WellMother Positioning for Pregnancy massage and shiatsu
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ค. 2013
- Suzanne Yates of Well Mother shows positioning in the side and all fours which is excellent for pregnancy work. This can be adapted to the table. If you attend a course with Suzanne she will show massage or shiatsu techniques which can be used and you can work directly on the skin with oil. More information is in her book "Pregnancy and childbirth"
I`m going to work for the first time with a pragnant client and your video is really helpful to me :)
I hope you are enjoying your work with pregnancy
This looks like a very awesome technique for pregnancy. Never thought of incorporating East and West in pregnancy massage or Shiatsu. I would love to take this course. One day!
Yes: it works well....I write about it too, in a lot of detail, in my book "Pregnancy and childbirth: a holistic approach to massage and bodywork"
I plan on purchasing it - I found it on amazon and that's how I came to this page. Do you ever teach in the US?
***** I have done a few times.. Am always open to it if there are enough people and someone to organise. But I am booked up till 2015 pretty much now!
Can you email me how much you charge and how many you would need to fill up a class - my email is iris.morrell@yahoo.com. Maybe we can set something up for 2016 - although going to England would be nice!
Increible experiencia compartir la formación con Suzanne.
Gracias....
Beautiful video! Grateful to have learned so much with Suzanne. :)
Glad you learned something
SUPER!!!! Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it
I have trained in Maternity Shiatsu with Suzanne and have been using skills on both pregnant and sub-fertile couples at my Glastonbury Practice. An awesome technique for any couples wanting to connect with baby and hoping to have a natural birth...Alan
Glad it was helpful
Awesome teaching ^^
Thanks!.. Glad you enjoyed it
Nice...what are you doing to her
Different positions have slightly different effects.. On all fours it is a great way of releasing tension in the lower back and helping give baby space to move, to experience movement and to change position if they need to.
If you say "Shiatsu" was born in Japan, Im afraid It doesn't include Japanese mentality and hospitality. Because (1) too much body contact with a patient (client), (2) not comfortable (maybe ashamed for some patients) positioning, (3) Supine position is often uncomfortable for pregnant women, (4) this side lying position is not ideal (I can see twisting a bit, not "neutral"), (5) Stretching is "nothing"!,( Please study up-to-date research about stretching) (6) Elbow is not allowed in traditional shiatsu in Japan, (7) on all fours position with swiss ball is questionable, (8) in this video I saw much of contact without towel or cloth. We tend to think it's too intimate. Anyway, this is your OWN technique! No one can criticise it. Great! Just wanted to show the difference between Japanese and European mentality. That's it!
thank you for your reply and comments. It is always interesting to hear other people's perspectives and to discus them. And yes, a lot of these are techniques I have developed from my own work with pregnancy and birth and with midwives (including a Japanese midwife) . Also to clarify, this is a video I made for positioning for shiatsu and massage therapists, which is why some of the techniques are massage rather than shiatsu. If I was doing shiatsu it would not necessarily include direct contact with the skin. However some shiatsu styles even in Japan (Namikoshi) I have seen with direct work without a towel or cloth. It depends on the tradition.
Re the intimacy: yes in traditional Japanese styles I would accept there is less intimacy. In this style of pregnancy work, then intimacy issues are checked with the client, but they actually often appreciate the closeness of contact.
Re supine position: again I agree some clients do not enjoy and for some it is even "unsafe" so I would always check with the client and then it is important that the practitioner knows what to do if the client feels any symptoms of supine hypotension (ie immediately switch to left lateral
Re All fours: this is something I have developed out of the midwifery work done on optimal fetal positioning and I find it is an excellent position for third trimester and to support physiological birth
Side lying: yes important to check spine aligned but often how it looks for one client may be slightly different for another
Elbow work: again it depends on shiatsu style: but often in labour or late pregnancy women need pressure more than can be given with the elbow
Re stretching: with a pregnant woman stretching needs to be less than in non pregnancy due to increased levels of progesterone and relaxin in the body. However stretches are important to move energy (we have meridian stretching) to move blood and lymph. I find there are fundamental for pregnancy work due to compression caused by baby. However I would be interested in your references to stretching.