Matthew 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 Psychotherapy at the Karuna Institute in Devon. He further trained in Pre and Perinatal Education with Karlton Terry in Switzerland and 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’ (1999) based on his experiences at Summerhill has been published in several languages. A second book ‘Transitions to Wholeness. Integrating Prenatal, Transpersonal and Somatic Psychology’ (2020) draws from more than 30 years of clinical work with adults, children and babies. He has more than 20 years experience of lecturing and facilitating workshops in the UK, Europe, South Africa and America. His work is also informed by ongoing studies in Jungian psychology and work with indigenous elders and Buddhist teachers. Drawing from these influences, he has developed a form of embodied dreamwork called ‘Dream Gestation’.

Kate is a registered Craniosacral Therapist, Midwife and Lactation Consultant living and working in Alton, Hampshire.
She has worked as a table assistant for the Institute of Craniosacral studies and has assisted Graham Kennedy with his birth process work both in England and Italy. Kate has attended a number of pre and perinatal courses including Karlton Terry’s and also his baby therapy training

Rosella is a registered Craniosacral Therapist, Cousellor and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, living and working in Italy. She is co-founder and co-director of In Flow, Somatic Studies Centre and Craniosacral Biodynamics School. He trained in Craniosacral Biodynamics at Karuna Institute in Devon and in Somatic Counseling at IPSO, the Alexander Lowen Institute of Italy. She trained in Experiential Anatomy at Pensare col Corpo Institute. She further trained in Pre and Perinatal psychology with Matthew Appleton in Italy. She practice meditation since 1989. She has two children, Amanda and Rocco

Carol has been called a visual and linguistic communicator. A painter and artist fluent in five languages, parents from Budapest, born in the U.S.A., and living in Italy for nearly half a century, she developed a deep interest in pre and perinatal psychology through her long-term friendship and collaboration with Silja Wendelstadt, a Reichian body psychotherapist and pioneer in the field. Together, in the mid ‘90’s, they established the Eva Reich Research Centre in Rome. There Carol began translating for Thomas Harms in a five-year body psychotherapy training program in Emotional First Aid. In 2006 she became the official translator for the newly founded Italian program of the School of Body Mind Centering°, in trainings of somatic movement education and infant developmental movement education. In 2010 she joined the Inflow/In Origine team as Matthew Appleton’s translator for all his Italian trainings and workshops.

Ursi is a mother of three children, works as a biodynamic craniosacral therapist and IBT baby therapist with babies, children and adults.  IBT has significantly changed her work, so that the pre- and perinatal imprints that strongly influence life have become the main subject of therapy, with babies, children and adults. She has done several trainings and continues with ongoing education in this field. Mainly, her great teachers are her own children and the babies and children who seek help in her practice every day. She is also on the board of the International Society for Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine Switzerland and organises Matthew and Jenni’s courses in Switzerland with great dedication and gratitude.