Precious Time: Sweet Ways To Be With Your New Baby

April 14 – May 26
Tuesday Mornings at 9:30

The first year of a new family’s life is poignant and important. This six week class will facilitate experiences for parents with bonding, communication, connection, soothing, sleeping, and just being with their new baby.

 

Birth on the Continuum: An Exploration of Birth Stories

Sponsored by Four Seasons Midwifery and MotherCare VA

Raising Awareness about the prenatal period, birth and postpartum.

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Time: 6:30 – 8 pm 

Body Mind Spirit 

923 Preston Avenue, Charlottesville, VA

 

While birth is often a powerful event for women, many come away from the experience feeling confused and stressed.  This talk will present birth on a continuum from uncomplicated to those that can be very difficult with heroic stories where women have overcome obstacles to have healthy babies.

 

 

*note: Free Range Neighborhoods has been postponed until Fall 2009

Free Range Neighborhoods: Designing Everyday Natural Places to Motivate Children’s Outdoor Play

Friday, Feb 6 8AM-5PM, Cost: $95
How can design professionals and developers create streets, residential spaces, childcare centers, schoolgrounds, trails, parks and playgrounds, and all the elements of neighborhood form to facilitate children’s independent mobility and connection with nature?

 

Some outstanding speakers are expected including Robin Moore and Nilda Cosco of the Natural Learning Initiative, Tim Beatley of the University of Virginia, Tim Gill of the UK (author of No Fear: Growing Up in a Risk Adverse Society); and Richard Dolesh of National Recreation and Parks Association. Following the speakers will be a design charette for the featured local neighborhood, Belvedere. The Symposium will be held at the Charlottesville Community Design Center on the downtown mall.
Breakfast and Lunch are included in the ticket price.

 

Click to register for the workshop.

We hope you can join us!

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January is “Discover my practice” month. I am offering 10% off of all services, and during the week of Jan 5 - 9 I am offering $40 massage and craniosacral sessions.

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About BIHA

Belvedere Integrated Healing Arts (BIHA) offers massage and craniosacral therapy, pre- and perinatal psychology and nature awareness. Individual sessions include basic relaxing and therapeutic massage, craniosacral therapy and individual sessions exploring the pre- and perinatal period including birth. BIHA has a special program called MotherCare VA whose mission is to help families get the best possible start together. Clients can receive comprehensive support through prenatal education, recovery from birth, pre- and postnatal massage, family play sessions, and lactation support. BIHA specializes in helping adults, children, and babies recover from difficult births in particular.

 

Belvedere Integrated Healing Arts ~ 434-996-2002

 

About Kate

Kate White is a craniosacral and massage therapist, prenatal and early childhood educator.  All her classes arise out of her work as a somatic therapist, where she is passionate about the brain and mind-body medicine.  She is a mother of two children, holds a BA and MA in Communication, and is a Registered Craniosacral Therapist in the Biodynamic Craniosacral method.  Her work combines somatic therapy with brain development to help give families with babies and small children the best possible start.  Her work is a translation of some of the research on how parents are with their children affects neural pathways and perception.