Registration Deadline: 8/14/09

Registration Closes on 8/17 at 11:59pm 

This workshop teaches you how to assist prenatal or newly-delivered families in massaging their newborns. After completing the course, you would be able to teach in small groups with babies and caregivers, or in large groups using role playing and hands-on practice with dolls.You will learn to introduce caregivers and new parents to the concept and value of nurturing, systematic touch. While the program's primary focus is massaging the healthy newborn, techniques can be used for medically stable infants who have altered nervous systems from drug exposure, developmental difficulties, or birth trauma. Course Objectives:
· Understand early infant communication
· Describe how to enhance the parasympathetic nervous system
· Show awareness of touch as a powerful communication
· Describe how to modulate touch to nurture newborns
· Show increased awareness of current research that supports infant massage
· Demonstrate positive proactive parenting skill of newborn massage on a doll
· Develop a plan for a Baby’s First Massage® program

BRING: baby doll and receiving blanket. 
Dress comfortably.

Eileen T. Newsome, LMT owner of Energetic Touch Massage, has been a Baby’s First Massage Certification Coach since 2002. Eileen is a Reiki Master, canine massage instructor, and creator of the Good Dog Massage DVD. A licensed Massage Therapist in NY and Fl, she obtained her massage degree from The Swedish Institute. Eileen gives back by volunteering at The Hospice of The Florida Sun Coast, and as Education Chair and Treasurer for the AMTA Florida Chapter.