BTI Continuing Education Workshops
Nurturing the Mother®
Workshops with Claire Marie Miller, LMBT
These workshops are offered for massage therapists, childbirth educators, labor assistants, midwives, labor & delivery nurses, and anyone who desires a deeper knowledge of fertility, birth and massage -- and the wonderful experience of bringing them together. Certification in these modalities are available only for massage therapists and other licensed health care providers.
Fertility Massage Specialist Certification
March 12-13 | Friday-Saturday, 9:00am-6:00pm
16 continuing education contact hours | $350 | Open to the Public
Infertility is a significant problem, affecting one in three couples in the US. Assisted Reproduction now represents a three billion-dollar-a-year industry. One cycle of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) alone will cost between $15,000-$25,000. If you have clients who are dealing with this issue, this is a class you will need.
Claire Marie Miller’s techniques are proving to support both natural conception and those requiring assistance. Many of her demonstration students have reported conceiving within 24 hours to 6 months of receiving this protocol and practicing this work. The students who are using this protocol report back positive results with their clients as well. One student had 10 of her 12 women conceive after this work. Two Atlanta students had been trying for five years and were told they would not conceive -- came back one year later as pregnant moms for the Nurturing the Mother® Pregnancy Massage workshop -- six months and eight months pregnant.
This expanded two-day course will give the massage/bodywork therapist special techniques to support a couple planning to conceive. Claire offers a multi-faceted approach to the emotional and personal journey around fertility for your clients. Added to this class is the anatomy of fertility, infertility conditions, and fertility awareness information. Developing referrals to alternative healthcare professionals is equally in important in your practice. This is a protocol that you may use with natural methods, or medically supported conception. The techniques involve a combination of cranial sacral alignment, reflexology, colon cleansing, and deep pelvic work. This work honors sacred sexuality -- and your client's process of reclaiming her body. You will also be able to teach couples work they can do with/for each other.
For certification, the submission of one case study and a review and write-up of three designated books is required. A certification processing fee of $25 is paid to Claire Marie Miller Seminars, Inc. along with the certification requirements.
Pregnancy Massage Training & Certification
August 6-8 | Friday-Sunday, 9:00am-6:00pm
24 continuing education contact hours | $560 | Open to the Public
Throughout the world, and across time, massage has been used to support women during the childbearing year. In keeping with this tradition, Claire Miller has developed a program which integrates the mystery and power of the birth experience with sound clinical knowledge and effective methods for prenatal and perinatal massage.
The course includes the following content areas:
- Fertility Massage Introduction. Students will receive a demonstration of the protocol and massage techniques to support their clients in this powerful life creating journey. This has now expanded into a two-day certification program (see above).
- Pregnancy Massage. This extensive section includes full-body massage techniques, proper positioning for the pregnant mother, specific strokes and points to relieve discomforts, as well as contraindications and cautions for massage therapy. You will have the opportunity to work one-on-one with a pregnant volunteer.
- Support for Labor and Delivery. You will learn massage techniques, working with a variety of positions for the birth mother, plus tools for nurturing and offering emotional support in labor.
- Postpartum Massage. Massage and the realignment of the birth mother’s body, support for breastfeeding, and strokes to alleviate postpartum tension will be covered.
- Infant Massage. You will practice massage strokes on a doll in a sample sequence which can be taught to parents who want to learn how to massage their child.
Through demonstration and practice, in the sharing of our stories, and in the willingness to be present with the heart, mind and spirit of the birth process, we will open ourselves to the transformation which occurs for all those involved in a birth.
NOTE: The workshop fee includes a 108-page training manual. Birth videos will be interspersed as time allows. You will also have the opportunity to participate in an optional "Blessing Way" Navaho birth ceremony to be held one evening during the program. (This will occur if there is enough interest.)
Claire Miller is a therapist and educator with three decades of experience in the field, and is a 2010 inductee into the Massage Therapy Hall of Fame. She is an honors graduate of the Boulder School of Massage Therapy and is a NC Licensed Massage & Bodywork Therapist (#580). She studied with Jeannine Parvati Baker, author of Conscious Conception, Pre-Natal Yoga, and Hygiea. She specializes in the teaching and practice of reflexology, massage for pregnancy and Hatha Yoga, and presents seminars throughout the U.S. Claire lives and has a private practice in Chapel Hill, NC. She is the mother of James -- born in hospital in 1981, Jessica -- born at home in 1984, and Nellie -- born at home in an underwater birth in 1987.
For additional information, see her website at: www.nurturingthemother.com.