Baby Dynamics™
I have spent many years learning to work with babies and their parents to help get young families off to the best possible start. With Baby Dynamics, I support study groups for professionals to work with babies. I am often asked how one can learn these skills; what is the best book or class or technique. There is so much to learn, and also, so little, that can make a huge difference for human at this crucial early time, preconception through the first year of life. While I have studied with many teachers, my best teachers have been the babies and families. These groups involve didactic teaching of a long list of specific skills that we will practice on each other, and then offer to the community in the form of a Free Clinic, followed by a debrief of working with the families. Practitioners will work in dyads and tryads.
This study group is designed for 6 learners who want to work with babies. We will meet once a quarter (every 3 months) for 8 hours (one day) starting at 10 am. Orientation:
Optional but Important: Womb Surround Process Workshops for Working With Your Own Patterns
Ideally, if you can gather a group 5 professionals who would like to learn, you can host and get the course for free. This group should be within driving distance of Charlottesville, VA so I can support you and your Free Clinic. You will get access to my youtube channel of presentations, a set of my posters, extra support from the Pre and Perinatal Education Program that I run, and one check in mid month.
Fee: $100 per month for 9 months starting in September. Classes only run during the school year.
Prerequisites: License to touch (massage therapy), some Craniosacral Therapy. Best practice includes certified infant massage instructor.
Textbooks:
Cancellation Policy: Refund in full if two weeks before the date; half one week before; no refund after that. If you cancel because of illness or emergency, funds can be transferred.
I have spent many years learning to work with babies and their parents to help get young families off to the best possible start. With Baby Dynamics, I support study groups for professionals to work with babies. I am often asked how one can learn these skills; what is the best book or class or technique. There is so much to learn, and also, so little, that can make a huge difference for human at this crucial early time, preconception through the first year of life. While I have studied with many teachers, my best teachers have been the babies and families. These groups involve didactic teaching of a long list of specific skills that we will practice on each other, and then offer to the community in the form of a Free Clinic, followed by a debrief of working with the families. Practitioners will work in dyads and tryads.
This study group is designed for 6 learners who want to work with babies. We will meet once a quarter (every 3 months) for 8 hours (one day) starting at 10 am. Orientation:
- Check ins (10:00 - 10:45) (What is your intention, challenge, and what helps integration?)
- Didactic teaching (11:00 -12:00 ) (Special topics, hand holds and more)
- Lunch: 12:00-12:30
- Partner exchanges (12:30-1:30)
- Free Clinic for Families with Babies (2 pm - 4 pm)
- Debrief (4:30 - 6 pm)
- Practitioner skills
- Prenatal and Perinatal Principles
- Baby Physiology and Anatomy, assessment tools
- Dysfunction that can present for baby bodywork
Cranial nerve dysfunction, tongue tie, torticollis, plagiocephaly - Cranial holds with a focus on specific impacts of birth and the prenatal period
- Breastfeeding overview and the role of baby bodywork
- Prenatal dynamics (imprints) and what that looks like in babies (preconception to birth)
- Birth dynamics (imprints) and what that looks like in babies (many different kinds of birth)
- Supported Attachment for breastfeeding and listening to the baby's story
- Supporting mothers and fathers in the postpartum period (family work)
- Antenatal and Perinatal Anxiety and Depression and bodywork
- Helping babies settle
- The role of movement (play) in helping babies, especially TummyTime! and "rounding out"
- Touch therapies for babies
- Infant massage, CST and anatomy trains for babies
- Working with birthing and postpartum families
- Working with pregnant mothers (Spinning Babies or the Miles Circuit)
- The importance of movement for pregnant mothers
Optional but Important: Womb Surround Process Workshops for Working With Your Own Patterns
Ideally, if you can gather a group 5 professionals who would like to learn, you can host and get the course for free. This group should be within driving distance of Charlottesville, VA so I can support you and your Free Clinic. You will get access to my youtube channel of presentations, a set of my posters, extra support from the Pre and Perinatal Education Program that I run, and one check in mid month.
Fee: $100 per month for 9 months starting in September. Classes only run during the school year.
Prerequisites: License to touch (massage therapy), some Craniosacral Therapy. Best practice includes certified infant massage instructor.
Textbooks:
- Craniosacral Therapy for Children: Treatments for Expecting Mothers, Babies, and Children by Daniel Augustoni.
- Impact of Birthing Practices on Breastfeeding 2nd Edition by Linda Smith
- SANDOZ COURSE CRANIAL NERVES anatomy and clinical comments by Linda Wilson-Pauwels
- Dental Anatomy Coloring Book 2nd Edition by Margaret J. Fehrenbach RDH MS (Editor)
- Dancing with Yin and Yang by John Chitty
- Working with Babies, A Five-Part Therapy Method for Infants and Their Families by John Chitty
Cancellation Policy: Refund in full if two weeks before the date; half one week before; no refund after that. If you cancel because of illness or emergency, funds can be transferred.