BIOGRAPHIES
Conscious Embodiment Trainings
Conscious Embodiment Trainings was founded in 2007 by Matthew Appleton and Jenni Meyer to promote awareness of how our experience in the womb, during birth and early infancy impact us as individuals and in society. Since then we have trained many practitioners to work in this field and supported many individuals in experiential workshops to discover how these early experiences have shaped their lives. We have a growing international community of people who have worked with us over the years, spanning a multitude of backgrounds.
Matthew Appleton, MA RCST UKCP, is the co founder and director of Conscious Embodiment Trainings. He was also co-founder of the Institute of Craniosacral Studies and a co-director and senior teacher with the Institute for 12 years. Matthew is a registered Craniosacral Therapist and psychotherapist living and working in Bristol. He trained in Body Psychotherapy at the Wilhelm Reich Institute of Integrated Therapy in Germany and in Core Process Psychotherapist at the Karuna Institute in Devon. He further trained in Pre and Perinatal Education with Karlton Terry in Switzerland and has assisted Karlton in the UK.
He is a senior co-teacher with the Institute of Pre and Perinatal Education and a member of the International Society of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine. For ten years he worked as a houseparent at A. S. Neill’s famous democratic school Summerhill and his book ‘A Free Range Childhood’ based on his experiences at Summerhill has been published in several languages. He has more than 20 years experience of lecturing and facilitating workshops in the UK, Europe, South Africa and America. As well as his more formal trainings, Matthew’s work is also informed by his work with a number of Buddhist and Shamanic teachers. He has spent many years visiting sacred sites, encountering wilderness and working in the Celtic shamanic tradition.
Jenni Meyer, RN RM BSc Hons RCST, is co-founder and assistant director of Conscious Embodiment Trainings. Growing up in Africa gave Jenni a sense of how important it is to have a close connection with the natural world for physical, emotional and spiritual health. She trained and worked as a nurse in South Africa, before coming to Europe to work as a nurse and train as a midwife.
For many years Jenni worked as a community midwife in London with women wanting home births and also with women with mental health needs who were having babies. Jenni has a BSc Hons. in Human Biology and has also studied massage, naturopathy and Craniosacral therapy. She has studied with teachers from various different Buddhist and Yogic traditions. One of Jenni’s passions has been Okido yoga (a Japanese Yoga with a Zen Buddhist tradition, amalgamating traditional branches of Yoga and some concepts from martial arts). Her interest in Yoga continues and she is currently exploring Scaravelli inspired Yoga.
Jenni trained in Pre and Perinatal Education with Karlton Terry and assisted on some of Karlton’s UK trainings. She has also assisted and taught Craniosacral therapy with the Institute of Craniosacral Therapy. Jenni now teaches on many of the Conscious Embodment courses. Her home is now in Bristol where she has a busy Craniosacral Therapy practice.