Womb Surround Process Workshop
The safest and most effective form for healing complex trauma from the beginning of life. Transform and integrate your birth, gestation, ancestral and early attachment imprints with somatically attuned and highly experienced practitioners.
BEING AN ADULT IS HARD
Not only because life in this world is hard, but because so many of us begin our life front-loaded with challenges. Challenges we didn't create. Challenges we don't even remember or know about. They exist in the memory of our body and our psyche and there isn't a day our life is not impacted by them, even if we don't consciously realize it.
A Womb Surround Process Workshop was created to be the optimum environment for lovingly and spaciously uncovering early life experiences we may not remember as adults. This helps us access more life force and make new choices about how we live. Ray Castellino started creating this form in the 1980s and evolved it over the next four decades.
Having a space to slow down and explore the formation of our inner little one and our survival strategies opens the possibility for us to choose differently as adults. You get to be loved, experience belonging AND be authentically YOU.
Step 1 - Schedule a Womb Surround Discovery Call (not required for those that have already met Elan or been in any of his workshops)
Step 2 - Fill out a registration form. If you are clear you want to participate, you are invited to register before the discovery call is complete.
Upcoming Womb Surrounds
May 3 - May 5, 2024 (Friday to Sunday) in Asheville, NC with Elan Freydenson. Limited to 3 participants. (1 spaces left)
Investment: $850
Hold your space with a $200 non-refundable deposit applied to your total investment
Approximate time schedule:
Friday - Saturday, May 3 - May 4 - Start at 9 am, ending between 7 and 9 pm
Sunday, May 5 - Start 9 am, ending between 12 and 2 pm
Men Only - May 30 - Jun 2, 2024 (Friday to Monday) in Lafayette, CO (Near Boulder) with Elan Freydenson. Limited to 4 participants (2 spaces left).
Early Bird by April 20, Investment is $950, Regular Investment: $1,100
Hold your space with a $200 non-refundable deposit applied to your total investment
Approximate time schedule:
Thursday - Saturday, May 30 - Jun 1 - Start at 9 am, ending between 7 and 9 pm
Sunday, Jun 2 - Start 9 am, ending between 12 and 2 pm
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Each participant gets a 2 to 3 hour turn focused on their specific intentions as part of the full weekend process.
Note: These workshops run on "birth time." We recommend you don't make any other plans for any of the days. We try to have about 1 hour and 45 minute lunch break in the middle of the day. You will get a logistics email after you register.
Discounts available for BIPOC, refugees and those directly impacted by war and government oppression.
Email elan@elanfreydenson.com if you have any questions
What People Are Saying About Womb Surrounds
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"I cannot recommend him enough."
I just finished a Womb Surround experience with Elan and I am deeply transformed by it. Elan supported me in the process of going back to an early prenatal trauma experience and I felt so held. I am awed and inspired by the talents, gifts, and skills he was able to meet me with. From his knowledge on Polarity Therapy, to understanding the body and incarnation, to understanding babies; he is truly masterful at this process and I cannot recommend him enough.
Lee W.
Creator of Reclaiming Wisdom
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“Elan is masterful in creating a field of safety and trust.”
Elan is masterful in creating a field of safety and trust; the ground of love where true transformation and connection to our innate intelligence guides the way. I wholeheartedly recommend him as a facilitator of the Womb Surround process.
Ajaya Sommers
RCST, Core Embodiment, Maui, HI
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"I got a whole new tangible experience of nurturing my little one."
“Elan really impresses upon us that we are perfect the way we are. Whether we are crying or laughing or sleeping or integrating, we have total permission to just to be, which was a profound space for me to be in for 4 days over the course of the Womb Surround. I really appreciated Elan’s slow, gentle pace. It gave me permission to honor my own pace, which is much slower than I realized. I got a whole new tangible experience of nurturing my little one, and that's so precious and powerful.”
David Salih
Tantric Yogi
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“Layers of shame I wasn’t even conscious of had dissolved.”
I asked Elan to facilitate a Womb Surround for my Birthday. I couldn’t have imagined a better gift for myself. He showed up with such a clear quality of commitment, presence and love that I could not help but feel touched deep in my heart with teary gratitude. I emerged from the healing journey in a potent way. I recall walking around for weeks feeling a distinct lack of apology for my existence; layers of shame I wasn’t even conscious of had dissolved. In its place was a wonderful felt sense clarity that I was wanted, loved and supported by Life.
Lorina Manzanita
MA, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
Hear Directly the Impact on Their Lives
Each participant in a Womb Surround has their own uniquely transformative experience. Change happens in our lives when we perceive, understand and feel ourselves in a new way.
You Grew Inside Your Mother
If you are reading this (and you are not Artificial Intelligence) you grew your body and nervous system inside your biological mother.
Plenty of science and nature's survival instincts show that how your mother is feeling, the lifestyle she lived, what she fed and ingested and her relationships all impact your developing brain and nervous system.
This lays the groundwork for how you sleep as an Adult, how you nuture and take care of yourself, how you feel and show up in intimate relationships and what you attune to and pay attention to in your life.
You Were Born
The first significant movement, action and follow-through you ever went through was your birth. No matter the circumstances, it is a challenging and potentially a life-threatening (too often so) experience.
Your first experience entering the world in your body sets the stage for how you complete projects and tasks, engage in transitions and big events in your life and how your brain and body move together.
Babies are the biggest sponges of the world at this time stage of development. They take deep into their being the feelings and thoughts that mother, father (if he is there or not), birthworkers (midwives or doulas) or hospital staff and obstetricians have.
If you are born via cesarian or vaginally, if there are no drugs or multiple drugs and interventions and if it is an emergency or scheduled all impact us foundationally and in our own unique ways.
You Attached and Bonded
None of us survive without loving and being loved. Attachment and bonding are essential to nourishment, learning, rest, curiousity and the most important experience of belonging.
How your bonds formed or didn't form with your family set the stage for how you form and maintain relationships as an adult.
A fundamental choices little ones are too often presented with is do I get to be me or do I get to belong. This sets the underlying survival strategy and inner conflict that I don't get to fully be me and also be loved.
Creating a space to slow down to explore and understand the formation of our inner little one opens the possibility for us to choose differently as adults and have both authenticity and belonging.
The 8 Principles That Create Safety in a Womb Surround
Womb Surrounds are not just about baby stuff. Read 9 Things You Can Work On In a Womb Surround Besides Birth Trauma to learn more.
FAQ
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For multi-day Womb Surrounds, the first 3-5 hours on day one are about taking the time to arrive, learning the 8 Principles of Highly Functional Groups & Families, learning the structure of a turn, and getting to know the other participants. Each participant has the opportunity to take their turn, which is around 2 to 2.5 hours. The first turn will happen on day 1. Each day there is a debrief for the turns that happened the day prior, and at least one, usually two turns. You can also expect about a 1 hour and 45 minute break each day.The last day is focused on integration and contains one to two debriefs and usually ends before 2pm.
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Most Womb Surrounds are posted 60 to 120 days before they start. I recommend signing up for my mailing list to not miss a scheduled Womb Surround. Also, the Womb Surrounds listed on this page are open to the public. You can form a private group with your colleagues, friends, family, fellow members of a cohort or community, etc. I also offer personal one-day Womb Surrounds that you (and possibly your partner) or I can travel for.
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Yes. Often community members, families, colleagues or other groups want the support that a Womb Surround brings. For example, in the past, private Womb Surrounds have formed for somatic practitioners, intentional community members, multigenerational families, two simultaneously pregnant couples, members of tantra communities, facilitators of other healing modalities, etc. If you feel you can gather three or more participants (usually I can find one or two as well) please reach out to me via email.
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Yes. Sometimes people can’t make the opening in their schedule and some prefer not to do this work with strangers they don’t know. I offer personal one-day Womb Surrounds for this purpose. You can invite a friend or two to support your experience and optionally I can bring an assistant or co-facilitator. At the minimum, we need one person there in addition to you and me (Elan). You can travel to me (or meet me when I travel), or I can be flown to another location. Please reach out to me via email.
Elan Freydenson
Elan Freydenson's life is dedicated to freeing himself and helping others free themselves from the unintended burden of familial, cultural, and ancestral imprinting. He believes it is your conception right to experience being in your body as an easeful, pleasurable and joyous experience.
He has over a thousand hours of training in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and Polarity Therapy and has completed the Castellino Perinatal and Birth Therapy training twice. He is a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist and an Authorized Continuum Movement Teacher. He resides near Asheville, NC and loves listening to and breathing with in the trees in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
CO-facilitators
Kristin Sipley
Kristin Sipley is a somatic wellness consultant, facilitator, educator, and mentor who assists individuals, couples, families, groups, and other professionals across the globe to connect with the wisdom and health within themselves and the field around us. Her integrative, holistic approach recognizes the inherent intelligence and health that supports each of us and combines aspects from her training in pre- and perinatal (PPN) somatic health, parent-infant mental health, lifespan development, trauma integration, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Polarity Therapy, Reiki, and adult education. Kristin is an approved Castellino Womb Surround Process Workshop Facilitator and Supervisor, as well as contributes to various PPN and bodywork trainings throughout the US and Canada.