NCBTMB Approved

Prenatal Massage Training

Enhance your massage practice and expand your clientele to work with pregnant people. Taught by a Midwife/Massage Therapist, this 32-hour NCBTMB approved training will prepare you for working with pregnant people. The first day is a Fundamentals class with the option to continue on to Days 2-4 for a full 4-day training that will prepare you.

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Prenatal Massage Training, 4-day Intensive

Nurtura Body’s Prenatal Massage Training program is unique from others in that all workshops are facilitated and taught by Cara Le Ann, a Licensed Midwife, Massage Therapist, Lactation Educator and private practicing bodyworker for over 15 years. Cara brings both the knowledge of anatomical adaptations and practical skills of how to relieve commonly reported discomforts during pregnancy, this class is taught with reverence, appreciation and respect for pregnancy and birth as a monumental and often times ceremonial rite of passage.

    • Extensive hands-on training

    • Lecture & Participatory Discussion

    • 1.5 hour supervised pregnancy massage clinic

    • Individualized attention and evaluation of your application of Prenatal Massage Training techniques

    • Handouts to use for your clients

    • Client Intake Forms

    • Written exam

    • Prenatal Bodywork Certification upon successful completion

  • Foundations

    • Benefits & Precautions of Prenatal Massage

    • Physiological changes and High Risk symptoms that impact your bodywork

    • Postural Assessment and Realignment Possibilities

    • Debunking all the MYTHS!

    • Optimal Side lying, Prone, and Semi-Reclining Positions and Secure Draping

    • Side lying Techniques that create length /space/ breath/unity

    • BodyMechanics for your comfort and optimal client experience

    • Assessing your client's needs

    • Adaptations for your style of working

    • Marketing Approaches and Networking

    • Belly Massage & Diaphragm Release

    • Client Intake and the Medical Release

    • Specific Trimester concerns

    • Pelvic Alignment Techniques, Sacro-Iliac Joint and Pelvic Floor Release

    • Energy Assessment & Acupressure Flow

    • Breast Massage for Pregnancy

    • Birth Preparation Bodywork

    Specific Zones of Attentions

    Relief from Pelvic, Hip, Low Back pain

    Certified Touch For Birth™ Practitioners learn integrative pelvic bodywork to support pelvic rebalancing, pelvic floor release, and pelvic mobility, relieving hip and pelvic pain, low back pain, and sciatica.

    Stretching and Opening

    Touch For Birth™ emphasizes principles of unity, length and space to help ease gravitational aches and strains of pregnancy. A Certified Touch for Birth™ Practitioner may use stretching and muscle resistance techniques to help increase comfort and relieve stressed muscles.

    Ribs, Intercostals & Diaphram

    As the body grows, there is more compression toward the diaphragm, the ribs expand and pregnant people may have more difficulty with deep breathing. Touch For Birth™ techniques can relax the small muscles between the ribs, expand the side body, and release the diaphragm for easier breathing.


    Specialities: A Certified Pregnancy Massage Therapist may offer external muscle techniques that help relieve pelvic floor discomfort or pressure, hip pain, or round ligament strain. Gentle belly touch may support an emotional connection for a client after multiple miscarriages or previous traumatic birth experience.

    We are Safety-based vs Fear-based: Certified Prenatal Massage Practitioners learn the rationale for massage cautions and contraindications and do not perpetuate myths and rumors about the dangers of pregnancy massage. They learn contraindications of certain acupressure points, and also learn that massage over those very same areas does not pose a risk or danger. Unless a client has a specific risk factor that precludes certain types of bodywork (typically in high risk pregnancies) you’ll receive massage to your whole body, at the pressure you prefer, without concern of causing problems.

  • Taught by a Licensed Midwife who has lived and breathed the work, privilege and honor of supporting people through their conception, pregnancy, birth and postpartum journeys.

    As a value of centering community care and hands-on learning, our training includes a pregnancy massage clinic day, where the prenatal massage students get to practice our learned skills on pregnant volunteers in the community! This continues to be a highlight for participants!

  • View our Values, Ethos and Framework

  • The 32-hr Prenatal Massage Training is $850 per individual registering student/participant.

participant testimonials

  • “Cara is an amazing instructor. Her passion for providing services to pregnant clients is inspiring. I have three births and still learned so many ways to help alleviate stress and tension. I enjoyed having live clinic!”

    -GRACE

  • “The Prenatal Massage Training was amazing! Cara the instructor was incredible in teaching the class. I was having second thoughts about taking this class, but the Clinical Day (hands on a pregnant mother) totally chanced my point of view. Giving a mother baby massage was incredible. Thank you Cara! I loved it and want to learn more.”

    ANONYMOUS

  • “This class will give you the tools to feel confident working with pregnant clients. If you have regular clients, one of them will likely become pregnant, with the skills from this class you will be able to continue working with them during that transformation process.”

    -LEON

  • “I know this class will open doors for me in my path. Thank you Cara.”

    ANONYMOUS

  • “I really had no idea what to expect before train gthis class. I walked in with an idea of what I thought pregnancy massage was going to be and this class changed my whole outlook on this very special niche. Cara creates a very safe space to learn. It was truly an honor to be a part of this class.

    -ANONYMOUS

  • “Cara is very knowledgable. She creates a very safe space and allows me to feel seen an head. I am so happy I took this class because I feel like I can go out into the real world with a lot of skills to with with prenatal and postpartum clients. I was so so happy to have the clinic hour. It’s one thing to learn and another thing to do.”

    -SUMMER

  • “I highly recommend taking this class if you think even for a second that this is something you’d be interested in, and even if you don’t think you’d like it, you might just be surprised!”

    -ANONYMOUS

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