Classes

Exploring the Vagus System: The Health That is Never Lost

Part 1, 2 and 3

Through study of the Triune Polyvagal Nervous System, learn the importance of self-regulation 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.

This is an experiential workshop and each participant takes turns as “client” and practitioner. Those working in school systems or part of a professional team benefit from learning how to soothe the polyvagal system. This process prevents burnout and vicarious trauma injury. Our nervous systems influence one another, so even one member of a team with these skills will have a positive influence on their entire community.

Benefits include: regulation skills, learning to read the nervous system, cultural sensitivity, and allows for the processing of grief and loss.

Virginia Beach Series: $1200 ($400 per part)
Payment Plans – $400 due before the start of each workshop
(smaller, more frequent payments can be arranged)
Limited to 10 participants – sign up ASAP!
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.

Each part: $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.

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.

Proceeds from this class go to INEPE, a whole-child community school in Quito, Ecuador.
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NCBTMB 6 CEs per series

Winter 2026 Text(s): Complete our study and practice somatic exercises from Embodying WellBeing by teacher Julie Henderson, Ph.D.

Spring 2026 Text(s): Embodying WellBeing and Honey in the Void by teacher Julie Henderson, Ph.D.

Somatic Dialogue for Relationship Attunement and Attachment

Each part:
$395—per Couple

*Each participant must complete their own registration form. If you’ve already filled it out for a previous class, you do not need to fill it out again!

Birthing Yourself Process Workshop

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.

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.

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. 

Learn More About Birthing Yourself and Upcoming Dates

Pre and Perinatal Study Group

In person group co-facilitated by Janet Evergreen and Tonya Ridings, LCSW
Zoom group co-facilitated by Janet Evergreen and Paola Lagos

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 supporting yourself and/or those working with children, adults, families or couples and those supporting the childbearing and early years.

Learn More About PPN and Upcoming Dates

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.

Meets 6 times, 2 hours each time. Babies welcome to attend!

Spring 2026 Group co-facilitated with Emma Andrews

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

Cost: $300

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.

Cost: $85
NCBTMB 6 CE’s

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 Tao of Trauma by Alaine D. Duncan, The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy by Deb Dana, Seven Core Issues in Adoption & Permanency by Sharon Roszia, What Happened to You by Oprah Winfrey

$350
18 NCBTMB CE’s available

Payments for Services and Items

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