Conscious Embodiment Trainings

05/12/2025

Many thanks to the Hungarian Pre and Perinatal Psychology Association for organising my talk on Umbilical Dynamics at the University in Budapest last week. It was a great team effort, generating a lot of interest. The work continues to spread and the community grows.

10/11/2025

Graduation Day for the 2023-25 training in Integrative Baby Therapy. Only a third of the class were able to attend, but congratulations to all for completing the training. Our community continues to grow with dedicated practitioners supporting babies and their families to connect with each other and begin life together in the best possible conditions.

07/10/2025

Introduction to Integrative Baby Therapy
Three Part Live Course with Matthew Appleton
Thursdays, 9/16/30 October 2025 at 19h UK time

Integrative Baby Therapy (IBT) is an emerging healing modality that has been taught to many practitioners, including obstetricians, midwives, psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, osteopaths, craniosacral therapists and others, throughout Europe.

IBT, is a systemic, relational and embodied approach to working with babies and their families. Babies, children and parents are seen as active participants, whose inherent intelligence can reveal ever deeper levels of potential change and healing. Traumatic imprints from prenatal life and birth are given space to unfold and with the support of empathic presence and enquiry, to resolve. As well as relieving present moment distress for both babies and parents, this creates a more stable foundation for future growth and development.

This course is designed to convey the principles underlying Integrative Baby Therapy and how they are applied in the clinical context.

Find out more: https://www.ourbirthjourney.com/course/introduction-integrative-baby-therapy

03/10/2025

02/10/2025

Working with babies in a therapeutic context can be one of the most satisfying experiences for a practitioner. Providing the space for the baby to ‘tell their story’ and then helping them integrate whatever unresolved pre-birth and birth issues are lingering, gives them a whole different start in life then when these things remain unacknowledged.

One of the best known experts in the field of baby therapy, Matthew Appleton, will give us an introduction to the core principles of Integrative Baby Therapy in his upcoming three part course.

Join us for a free introduction to the course on Thursday, 2 October at 19h UK time.

Register here: https://www.ourbirthjourney.com/course/introduction-integrative-baby-therapy

28/09/2025

Baby Clinic at Polvarella, Italy. Many thanks to the team - Rosella, Matteo, Carol and Alberto, to the participants and to the families who came to experience Integrative Baby Therapy (IBT). It was a pleasure and a privilege to be able to share the work in this atmosphere of enthusiasm and openness.

22/09/2025

Just finished the workshop ‘The Sacred Other’ in Italy. This was the first time we ran this workshop on prenatal twin loss. Thank you to the amazing team and all the participants who brought this subject to life. It was a profound and deeply inspiring experience. Grazie.

10/09/2025

This is a good overview of the work of Wilhelm Reich. Reich is one of the seminal influences on our trainings. It can be difficult to get a clear perspective on him, as there is a lot of misinformation and confusion in the public realm. This interview is a good starting point for a more informed discussion.

What happens when we revisit Wilhelm Reich’s journey from Freud’s student to radical theorist of desire, politics, and repression? In this episode, we sit do...

26/07/2025

We are honored to announce the 2025 inductees into the Hall of Honor, recognizing the exceptional contributions of individuals whose work has transformed our understanding of life before birth and its impact postnatally.

23/07/2025

Still a few places left on these workshops in Italy. A lovely group of people in a beautiful location. In English with Italian translation.