This is the workshop for when it’s time to take your maternity massage therapy to the next level. It’s your once-every-three years chance to advance your pre- and perinatal MT education. Although the name stays the same, the focus and material changes each time. Take this one every time it rolls around to stay current and energized in your practice.

Topics for 2023

  • Individualized, advanced techniques for pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain (PPGP) also known as perinatal pelvic pain syndrome (PPPS).
  • Individualized, advanced instruction to review and expand on your skills and understanding of preparations for and healing after Cesarean birth with lymphatic drainage, scar tissue techniques, and trauma informed care.
  • Discussion and input on your most challenging clients
  • Dialogue with instructors on YOUR practice related issues

LAGNIAPPE (Louisiana term for a lil’ bit extra)

  • Business success guidance
  • Body alignment and weight shift for pain-free sessions for YOU
  • Socializing, dinner, and networking with maternity specialists whose idea of intriguing conversation centers around placentas, birth stories and pelvic floor integrity
  • Enhancement of technique skill and finesse
  • Inspiration and re-energizing of your maternity work

Who May Attend?

Therapists who trained with Carole or her authorized teachers of Pre-and Perinatal Massage Therapy from 1996 to present. (Those who studied in her former course, Bodywork for the Childbearing Year (1985-1996) also are invited to participate). We consider admission to other certified maternity massage therapists on an individual basis; please contact Carole.

What Advance Preparation is Required?

Re- reading of Third edition of Pre- & Perinatal Massage Therapy, 3rd edition by Carole Osborne, Michelle Holland and David Lobenstine

Review of relevant anatomy and other materials sent upon registration.

What Credits Can I Earn?

These 7 classroom hours of attendance and participation  will earn you 7 CE credits. Often this course has the Technique Refinement workshop folded into it, as it will be in July, 2023, Longmont, CO, for a total of 14 CE hours.

Where and when?

Our next offering of this class meets from 9 am -5 pm for two days, July 12 and 13, 2023, in Longmont, CO. Further details upon registration or by contacting us. 

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What an amazing two days! I was looking forward to being with Linda Hickey again and meeting Carole…and gaining more confidence working in a hospital setting. Got so much more than I bargained for!! Your advanced seminar brought me back to checking my body mechanics and to focused listening to my baby mamas. Your demonstrations (and humor!!!) were so very helpful. And all of the new “stuff”…so helpful. I’m sooooo looking forward to bringing all of this to my clients! Thank you so very much for your very personal, intentional presence with each and all of us.

This course was a great refresher for techniques that were previously learned, but lost somewhere along the way, and, the new techniques were fabulous!

Expectations met? Yes! Valuable review, and I got my questions answered. Great new material that is amazing, and I am excited to share it with my clients. I feel so empowered to use this work!