Classes

Exploring the Vagus System: The Health That is Never Lost

Part 1, 2 and 3

Through study of the Vagus nerve, learn the importance of self-regulation of the Triune Polyvagal Nervous System and increase your understanding of the fight, flight and freeze patterns wired into body memory. Experience how gentle touch can facilitate co-regulation by connecting and repairing the social nervous system. This supports healing, accurate perception and development of healthy boundaries.

Each part: $300
NCBTMB 18 CE’s per part

Organs and the Vagus System

With gentle touch, learn to explore mobility, motility, caving, recoil, arcing and other techniques to facilitate healing of the liver, stomach, kidneys, bladder, colon and their interrelationship with CNS body/brain. We will explore sound and movement, structure and emotion to discover our inherent well-being and potency. We will draw on teachings by Dr. Tom Shaver, Dr. Jean Pierre Barral, Teri Lee and Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Learn visceral manipulation to balance organs for yourself and others. Listen to the innate healing wisdom of the body.

Spring 2023 classes will meet by Zoom with 4 participants in-person at RiverBluff Sanctuary.

COST: $300
NCBTMB 18 CE’s

Biodynamic Approach to Craniosacral Therapy

Part 1, 2 and 3

Craniosacral Therapy classes are taught with a biodynamic orientation—an appreciation to listen deeply, go slow, and allow the body’s inherent well-being to lead the process.

Fall 2023 classes will meet in-person only.
Part 1 at HeartSong Sanctuary in Afton, VA.
Part 2 and 3 at Riverbend Counseling in Charlottesville, VA.

Each part: $300
NCBTMB 18 CE’s per part

Zapchen Support Group

Zapchen is a practice of simple exercises for development and change for yourself, family or your clients. The exercises are playful, never forced, and profound. They point to possibilities of change and maturation deeper than we can guess. Zapchen gives real and immediate access to the possibility of well-being. This group supports gentle, radical levels of change in the face of the fascinations of old habits of worry, pain, misery, depression and the other common challenges of the human condition. Beneficial for honoring relationship with oneself and with others. We learn together to generate and contain creativity and potency in life.

Fall 2023: Really Growing Up by Julie Henderson

Zapchen: Fall 2023 Flyer

Proceeds from this class go to INEPE, a whole-child community school in Quito, Ecuador.
To submit your donation to Zapchen class, select the button below. When submitting your donation, please add the note “Zapchen class” in the additional instructions box before completing payment.

Somatic Dialogue for Relationship Attunement and Attachment

Somatic Dialogue Registration Form

Birthing Yourself Process Workshop

There are two Birthing Yourself formats. The groups are limited in size to five participants.

In Person Retreats are facilitated by Janet Evergreen and Tonya Ridings with assistants present. The group meets for three full consecutive days, 9am – 6pm. 

Zoom group meets weekly for 5 weeks facilitated by Janet Evergreen with one or two assistants

Participants have the opportunity to heal and re-pattern early experiences and then bring this healing to their current primary relationships and life. Each participant has an approximately 1.5 to 2.5 hour turn to explore her/his own physical and emotional patterns from prenatal, birth or early origin. The whole group is present and often supporting with some form of contact, as each participant has a turn. These turns are followed by a brief sharing from each group member, integration and discussion. Not all turns involve prenatal/birth/attachment themes. Each turn is unique and participants may also make important discoveries from other periods of their life. The intention of each participant is the guiding theme for the individual turn.

Safety is established through interactive principles for the participants to actively support each other throughout the workshop. This group creates safety and a nurturing container to do deep inner work. This format was created by Ray Castellino and Myrna Martin to support transformations which can happen in a small group setting. The time allows space for integration of material from the turns, and each person will receive a debriefing time, usually the next meeting day after their turn, which further supports integration.

This workshop is also helpful for professionals who wish to experience the profound changes possible with group presence, at times embodying family constellations for healing of prenatal, birth and attachment issues. This is directly applicable to most professional therapeutic practice involving the healing arts. Participants need to arrange to attend the entire workshop, and are encouraged to include the day before as a day of preparation and the day after as a day of integration. 

Steps to Register:

1. Download and complete the Birth History Registration Form (also below).
2. Email Janet or Tonya to submit your form. If you have taken the workshop before, you can fill out the “short form” instead.
3. When you receive an acceptance Pay by Venmo, Zelle, or check, Venmo @Janet-Evergreen, Zelle to janet@janetevergreen.com, or send check to Janet Evergreen 115 RiverBluff Circle, Charlottesville, VA, 22902. To pay via PayPal, credit card, or debit card, please click Register.

Birth History Registration Long Form

Birthing Yourself Short Form (Returning Participants Only)

Pre and Perinatal Study Group

Co-facilitated by Janet Evergreen and Tonya Ridings, LCSW

Two-year training covered in 11 Modules, supporting healthy attachment and repair. Recommended for bodyworkers, therapists, health professionals, midwives, doulas and somatic educators. Beneficial for those working with children, adults, families or couples and those supporting the childbearing and early years.

• Year One Modules 1-5: Explore attachment, preconception, birth imprinting, surgical and chemical imprinting, loss and double binds.
• Year Two Modules 6-11: Explore pregnancy loss, adoption, prematurity, treatments for newborns and couples work in attachment theory.

Janet is a wonderful teacher and embraces the pre and perinatal field with depth, richness, and enthusiasm. PPN goes to the heart of being human. It provides an opportunity to work with our earliest strengths and wounding, with support that invites us to more fully embody and live life with joy. –Myrna Martin, MN, RCC, RCST

Upon completion of the 2-Year Study Group, participants will receive a PPN Educator Certificate. Participants have the option of certifying as a PPN Practitioner by doing additional independent learning. PPN Practitioner Certificate requirements are:

1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. Participate in the 2-Year Study Group
               2. Watch Myrna Martin’s Healing Early Developmental Trauma 78hr Video Series
               3. Complete the Creative Home Projects
               4. Attend four Birthing Yourself Process workshops

Contact Janet for more information about PPN certification.

2023-2025 Flyer PPN Registration Form and Contract

Cost: $3,200
$800—half-year tuition
$1,600—one-year tuition
$3,200—two-year tuition
Payment plan available

Finalize your registration by downloading and completing the PPN Registration Form and Contract. If you would like to pay by Venmo, Zelle, or check, Venmo @Janet-Evergreen, Zelle to janet@janetevergreen.com, or send check to Janet Evergreen 115 RiverBluff Circle, Charlottesville, VA, 22902. To pay via PayPal, credit card, or debit card, please click Register.

Mommies and Babies

Each baby has pure innate wisdom and ways they communicate what they know and need. This group will learn non-verbal listening with Biodynamic CranialSacral concepts, Touch Skills, and fun, easy Zapchen exercises. Janet will share her favorite practical and easy ways to balance and center our selves. With these skills, moms can tune in to their baby and themselves. Using these principles in families, often parents and other family members notice that their relationships with each other improve and are enriched.

We will read and discuss a 20-page booklet by Myrna Martin, Birth and Attachment: How to Totally Support Your Baby from Here On.

$125
Dates TBD
Request

Healing Arts and Ethics

For massage therapists and those interested in how to set safe boundaries and understand the issues of transference and counter transference. We look at ethics in private practice and review Code of Ethics, including the NCBTMB Standard V requirement. With respect for diverse spiritual paths and ethics, we study the Buddhist Bodhisattva vows and Judeo-Christian teachings.

NCBTMB 6 CE’s

$85
Dates TBD
Request

Biodynamic Approach to Craniosacral Therapy—SuperVision Group

Prerequisite: Must have a private practice and have taken Vagus and Craniosacral Therapy Courses. This class is for practitioners to receive client supervision, group support and deepen their learning. We will use the SuperVision model developed by Myrna Martin, based on Pre and Perinatal Psychology/Attachment issues and include Touch Skills by Kathy Kain to support learning. There will be whole group sharing, Q&A, and small groups of three to take turns giving and receiving support.

Suggested Reading: The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy by Deb Dana, Seven Core Issues in Adoption & Permanency by Sharon Roszia, What Happened to You by Oprah Winfrey

$300
18 NCBTMB CE’s available

Additional Services and Items

If you would like to pay with PayPal for private sessions, books, or other items, please use PayPal’s Friends and Family option.

1. Log in to your PayPal account, go to Tools, and click Send Money.
2. Choose Family and Friends.
3. Enter janet@janetevergreen.com.
4. Enter amount to be transferred from bank account.
5. Send it on.
6. Or you can use the PayPal button to pay a custom amount.