PRENATAL AND PERINATAL SOMATICS
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Pediatric Bodywork Program

We are partnering with professionals who work with babies to bring you training programs so you can feel confident when working with babies.
Level One
  • ​Assessment of the baby from a structural and behavioral perspective.
  • Reflective practices for practitioners on their own early experience
  • Basic tools and skills for tracking stress and trauma states
  • Trauma sensitive intakes, birth from the baby's perspective
Level Two
​Skills to Teach Parents and ways to help them know their baby better.
  • Infant Massage
  • Stretches for Parents
  • Infant Cues
  • Milestones
  • Early Childhood Education​​
Level Three
​This advanced level offers skills for treating the birth and birth trauma, especially what to do if the birth gets complicated.
  • Osteopathic and cranial skills to work with birth trauma
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Treating babies is some of the most rewarding work you will ever do.
The impact you have on their lives is profound because you have the ability to change so much at a pivotal time in their development.
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How does this Training Program work?
It focuses on the practical aspects of handling, examining and treating babies, and it uses videos of babies being treated in clinic in order to show you exactly what to do and when.

It brings together professionals to offers courses that you will come back to time and time again and will form the solid foundational core of your pediatric training.
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It's suitable for a wide range of practitioners as it includes a wide range of techniques, and none of these techniques require specific pre course knowledge. If you are used to working 'hands on' with the body then you will quickly pick up these techniques and examination protocols.

The techniques used are clear and easy to follow but allow for adaptation.
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Treating a human being is part art and part science.

Instructors

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Kate White, Founder, PPSI
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Kate White is an award-winning educator and an advanced bodyworker. She is trained in somatic therapies, prenatal and perinatal health, lactation, brain development, infant mental health, and has specialized in parent-baby dyad care using somatic prevention and trauma healing approaches for nearly 30 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 therapy with brain development 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 world renown Prenatal and Perinatal Educator Certificate program, a large online educational program for professionals. She went on to found Prenatal and Perinatal Healing Online. 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 and the Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics Institute

More Instructors Coming Soon
The Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics Institute is an official training organization within the USABP. 
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  • Home
    • About PPSI
    • History and Legacy
    • Educator, Practitioner, Assistant, Faculty Tracks
    • Stories from the Field
  • PPN Wellness Toolkit
    • List of Twelve Modules
    • Your Instructors
  • IPPD
    • Indigenous Midwife Training Project
    • New York CIty IPPD Training
    • Australian Training >
      • Australian Logistics
    • Foundations >
      • Arizona Foundations for Indigenous Midwives
      • Virginia Foundations >
        • Virginia Foundation, IPPD Training and Logistics
    • IPPD Training >
      • IPPD Level One
      • IPPD Level Two
      • IPPD Level Three
    • Practitioners
  • Pediatric Bodywork
    • Pediatric Bodywork Level One
    • Pediatric Bodywork Level Two
    • Pediatric Bodywork Level Three
    • Practitioners
  • Early Family Somatics
    • Assessment and Evaluation
    • Practitioners
  • Advanced Bodywork
    • Advanced Bodywork in PPS Level One
    • Advanced Bodywork for PPS Level Two
    • Advanced Bodywork for PPS Level Three