Pre-and Perinatal Massage Carole Osborne-Sheets Certification Specialization Workshop
This class requires a minimum enrollment of 16. A date will be set once sufficient interest has been expressed. Please CLICK HERE you are interested in this workshop.mailto:mail@cihca.com?subject=Pre,Perinatal%20and%20infant%20massageshapeimage_2_link_0
Move far beyond general adaptations for maternity massage in 32 hour comprehensive workshop. Learn 80+ advanced techniques specifically developed to enhance pregnant, laboring, and postpartum women's comfort, health and enjoyment. Practice and receive personalized feedback in deep tissue, passive movement, neuromuscular, reflexive, positional release, and other somatic methods modified for emotional, structural, and physiological challenges of the childbearing year.
 
• CURRICULUM • Pregnancy • Relieving common pregnancy pain, dysfunctions, and worries • Alleviating musculoskeletal strain and pain • Facilitating the physiological processes of gestation • Reducing prenatal complications with preventative touch therapies • Designing effective, individualized sessions for typical client needs • Recognizing potential benefits as well as contraindications and precautions • Working with high risk, complicated, and bedrest pregnancies • Providing nurturing support and stress reduction • Enhancing couples' childbearing experience with touch • Modifying your technique repertoire for pregnancy • Labor and birth • Understanding labor physiology and psychology • Preparing clients physically and emotionally for birthing • Increasing clients' kinesthetic awareness for easier labors • Facilitating relaxation, pain reduction, and progress of labor • Supporting laboring woman and their partners with touch • Managing the practical challenges of providing labor massage therapy • Postpartum • Facilitating postpartum physiological adjustments • Restoring the abdomen • Rebalancing postural and movement patterns • Reducing the musculoskeletal strain of mothering tasks • Improving post-surgical recovery after Cesarean births • Supporting the somato-emotional integration of the childbearing experience • Additional topics • Reviewing relevant touch and maternity research • Embodying and guiding efficient, stress free body mechanics • Communicating and cooperating with other perinatal healthcare professionals • Developing effective promotional strategies for business success • Confronting ethical issues in perinatal healthcare
   • WORKSHOP PARTICULARS • Prerequisites and Preparation • This certification workshop is paced for experienced graduates of 500+hour diversified somatic programs. Other perinatal professionals are admitted with instructor approval. Advance reading of Pre- and Perinatal Massage Therapy and anatomical review are required. • Educational Philosophy • Instruction will engage your auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learning strengths. Detailed demonstrations, individualized tableside assistance,generous practice segments, a practicum with pregnant women, and a graphically rich 180 page student handbook guarantee your assimilation of techniques. Engaging discussions and lectures reinforce the theoretical foundations elaborated in the text and supplemental materials. • Evaluation and Certification • Body Therapy Associates grants certification with satisfactory performance on both theoretical and practical evaluations. Most students complete within the four workshop days; however, some require further time to adequately absorb course material. • Dates, Times, and Tuition • Workshop meets four days 9AM to 6PM, for 32 contact hours. Tuitions is $625. A non-refundable deposit of 50% received one month prior to workshop will reserve registration and insure an early enrollment discount. Tuition includes a 180 page student handbook detailing procedures plus extensive supplemental materials. Textbook must be purchased in addition to tuition. Tuition is not refundable for workshops cancelled due to strikes, labor disputes, acts of God, or conditions beyond our control.