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Bodywork for the Childbearing Year®





$545
if paid by July 21, 2008

$595 after


Date/Time
Aug 21-24, 2008
Thurs - Sunday
8:30am-6pm
(1 hr lunch on your own)
Practicum Sat, 8/23/07 1:15-2:30pm

Course Description

Become competent and confident
Bodywork for the Childbearing Year® approaches the concerns of the pregnant, laboring and postpartum woman with a comprehensive program of advanced massage techniques and specific pregnancy and postpartum support measures. Session taught take therapists far beyond general adaptations of massage for the pregnant body. You will learn to competently and confidently address the specific structural, physiological and psychological discomforts of pregnancy.

This workshop presents the anatomy and physiology of pregnancy, labor, and birth in relation to those techniques that therapists can most effectively use to provide relief and support to their pregnant clients. You learn to recognize contraindications, complications, and high-risk pregnancies, emphasizing appropriate consultation with other childbirth professionals. Relevant research documenting the benefits of touch, particularly during the childbearing year, is discussed to prepare you to present the benefits of pregnancy massage to health care providers.

About the Instructor
Kate Jordan, NCTBMBis a nationally recognized expert in pregnancy massage. She has been presenting programs on infant massage, and pregnancy, labor and postpartum massage to schools, hospitals, and professional associations since 1980. She has practiced as a massage therapist sine 1972. She studied Edgar Cayce massage with Dr. Harold Reilly, Hawaiian lomi-lomi with Margaret Machado, and completed programs at the Namikoshi Shiatsu School and the Arica Institute. She has had extensive training in osteopathic soft tissue techniques at the Jones Institute, and the Ursa Foundation, and with John Barnes. Her movement education includes study at the Laban Institute, Continuum Movement with Emilie Conrad Da'oud (1979-1991), and the Alexander Technique with Marjorie Barstow (1984-1987). She trained in the use of visualization and guided imagery for medical conditions with Dr. Carol Simonton, the Academy for Guided Imagery, and Dr. Rebecca Martin. She taught at the International Professional School of Bodywork in San Diego from 1979 to 1991. In her private practice at the La Jolla Clinic of Integrative Medicine, she specializes in working with individuals experiencing complex medical conditions and chronic and acute pain using movement re-education, guided imagery, and neuromuscular therapy. She has produced and consulted on pregnancy audio and videotapes, and is currently completing the text, Bodywork for the Childbearing Year ®. She has served on the Board of Directors of the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (1996-2001). Kate is the mother of Jeremy and Andrew who have been her teachers since their births. Kate is assisted, as needed, by other experienced teachers or assistants.

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