Take Bodywork for the Childbearing Year® with National Presenter Kate Jordan - offered only once a year at TLC School!
with Kate Jordan
November 3 - 6, 2011
8:30am-6:00pm
$695 (with $100 deposit)
34 CE, Certification Class
*Note: NO ADDITIONAL DISCOUNTS ON THIS WORKSHOP.
Registration for this workshop is now closed.
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, labor, and postpartum support measures.
Sessions taught take therapists far beyond general adaptations of massage for the pregnant body. Students 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 the context of those techniques that therapists can most effectively use to provide relief and support to their pregnant clients. Students learn to identify contraindications to pregnancy massage, as well as to recognize high-risk pregnancies. Participants are provided with intake forms for clients and release forms for health care providers and learn how to use them appropriately.
Relevant research documenting the benefits of touch during the childbearing year is presented to prepare students to describe the benefits of pregnancy, labor, and post-partum massage to health care providers.
Bodywork for the Childbearing Year®‚ provides an intensive hands-on learning experience. Instruction is 25% lively lecture and discussions and 75% demonstration and practice of techniques. One of the outstanding features of the program is an opportunity to work on a pregnant client in a practicum session during the course.
Alexander Technique/Posture and body use skills
Students learn the Alexander Technique to evaluate pregnancy and postpartum clients and to educate them in efficient pain-free body mechanics. Students also are taught to focus on their own body use to maximize their ease and comfort while working.
Marketing strategy and ethics
Pregnancy massage therapy now flourishes in many professional setting, including private massage practices; hospitals; birthing centers; and physicians’, midwives’, and chiropractor’s offices. The unique challenges of reaching this target market are met with presentations of effective promotional strategies selected from the experiences of over 3,000 graduates of this program. The ethical issues that arise in working with pregnant women are also addressed.
Kate Jordan has presented workshops in infant massage in San Diego area hospitals, to visiting nurses associations, and to parent-infant groups since 1980. She has been presenting "Bodywork for the Childbearing Year®" certification workshops since 1984 to massage and physical therapists, labor and perinatal nurses and nurse-midwives throughout the United States and in Canada and has been offering SpaMassage for Pregnancy® since 2000.
Kate has practiced as a massage therapist since 1972. She was trained in Edgar Cayce massage at the ARE Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona, where she worked in the early 1970's, and with Dr. Harold Reilly in Virginia Beach, VA. She apprenticed in Hawaiian lomi-lomi massage with Hawaiian Kahuna Margaret Machado, and completed programs of study at the Namikoshi Shiatsu School, the Arica Institute, and the Laban Institute of Movement Studies. She has had extensive training in osteopathic soft tissue techniques with Dr. Ruth Gotch, D.O., Dr. Raymond Hruby, D.O., Dr. Lawrence Jones, D.O. and the Jones Institute, and the Dr. Loren "Bear" Rex and the Ursa Foundation, and has studied Myofascial Release with John Barnes, RPT. She was a student of Continuum Movement with Emilie Conrad from 1979 to 1991, and of the Alexander Technique with Marjorie Barstow in Lincoln, Nebraska from 1984 to 1987. She trained in the use of visualization and guided imagery for medical conditions with Dr. Carl and Stephanie Simonton, the Academy for Guided Imagery (Dr. David Bresler, Ph.D., and Dr. Marty Rossman, M.D.), and with Dr. Rebecca Martin, Ph.D. (Regenesis). She has been the senior therapist at the La Jolla Clinic of Integrative Medicine in La Jolla California since 1978, where she specializes in working with individuals with complex medical problems, those experiencing acute and chronic pain, and in pregnancy, labor, and post-partum massage. Kate combines postural and movement re-education with imagery oriented neuromuscular therapy. She has presented at state and national professional association conventions. She taught at the International Professional School of Bodywork in San Diego from 1979 to 1991. She served as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, a national accrediting agency for professional body therapists, from 1996-2001. She currently writes the "Women's Therapies in Focus" column for Massage Today.
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