Ilja van de Griend is a Dutch-Portuguese transpersonal psychotherapist, Certified Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner, trainer, and co-founder of AlmaSoma Transpersonal Training Institute. She is also a mother of three daughters.

With more than 20 years of clinical and educational experience, she specializes in Pre- and Perinatal Therapy for both adults and babies.

She is certified by EUROTAS and is a professional member of the EARTh Association for Regression Therapy. Her interdisciplinary background includes training in Pre- and Perinatal Education and Therapy, Compassionate Inquiry, Regression Therapy, Brennan Healing Science, and Coaching. She is currently completing a Master’s degree in Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology.

Her work is rooted in the understanding that our earliest experiences lay the foundation for our entire life — and that it is never too early or too late to access, process, and integrate them in service of a more embodied and integrated life.

From this understanding emerged the initiative to organize the symposium “Happy Babies, Full Incarnations”, which will take place from May 22–24 in Lisbon, Portugal, with both in-person and online participation options, with Kate White being one of the presenters.

Happy Babies, Full Incarnations Symposium

AlmaSoma

Frank Carbone offers support and guidance in experiential and creative ways to explore movement, sensation, and deep healing through an embryonic journey from within. Through Continuum practices, participants track and reflect on the sensations of being held in a womb-like field of co-creative bio-resonant expression—exploring the restorative capacity of fluid to dissolve, reorganize, and return to form.

In this work we connect to the fluid systems of the body and the mysterious slow rhythms of our ever-creative embryo, rediscovering the intelligence and regenerative potential of our living cells.

Frank is a Biodynamic Cranial Sacral Therapist, Sivananda Yoga Teacher, singer, songwriter, DJ, and Gyrotonic Instructor. He is also the creator of Womb Continuum, a synthesis of over 20 years of study with Continuum founder Emilie Conrad combined with Pre- and Perinatal Therapy with Dr. Raymond Castellino.

Frank served as a personal assistant to Dr. Castellino for six years and assisted in over 85 Womb Surround processes worldwide. He now offers Womb Continuum workshops internationally and maintains private practices in Ojai, California and New York.

Learn more at:

wombcontinuum.com

In April 2025, Frank had a car accident and over the subsequent months, he healed himself and created new materials for a book called Cellness. This is his story.

This is a very special interview with therapist and author, Jasmin Lee Cori. Her book, The Emotionally Absent Mother: How to Recognize and Heal the Invisible Effect of Childhood Emotional Neglect was pivotal for me when exploring mothering and my history as a daughter. I found reading her book very healing, and I have adopted her affirmations as those I use when helping others, especially adults who have early wounds and mothers who want to be the best version of themselves. Her affirmations are:

• I am glad you are here
• I see you
• You are special to me
• I respect you
• You can turn to me for help
• Your needs are important to me
• I'm here for you; I'll make time for you
• I'll keep you safe
• You can rest in me
• I delight in you

Jasmin Lee Cori has lived a life of learning and healing. She practiced for many years as a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Colorado, specializing in work with adults who experienced childhood neglect and abuse. Jasmin is the author of 5 nonfiction books including The Emotionally Absent Mother, Healing From The Emotionally Absent Mother, and Healing From Trauma.

Jasmin taught in a variety of colleges and vocational schools and is passionate about psychological and spiritual growth, as well as holistic health.

Her website: https://www.jasmincori.com/

Klaus Käppeli, MSc, is a psychologist and psychotherapist of the Federation of the Swiss Psychologists (FSP). After his studies in curative education and psychology, he worked as a school psychologist in St.Gallen, Switzerland. Since 1988 he has a private practice in somatic psychotherapy with a focus on pre- and perinatal psychology. He works with adults, families, couples, young adults, children and babies. His extensive training includes integrative body psychotherapy (IBP) (J. L. Rosenberg, B. K. Morse), integrative couple and family therapy (C.Gammer, M.Kirschenbaum), treating and integrating prenatal and birth trauma with babies and adults (R. Castellino, W. Emerson) and cranio-sacral therapy (J. Lichtenberg). He has assisted the prenatal and birth foundation training with Ray Castellino in Santa Barbara CA. He is a certified adult group facilitator in processing and integrating pre- and perinatal experiences in the tradition of Ray Castellino. He is cofacilitating the foundation training with Regina Bücher in Germany and Switzerland. Klaus is married and father of three adult sons. Seven grandchildren are among his closest teachers.

In this podcast, we talk about his work with families and children who have earliest trauma. We also talk about his new book, Welcome to School where he explore how early trauma impacts school age children. He specializes in families with birth trauma with children who don't want to go to school or who have particular challenges.

Contact Klaus at klaus.kaeppeli@bluewin.ch

Purchase his book: Welcome to School

Eileen is a Pre-and Peri-Natal Somatic Educator and Practitioner, Registered Craniosacral Therapist (RCST®), Certified Massage Therapist (CMT,) a Castellino School Approved Womb Surround Facilitator and Breema® Instructor and Practitioner.

Eileen works with adults, individually and in groups and families with babies, children and teens to help understand how early traumatic events show up in the present; and how to transform those patterns toward integration and health. Her current work is a culmination of three decades of study and work as a bodyworker, yoga teacher, Breema® instructor and community organizer (with a particular emphasis of working with pregnant couples and babies) before studying and mentoring with Myrna Martin and Ray Castellino.

Eileen’s work is based in the understanding that each individual has an inner guidance system to their own optimal health. People don't need to be “fixed," just supported in connecting with their innate rhythms, impulses and intentions.

In this episode, Eileen and I talk about the "Double Bind." We are offering advanced education in the Double Bind and Modern Birth Setting as part of the Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics training program.

See more about Eileen at eileensendrey.com

See more about Double Binds here: Working with Double Binds and Earliest Trauma

See more about our Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics Program by clicking here.

An Example of our work is: Blueprint and Double Bind Skills Identification and Practice

As a Creative Healing Consultant and Artist, Tara Evonne Trudell, (Santee Sioux/Rarámuri/Xicana) weaves multiple mixed media of handmade paper beads, poetry, photography, film, and audio components into her work to express her creative visions that address the many social issues she sees as a continuance of generational trauma on women and children. Tara makes beads from the many reports, research, data, and survivor stories to amplify their voices and resources that need to be shared in all communities.

Tara offers her personal experience of being a grandmother, granddaughter, daughter, mother, sister, and one day a future ancestor as an opening to bear witness to others who are struggling with their own intergenerational abuse and trauma. Tara shares her own healing journey for others to relate and join her in the navigation of changing this painful and harmful narrative. It is through this guidance of spirit reclamation and empowering personal energy that can come from our own making prayer beads that address the many colonial and oppressive narratives in a manner that dates back to 100,000 BC when beads were first discovered. It is from our own history, words, images, and worlds can we reshape and reclaim our connection to spirit. With one bead at a time, we can reclaim a time and place before harm entered our ways of life. This becomes the stepping off point for the return of our personal power.

Incorporating these hand made beads as her own personal regalia, Tara is on a lifelong journey in the reclamation of her identity to earth and spirit by remembering her indigenous connection and ceremonies. An artist that she hopes represents and advocates for earth and humanity to stimulate action and a sense of community care that needs to be shared between all nations. Tara has done extensive prayer bead workshops with women survivors of sexual assault, human trafficking, domestic violence, community and youth groups, & immigrants/refugees.

e. taraevonnetrudell@gmail.com

You can see the many things we talked about in this podcast on her website: https://www.taraevonnetrudell.com/

Join her patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/c/KarmaStarBead/posts

Margaretta is an intuitive healer and clairvoyant who assists clients in connecting with all aspects of their multidimensional selves so that life can be lived and experienced from a larger perspective and a higher frequency. She has learned how to access wisdom directly from the higher planes.

Her approach to transformational healing combines her formal training at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, The Virginia School of Massage, studies in acupressure, Shiatsu, guided imagery, numerous Buddhist retreats, and all levels of Reiki training with her own unique experiences of self-healing and self-transcendence. She is also certified to teach Integral Hatha Yoga.

Her love and appreciation of nature inspired her to create Bridge Between The Worlds, a retreat center with a mission to assist others to connect with the essence of spirit and intelligence in nature and to recognize the healing power of the elements in the natural world.

Margaretta has studied different healing modalities for over twenty years including:

• Guidelight Facilitator
• Kinergetics
• Barbara Brennan School of Healing
• Reiki Master Teacher
• Certified Hatha Yoga Teacher
• Virginia School of Massage 500 hour Program
• Study at the Monroe Institute
• Process Acupressure at Esalen Institute
• Workshops with sound healer, Tom Kenyon
• Numerous Buddhist retreats

Margaretta’s approach to transformational healing combines her formal training coupled with discoveries based on her own experiences of self-healing and self-transcendence. Her work takes her to California, New Mexico, Colorado, Maryland, and Tokyo, Japan.

Margaretta directs Bridge Between The Worlds, for the study of subtle Energy Medicine and for studying and connecting with the essence of spirit in Nature.

Dr. Stephanie House is a board-certified physical therapist and vestibular specialist. She works with people suffering from dizziness and chronic pain at her practice, House of Balance Integrative Health and PT. Dr. House has a passion for whole-body healing. She holds certifications in vestibular therapy, yoga therapy, lifestyle medicine, and dry needling. Her methods help those struggling with chronic symptoms achieve real and lasting improvements through the use of mind-body and traditional physical therapy techniques.

https://www.houseofbalancept.com/