All Hands-on Workshops

Certification Specialization Workshop

Become a maternity massage therapy specialist. Move far beyond general adaptations for maternity/pregnancy massage in this learner friendly, hands-on certification workshop.

Two day workshop (14 hrs.)

Engaging lectures, discussion, and guided practice will help you to adapt your own protocols and techniques to meet normal pregnancy concerns. This basic prenatal massage therapy course covers the essentials you need when a woman with a normal, low-risk pregnancy seeks stress and pain reduction through massage therapy.

One Day Workshops

Even if you only work with an occasional pregnant client, you need reliable practice guidelines. Learn safe and comfortable prenatal positioning, technique contraindications, and the physiological and anatomical rationale behind these adaptations to usual practice protocols.

With Carole Osborne-Sheets & Linda Hickey, Jennifer Hicks and/or Liz Ellis Instructors of Pre- and Perinatal Massage Therapy

Focus topics change with each periodic offering of this seminar so our graduates can continue their perinatal education for decades.

Offered in a 14-Hour Introductory or 30-Hour Comprehensive Integrative Bodywork Technique Workshop

Induce profoundly nurturing neuromuscular release with rhythmic deep tissue blended techniques. "Blends" are a creative coalesce of procedures synthesized from 35 years of study and professional body therapy practice. They are elegant, efficient, and effective myofascial therapy that is easy on your body and fun to do.

A Training for Somatic Practitioners

Upon completion of this seven-hour workshop, participants will be able to:

CE workshop offered at the World Massage Festival

Explore how to present the facts using art and intuition. Learn to engage both sides of your students' brains for deeper learning and more fun. Explore strategies to blend art and intuition into science lessons and vice versa. Evaluate the artistic and scientific aspects of your class plans and/or your school's curriculum. Devise creative strategies to spice up and ground all areas of your classes and your school's curriculum.

A Training for Somatic Practioners

SEI techniques reduce soft tissue dysfunction and imbalance, open and/or close emotional states when they arise, and mobilize the breath, imagery, and movement to process and integrate memory and feeling and to elicit the body's imagery and messages.

A Training for Somatic Practioners

This course details the effects of maternal stress on the developing embryo and fetus and how to relieve it in biodynamic practice. Numerous studies have shown that even moderate amounts of maternal stress can alter the development of the placenta and consequently that of the growing child inside the mother. Several disorders and diseases have now been identified from these early challenges such as obesity, heart disease, diabetes, attention deficit disorder, low birth weight and other problems.