movement and deep healing in an embryonic journey from the inside. Tracking and reflecting the sensations of being held in a womb created in a field of co creative bio resonate expression of fluid and its restorative capacity to dissolve and return to form. We can connect to all fluid systems and mysterious slow rhythms of our ever creative embryo.
Frank is also a Singer and a Songwriter, DJ, and a Gyrotonic Instructor. Frank grew up in NYC and has been conducting Womb Continuum Process Workshops worldwide, as well a one on one practice in Ojai California and New York. See more about him at wombcontinuum.com |
Kate White
Kate White is an award-winning educator and an advanced bodyworker. She is trained in somatic therapies, prenatal and perinatal somatic health, lactation, brain development, infant mental health, and has specialized in parent-baby dyad care using somatic prevention and trauma healing approaches for nearly 25 years. She is a mother of two children, holds a BA and MA in Communication, is a Registered Craniosacral Therapist in the Biodynamic Craniosacral method and a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner. Her work combines somatic trauma healing, energetic therapies, bodywork, pediatric therapies and education about the nervous system to help give families with babies and small children the best possible start. She is Founding Director of Education for the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health where from 2013 – 2019 she created and ran the Prenatal and Perinatal Educator Certificate program, a large online educational program for professionals. She went on to found Prenatal and Perinatal Healing Online and the Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics Institute. She teaches classes online and in person, and offers a training called Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics. She has a private practice in Charlottesville, VA called Belvedere Integrated Healing Arts (belvederearts.com) and offers her own seminars through the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs, ppncenter.com
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