Jonathan graduated from the British College of Osteopathy and Naturopathy with a 1st Class honours in Osteopathic Medicine and a Diploma in Naturopathy. Since then he has practised as an osteopath in New Zealand and Australia working in both rural and metropolitan clinics.

His teaching experience began in New Zealand both through mentoring associates and through teaching on the osteopath program at UNITEC in Auckland during 2005 and 2006.

Then In 2008 he was invited to join the Faculty of the SCTF of Australia and New Zealand, and he has taught on several of their courses, and in 2016 he was elected and served on the board of the SCTF.

In 2009 he moved to Australia and spent 4 years as a lead clinic supervisor on the Osteopathy Masters program at SCU.

Also in 2009 he opened his own clinic ION Osteopaths and at that clinic he has mentored 7 osteopaths from their fledging 1st steps from graduation through to successful thriving patient lists.

In 2015 he opened Academy of Master Mechanics in order to teach his own syllabus of attendance courses, and the success of those teaching led to the foundation of Kindred Academy in 2016 in order to make those teachings available worldwide.

See his online teachings at kindredbe.com

Carey Benenson Taussig D.O. (IT) is an Osteopathic practitioner, professor, and certified graduate of Boston University and the College d’Etudes Osteopathique (CAN.) Teaching and working both in Italy and in the U.S., she is also an affiliate of the of the national Italian society ROI (Registro degli Osteopati d’Italia.) She first made her mark as an educator when her biodynamic visceral manipulation program was featured by Bastyr University in 2016. At that time, she was also published in the National Publication, Massage Magazine, and was recognized for creating a synergetic fusion between the biodynamics and the traditional philosophies originally established by the late 19th century bone setters and grandfathers of Osteopathy and visceral manipulation including the Founder, Dr. Andrew Taylor Still as well as Dr. Barber and more.

In her teachings she brings in the component of asking the viscera which body the strain is imprinted upon within the three bodies. This three-body concept was originally recognized in traditional Osteopathic teachings where it is taught that we have three bodies: the structural body, fluidic body, and electromagnetic body. She teaches also about the space inbetween the bodies where we can journey beyond the matter to invite or be invited to dialogue with matter in different phases of life and development. This often allows opportunity to shed the ancestral strains that can be translated through the generations through the ground matter and through the grid of the DNA.

Having also a science background, Carey helps the student keep their feet rooted in the anatomy offering the possibility to experience the liquid state of the continuum and the constant of energy in her teachings. With this, she stays footed in the anatomy and in her classes, she outlines the influence of the artery, capsule, tissue, scar tissue, vessels and nerves that can have a primary influence on the functionality of the organ (dense) or viscera (hollow organ.) The matter and the position of the structures count in their functionality potential.

At the same time, Carey refers often to the poetry in nature as a way to mirror in a true reference point to maintain the fulcrum without exhaust. She acknowledges the power of the visceral spine being more influential at times then the vertebral spine and lectures on the resonance potential of certain key point structures to maintain the tidal patterns of homeostasis.

Carey is highly intuitive, studied also with grand master physicians and practitioners worldwide and has studied extensively with the Native American Church. She is known for her extensive work with some of the most complicated cases involving the brain and nervous system, the heart, autoimmune disorders, chronic and acute pain as well as her extensive understanding and experience in.

She is teaching in the online classroom:

Asking the Viscera: An Introduction to Biodynamic Visceral Manipulation 

The Three Bodies: The Full Spectrum of Visceral Manipulation 

She owns Osteo in Florence, a private practice in Florence, Italy

Dr. Adré J. du Plessis, M.B.Ch.B., is a full-time attending in prenatal neurology, as well as the Director of the Prenatal Pediatrics Institute, Division Chief of Prenatal and Transitional Pediatrics, and Director of the Prenatal Brain Program at Children's National Hospital. In addition, Dr. du Plessis is a Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology at George Washington University School of Medicine.

He is a leading international expert in the normal and abnormal development of the brain, as well as the mechanisms of injury to the immature brain. Under his leadership, the Prenatal Pediatrics Institute provides individualized and specialized care to patients during and after the baby’s birth.

Dr. du Plessis specializes in prenatal neurology, particularly fetal brain developmental anomalies and the advanced fetal imaging that is used to diagnose these conditions in early pregnancy. His career-long research focus has been on the nervous system of the fetus and newborn, the hazards and mechanisms of injury, and the potential prevention of insult to the brain.

Fetal Brain Symposium: http://www.fetalbrainsymposium.com/

Children's Hospital: https://childrensnational.org/visit/find-a-provider/adre-du-plessis

Dr. Marilyn R Sanders is a board-certified pediatrician and neonatologist who cares for critically ill babies, infants, and their families at the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center Newborn Intensive Care Unit in Hartford, CT. Dr. Sanders did her pediatric residency at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and her fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Johns-Hopkins School of Medicine. She is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. She also provides neurodevelopmental follow-up for babies and infants up to 3 years old. Her scholarly interest is providing trauma-informed care to hospitalized newborns, infants, young children, and their families. Her focus is the impact of the autonomic nervous system’s sense of safety, danger, or life threat on our emotions and behavior. She lectures throughout the United States and Europe. She has authored papers and book chapters on trauma-informed care for young infants, children, and their families in the hospital setting. Dr Sanders is currently under book contract with WW Norton and Company. Her book, The Polyvagal Theory and the Developing Child, to be published in July 2021, discusses implications of the Polyvagal Theory, for the well-being and development of infants, children, and adolescents.

Dr. Price received a  Bachelor in Behavioral Science from the University of Maryland, followed  by a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Old Dominion University. She  completed her graduate degree at the University  of Cincinnati, graduating with a Master of Nursing in Midwifery, and a  post-Masters certificate in Global Women’s Health.  She received her  Executive Doctorate in Nursing from The Johns Hopkins University, with a  research focus on Change Leadership. Dr. Price  served as President of the American College of Nurse-Midwives in  Virginia, and serves as a board member for the March of Dimes and Ronald  McDonald House, as well as on state maternal mortality and perinatal  quality boards. She was nominated for Birth Advocate  of the Year in 2015 and for Global Women’s Health leader in 2018. In  2017, she won the prestigious Monarch Award for Innovation in Nursing.

Originally from Holland,  Dr. Price trained in New Zealand, and has worked in women’s and  children’s health clinically and as an administrator for more than 30  years. Dr. Price currently serves as the Chief Operating  Officer for the TriStar Centennial Women’s Hospital, and for the  Children’s Hospital at TriStar Centennial in Nashville. This year, she  was named a ‘2020 Woman to Watch’ by Nashville Medical News.

Dr. Price is a regular  speaker on respectful maternity care, and has published numerous  articles, as well as a recent book chapter on Women’s Voice in maternal  health. Her passion and expertise surrounding consent,  and her unique perspective as a Nurse-Midwife and hospital  administrator make her an expert on the patient experience for women of  childbearing age. Dr. Price works within her corporation and with other  organizations on a state and national level to improve  outcomes for women and children, and to increase access to respectful  woman-centered care.

In this podcast, we discuss Dr. Price's weight loss journey. She has been able to go from a size 22 to a size 8, and has a goal of a BMI below 25. Once nearly 300 pounds, she has documented her weight loss journey on social media. She encourages people to reach out to her there, and to document their hikes to lose weight with #hikeitoff. 

In 1990, Bob Lehnberg received his certification as Practitioner of Body-Mind Centering® (BMCsm) and in 2002 Teacher of Body-Mind Centering. Since then Bob has received teacher certifications for BMC Yoga, Integral Yoga and Supreme Science of Qigong. He has been teaching in schools of massage therapy and programs of somatic training since 1990 and has had the good fortune to teach BMC and somatic practices throughout the US and internationally in Europe, Canada, China, and Taiwan.

Bob is a co-founder of Kinesthetic Learning Center in Durham, NC and has been on faculty teaching and coordinating the BMC Somatic Movement Educator (SME) and Practitioner certification programs since 2007. He is coordinator of SME courses for Esprit en Mouvement in Montreal, Canada and is Co-director of the SME program in Taitung, Taiwan.

He is offering courses that bring together qigong and embryology, a time in healing earliest experiences that can be very fruitful. I wrote about this saying, Sometimes You Gotta Go Back To Go Forward, a saying that Bob shared with me from his teacher, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. The embryological movement sequences he teaches allow us to go back before the trauma and fully embody our whole selves. His healing work that combines energy, movement, ancient tradition and embryology is a wonderful mix that is healing and stimulating. 

This podcast is an interview with therapists Paula Scatoloni and Rachel Lewis-Marlow and their specialty of working with eating disorders and trauma healing.

Paula Scatoloni is a somatic-based psychotherapist, Certified Eating Disorders Specialist, and Somatic Experiencing™ practitioner in Chapel Hill, NC. She has worked in the field of eating disorders for over two decades. Paula served as the Eating Disorder Coordinator at Duke University CAPS for nine years and has taught extensively on the etiology and treatment of eating disorders through workshops, professional trainings, and conferences. She co-developed the first intensive outpatient program for eating disorders in the U.S with Dr. Anita Johnston. Paula is passionate about increasing awareness of the effectiveness of somatic modalities in the treatment of disordered eating and hopes to pursue research on the effectiveness of somatic therapy within the eating disorders population in the near future.

Rachel Lewis-Marlow is a somatically integrative psychotherapist, dually licensed in counseling and therapeutic massage and bodywork. She is a Certified Advanced Practitioner in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and has advanced training and 25 + years experience in diverse somatic therapies including Craniosacral Therapy, Energetic Osteopathy, Oncology massage and Aromatherapy. Rachel is a private consultant to eating disorder treatment facilities. She provides ongoing training and supervision to clinical and support staff in the programmatic implementation of the EMBODIED RECOVERY model. In her private practice in Chapel Hill, NC, Rachel works with trauma, eating disorders, and dissociative disorders.

Links:

Website www.embodiedrecovery.org

Book Chapters: https://www.amazon.com/Trauma-Informed-Approaches-Eating-Disorders-Seubert/dp/0826172644

Mia was born in Calgary, Canada, and studied at Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, graduating in 1998. From there she practiced both chiropractic and craniosacral therapy until committing solely to cranial work and prebirth and birth healing in 2003. After opening Emerging Families, a centre dedicated to therapy, research, and education for the prebirth and birth period, she published her first book, The Secret Life of Babies: How Our Prebirth and Birth Experiences Shape Our World, 2014. 

Her second book, It's Never Too Late: Healing Prebirth and Birth At Any Age, out this year, is a practical guide to for parents, caregivers, and health care providers. She follows in the tradition of R.D. Laing through her mentor, Andrew Feldmar—whose only approach is to suspend any protocol and labels, and to respectfully follow the patient who is entrusted to guide his or her own life. Her techniques are also influenced by Osteopathy, Body-Mind Centering, and her time serving the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers, as well as by her years in The Orphan Wisdom School in Ontario, Canada, and studying with Dr. and Elder, Malidoma Some. 

I invited Jim back so we could go deeper into his work. Formative Embodiment is a mixture of approaches in which somatic practitioners could see themselves and their work. What sets it apart of therapies like Somatic Experiencing? Stanley Kelerman's approach was to look at "form." Listen as Jim Feil describes how he works with clients, and we explore what happens when clients have fight, flight or freeze responses. We also discuss using touch. 

Stanley Keleman is one of the primary influences for Jim Feil’s synthesis of his lifelong studies and practice, resulting in the work he calls Formative Embodiment (FE).Among other important influences are Polarity Therapy, Cranial Biodynamics and Pre and Perinatal Therapy.

The FE work focuses on our lifelong relationship to our changing form. After we move through our gestation and early childhood, we become ever more participatory in forming ourselves into competent, effective, complex and hopefully satisfied adults.

We confront crises, traumas, conflicts, dilemmas and, of course, opportunities – all challenges to form and forming. We develop modes of action, behavior and understanding that enable us to learn from and leverage our experience as we move forward to carve out a future. We build a personal body and life field out of our genetic inheritance and experience.

FE, built as it is on primary organizing principles of the human form, can be both a stand-alone work, or enrich virtually any other therapy, coaching or educational process.

About Jim Feil

Dr. Jim Feil, MA, DC, RPP has over 45 years in the study, practice and teaching of energetic and somatic therapeutic practices. His first career was as teacher of English and American Literature.

He began his career in therapy by studying with the founder of Polarity Therapy, Dr. Randolph Stone in 1970, and went on to earn his Doctor of Chiropractic degree in California in 1986. He began studying Formative Psychology with Stanley Keleman in 1981, continuing until his passing in 2018.

He has studied and taught Craniosacral Biodynamics (with Franklyn Sills), and Pre and Perinatal Therapy among other methodologies. He works with adults using verbal and body-oriented techniques, specializing in formative and somatic methodologies. He has taught in the US, throughout Europe and in China.

His work directs itself at helping individuals form themselves to effectively and competently respond to life transitions, challenges, crises, and opportunities.

Matthew Appleton co-founded Conscious Embodiment Trainings in 2006, with his partner Jenni Meyer, to promote awareness of pre and perinatal psychology, sacred ecology and somatic wisdom. Prior to this he was also co-founder of the Institute of Craniosacral Studies and was a senior teacher with the Institute for 12 years. Matthew is a registered Craniosacral Therapist and Body Psychotherapist living and working in Bristol. He trained in Pre and Perinatal Education with Karlton Terry in Switzerland and worked with Karlton in the UK for a number of years. For ten years he lived as a houseparent at A. S. Neill’s famous democratic school Summerhill and his book ‘A Free Range Childhood’ based on his experiences at Summerhill has been published in several languages. Drawing from his work with babies and children, and his training experience with Karlton Terry, Matthew developed Integrative Baby Therapy, which he teaches internationally to practitioners from a diverse range of backgrounds.

His Website:  https://conscious-embodiment.co.uk/ 

A Free Range Childhood:  https://www.amazon.com/A-Free-Range-Childhood/dp/1870258460 

Human Baby Human Being Conference:  http://babyconference.co.uk/ , recordings available

Article by Matthew Attached: The Influence of Birth Trauma on the Physical and Emotional Well-Being of the Baby