Tuition: $525 (meals and lodging, if needed, are additional)

Location: Highland Park area of St. Paul, MN  (address provided upon registration)

Most people agree that relationships can be one of the most aggravating, frustrating and emotionally painful aspects of life, as well as the most rewarding.  Whether with spouses or children, parents or siblings, bosses or clients, most people don't realize that relationships are heavily influenced by our prenatal and birth experiences, simply because birth is our first major struggle in life.  As a result, life's ordinary challenges follow the imprint formed by the original experience, which can create patterns that support fulfilling or limiting experiences.

EXAMPLE

For example, Mary was a "shoulder dystocia" baby.  This meant that she got "stuck" and forceps had to be used.  Her mother believed that the forceps saved Mary's life because  Mary came out blue and could not have lived much longer without oxygen.  As a young adult, Mary lived out her birth pattern, completely unconsciously.  Having been without oxygen during birth, she described her attractions to men as "breathless" (when she became breathless, that was a sign she was in love).  Additionally, there were times when she would suddenly get stuck and falter, such as during debriefings to her staff. She would got stuck on one point to the exclusion of others; she would ramble too much, and was not able to cover all points.  She nearly lost her job because of this. 

In other situatons, she became helpless and needed rescuing (forceps), which was completely contrary to the competent woman she really was.  She regularly lost her car keys and needed her boyfriend to rescue her by picking her up, or bringing her a rental car so she could finish her district visits.  During social events, she occasionally but annoyingly lost her energy (oxygen) and needed to retire for the evening.  The same type of thing happened in her intimate times with her boyfriend.  She lost her orgasms just as they began, becoming extremely lethargic and falling asleep. These symptoms were shameful, frustrating and frightening to her, and is why she sought treatment. This kind of process happens regularly in everyday life, with everyone. Birth is a first and primary life lesson!

EXPERIENTIAL WORKSHOP

Dr. Emerson leads a three day workshop to help participant:

• uncover their birth "scripts"
• explore underlying distresses
• release traumatic energy stored in the body
  
• find new ways of perceiving, feeling, and behaving

Participants will be lead on 'inner journeys' to explore and heal, and take part in breakout groups reflecting various kinds of birth impacts.  Gaining awareness of these impacts helps to reduce their power. Finally, closure processes are used to integrate discoveries and facilitate life changes. 

Spend three full days with Dr. William Emerson, one of the world’s foremost authorities on birth trauma and resolution, for the last 30 years.

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