Traditional cultures have elaborate preparations and ceremony to support individuals transitioning from one life station or role to another. How can we use this knowledge in relation to women’s experience […]
Nurturing Touch for Perinatal Women: Five Techniques to Reassure, Relieve, and Re-align
Learn simple techniques that can easily be taught to and practiced by birth companions, doulas, and midwives, and OB’s who want a more holistic practice!
Research-Based Evidence of the Benefits of Touch for Mothers and Throughout the Perinatal Cycle
Plenty of research supports the common sense knowledge that nurturing touch has numerous benefits for pregnant, birthing, and postpartum women and their unborn and born infants. Learn the latest about […]
Community Supported Birthing: Labor Preparation with MotherTouch (2 hours)
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The Essential Pelvis: Embodying Sacred Space (23 hours)
(21-hours NCBTMB; MEAC) With Lee Morgan, RMT & Leslie Stager RN, LMTA Unique Class For Bodyworkers, Movement Therapists,Birth Professionals, & Anyone Interested In Body Awareness! Join this 3-day workshop to […]
MotherTouch™ Massage & Acupressure for Birth (6 hours NCBTMB)
Leslie is an NCBTMB provider. This course offers NCBTMB approved CE’s. This fun and inspiring class is rich with hands-on practical techniques that you can immediately apply to your birth […]
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NURTURING TOUCH AFFECTS POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION
Most people preparing to have a baby or supporting others during pregnancy focus their attentions on the proverbial “rosy glow” or the aches and pains of pregnancy. Then they turn […]
CESAREAN SCAR MASSAGE
So, you or your client had a cesarean section? A cesarean section is often treated as if it were a no-nonsense procedure from which women should recover quickly. In fact, […]
THE POWER OF MOTHER
Around the world, the cycle of pregnancy, birth and becoming Mother––as well as women’s other blood mysteries of menstruation and menopause––is revered and acknowledged with elaborate ceremonies; women are recognized […]
