classes & talks

upcoming classes

  • Pre- and Perinatal Massage Therapy Workshop with Michele Kolakowski

    October 4-7, 2018     at East West College in Portland, Oregon
    October 18-21, 2018 at The Niwot Healing Dome in Boulder County, Colorado

      Here’s what you receive with four days of maternity-related massage therapy continuing education:

        • Evidence-based knowledge, not mythology
        • Intensive practice of specific perinatal techniques used clinically for over 30 years
        • Skills to meet women’s physical and emotional childbearing needs
        • Understanding of all phases of maternity massage therapy care: pregnancy, labor and postpartum, normal and not-so-perfect pregnancies
        • Positioning, techniques and powerful, subtle touch that are superbly applicable to many other specialty client populations
        • Guidance in career-protective body mechanics and techniques
        • Purpose, focus & financial infusion into your work
        • Inclusion into a distinguished community of high caliber massage therapy professionals
        • The in-person training that many employers require and that you need if you wish to apply for pre- and perinatal massage therapy certification

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upcoming talks

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ongoing talks

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creative ideas for future classes & talks

  • Doulas Improving Maternity Care One Birth & Family at a Time
  • Postpartum Doulas Mother the New Mother
  • Pregnancy Massage 101
  • Spa Pregnancy Massage
  • Massage & Acupressure for Labor
  • Comfort Measures for Labor
  • Using a Labor TENS Unit as a Comfort Measure in Your Labor
  • Nurturing New Mothers with Postpartum Massage in the Hospital
  • Loving Our Wee Ones with Infant Massage
  • Relieving Gas & Colic Naturally with Infant Massage

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To request a class or talk for your group, organization or event, please read Michele’s Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
and get in touch.