Infant Massage USA
The Certified Educator of Infant Massage Curriculum
- is comprehensive, evidence-based, interactive, and personal
- is based on the 15-point curriculum developed by Vimala McClure, author of Infant Massage: A Handbook for Loving Parents
- offers three opportunities to participate in supervised parent-baby infant massage classes
- presents protocols, adaptations and techniques to work with families and their babies born prematurely and/or with special needs
- involves both practical and theoretical work
The training curriculum covers:
- History of infant massage and of the IAIM
- Massage techniques and how to adapt these skills as infants develop
- Communication, teaching, group facilitation and lesson planning skills
- Effects and benefits of infant massage
- Bonding and the relationship between massage and bonding
- Infant and child development in relationship to massage
- Infant cues, crying and behavioral states
- Massage for special situations (colic, babies born prematurely or with other additional needs, etc)
- Infant handling and positioning
- Understanding, supporting and valuing parents
- Touch research
- Marketing and promoting massage classes
- Safety guidelines for the use of oils