PRENATAL TRAUMA HEALING

The scientific-somatic format of the congress is focused on the topic of healing traumatic imprints from the prenatal and perinatal period of our lives and their impact on life in adolescence and adulthood.
It is also the intention of the event, through these insights and experiences, to bring about a societal change in the approach to this very important early period of human lives and thus promote the prevention of childhood trauma.

WHEN?

3.-5. MAY 2024
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22.4.  17h - 18,30h
on-line interactive meeting with Stephen Porges

 

WHERE?

Hotel Energetic, Rožnov p. Radhoštěm + ON-LINE

This international congress will focus on a variety of ways in which to approach healing adverse experiences that originate in the womb - from conception to the first year of life after birth. And thereby mitigate or neutralize the negative effects of these early imprints on our lives. Our first experiences in life have a powerful influence on who we are and how we behave, leaving a deep imprint on us and affecting our entire lives. We have the opportunity to constructively process and integrate these experiences. And be who we are at our core.

INTERACTIVE LIVE AND ONLINE MEETINGS WITH WORLD-CLASS PRACTITIONERS - FROM ABROAD AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC.

Two-way English - Czech translation provided.

PÁTEK 3.5.2024

09:30 - 11:30
Jaap van der Wal
Embryo v nás

13:00 - 15:00
Matthew Appleton 
Prenatální vztahovost - Děloha jako determinující matrix, kým se stáváme

15:30 - 17:30
Apab’yan Tew
Formování vědomí dítěte

18:30 - 20:00 - 3.5. jen ze záznamu / 22.4. od 17hod. interaktivní on-line setkání
Stephen Porges
Bezpečí jako prevence i podmínka uzdravení traumatu optikou polyvagální teorie

20:00 - 22:30
Beseda s Petrem Horkým
a odborníky na danou tématiku

SOBOTA 4.5.2024

10:00 - 13:00
Radek Neškrabal
Vědomá práce s fasciální sítí jako cesta k uvolnění zapouzdřených traumat

14:30 - 17:30
Dorothe Trassl
E-motion trauma

19:00 - 22:00
DušeK - s Jaroslavem Duškem, Marošem Vago, Helenou Máslovou, Ellynne Skove, Dorothe Trassl a Radkem Neškrabalem
O rozpouštění, pouštění a odpouštění

NEDĚLE 5.5.2024

08:30 - 09:30
Tereza Winklerová
Embryo jóga a regulace nervového systému 

10:00 - 12:30
Thomas Verny
Přenášení zranění v průběhu života a napříč generacemi

14:00 - 16:30
Ellynne Skove
Narušení vazby ve vztahu mezi matkou a dítětem a její náprava

17:00 - 18:00
Jana Slavíčková
Rituál dokolébání - přerámování pre a perinatální zkušenosti

18:30 - 20:30
Rituál Dokolébání v praxi

 

SPEAKERS

Stephen Porges

interactiv on-line meeting 22.4. od 17h
He is a professor of psychiatry, an eminent scientist and a world authority on the diagnosis and treatment of traumatic stress. He is the creator of the polyvagal theory, which links the evolution of the mammalian nervous system to social behavior and physiological states. He is the Chief Scientific Advisor to Unyte Health, leading the development of new products, therapies, research and educational programs based on polyvagal theory. He is the creator of the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) music intervention - a practical application of Polyvagal Theory - and co-founder of the Polyvagal Institute (PVI), a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting research, education and community building in the field of Polyvagal Theory. "Our nervous system is constantly trying to find a way to survive, to be safe." - Dr. Stephen Porges

Matthew Appleton

interactiv on-line meeting 3.5.
He is a psychotherapist, craniosacral therapist and provides integrative therapies for children. He is trained in Core Process Psychotherapy and Integrative Body Psychotherapy. His work with clients also draws on mindfulness practice, somatic and psychological shock resolution, pre- and perinatal psychology and I use imagery and internal energetic processes to explore embodied experience. She incorporates structural and biodynamic aspects of craniosacral therapy into her practice and specializes in working with infants and children. Inconsolable crying, restlessness, colic, sleep and feeding problems can often be related to previous issues that have not been resolved. This can be recognised by the baby's 'body language', this may be 'recall crying' which can be distinguished from 'crying in the present moment of needs' such as hunger, tiredness or boredom.

Jaap van der Wal

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Jaap is anatomist, embryologist, phenomenologist. Jaap van der Wal PhD is a medical doctor and until his retirement in 2012 he was Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Anatomy and Embryology at the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands. After his medical training in 1973, he specialized in the functional anatomy of the so-called musculoskeletal (or: locomotor) system with (later) emphasis on the architecture of connective tissue and fascia and their role in proprioception. Gradually, he developed into a teacher of philosophy of science and medical anthropology. "My passion, however, was and still is human embryology. The human body is a process that develops and functions over time. The embryo moves and behaves in forms. In this field I came across anthroposophy and Goethe's phenomenological approach. I use the method of dynamic morphology to understand what we actually do as human beings when we are embryos. With respect, I can find in the embryo tentative answers to questions about the meaning of human existence. "After his retirement, he put all his energy into Embryo in Motion, a global project to teach Embryosophy. He now teaches his 'Embryosophy' in Europe and the USA in institutes for cranio-sacral therapy, osteopathy, polarity therapy, but also prenatal psychology and trauma therapy, etc.

Apab’yan Tew

interactiv on-line meeting 3.5.
Tat Apab'yan Tew is an Ajq'ij - a spiritual guide of the K'iche' Maya people of the Guatemalan highlands. In addition to being an expert on the Mayan calendar, guardian of the day, bone healer, and herbalist, he is the only man who was trained as a midwife in the highlands. Over decades of practice, Tat Apab'yan has developed an expanded schema for understanding the consciousness of the child during pregnancy. He shared his introduction in his first book - 'The Birth of the Universe: the Mayan Science of Pregnancy. ' Mayan science and philosophy that studies procreation points to a sacred and cultivated femininity. In the acts of the mother there are biological and cognitive links that will structure the deployment of the various forms of consciousness by which man will face the world and decant it in perception and interpretation. His efforts were aimed at presenting ancient knowledge not as a folkloric story, but as a science that can explain us all as the result of processes of emergence/conception. It is a full-fledged science to be shared.

Thomas Verny

live meeting 4.5.
World renowned physician, psychiatrist, scientist and pioneer of prenatal and perinatal psychology. Author of the bestselling The Secret Life of the Unborn Child and The Mind of the Whole Body. Thomas Verny has Czechoslovakian roots and returns home to share his knowledge and experience with Czech and Slovak audiences. Born in Bratislava, Slovakia, he emigrated to Canada in 1952 and now lives with his wife in Stratford, Canada. Beyond his profession, he is also a poet and the author of 47 scientific papers and eight books. He also has his own Podcast called "Pushing the boundaries". Read more: www.thomasverny.cz

Dorothe Trassl

live meeting 4.5.
Psychologist and yoga teacher Dorothe Trassl combines the best of both worlds - mental and physical - in her work. She combines the experience of The Journey therapist, conscious coach and e-motion trauma yoga therapist. A mother of three, Dorothe lived in South Africa with her family and worked as a therapist and counsellor for a charity. Here she was confronted daily with hopeless situations and heartbreaking traumas. Her passion has always been to assist her clients in healing and liberating themselves as well as empowering individuals to be the change in their communities. She especially loves working with women's groups and supports programs that empower women. Since returning to Germany in 2007, Dorothe has been in private practice as a trainer and therapist in Munich, Germany, and conducts workshops. She works closely with Brandon Bays, Kevin Billett and many other presenters of The Journey. She is a senior trainer and translator and presents morning yoga classes at The Journey's advanced events throughout Europe and around the world. Dorothe combines her expertise in Journeywork, trauma therapy and yoga into a unique body therapy called e-motion. Her specialty is designing customized movement activities to support and facilitate groups in workshops to access specific mental and emotional blockages and release stored trauma and emotions. Her gentleness and compassion creates a clarity and embrace that allows for deep opening and healing. Her voice brings the calm, confidence and assurance needed to help.

Ellynne Skove

live meeting 5.5.
Licensed somatic creative arts psychotherapist specializing in pre- and perinatal psychology. Ellynne is the founder of Bright Start Babies and the creator of GoGo Babies, a support program for new parents and babies. She works with adults and children to promote birth trauma healing, attachment recovery therapy and prenatal bonding. Her work includes bodywork, somatic experiencing, polyvagal theory, creative arts, sand tray work, theta level healing, energy healing, movement and more. Read more here: www.brightstartbabies.net

Radek Neškrabal

live meeting 5.5.
Originally trained as a technician, he embarked on his journey of discovery into the mystery of the wise body and its ability to return to its natural state of health in 1987. Gradually, he became interested in exploring alternative approaches to human health and life in resonance with the laws of nature. In the course of his studies in various directions, he joined the first seminar of the French School of Craniosacral Osteopathy in 1994, organized by the Austrian lecturer Dr. Joelle-Aimee Kubisch. It was then that he also became acquainted with the Czech Psychoenergetic Society and began to gain experience in bioenergetic healing. In 1995, he had his first close encounter with craniosacral therapy (Sabine Gerhardy Mach from Germany - a consultant at the Upledger Center in California - was a lecturer in this field) and from that moment on his enthusiasm for this complex approach to human beings has not diminished.

Jana Slavíčková

live meeting 5.5.
She is a guide to people at the end of life, their loved ones and survivors. She is a trained veterinarian, mother of 4 sons, two of whom were born in home births. As present as she is with dying and death, she sees a strong parallel to the process of birth. Through her own experience and exploration of birth dynamics, she discovers how our arrival and welcome into the world fundamentally affects how we subsequently go through life. From what place we relate to ourselves, to others, to life and death. She believes that by treating our early traumatic experiences, we change not only our lives, but also how we will one day die. She guides through personal transformational rites of passage. Accompanies families through perinatal loss. She lectures experiential-educational seminars Towards Death the Good Way and organizes Towards Death the Good Festival in Ostrava. Facilitates regular K Death Good Coffee cult events across the country.

Tereza Winklerová

live meeting 5.5.
She studied sociology and andragogy at the University of Applied Sciences in Olomouc. She graduated from the coaching program at the EIF European Institute of Fitness Master Diploma in Personal Training. She is also a yoga teacher, but she also draws inspiration from many other approaches of intelligent body and movement work, such as BMC, craniosacral therapy, developmental kinesiology, somatic embryology, Continuum, Feldenkrais and Alexander Technique and many others. She founded the successful Intelligent Movement Congress, where professionals and wider public connect and inspire each other.

Jaroslav Dušek

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He hosts an evening discussion as part of the SoulK programme. The discussion will include MUDr. Helena Máslová and other performers from the congress.

Maros Vago

live meeting 4.5.
Maroš Vago is an applied psychologist and director of CBDium, a company dedicated to the production of cannabis essences and the integration of natural treatments into classical medicine. As part of a year-long fellowship, he served as a ceremony supervisor at a healing center in Peru that combines techniques from the Quechua Shipibo shamanic tribe and Western medicine. He is now abandoning individual therapeutic practice and establishing the APU concept, which helps the general public get in touch with their own consciousness through simple shamanic and psychological techniques.

Helena Máslová

live meeting 4.5.
A physician who has worked in psychosomatics and trauma work for many years. She has a long-standing commitment to the humanization of midwifery and the promotion of early mother-child bonding.

PRESENTATION ABSTRACT

Stephen Porges - Safety as prevention and condition for trauma healing through the lens of polyvagal theory

interactive on-line meeting 22.4. od 17h
A large part of his presentation will be devoted to your questions. The meeting is suitable for therapists as well as wider public who want to better understand themselves and those around them. The focus will be on the Polyvagal theory which emphasizes the role of the autonomic nervous system in regulating our health and behavior. The theory describes physiological/psychological states that underlie our everyday behavior as well as the challenges related to our mental well-being and health. By applying polyvagal theory to our personal lives and to fields such as medicine, education, and management, we can understand how safety, coregulation, and connection are paramount to a healthy human experience. Our autonomic nervous system evolved to keep us safe and alive. As mammals evolved from reptiles, our autonomic nervous system adapted to automatically communicate with other mammals and engage various self-defense systems when necessary. When our self-defense systems are repeatedly or chronically engaged or we are unable to communicate effectively with others, our body systems can become stuck in certain maladaptive states. Porges' theory also offers effective tools to help people overcome the lasting effects of trauma.

Matthew Appleton - The Relational Prenate - Our Matrix of becoming

interactive on-line meeting 3.5.
Our most formative experiences take place before we are born. Our life is the womb is our matrix of becoming. During this time we are in constant relationship with the biological, psychological, emotional, historical and social environments of our parents, in particular our mother. Our psyches and the cells of our developing bodies are marinated in these environmental matrices. As such, we imbue a sense of the world and who we are in the world. This formative sense of self shapes the foundations of who will become. This talk focuses on the needs of the prenatal person and how we can support these to nurture healthy foundations to the emerging self.

Jaap van der Wal - The Mindful Embryo - A phenomenological window to our prenatal life

interactive on-line meeting 3.5.
In this lecture, Jaap van der Wal will present a phenomenological view of our existence as an embryo, with the question in the background: What are we actually doing when we are an embryo? Is there awareness or consciousness? Does the embryo experience itself and its environment? Is this even possible for a being that today is usually considered "brainless" and has to be valued as a kind of "not yet (adult) being"? It will be shown (or at least an attempt will be made to defend it) that the embryo shows that there are two ways for your soul/mind to be involved in or connected to your body. The body-forming soul on the one hand, and the experiencing soul/mind through organs such as the brain, nervous system, and sense organs on the other. So, consciousness is not a product of the body, but the spirit/soul does not come through the body! In fact, just as our consciousness is not produced by the body, our body is not the product of a single "fertilized" egg cell and thus the sum of cells. No! "The body evolved out of us, not we out of it. We made the body, cell by cell we made it" (Rumi). The lecture will also include a warning not to reduce the humanizing act of healing trauma to a kind of brain repair. As has been said: The brain is a necessary condition for consciousness, and so life is deeply connected to the mind, but it is not a causal principle: consciousness through not from the brain.

Apab’yan Tew - Shaping the consciousness of a baby

interactive on-line meeting 3.5.
The ancestral Maya philosophy takes us into the world of pregnancy where the baby is conscious and receptive. In this talk, Tat Apab’yan Tew leads us into the sacred feminine and construction of being. We receive an introduction to millennial knowledge, zealously preserved, that reveals the approach of Maya medicine —and predicts individual human character from the womb. Consulting the Maya Calendar, the Cholq’ij offers a frame of understanding, diagnosis and therapy within health sciences and spirituality. The feminine is revealed in its true magnitude: we are an expression of the Universe and our mother shapes the content.     Topics   -What the ancient Cholq’ij is?   -Understanding the Cholq’ij as a tool for pregnancy tracking.   -Reading the Cholq’ij and dynamics of interplay.   -Consciousness in a baby, Maya epistemology.   -Healing prenatal trauma.   -A development of a universe: understanding a baby character and personality.

Thomas Verny - Carrying the Wounding Over the Lifespan and Across Generations

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Stress and Trauma and in the Pre- and Peri-natal Period • Exposure to stressful or hostile conditions in utero is associated with compromised development and a lifelong risk of adverse health outcomes. • In utero maternal stress factors are more likely to produce detrimental health outcomes for males compared to females. • The effects of the trauma persist because the traumatic event is locked into the cellular structure of the body. • Traumatized people react to reminders of the trauma with emergency responses that were relevant at the time of the original threat but are not ego syntonic in the present. • Traumatic events imprint the genetic material in germ cells and may be thus passed on for several generations.     Trauma is generally defined as an event that induces severe fear, helplessness, or horror. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a particular type of trauma that has been much in the news. Essentially, PTSD occurs when a person feels overwhelmed and helpless in a life-threatening situation. PTSD has long-lasting and often debilitating effects. Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma The idea that a parental traumatic experience could be passed on to subsequent generations gained acceptance in scientific circles in the late 70s and early 80s. Since the mid-1980s, controlled studies on the children of Holocaust survivors (in reality – adults) showed increased vulnerability to PTSD, distrust of the world, impaired parental function, chronic sorrow, inability to communicate feelings, ever-present fear of danger, separation anxiety, boundary issues, and other psychiatric disorders. Adults with a childhood history of unresolved trauma are more likely to develop lifestyle diseases (heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, skeletal fractures, and liver disease) and be likely to enter and remain in the criminal justice system. Such people suffer from the highest unemployment rates, poverty, alcoholism, and suicide in the country. All are factors associated with adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes in offspring. And let us remember: abuse begets abuse for many generations until the chain is interrupted. In the same way, parents pass on genetic characteristics to their children. They also pass on all kinds of “acquired,” that is, epigenetic characteristics, especially if these originated in powerful emotionally charged experiences like exposure to starvation, violence, or the tragic loss of loved ones. Such traumatic events leave an imprint on the genetic material in germ cells of individuals and may be transferred to their children and their children’s children.   Cellular Memory of Trauma The effects of the trauma persist because the traumatic event is locked into the cellular structure of the body. Chronic trauma is another example of body memory. In such cases, a touch, smell, sound, even certain types of weather can act as triggers and bring the past suddenly into the present again. The writer Aharon Appelfeld, put it this way in his memoirs: Everything that happened at that time has left its mark in the cells of my body. Not in my memory. The body’s cells seem to remember better than the memory, which is intended for this. For years after the war, I did not walk in the middle of the pavement or path, but always close to the wall, always in the shade, always in a hurry like someone fleeing...Sometimes it is enough to smell food, feel the dampness in my shoes, or hear a sudden noise to bring me back to the war...The war sits in all my bones. In the above example, it is not a particular episode but an entire segment of a person’s life that has left its mark on the body, more deeply and permanently, than autobiographic memory could ever do. Traumatized persons react to reminders of the trauma with emergency responses that were relevant at the time of the original threat but, alas, no longer apply to the current situation. Individuals afflicted by PTSD exhibit enduring and pervasive symptoms of depression, survivor guilt, anger, intense fear, self-destructive behavior including substance abuse, hypervigilance, dissociation, low self-esteem, dreams of being violated, involuntary and intrusive memories of the traumatic event, memory loss for other parts of that event, lack of ability to concentrate, impairment of social functioning, and feelings of detachment or estrangement from others.   Representative Research McGill researchers and their Swiss collaborators have discovered that histones are part of the content of sperm transmitted at fertilization. The researchers created mice in which they slightly altered the biochemical information on the histones during sperm cell formation. The offspring were adversely affected both in terms of their development and in terms of their survival. These effects could still be seen two generations later. Their findings are remarkable because they indicate that information in addition to DNA is involved in heritability. The study highlights the critical role that fathers play in the health of their children and even grandchildren. In a Tufts University School of Medicine study, male mice exposed to chronic social instability stress during adolescence transmitted stress-associated behaviors to their female offspring across at least three generations even if these children never experienced significant stress themselves or interacted with their fathers by way of the male lineage. One mechanism for this effect was found to be sperm miRNA. Sperm miRNA expression in humans has been affected by environmental factors, such as smoking and obesity. However, this is the first study to demonstrate sperm miRNA changes in response to stress in humans and raises the possibility that sperm miRNA could be a biomarker for early abuse as well as elevated susceptibility of offspring to psychiatric disorders. Healing Traumas, whether physical or psychological, are locked in the whole body. Health professionals such as osteopaths, chiropractors, craniosacral therapists, massage therapists, and others working with their clients’ bodies generally subscribe to the belief that it is the physical, sexual or emotional trauma that has created localized, compressed area or areas of foreign, disorganized energy in the body, walled off from consciousness. Working on these areas will often uncover and liberate traumatic memories and/or free the person of chronic pain. In addition to personal counseling or therapy, sharing one’s dreadful memories with other members of one’s community in traditional ceremonies provides a cathartic release of painful emotions. It initiates grief resolution, including a more positive identity and a commitment to individual and community healing. This has resulted in less shame, guilt, stigma, anger, sadness, and an increase in joy, a sense of personal power and valuation, and respect for one’s familial origins. Consider the role which altered states  such as sweat lodges, Mesmerism, hypnosis, sodium amytal and psychedelics have played over the centuries in clinical and cultural efforts to transcend psychological trauma. Psychedelics have long been employed by traditional healers to promote physical and mental recovery. The US Food and Drug Administration recently granted MDMA and psilocybin Breakthrough Therapy designation to accelerate study of their efficacy in psychiatric disorders while ketamine clinics multiply apace.

Dorothe Trassl - E-motion trauma

live meeting 4.5.
One of the most important things in life is the art of regulating your nervous system in everyday life. This ability brings greater peace and joy, a release of tension and stress, and a more conscious approach to decision making. The E-motion concept is about clearing and healing trauma and working with the body. In this session, we will explore theoretical and experiential techniques that focus on regulating our nervous system, releasing old traumas that we are often unaware of that are stored in our bodies. The trauma is not what happened to us, however painful and challenging such a situation may have been, but what is stored in our nervous system from that situation. We discover a whole new way of healing that uproots deeply stored cellular memories, ingrained traumas and injuries that we have not had access to before.

Ellynne Skove - BONDING DISRUPTONS and REPAIR in the MOTHER/INFANT DYAD: An Introduction to Pre and Perinatal Psychology and Assessing Patients at Risk

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Bonding is the intense feeling a mother has for her baby in utero and after birth.  IT is the “glue” that creates the strong mammalian instinct to protect and care for her young.  All mammals bond with their young and the babies then form attachment to their mothers.  Bonding and attachment are crucial to survival. Trust, sense of self, ability to relate to others, work with others, and enjoy life are the key aspects of bonding and attachment that can influence thriving in life.   This thriving is both emotional and physiological.   In pregnancy and birth there can be bonding disruptions that influence the health of the mother and baby.  Post partum mood and anxiety disorders can result, colicky and inconsolable babies, babies with asthma, as well as children who are cold, distant, and abusive.  Later in life, we see adults who are unable to sustain healthy relationships in marriage, work, and social endeavors. Being able to assess clients and patients can alert health professionals to bonding disruptions and enable them to refer to proper care. In this workshop we will learn about pre and perinatal psychology and health, and focus on bonding, bonding disruptions, and bonding repair interventions.  We will examine conception, gestational, and birth imprints.

Radek Neškrabal - Conscious work with the fascial network as a way to release encapsulated traumas

live meeting 5.5.
A preview of the imprints of difficult to regulate situations on the body system, its different layers from the perspective of philosophy and knowledge of Cranio Sacral Therapy, Osteopathy and Biodynamics - Polarity Therapy. The implications of the imprinted themes on the anatomy, physiology and vitality of the sentient being and how to help achieve optimal alignment and functionality approaching the original matrix of health. Making visible how imbalances and discomfort are connected at different layers of the body - manifesting connections at all visible and even seemingly unrelated areas of functional units and creating segmented areas - (disconnection). My list of questions that lead me to practical experiences and that we also ask together, for example: Can trauma and the demands of life be prevented? If I don't "want" something in life, what do I want instead? What is it that limits me and how can I understand these limitations in my life? In what ways can places of disconnection be found? How do I reconnect the layers - the mind-body and vitality? I will share my perspective on these questions and many others that will become visible during our session, based on my more than 30 years of practice. The theoretical part will be accompanied by a practical insight into getting answers from the body system itself.

Jana Slavíčková - The ritual of kneeling - reframing the pre and perinatal experience

live meeting 5.5.
She is an end of life doula, trained veterinarian, mother of 4 sons (two of whom were born in home births). She sees a strong parallel between dying and the process of birth. Through her own experience and exploration of birth dynamics, she studies how our arrival to the world fundamentally affects the way we go about our life. From what place we relate to ourselves, to others, to life and death. She believes that by treating our early traumatic experiences, we change not only our lives, but also how we will one day die. She guides through personal transformational rites of passage. Accompanies families through perinatal loss. She lectures experiential-educational seminars Towards Death the Good Way and organizes Towards Death the Good Festival in Ostrava. She also facilitates regular K Death Good Coffee cult events across the country.

Tereza Winklerová - Embryo yoga a regulation of nervous system

live meeting 5.5.
This morning workshop will be very playful, hands-on and experiential. We will focus on: Embryology and developmental patterns and evolutionary contexts Tensegrity and embodied anatomy Emotions - Energy - Breath - Spine Quality of neutral - grounding and centering Nervous system (NS) in a playful and practical way Breathing practices to regulate the ANS (autonomic nervous system) Posture and quality of movement as mirrors of our nervous system or the body never lies

Jaroslav Dušek - DušeK - About dissolution, letting go and forgiveness

live meeting 4.5.
This Duše K special on Dissolution, Letting Go and Forgiveness will take place this time in Moravia as part of the International Congress of Intelligent Movement - Healing Prenatal Trauma. Some of the speakers of this congress will also be part of the discussion, which will be led as always by Jaroslav Dušek, this time with Maroš Vago and Helena Máslova. Other speakers are Ellynne Skove, Dorothe Trassl and Radek Neškrabal.

Maros Vago - DušeK - About dissolution, letting go and forgiveness

live meeting 4.5.
Guest of the Duše K special on Dissolution, Letting Go and Forgiveness, which will take place in Moravia this time as part of the International Congress of Intelligent Movement - Healing Prenatal Trauma. In addition to the moderator Jaroslav Dušek, the other guests are Helena Máslová, Ellynne Skove, Dorothe Trassl and Radek Neškrabal.

Helena Máslová - DušeK - About dissolution, letting go and forgiveness

live meeting 4.5.
Guest of the Duše K special on Dissolution, Letting Go and Forgiveness, which will take place in Moravia this time as part of the International Congress of Intelligent Movement - Healing Prenatal Trauma. In addition to the moderator Jaroslav Dušek, the other guests are Maroš Vago, Ellynne Skove, Dorothe Trassl and Radek Neškrabal.

TICKETS

PRENATAL TRAUMA HEALING - Q&A 

What is trauma?
According to Stephen Porges, trauma is a complex phenomenon that involves both psychological and physiological dysregulation. Trauma is characterized by experiences that exceed an individual's ability to cope with situations and disrupt the autonomic nervous system's response to stress.
Trauma, as described by Gabor Maté, often arises as a result of adverse experiences in early development and is characterized by disconnection from self, others, and the environment. Trauma can manifest in a variety of ways, affecting emotional, cognitive and physical health, and often requires a holistic approach to healing.

What is prenatal trauma?
According to Thomas Verny's theory, prenatal trauma is an experience that affects a child's development in the period before birth. This experience may include stress, emotional strain or physical discomfort for the mother that can be passed on to the fetus and affect its later mental, emotional and physical health.
Perinatal trauma, according to Thomas Verny, includes traumatic events or stressful situations that occur around the time of the birth of the child, i.e. during pregnancy, birth and shortly afterwards. These events can affect both mother and child and can have long-term effects on their mental, emotional and physical health. Perinatal trauma can include complications during birth, serious health problems in the newborn or mother, or stress associated with new motherhood.

How do I know if I'm carrying trauma?
According to Stephen Porges, you can recognize the presence of trauma in your body and mental state in several ways that reflect dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system.
Some of these signs may include:
Increased reactivity to stress: You may notice that you get into a state of anxiety, fear or arousal more quickly when exposed to stressful situations.
Difficulty regulating emotions: You may have difficulty regulating strong emotions, such as fear, anger, or sadness, and you may feel yourself having mood or emotional swings.
Problems with interpersonal relationships: Trauma can affect your ability to establish and maintain healthy relationships with others. You may have difficulty trusting others or feel isolated.
Physical symptoms: Trauma can cause a variety of physical symptoms, such as chronic pain, body tension, gastrointestinal problems, or migraines.
Sleep and behavioral changes: You may notice changes in sleep patterns, such as nightmares, insomnia, or excessive sleepiness.
You may also notice changes in your behavior, such as increased irritability or withdrawal behavior.
It is important to note that the presence of these symptoms may not clearly mean that you are suffering from trauma, but they may indicate a need for further exploration and support.

What is somatics?
Therapist, yoga teacher and coach Ellynne Skove, considers somatics to be a multidimensional approach to understanding and transforming the body, mind and emotions that emphasizes awareness of bodily experience and body awareness. This approach allows us to explore the connections between our bodily expressions, emotions, thoughts and life experiences. Somatics invites us
to a deeper understanding of the body as a source of wisdom and a tool for self-knowledge and personal development.

What do I mean by a scientific-somatic congress?
This scientific-somatic congress involves a gathering of experts and researchers in the field of pre- and perinatal development
and experts in the field of somatic psychology and physical movement. The aim of this congress is therefore not only to present the latest research, but also to provide an opportunity to experience and explore concepts and theories directly in the body. Moreover, the somatic experience can inspire new ideas, creativity and innovation.

What techniques for working with trauma will be presented at this conference?
- See Programme and Presentation Annotation

Is the congress suitable for the public?
Yes, the congress is suitable for the public interested in healing pre- and perinatal trauma. This may include expectant parents, parents of young children, family members who want to actively contribute to trauma healing, or people who want to heal their own pre or perinatal trauma.

How can I contribute or present at the conference?
Students and researchers with a focus on pre- and perinatal trauma will have the opportunity to present their research poster in the social areas of the congress. If you are interested in presenting your research poster, please email us at info@aktivace-potencialu.cz

Will there be a certificate available for participants?
A certificate for participants will be available upon written request. Please contact info@aktivace-potencialu.cz.

What are the networking opportunities at the congress?
Experts and professionals from different disciplines and therapeutic approaches will be present at the congress and can be approached individually on site. We do not plan organized networking.

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