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CE's and Policy

Participants who enroll in Exploring the Vagus System, Biodynamic Approach to CST, and Zapchen are eligible to receive 18 CE’s from NCBTMB. These classes meet for 6 half days or 3 full days. Participants who enroll in Healing Arts and Ethics are eligible to receive 6 CEs.

In order to receive CE’s and certificates, the student must attend all sections of the class. Make-ups for missed classes can be arranged. Classes are limited in size and require a non-refundable pre-registration. Payments can be made online through the website, through Venmo (@Janet-Evergreen) or by sending a check in the mail.

Refund policy – If class has not already begun and we can refill the spot, we are happy to give a full refund minus $50. The other option is to reschedule for a future class.

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Map to RiverBluff SanctuaryRiverBluff Sanctuary

RiverBluff Sanctuary is located at #115 RiverBluff Circle. Our light green house is on the right just past house #116 (the house numbers are not in order). When you arrive, walk through our driveway and down the outside stairs on the left all the way to the ground level. Our neighborhood has limited street parking. If the space in front of my house is open, you may park there. Take care to not block the neighbors driveway. Extra parking is indicated in yellow on the map. If you need a space in our driveway, call (434) 906-4181.
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Exploring the Vagus System: The Health That is Never Lost

Part 1, 2 and 3

Students learning at a massage tableNCBTMBThrough 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.

Part 1

Learn how to listen deeply, gently touching through the body layers with kind loving presence to support healing from stress, fear and shock. Slow guided explorations will help renegotiate relationship to past present and future, for Self and with others. Beginning with skin, connective tissue, kidney/adrenals, brainstem and gut you will discover systems of inherent health that move in the direction of wellness.

Part 2

Deepen your understanding of each individual’s healing matrix, explore how to release trauma from falls, work with the vestibular brain for balance and coordination, contact the kindness of the heart and mediastinum, and learn to balance the endocrine system in relationship with the Polyvagus system.

Part 3

Learn to work with boundary issues, double binds, and trauma coupling. With these skills you will increase your awareness of how early developmental and basic human needs can be met through appropriate touch while healing recent injury or trauma.

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

Mondays 2-5pm EST/EDT by Zoom and in person
Part 3
Apr 3, 10, 17, 24; May 1, 8, 2023 Register
Wednesdays 9am-12pm in person at Riverbend Counseling
Part 3
June 21, 28, July 5, 12, 19, 26 Register

Registration Note:

Please download and complete the Registration Form.

To pay via PayPal, credit card, or debit card, click Register, choose the number of tickets and click Get Tickets.

If you would like to pay by Venmo or check, Venmo @Janet-Evergreen or send a check to Janet Evergreen 115 RiverBluff Circle, Charlottesville, VA, 22902. 

Organs and the Vagus System

Students learning at a massage tableNCBTMBWith 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

Tuesdays 2-5pm EST/EDT by Zoom and in person
6-Week Series
Mar 14, 28, Apr 11, 25, May 9, 23, 2023 (meets every other Tuesday) Register

Registration Note:

Please download and complete the Registration Form.

To pay via PayPal, credit card, or debit card, click Register, choose the number of tickets and click Get Tickets.

If you would like to pay by Venmo or check, Venmo @Janet-Evergreen or send a check to Janet Evergreen 115 RiverBluff Circle, Charlottesville, VA, 22902. 

Biodynamic Approach to Craniosacral Therapy

Part 1, 2 and 3

Students working togetherNCBTMBCraniosacral 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.

 

 

Part 1

We learn concepts for healing by listening to our fluid body and its inherent potency with a 12-step protocol. Simple, fun Zapchen exercises create a dynamic field for our group process. Texts, models and demonstrations of cognitive and practical skills show how to support well-being in tissue, bones, muscles and organs. Students learn to facilitate the cranial-sacral pump and to increase movement in the sutures of the skull, the sacrum, and the dural tube with respect that is non-invasive and allows a natural process of healing to unfold.

Part 2

We will review the materials in Part One and enhance skills in balancing cranial base dysfunctions between the sphenoid and occiput. There will be an introduction to the hard palate, with gentle touch inside the mouth to balance the maxillae, palatines, zygomatic bones and vomer. Students will learn appropriate dialogue and mediation skills to use with their clients to reduce stress and promote healing. Janet will demonstrate how CST benefits babies and teach a basic infant protocol. Zapchen exercises will continue to support a dynamic and lively field for learning and growing.

Part 3

We review Part One and Part Two and learn strain/counter-strain, emotional process and trauma resourcing, and develop the skills to effectively work with others in a healing team. Each class begins with Zapchen somatic skills to develop perception followed by 90 minutes of touch skills practice. We will explore how to listen for the inherent treatment plan of each client, study trauma responses and techniques to restore health and deepen our understanding of the motility of the central nervous system. At the end of each day, we gather as a group for discussion and Q&A.

Spring 2023 classes will meet in-person at Riverbend Counseling with a hybrid Zoom option.

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

Wednesdays 9am-12pm, via Zoom & in-person
CST Part 1
Feb 1-Mar 8, 2023 Register
CST Part 2
Apr 5-May 10, 2023 Register
CST Part 3
TBD

Registration Note:

Please download and complete the Registration Form.

To pay via PayPal, credit card, or debit card, click Register, choose the number of tickets and click Get Tickets.

If you would like to pay by Venmo or check, Venmo @Janet-Evergreen or send a check to Janet Evergreen 115 RiverBluff Circle, Charlottesville, VA, 22902. 

Weekend Workshops, Blacksburg, VA

In-person Blacksburg workshops: Saturday-Monday 9am-5pm
CST Part 1
May 28-30, 2022 Register
CST Part 2
Jan 21-23, 2023
CST Part 3
June 2-4, 2023 (Friday-Sunday)

**One opening in Part 2 & 3 for someone who has previously completed CST Part 1

$1200 for all three workshops, plus $135 for food & snacks (Payment Plans available)
NCBTMB 54 CE’s (18 per weekend)

Required Texts: Foundations in Craniosacral Biodynamics: The Breath of Life and Fundamental Skills by Franklyn Sills and Zero Balancing Expanded, The Attitude of Awaiting a Fish by Judith Sullivan.

Payment Plan for Current Students

Zapchen Support Group

People stretching while in a lotus positionNCBTMBZapchen 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.

Reading Agendas for each series:

Summer 2023: Embodying Well-Being or How to Feel as Good as You Can in Spite of Everything and an advanced text including Tibetan teachings, Honey in the Void by Julie Henderson.

Zapchen 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.

Mondays 5:30-6:30pm EST/EDT by Zoom
Summer 8-week Series
Suggested Donation $100-$200
NCBTMB 6 CE’s
June 12-July 31, 2023 Donate

 

Somatic Dialogue for Relationship Attunement and Attachment

Howard and Janet Evergreen$295—Individual
$395—Couple
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Part 1

In this class, Janet and Howard Evergreen share their life experience of 40 years together. With their guidance and humor, you will learn to settle yourself with mindfulness techniques and Zapchen somatic exercises. Explore your Attachment Style and how to strengthen secure attachment. Using the process in the book, you will understand how to repair relationships with your loved ones during difficult times. Reading Hold Me Tight by Dr. Sue Johnson is recommended. For individuals OR couples.

Part 2

This is an on-going adventure for those wanting to continue to explore Zapchen and Somatic Dialogue. Pre-requisite for this series is that you have attended this group before with Janet and Howard, and reading Hold Me Tight by Dr. Sue Johnson is required.

Part 3

Continue the somatic exploration. Pre-requisite for this series is that you have attended this group before with Janet and Howard, and reading Hold Me Tight by Dr. Sue Johnson is required.

 

Sundays 4-6pm EST/EDT by Zoom
Somatic Dialogue Part 2
(ongoing closed group)
Sept 17; Oct 1, 15, 29; Nov 12; Dec 3 2023 Register

Somatic Dialogue Registration Form

Birthing Yourself Process Workshop

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

In Person Retreats are facilitated by Janet Evergreen with one or two assistants present. The group meets for three consecutive days.

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

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 to support the most powerful 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 as this is important for safety and security in the group.

Meeting by Zoom, Wednesdays 6-8:30pm EDT 
TBD $600 for all 5 sessions Request
In-person weekends, 9am-6pm EDT
Mar 18-20
FULL
$650 plus optional $45 for lunch and snack Waitlist
May 27-29
FULL
$650 plus optional $45 for lunch and snack Waitlist
June 24-26
FULL
$750 plus optional $45 for lunch and snack Waitlist
Oct 7-9
FULL
$750 plus optional $45 for lunch and snack Waitlist

Finalize your registration by downloading and completing the Birth History Registration Form. If you have taken the workshop before, you can fill out the “short form” instead. To pay via PayPal, credit card, or debit card, please click Register. If the class is full, find Janet on Paypal using her janet@janetevergreen.com email. If you would like to pay by Venmo or check, Venmo @Janet-Evergreen or send check to Janet Evergreen 115 RiverBluff Circle, Charlottesville, VA, 22902.

Birth History Registration Form

Birthing Yourself Short Form (Returning Participants Only)

Pre and Perinatal Study Group

Glowing image of two ovaTwo-year training covered in 10 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 6-10: 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

Class Co-facilitated by Janet Evergreen and Tonya Ridings, LCSW

2023-2025 Flyer

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 PPN Contract. To pay via PayPal, credit card, or debit card, please click Register. If you would like to pay by Venmo or check, Venmo @Janet-Evergreen or send check to Janet Evergreen 115 RiverBluff Circle, Charlottesville, VA, 22902. Let us know if you need a different arrangement.

2021-2023: Meeting by Zoom, Thursdays 6-8pm EST/EDT
Year 2
Sept 8-Dec 1, 2022 (no class Nov 24); Feb 2-June 22, 2023 (no class Apr 6) Register
2023-2025: Meeting by Zoom and In Person, Wednesdays 9am-12pm EST/EDT
Year 1
Sept 13-Dec 6, 2023; Feb 7-Jun 26, 2024 (no class April 3) Register
Year 2
Sept 11-Dec 4, 2024; Feb 5-Jun 25, 2025 (no class April 2) Register

PPN Registration Form

PPN Contract

Mommies and Babies

Janet with two babiesEach 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
Email Janet

Healing Arts and Ethics

Pink flowersFor 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
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Biodynamic Approach to Craniosacral Therapy—SuperVision Group

A butterfly among red flowersNCBTMBPrerequisite: 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 Ethics of Caring by Kylea Taylor, In an Unspoken Voice by Peter Levine, The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van de Kolk, and Dancing with Yin and Yang by John Chitty.

$300
NCBTMB CE’s available

Friday Morning Supervision 9:00am-12:00pm EST/EDT
Jan 20, Feb 17, Mar 17, Apr 21, May 26, Jun 16, 2023 Register
Friday Afternoon Supervision 2:00-5:00pm EST/EDT
Jan 13, Feb 10, Mar 10, Apr 14, May 12, June 9 2023 Register
Saturday Morning Supervision 9:00am-12:00pm EST/EDT
optional 8-9am group meditation
Jan 14, Feb 11, Mar 11, Apr 8, May 6, June 10, 2023 Register

Registration Note:

Please download and complete the Registration Form.

To pay via PayPal, credit card, or debit card, click Register, choose the number of tickets and click Get Tickets.

If you would like to pay by Venmo or check, Venmo @Janet-Evergreen or send a check to Janet Evergreen 115 RiverBluff Circle, Charlottesville, VA, 22902. 

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  5. Send it on.
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