Breath of Life Conference 2003

This was the second time that a variety of experts in the field of body-mind medicine, psychotherapy and child development had been brought together to discuss recent developments in these important fields.

Organised by the Craniosacral Therapy Educational Trust, the conference included a presentation by Sally Goddard Blythe, director of the Institute for Neuro-Physiological Psychology who gave a fascinating insight into the field of primitive reflexes and their links to developmental and learning difficulties in the child.

Sally brought in some material from her book, 'Reflexes, Learning and Behaviour' to illustrate how a child's motor skills and behaviour can be affected dramatically by a variety of disturbances that might affect the development of primitive reflexes from the womb into early childhood.

This followed on from a previous talk by Babette Rothschild, author of 'The Body Remembers: the Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment' who gave an interactive lecture on how the body deals with traumatic events and how to work safely and therapeutically with traumatised clients and children. She explained how traumatic events affect the body's ability to cope and particularly the effect on the autonomic and endocrine systems.

Other speakers included Dr Mae Wan Ho, Rupert Sheldrake, Franklyn and Maura Sills and Richard Holding.

Cassette tapes of the last Breath of Life conferences in 2001, 2003 and 2005 are available from QED productions on 020 8441 7722. Please click on the image

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