Learn how to massage pregnant clients, and their growing babies, with confidence. In this class you’ll learn about the changes in a pregnant body and what that means for your sessions—exploring comfortable positioning, precautions, non-judgmental communication, empathy—and adaptable techniques that will allow you to think through how to best approach the table with any healthy pregnant client in any trimester. You’ll learn essential elements of prenatal massage like anatomical changes, elevated body mechanics, how to stay in scope of practice, and the way prenatal massage both improves the positive aspects of pregnancy and decreases the negative aspects. Students will start to understand how to resource and model their practices through guest lectures with industry professionals. Most importantly you’ll learn how to make your healthy pregnant clients feel good in their changing bodies! This class is a great way to safely adapt massage for the occasional pregnant client, or continue on with the new Fourth Trimester & Beyond add-on to complete your 34-hour Prenatal/Postpartum Certification!

This continuing education course for licensed massage therapists and massage therapy students is held at Boulder Massage Therapy Institute. It occurs each Tuesday for 6 weeks beginning September 17, 2024. Students leave with 21 hours of NCBTMB-approved CEUs.