Primal Gestures: Moving Birth Stories with Anna Verwaal Hoorn The Netherlands
PRIMAL GESTURES
MOVING BIRTH STORIES
The Journey that Shapes Our Life
September 18 & 19
(Friday & Saturday)
Have you studied with or attended a lecture with Anna Verwaal? Have to taken a workshop with Liz Koch and Anna Verwaal?
Then this workshop is for you!
Exploring Primal Gestures
More than four decades of findings in the field of pre-and-perinatal psychology has shown that the moment of conception, the time in our mothers’ womb, and how we are born are foundational experiences that affect us for the rest of our lives. Our health, belief system, fears, and ability to form healthy relationships are profoundly shaped by early non-verbal, emotional, and somatic imprints created during this primal period.
This workshop is a follow-up for those of you who have studied with us and intellectually understand how conception, prenatal experience, and birth-related imprints might still play out in your day-to-day life. Exploring primal gestures is not about “rebirthing” but rather a deep inquiry of bio-morphic metabolizing that invites fresh creative impulses ~ reshaping your inner terrain.
Anna and Liz have taught collaboratively for over 10 years.
Group Size: 23
A creative collaboration:
International Pre & Perinatal Educator Anna Verwaal brings together decades of preconception to post-natal counseling and professional work experience in all areas of maternal-child health. Anna weaves her extensive personal and professional experience, with her stunning photography and storytelling to help laypersons and professionals in understanding the long-term effects of conception, womb-time, birth and early postnatal experience in order to discover how these experiences might still be affecting a person physically, emotionally, and relationally. Her insight is invaluable in awakening our core awareness.
International Author & Somatic Educator Liz Koch exploring primal gestures with core expression is a creative unfolding of somatic expressions. Liz brings her 45 years as a somatic educator to encourage integration and innovation. Using subtle primal movements we’ll begin to dissolve personal dynamics of conception, womb memory, and birth impressions held and expressed within cellular memory without eliciting cathartic reactions. Holding a container of nourishment our prenatal imprints, which may be playing out in a variety of expressions are able to find resolution. You will discover how insistent patterns reveal your life assumptions, strategies, and desires. Using micro-movement and sound-breath you’ll access fluid movements to dissolve, integrate, and awaken. Revitalizing the very core of your being to restore and nourish our full capacity for becoming dynamic, creative, heartfelt beings.
Biographies:
Anna Verwaal, RN, CLE is a maternal-child health nurse, conscious conception & birth consultant, primal period educator, midwife & doula instructor, UCLA certified lactation educator and birth photographer from the Netherlands. After a 25-year nursing career in various countries in obstetric, pediatric, neonatal hospital care, and home-health settings, working with families and babies as an educator/consultant Anna started her own private birth consulting practice. Anna is the presenter of a TEDx Talk by the same name, travels internationally giving lectures to groups and conventions, as well as offering workshops to professionals and laypeople about the long-term effects of the conception/prenatal/birth experience, the hormonal physiology of childbirth, breastfeeding, bonding, and the deeply psychological, emotional and spiritual aspects of giving birth. Anna is a long-term member of APPPAH, the Association of Pre and Perinatal Psychology & Health.
Liz Koch is an international educator, author, and creator of CoreAwareness™ focusing on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening consciousness. With 45 years experience specializing in the human core, Liz is recognized in the somatic, bodywork, and fitness professions as an authority on the core tissue called the Psoas. Both nationally and internationally published, her works include The Psoas Book, Unraveling Scoliosis CD, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise & Dance, Psoas & Back Pain CD, Mother, Maiden, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and her new book Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence (2019 North Atlantic Books)
CANCELLATION POLICY: FINAL – Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering.
