Pregnancy is a time of change, celebration and profound bonding between mother and child.
Through this workshop, learn how to use rhythm to facilitate deeper bonding with your child in the womb, stimulate baby’s healthy interactivity and play, and promote relaxation of both mother and baby. Also builds community and support among mothers and serves as a safe place to express emotions and creativity. Course designed for pregnant mothers and can be modified for birth educators, doulas and midwives who wish to do rhythm work with their clients.

Where: Private Residence, Santa Barbara, CA - Address Given Upon Registration
Date: July 11, 2009
Times: 11am - 1pm (Group Class); Set up time for individual instruction.
Cost: $20.00 per person for group class; $35 for individual instruction.
What to bring: pillow, blanket, journal, writing utencil, tape recorder (optional). Extra writing materials will be available. All drums provided. Drums will be available for purchase after the workshop.
To register, email or call Kris -
, 805-624-4361
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Living in Bliss: Discovering Your Personal Mythology (Meets 3 Times)
An Online Workshop
Sunday, 8/9/09 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
Sunday, 8/16/09 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
Sunday , 8/23/09 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM PDT
Course Description:
- Discover your personal mythology & re-create your life.
- Re-member the fragmented pieces of your early life, when you felt inspired and enlivened
- Experience a deeper connection to your soul purpose.
By studying and applying current developments in archetypal psychology and personal mythology we can begin to discern the deep archetypal patterns that drive our lives behind the scenes.
In this 3-part, online course we will:
- Deepen our awareness of our own archetypal tendencies.
- Connect with our hearts' desires through story and myth.
- Re-write our myth, our story, to help show us the path to where we want to go.
- Listen to others' stories and tell our own. Let's be inspired!
I will be your guide and witness through this process using writing exercises, meditation, mantras and breath work. Each person will get a chance to share a poem, story, song, music, collage, painting, basically any creative media they choose to share their personal mythology, during the last meeting of the course.
To get the most out of this course, please complete pre-course materials in the online library prior to our first meeting.
About the instructor: Kris Katsuko Oster is Ph.D. candidate at Pacifica Graduate Institute who is completing her dissertation, "The Heartbeat of the Mother: Ritual Drumming & Re-Birthing Images of the Feminine in Brazilian Candomble." Kris received her M.A. in Mythological Studies with an Emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2005.
