UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
Healing the Root: Learning to Support Vibrant Healthy Wombs
Pelvic Floor work can be an entryway into profound physical, emotional and spiritual healing for our patients. Join Kathryn Kloos ND, LMT to learn how to competently hold space for women in healing uterine and pelvic floor imbalance. It is recommended that people take both classes but it is not required. Register for both classes before March 10th to receive a $50 discount.
Foundations in Healership for the Women’s Healthcare Provider
March 30- 31st, 10-6pm Saturday and 10-2pm Sunday
In this class you will learn how to hold a healing container for women as you are accessing their most vulnerable and powerful center through pelvic floor therapy. In this weekend we will explore what we are holding within our own roots so that we can come from a place of informed experience when holding space for others. The emphasis of the class is on self-exploration and healing. Please be prepared to look within yourself to explore what needs healing within your own root. Topics include:
Learning about energetic boundary setting using visualization
How create a safe container for emotional release
Plant allies of the Pacific NW to address energetic imbalances
Tapping into ancestral belief systems held within the root
Exploring how to connect with your own energetic root
Yoga exercises for pelvic floor strengthening and relaxation that will be what you prescribe to your patients
Vaginal Steaming practices
Bedside manner, energetic boundaries and facilitating emotional release
The use of jade eggs for pelvic floor strength and energetic presence
Guided visualizations to help tap into your lower chakras
Self Uterine and Ovarian Massage
Register for both classes before March 10th to receive a $50 discount (use discount code PELVICFLOOR).
Pelvic Floor and Uterine Myofascial Release Techniques
May 25-26, 10-6pm
Learn how to use myofascial release and energetic techniques to address pelvic floor conditions. NDs have the unique qualifications to provide medical diagnosis as well as perform therapeutic bodywork with our patients. In this class you will learn how to diagnose and treat common pelvic floor conditions coming from a place diagnostic skill, energetic awareness and deep listening.
Benefits of pelvic floor therapy
Palpation skills to identify pelvic floor structures
Diagnosis and treatment of common pelvic floor dysfunction such as: cystocele, rectocele, pelvic organ prolapse, muscle spasms.
Trigger point therapy, muscle energy technique and strain/counterstrain of pelvic floor muscles
Myofascial release of the uterus
Emotional and somatic holding patterns in the womb and pelvis
Deep listening and uterine un-winding
Addressing trauma
Case studies
Register for both classes before March 10th to receive a $50 discount (use discount code PELVICFLOOR).
Both workshops will be held at: Kwan Yin Healing Arts Center East 3115 NE Sandy Blvd Suite 231, Portland, Oregon 97019
These are participatory classes where students will be practicing pelvic floor work on each other. If you don’t feel comfortable receiving pelvic floor work and you want to attend you are welcome to come. Please notify Dr. Kathryn by sending a message via her website so she can make sure there are an even number of people to practice on one another.
Kathryn Kloos ND, LMT has a naturopathic practice in Portland, Oregon providing gynecology, pelvic floor therapy and uterine massage for women. She is a doctor and a healer. Through the healing container she provides women can address deep emotional, mental, spiritual and physical transformation in their root.
PAST WORKSHOPS
Healing the Root Workshop
Pelvic Floor & Uterine Myofascial Release
Internal & external palpation skills
Diagnosis & treatment of common dysfunctions
Pelvic floor anatomy
Emotional & somatic holding pattern release techniques
Deep listening & uterine unwinding
Case studies
Led by Kathryn Kloos
January 19-20, 2019 / Bastyr University
Course objectives:
Review Pelvic Floor and Uterine-ovarian anatomy
Develop palpation skills to identify pelvic floor structures and uterine position
Learn how to diagnose and treat cystocele, rectoceles, vaginal trigger points and uterine prolapse
Diagnosis and treatment of urinary stress and urge incontinence
Learn myofascial release, positional release, strain/counterstrain for the pelvic floor
Explore energetic anatomy of the pelvis
Learn how to hold a healing container for emotional release
Boundaries and ethics
Addressing trauma
Case studies
Dark Moon Rising Workshop
A journey using plant allies to explore feminine archetypes through ceremony, meditation, song and art
Led by Kathryn Kloos and Ashlie Hempstead
November 17th, 2018 / 2pm–5pm
One familiar version of the story of Persephone is that she was a captive of the Underworld, but this is not the original myth. The story of Persephone, and her mother Demeter, is a revered story of feminine strength and rule over the Underworld.
In this ceremonial space:
Re-learn the Pre-Hellensitic myth that continues to live inside of us and wants to be remembered and retold.
Identify what inside of us needs tending to during the darkness of winter.
Reclaim our personal power by shedding what is no longer serving us.
Find nourishment within the darkness.
Give voice to our stories which need to be re-written.
We will use the wisdom and teachings of plant medicines to find the stillness of winter inside us and to re-vitalize our power for spring. The first plant we will use will be Black Cohosh. Ruled by Pluto, Black Cohosh has the ability to take us into deep, dark places where the stillness abides.
The second plant we will use will be Aralia, ruled by the Moon, who shows us how to be unwavering in our feminine strength.
Astrologically we are supported in the month of November, which is the time of Scorpio and the time of death, re-birth and deep self-exploration.
Each woman is invited to share story and experience within dedicated circle time, while your two guides, Dr. Kathryn Kloos and Dr. Ashlie Hempstead, will bathe you in song, guided meditation and craniosacral support.
Blankets, pillows, light snacks and tea are provided.
This is part 1 of a 2-part series. Part 2 will be in December, and will focus on "Embracing the Light in the Winter Sun".