In this installment of the Wisdom Keepers series, I sat down with Kate White to discuss the world of prenatal and perinatal somatics and how our earliest experiences in the womb and during birth shape our lives. As an award-winning educator and advanced body worker, Kate shares her 30-year journey as a "baby body worker," helping families navigate the prevention and treatment of birth trauma by honoring the baby’s unique somatic experience.
Our conversation dives into the multidimensionality of birth as a process of spirit coming into matter and the three-dimensional chess involved in healing preverbal trauma. Kate invites us to look at our wounds as portals rather than destinations, teaching us how presence and curiosity can clear overwhelming imprints to reveal the pure, spiritual essence underneath.
Kate White is an award-winning educator and an advanced bodyworker. She is trained in somatic therapies, prenatal and perinatal somatic health, lactation, brain development, infant mental health, and has specialized in parent-baby dyad care using somatic prevention and trauma healing approaches since 1999. She is a mother of two children, holds a BA and MA in Communication, is a Registered Craniosacral Therapist in the Biodynamic Craniosacral method, a Polarity Life Counselor, and a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner. Her work combines somatic trauma healing, especially the approach of Anna Chitty’s Blueprint Resonance work, energetic therapies, bodywork, pediatric therapies, and education about the nervous system to help give families with babies and small children the best possible start.
She is the Founding Director of Education for the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health, where, from 2013 – 2019, she created and ran the Prenatal and Perinatal Educator Certificate program, a large online educational program for professionals. She went on to found Prenatal and Perinatal Healing Online and the Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics Institute. She teaches classes online and in person, and offers training called Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics that she co-created with midwife Lois Trezise. She has a private practice in Chapel Hill, NC called Kate White PPN (katewhiteppn.com) and offers her own seminars through the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs, ppncenter.com, and the Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics Institute, ppnsomatics.com.
Tune in to hear more.
Links:
Learn more about Prenatal and Perinatal Healing Online
Learn more about Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics Institute
Learn more about her private practice
Check out her seminars at ppncenter.com and ppnsomatics.com
