Stroke Reviews
| Location | Date |
|---|---|
| Nottingham | 10th June 2010 |
| Nottingham | 27th May 2010 |
| Lichfield | 26th April 2010 |
| London | 19th April 2010 |
Massage for the Growing Child
A 1-day supplementary programme, designed to enhance the skills of the qualified infant massage teacher who wishes to extend their practise teaching parents with older children, or to facilitate peer-to-peer massage in an educational setting. This includes:
- Massage techniques and routines suitable for the growing child
- Relaxation techniques
- A ‘First-Aid Box’ of self-massage techniques for children
- Contraindications and cautions
- How to adapt the massage for special situations
- Facilitating games using massage and positive touch
- Facilitating and marketing classes
- Promotes on-going physical and cognitive development
- Improves social skills and enhances interaction
- Supports on-going positive touch
- Encourages respectful communication
- Promotes self awareness and empowers children
Touch-Learn Enrolment Form - Massage for the Growing ChildNew Publications
Anita and Pauline (the Touch-Learn Directors) have written two new book entiltled 'Infant Massage: The Definitive Guide For Teaching Parents' and 'The Pocket Book Of Baby Massage ', published in 2009.
The Pocket Book to Baby Massage has been specially designed for busy parents who would like to learn how to massage their baby.
This practical, easy to read book, includes a no-nonsense, step-by-step massage routine for babies to enjoy.
There is also useful information about
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the benefits of baby massage and appropriate massage oils to use;
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guidance to help parents understand when and when not to massage
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advice about preparing and getting massage started.
Each massage stroke is accompanied by a suitable nursery rhyme, for parents who wish to sing along whilst massaging their baby.
This glossy, spiral bound, pocket-sized book is just perfect for parents who want to have fun-time massage with their baby!
This expertly written handbook is a must for all Infant Massage Teachers who wish to practise safely and professionally. The authors of The Definitive Guide have a great deal of experience and knowledge of teaching infant massage to parents and train health and social care professionals and complementary therapists to become Infant Massage Teachers internationally.
The Definitive Guide offers all Infant Massage Teachers guidance on marketing and how to teach appropriately. There are lots of practical tips and advice, so that classes are supportive and empowering, where parents can learn skills that will enhance their relationship with their baby in a protective, non-judgemental environment.
In addition, The Definitive Guide reviews the benefits of infant massage and positive touch, and highlights the contraindications, precautions and relevant anatomy and physiology relating to massage and the developing infant. Attention is also given to the emotional, psychological and physiological development for the infant, the emotional world of the parent and the importance of their developing relationship and much, much more.
Each topic is linked neatly to infant massage so that the reader can assimilate the information in the book comfortably. This gives every Infant Massage Teacher the opportunity to increase their understanding of the wonderful tool they have to offer and ensures parents feel respected, empowered and safe in the knowledge that the classes’ principal focus is them and their babies.
TouchLearn in the media
Two business women set up a training company to help parents keep their babies fit and healthy have moved into larger premises.
Anita Epple and Pauline Carpenter are directors of Touch-Learn International Ltd. The business - which offers more than 50 courses each year specialising in baby yoga and baby massage - has gone from strength to strength and this week moved to new premises in Carter Street, Uttoxeter.
The friends hope to take on a number of part-time workers in the near future.
Anita, who lives in Uttoxeter, said: "We are absolutely thrilled that our continued success has meant we have needed to move to a larger premises, but can still remain in our home town."
Pauline, said: "It is amazing to think that from our small office in Uttoxeter, people from all over the UK, from Aberdeen to Devon, can benefit."
The independent company was set up in 2001 and was based in a smaller unit in Carter Street until now. It has since been accredited by Birmingham City University and the Guild of Infant and Child Massage.
Its qualified trainers, based all over the UK, teach parents skills which will help with their children's development.
Anita said: "We are very proud of the work that we do at Touch-Learn as it makes a real difference to the lives of many families.
Pauline Carpenter, left, and Anita Epple, right.
Picture by Malcolm Hart
"The training helps parents bonding with their child, and can help babies with sleeplessness and colic. These skills have both physiological and psychological benefits. "I derive great personal satisfaction from talking to parents who tell me what a difference baby massage makes to their lives using our techniques, especially when they are local."
Pauline, who moved from Uttoxeter to Milton Keynes, has a background in nursing.
She said: "We teach baby massage as it helps new parents with confidence and makes them feel competent as a parent.
"There is a deeper meaning than just knowing how to massage. We teach about understanding infants and how to have fun with them.
"It can sometimes help with post-natal depression too - with communication between parent and baby, and babies' cognitive development."
As well as keeping their business running, Anita and Pauline co-write help books for parents.
They have had five published, two of them this year. They are already looking to write another, The Pocket Book Of Baby Yoga, in 2010.
Supplied by Uttoxeter Post and Times, December 2009
