Conscious Embodiment Trainings

23/03/2026

Module 1 of the first Integrative Baby Therapy training in Prague. Many thanks to the organisers and everyone who attended.

19/03/2026

Science is slowly catching up on what we have known from our work with clients for decades. They are still only scratching the surface.

The year 2025 has produced a cascade of neuroscientific revelations that collectively reshape what we believe about the human brain. Among them: the discovery that newborns retain implicit memories from the womb — sensory impressions of sound, rhythm, and maternal voice that persist in hippocampal circuitry and shape early social preferences. This challenges the previously dominant model of neonatal neural tabula rasa and suggests human memory architecture begins operating in the final trimester.

Complementing this, researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory discovered that the brain contains a dedicated "forgetting circuit" — a set of GABAergic interneurons in the hippocampus whose primary function is selective erasure. Rather than being a passive failure of consolidation, forgetting is actively executed by specific neural machinery. This circuit, when dysfunctional, contributes to PTSD by preventing emotional memory extinction. Targeted modulation of this circuit using a newly developed drug compound produced 70% reduction in PTSD symptom severity in pilot trials.

A third discovery: the brain communicates with the gut not only through the vagus nerve (the known pathway) but through a previously uncharacterized electromagnetic signaling system involving glial cell networks in the enteric nervous system. This "second language" of gut-brain communication operates at frequencies distinct from neural action potentials and may explain why many psychiatric conditions have gastrointestinal correlates that the vagal model never fully accounted for. 🧬

2025 may be remembered as the year neuroscience leveled up — not with a single discovery, but with a simultaneous eruption of new frameworks for the most complex object in the known universe.

Source: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory / MIT McGovern Institute, Cell, 2025

15/03/2026

15/03/2026

When a human s***m fertilizes an egg, a stunning visual phenomenon occurs: a flash of light — technically zinc sparks, emitted as calcium waves trigger zinc ion release from cortical granules — erupts from the surface of the egg in patterns that precisely match Fibonacci spiral geometry, with the number and position of spark eruption sites following the golden ratio with statistical precision that cannot be explained by random biochemistry. Northwestern University researchers documenting this phenomenon have called it one of the most mathematically unexpected observations in developmental biology. 🔬

The mathematics emerge from the cortical reaction — the rapid, wave-like cascade of calcium signaling that propagates across the egg's surface in the seconds following s***m contact. This calcium wave reorganizes the egg's cortical architecture, triggering the release of zinc-containing cortical granules in a spatial pattern that self-organizes according to reaction-diffusion mathematics. The Fibonacci geometry appears to optimize the physical coverage of the egg surface — maximizing the speed and completeness of the cortical block to polys***my (the defense against multiple s***m fertilizing the same egg) using mathematically minimal signaling resources.

The discovery connects one of biology's most fundamental events — the beginning of a new human life — to the same mathematical patterns found in sunflower seed arrangements, nautilus shells, galaxy spiral arms, and hurricane cloud formation. It suggests that Fibonacci geometry is not merely decorative in nature but functionally optimized across biological scales from the cosmic to the cellular. 🌌

The first moment of human existence is written in the same mathematical language as the spiral of a galaxy. Nature, it seems, writes all its important beginnings in the same hand.

Source: Northwestern University, Scientific Reports, 2023

02/03/2026

This is a webinar organised by the International Body Psychotherapy Journal, in which myself and my colleague Cherionna Menzam Sills are interviewed about how early womb and birth experience impact later relationships. It was a great pleasure to present alongside Cherionna.

28/02/2026

This is a great article on the therapist’s dissociation in the therapy room. An important and often neglected subject.

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26/02/2026

Integrative Baby Therapy Training - Feedback from an IBT Graduate

18/02/2026

Integrative Baby Therapy Training - Video Testimonial

Thank you to IBT Graduate Sara Devoy for this video about how she benefitted personally and professionally from the training.

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.