The Womb of Spirit – Prenatale Sentience in Dharma-based Therapeutic Practice – Maura Sills
Over the last thirty years, rich evidence has shown that prenates and infants are aware of their environment, registering and responding to their sensory experiences.
Early primary experience leaves a deep imprint on the developing psyche. For the prenate the womb is the entire world, and the mother is the fulcrum of that world.
In their sentience, prenates respond to the womb environment and are very vulnerable to the nature and quality of its relational processes. Experiencing their world “all at once”, without psychological defenses or linear thought, they percieve time holistically with little differentiation between past, present or future. While this creates a beautiful wholeness about pre- and perinatal experience, it also generates profound vulnerability. Overwhelming conditions in utero or during birth are not filtered by thought; they are directly absorbed. There is no veil of thought, only direct experience.
The inflow of early experience sets the stage for future perception, affect regulation, defenses and personality formation. Research demonstrates that bonding and attachment begin in the womb. Perceived danger, abandonment or betrayal in utero overlay early infant experience, shaping lifelong relational patterns. Even for adults, the world is often seen through the veil of early womb experience: “womb as world, world as womb.”
Understanding sentience and awareness in the womb pushes back the traditional boundaries of personality development. For therapists integrating the Dharma, exploring this primary, unfiltered level of consciousness offers a powerful framework to meet deep-seated conditioning at its very roots with presence, clarity, and compassion.
COURSE STRUCTURE
There will be online seminars and a residential experiential workshop. The online seminars stand alone, however in order to attend the residential workshop the partecipation to the online seminars is required. Recordings will also be available.
ONLINE SEMINARS
Over the online seminars we will explore the Three Trimesters of Gestation. There will be theoretical input, meditation and sharing and questions. They will include:
– Preconception and Conception, Shock and Dissociation, Divine Longing, Implantation and Existential belonging
- World as Womb, Womb as World and Umbilical Affect
- The nature of orientation to the outer world
- Integration and impact of the life statements arising from the Trimesters
RESIDENTIAL WORKSHOP
The body continues to carry the cellular memories from our time as Prenates. Creating a safe and warm holding field there will be an opportunity to revisit, Conception, Implantation and Umbilical Affect. These territories are “remembered “ as energies or signatures in the body which offer a sensory window and reconnection with our experiences during these important times.
As we reconnect with both our experiences and our responses to them we will have the potential to heal at a very deep level our Wounds of Being and Wounds of Spirit.
Date
The online seminars will be held on Zoom on the following Fridays from 10 am to 12 GMT:
Nov 27 2026
Dec 18
Feb 19 2027
Apr 2
Apr 30
Giu 11
The residential workshop will be held from Wednesday 13th of October al Sunday 17th of October 2027. We will start at 3 pm of the first day and will finish on Sunday before lunch. The venue will be announced as soon as possible.
Partecipation fee
The cost of the online course is 185 € plus dana (donation) plus 25 € for the annual registration in the organization.
The cost for the residential course is 590 euros and does not include the cost for room and board, which will have to be paid locally.
The payment has to be done through bank transfer to:
Associazione Sati Mudita
Iban IT83 E030 6909 6061 0000 0128 339
Bic BCITITMM
Causal: Surname and Name of the Participant – Womb of Spirit
Or through the following paypal account: segreteria@satimudita.com
Maura Sills is the Founder of Core Process Psychotherapy which offers an innovative psycho-spiritual approach to therapy. The Karuna Institute integrates western psychotherapeutic models with Buddhist psychology and mindfulness practices. Drawing on over 40 years of experience, Core Process Psychotherapy offers a depth understanding of what helps and hinders healing insight and transformation.
Maura is an Honorary Fellow of the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and Director of Training at the Karuna Institute which offers Master Degree Programmes in Buddhist Mindfulness Based Psychotherapy along with Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and Retreat.
For further information and enrollments, please write to: segreteria@satimudita.com
