Beginner's Infant Massage Course Details

This course is designed to run for up to 60 mins per session, depending on the age and attention span of infants, and will allow you time to practice and consolidate your techniques.

Session 1: Arms and Legs – Introduction to massage, the use of appropriate oils and creams, respecting your infant’s needs, starting with arms and legs routine.

Session 2: Chest and Abdomen – How massage helps with bonding, recap the arms and legs routine, continuing with chest and abdomen routine, treating common ailments.

Session 3: Back – Benefits of infant massage, Recap arms and legs, chest and abdomen routines, continuing with back routine.

Session 4: Face – Starting with face routine. Putting the whole treatment together! Recap arms and legs, chest and abdomen, back routine with a verbal recap of the moves with the group. Open discussion/ Q&A session to complete the course.

The course is designed for all parents, soon-to-be parents, primary carers, or other important people in the infant’s life such as grandparents. The course can be run for the following groups (or combination of):

• Expectant mothers (with baby-sized dolls)
• 6 weeks ~ 18 month olds
• 18 months ~ preschool age
• primary school children
• secondary school children - one to one sessions only

Group classes are available subject to advance deposit and finding a suitable venue for up to 8 parents with infants up to primary school age, OR one to one sessions can be arranged privately.

On the course you need to bring:

• A baby-sized doll (expectant mothers) or your infant
• A pen to make notes on the handouts provided
• A cushion for yourself to sit on, (if required)
• 1 soft towel large enough for your infant to lie on for the treatment, (which will take place on the floor)
• A spare nappy (if removing the existing one for the treatment)
• A small toy or item e.g. muslin, that your infant particularly feels a connection with

“A wonderful way for primary carers to learn to bond with their infants.”

The Beginner's Infant Massage training course teaches primary carers to be able to massage their infants using a simple sequence including: arms, legs, chest, tummy, back, and face. The Beginners course also includes theory lessons including common infant ailments such as colic. A certificate of attendance will be issued, allowing the parent to massage their infant using the techniques they have learned until the child turns 16! 

On the course you will receive:

• A 50ml bottle of complimentary Holistic Healing Hands massage oil (olive oil blended 2 parts with calendula 1 part) at the start of the course
• 4 sessions of training with a plastic folder for handouts
• Practical hands on training and consolidation of the routine from the previous sessions
• Theory lessons including: the use of appropriate oils and creams, respecting your infant’s needs, how massage helps with bonding, treating common ailments, benefits of infant massage
• My contact details for any queries before and during the duration of the course
• An open Q&A discussion to complete the course
• Certificate of Attendance

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This page was last updated on: 19/10/2011