Small class size (maximum of ten participants) with low Participant:Facilitator ratio
Extensive hands-on learning with almost daily contact with pregnant clients
Art processes to cultivate quality of touch, broaden anatomy understanding, and deepen heart/inner knowing
Heart-centered dialogue and role plays
Prenatal Anatomy- and Physiology-Informed Technique
Belly-Centered Bodywork
This four-day 28-hour workshop experience is humanly paced, with spaciousness for integration, and at the same time it is rich and layered with both anatomical precision and flowing poetry of technique, touch, and storytelling. We support non-linear spiraling learning, rather than a “check the boxes” approach.
Rather than teach you all the "rules" about prenatal massage (most of which we have had to unlearn over the years) we instead facilitate your relationships with prenatal anatomy and physiology so you can walk your own path of discernment as a practitioner.
Training offered twice a year, at the balanced equinox energies in March and September. Our workshop time reflects this real, raw universal balance with processes that explore the light and dark aspects of working with pregnant clients.
This workshop is heart, womb, and belly-centered, meaning rather than belly massage being a nice thing to add to your prenatal massage sessions, it is the center of this work. The layers of the belly also guide our topics of discussion and technique practice. We believe that Heart and Womb Balance = Body Balance.
With so many opportunities to work with real pregnant clients offered in this workshop we recognize that each training will have a different flavor and texture since we will be responding to the unique needs of the women/individuals giving us the gift of access to their pregnant being-ness. We acknowledge that participants have walked their own paths that seed a unique co-created workshop experience, as well.
We believe that the benefits of hands-on practice far outweigh the risks of surprises and the unexpected, which in and of themselves can be beneficial to an embodied learning process. Beyond release forms, we facilitate discussion about what really helps practitioners cope with realities of liability.
While much of what will be learned will apply to touch work during and after the birth process (and for female physiology in general), the focus of these four days will be on heart and belly-centered bodywork for pregnancy. We plan to offer postpartum bodywork trainings in the future.
Ncbtmb CE hrs pending, certification in prenatal massage for C/LMTs, birthworkers with informal bodywork/touch experience welcome.
Your Facilitator: Jamie Mossay
After 20 years of teaching and mentoring massage therapists and bodyworkers in their work with pregnant clients, Jamie is excited to offer Heart & Womb, a culmination of her most authentic and effective facilitation approaches. A mother, author, illustrator, practitioner and educator, Jamie is continually inspired by the simple power of touch to help people connect with their bodies. Learn more at jamiemossay.com and restorybirthwork.com
Your Assistant Facilitator: Tianna Barr
Tianna has been a birthworker and bodyworker for over eight years, and spent several years teaching at a local massage school and facilitating birth story processing and postpratum integration with hands-on healing and somatic storytelling. An experienced prenatal yoga isntructor and midwife assistant, Tianna is inspired by the learning and unlearning required of both pracitioner and client during the transformative journey of pregnancy andbirth. Learn more at tiannabarr.com
Jamie and Tianna are dedicated birth and bodyworkers with many years facilitating group spaces of transformational touch together.
Objectives
By the end of this training participants will be able to…
- Demonstrate compassionate heart-centered validation and dialogue skills.
- Locate relevant prenatal anatomical structures.
- Describe contraindications and indications for prenatal manual techniques and positioning.
- Apply prenatal and female anatomy physiology understandings to technique for various stages of pregnancy.
- Co-create a bodywork session from individualized observations and ongoing consensual presence.
- Demonstrate technique to address common concerns of pregnancy.
Registration Information
Workshop Fee: $1,300
Please email hello@jamiemossay.com to inquire about payment plans (three $450 monthly payments). Due to the small class size we have no refunds for this course. Prior to six weeks before the start of the workshop you can transfer (one time) your spot to a future workshop for a $50 fee, and after six weeks you can do so for a $150 fee. One partial equity seat per workshop.
Please visit https://www.jamiemossay.com/heart-and-womb for more details and email Jamie (hello @jamiemossay.com) with any questions.
“We learn to touch with our words and speak with our hands.” - Heart & Womb
