Infant Massage
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Peace In Our Hands™

Healthy Family Living's™
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Peace In Our Hands™


Training Includes

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  • Four days of instruction from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm

  • Practice sessions with actual parents and babies present, in three separate demonstration classes

  • Respect for infants—observing, understanding, and responding to their individual needs, cues and behavioral states

  • The history and benefits of infant massage

  • Infant and brain development

  • Supporting the bonding process, leading to secure relationship attachment

  • The importance of touch and its significance on our development and our lives

  • Communication skills for effective teaching

  • Observation of the trainer teaching infant massage with a parent class

  • An opportunity for participants to teach infant massage in a supportive environment.

  • Identifying and adapting infant massage for challenging situations and special needs children (colicky, fussy, preterm, IUGR/hypersensitive, disorganized and prenatally exposed to drugs)

  • Empowering parents, promoting nurturing parent-infant interaction

  • Strokes of infant massage including adaptations for the growing child

  • Relaxation techniques for infants and their caregivers

  • Marketing and public relations

  • How the work of infant massage may be a catalyst for personal growth
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