3-month training: 4 Zoom Pre-class meetings, 1 Post-class meeting and 4-day In-person class.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Many clients are searching for skilled bodywork & compassionate presence to help them address their unique pelvic concerns.
YOU CAN HELP THEM!
This advanced professional therapeutic bodywork training infuses practical bodywork skills with reverence, honor, and recognition of the layers of tension, fear, pain, and trauma that clients often hold in this area of the body. We tend to this portal of the potent 'yoni-verse' with great care.
Here is a rare opportunity to join a professional circle of female licensed massage therapists, midwives, or others licensed to offer internal bodywork, in a safe, respectful, nurturing environment. LMTs with this advanced training may practice internal bodywork in Oregon (OBMT Massage Board Rule (334-010-0029 Internal Cavity).
We uphold respectful boundaries, appropriate draping, and a strong practice of confidentiality throughout. We will work in diads and triads with focus on musculo-skeletal concerns and psycho-emotional issues that often compound the physical.
- LEARN TO IDENTIFY MUSCLES, BONEY LANDMARKS, PELVIC ORGANS
- BUILD CONFIDENCE navigating the potent 'YONI-VERSE'
- TREAT COMMON PELVIC CONDITIONS.
TOPICS INCLUDE:
- Benefits of pelvic bodywork
- Prevalence & Causes of Pelvic Dysfunction
- Pelvic Anatomy and Physiology
- Palpate the internal and external pelvic floor muscles, cervix, uterus
- Learn to assess and treat pelvic muscle tension, prolapse, rectocele, cystocele, incontinence
- Internal treatments for Pregnancy
- Postnatal concerns
- Psycho-emotional-social-spiritual impacts of pelvic issues
- Trauma Tools
- 4 hours of Ethics & Boundaries
- Marketing Considerations
NOTE: This course does NOT include sexual touch or tantric practices, and is not related to Tami Kent's Holistic Pelvic Care (TM)
WHY: Just like any muscle, pelvic floor muscles develop scar tissue, tension, spasms, imbalance. Many people suffer from hip, back, or pelvic pain, sciatica, or incontinence that stem from tension in obturator internus, piriformis, and levator ani muscles. This course will help you learn to offer internal bodywork with sensitivity, compassion, and skill.
WHO: Designed for dedicated professionals interested in bodywork for the female pelvis who have fulfilled the prerequisite requirements, and are willing to practice and receive internal pelvic floor (vaginal) bodywork with each other in a safe, private, and respectful environment.
PREREQUISITES:
1. Professional License in good standing.
2. FIRST fill out Application and get Instructor Approval. Contact Leslie@lesliestager.com to get application or click application link.
3. Before class: Experience at least one pelvic floor session from a licensed provider. Submit to Leslie a written Review after you have registered for class (ask her for guidelines for write up).
4.Pre or Post Requisite Courses (or instructor approval of your background/experience) necessary for Full Integrative Pelvic Bodywork Certification: The Female Pelvis & The Belly or related courses.
Think you're qualified for class but don't meet the prerequisites? Contact Leslie to ask about a waiver.
CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS: Three Options
50 -hour Certificate of Attendance: After satisfactory completion of all hours for this course you will receive a Certificate of Achievement.
Advanced Certificate with Mentoring: Received after completing the 50-hour certificate and 6 reviewed case studies and mentoring with Leslie Stager. ($185 for review and certification)
Integrative Pelvic Bodywork Certificate: Complete the Advanced certification and take additional training courses of The Belly, and The Female Pelvis to receive the Integrative Pelvic Bodywork Certificate, indicating advanced training in pelvic manual therapy.
NOTE : NCBTMB CE's are NOT currently permitted for Entering The Temple, but you will receive a CE certificate as proof of your hours, which is accepted by OBMT.
REGISTRATION: Admission is by Application only. NOTE: Before paying, you must send in written application, talk to Leslie, and get instructor approval.
INSTRUCTOR: Leslie Stager RN, LMT.
I've focused on women's health since the 1980's, exploring, practicing, and teaching about the rhythms, rites, and mysteries of the female body. As a labor & delivery nurse I grew aware of the pelvic traumas that many endure and live with after birth, with few avenues for help. In 2009 I successfully helped a client relieve 80% of her postnatal pelvic pain with one internal pelvic floor bodywork session. Inspired, I pursued further studies, including training with Tami Kent PT, Bryan Baisinger DC, John Barnes LMT, Herman & Wallace, and private studies with PT's, DC's, and an Osteopath, Lee Morgan. Currently I have a private practice in Nevada City, CA. Read more about Leslie.
TESTIMONIALS
As a massage therapist who focuses on women’s health, I cannot recommend Leslie’s pelvic floor class~ Entering the Temple~ enough. Creating an environment of private rooms to practice that feels safe for all students with a central gathering space, Leslie walks the students through the anatomy/physiology and kinesiology of the pelvic floor, the ethical boundaries that are involved, the life experiences and triggers that may arise within our clients as well as ourselves.
The class addresses different life experiences such as birth, sexual assault, the effects of continual life stress, the over toned muscles of an athlete, the list goes on. There is quiet time to journal, be creative, and ask questions as we process our feeling and thoughts.
Machelle Varma 2023
Entering the Temple was an informative and immersive class experience. I felt supported, safe, and challenged intellectually as well as physically. I learned new information about the pelvic floor and practiced internal pelvic floor palpation multiple times, as well as received the pelvic work I was learning to administer.
Leslie created an engaging environment where the information was accessible. She shared her expertise earned through her own experience as a LMT and RN as well as inviting input throughout the immersion from the multiple experiences of professionals present.
I highly recommend this course for someone who wants to learn a compassionate and clinical approach for applying pelvic floor work in their practice. This is a class for those called to do intimate work and invested in cultivating sensitivity for ordinarily "taboo" places of the body, as well as learning to hold space. I am so grateful I took this class for furthering my skillset and for deepening my relationship with my own body and what it needs.
Elizabeth Hoffman 2018
I highly recommend Leslie's Class! Leslie offers a teaching style that is very unique.. She offers classes online prior to in-person so we build a wonderful, safe container for each other, along with being able to assimilate the information at a pace that feels digestible.
The circle and container created by Leslie is something i haven't experienced in my life before, as far as..respect, honor of the body, pacing, timing of information, combo of art, movement, playfulness, humor, yet really strong anatomy, alot of time to sink into practical sessions with each other, all culminated to be a really rewarding experience. This class should be a requirement for anyone wanting to work as a pelvic floor therapist LMT.
Angela Severson 2023
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR: LESLIE STAGER RN, LMT
I've focused on women's health since the 1980's, exploring, practicing, and teaching about the rhythms, rites, and mysteries of the female body. As a labor & delivery nurse I grew aware of the pelvic traumas that many endure and live with after birth, with few avenues for help. Inspired by relieving 80% of a client's 6-month postnatal pelvic pain in just one exploratory session in 2009, I embarked on private studies in pelvic floor therapy with PT's, DC's, and Osteopaths, and trainings with Tami Kent PT, Bryan Baisinger DC, John Barnes LMT, Herman & Wallace. Currently I have a private practice in Nevada City, CA. Read more about Leslie.
