A Two day, Face-to-Face Pregnancy Massage Course
Are you ready? Is your place of employment prepared?
Over 4.5 million American women will become pregnant in the next year. To serve them well, you need to appropriately adapt your work to be safe and effective. This hands-on workshop focuses on theory, evidence and practical guidance for modifying your own considerable skill sets for common prenatal needs.
- More than just propping a pregnant woman with multitudes of pillows, you’ll learn the why and how to create therapeutically helpful side lying and semi-reclining positioning.
- Receive extensive supervision of your choice of techniques and session progressions for all three trimesters.
- You’ll leave understanding the extensive physiological, structural, and emotional adaptations of pregnancy and with the assurance of well researched, sound safety guidelines
This basic prenatal massage therapy course covers how to think through individual presenting complaints and deliver stress and pain reduction to women with normal, low-risk pregnancies.
Curriculum
- Tour the pregnant body learning normal prenatal anatomical and physiological adaptations
- Gestate your understanding of the physical, emotional, and practical concerns of typical expectant women
- Learn positioning, precautions, contraindications and recommendations for safe prenatal massage therapy for each trimester.
- Practice a full body prenatal session in the sidelying and in the semi-reclining position
Qualified Students
This workshop is designed for all massage and bodywork students and practitioners ready to adapt their own protocols and techniques to a normal pregnancy’s demands.
Spa and Corporate Prenatal MT Development
When you and your employer want better results from your signature and branded massage services, this workshop is ideal. With a full overview of the pregnant body to inform you, we’ll then zero in on refining your sessions and menus for maximum mama-friendly effect.
Continuing Education Massage Therapy Credits
Receive 14 CE hours (1.4 CEU credits with NCBTMB) with attendance and satisfactory participation in the 14 hours of class activities.
Will this workshop grant specialization or certification in prenatal massage therapy?
This is NOT a comprehensive maternity massage therapy course. It covers normal prenatal changes, and leaves complications, high risk, labor and postpartum for our lengthier, comprehensive workshop, Pre- and Perinatal Massage Therapy. If what you want and need is to be well prepared to work safely and effectively throughout the childbearing year and with normal to high-risk pregnancies, you’ll want to attend the four-day workshop.
Also, if you and/or your employer want your knowledge and skills assessed through our certification program, here’s where you’ll find those details.
Recommended Advance Reading
Read and study the first four chapters of Pre- and Perinatal Massage Therapy: A Comprehensive Guide to Prenatal, Labor and Postpartum Practice 3rd Edition, Publication date 2021. Purchase the book here, and you’ll also be creating more compensation to the authors than if you buy from other sources.
Terms of Enrollment & Cost
Tuition is dependent on arrangements with the sponsoring entity. Generally a portion of any deposit or full tuition paid is non-refundable.
Enrollment in this workshop constitutes agreement to the following terms. PLEASE CALL or e-mail us if there are any questions or concerns before you register.
1. Prerequisite preparations to improve your participation in the workshop
Read and study chapters 1-4 of Pre- & Perinatal Massage Therapy, 3rd Edition – Osborne, Holland, Lobenstine.
2. Participation
In order to complete the workshop and earn CE credits, you are expected to actively engage in all aspects of the workshop: lecture, demonstration, and both giving and receiving the work demonstrated. You are expected to attend all 14 hours. If necessary, instructor will arrange for make-up work on the content and hours that you miss, up to 5 hrs. Larger absences will require a retake of the entire workshop.
Ongoing Development in Prenatal Massage Therapy
What’s next after this workshop? This workshop is an intermediate step toward a full prenatal massage therapy education. We enjoy providing and encourage your ongoing studies. Here’s what we suggest:
- Continue your individual study of pregnancy by taking our home study course or one of our online webinars.
- Join into a group Mentoring for Mastery course or schedule individual mentoring with Carole for further development of your professional goals and practice.
- Participate in our highly respected Pre- and Perinatal Massage Therapy Specialization Workshop. Follow-up with earning your certification as a maternity massage specialist.