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| Healing Children Creates Hope for our Future |
| A Holistic Pediatric Massage Therapist should have completed a Holistic Massage Therapy program from a reputable school and be licenced in the state where service is provided. More importantly, they should have extensive, successful experience in working with children. The ability to communicate and connect with children is key. Someone with a background in childcare, education, special education and crisis intervention is ideal. The opinion that matters most is your child's. For this reason, having an initial consultation with no obligation is imperative. The interview should be child-centered and child-directed. Children have an innate sense about who they trust and what feels right. Consultations can be brief. Children will often ask to sample various techniques. Children should always have the final say on booking future sessions. |
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Therapeutic massage has a profound and lasting healing effect on infants, children and adolescents. They are generally more receptive and tend to heal much faster than adults. |
| Pediatric Massage Therapy |
| Protocol |
| Infants |
| Infant massage is taught to parents. It is easy to learn and offers a natural way for parents to connect and bond with their baby. Lessons focus on being present and aware through all states and stages of growth. |
| Children and Adolescents |
| Children and adolescents are empowered with choice. With guidance and support, they direct each session. Children are the experts. Honoring their innate wisdom and ability to heal is key to their healing. |
| Parents and Caretakers |
| Children have the option of having their parent observe or participate in their sessions. Older children and adolescents often prefer a massage therapist administer their first massage(s). After they become accustomed to techniques and procedures, they feel more prepared to teach their parents. Children find this process to be empowering. Parents find it educational as they learn new ways to connect and meet their child's needs. Children are our greatest teachers! |
| Clinical Results |
| Children often report feeling a sense of peace and relaxation like they have never experienced before. For many this is a first. Children state they feel safer and more grounded. They feel more in touch with their emotions and have a clearer mind. Simply witnessing their child heal, parents often report experiencing the same. As children heal, families heal. |
| Healing Energy and Integrative Self-Care Techniques |
| Since the body is composed of 99.9% energy, clearing and balancing energy is essential to healing. Children have unique, dynamic energy. Working with a child's energy is an art that comes from the heart. It's also a science drawing on modern and ancient wisdom. Healing Energy includes many modalities including Polarity and Reiki. Therapists may place their hands on or above a child using Pure Intention and Creative Visualization to send Healing Energy. Once their energy is cleared and open, children are taught how to protect their Energy Field. |
| Healing Energy |
| Emotional Freedom Technique |
| EFT combines hypnotherapy and acupressure techniques. It can be self-administered, it's simple to learn and can easily be integrated into daily routine. |
| Creative Visualization |
| The brain thinks in images. Creative Visualization helps create healing thoughts. When in a relaxed state the body readily accepts and assimilates healing thoughts and images. Healing thoughts create healing emotions. Healing emotions creates healing thoughts. |
| Play and Connection |
| Children discover their world and establish healthy relationships through play. They also develop a sense of who they are through play. Play is the way children learn to socialize and connect to others. Integrating play in healing sessions, while children feel safe and at peace, can help re-establish feelings of personal safety and healthy relationships. This is especially true for traumatized children. |
| Time In |
| Clients are taught how to take Time In in order to avoid the need for time outs. Time-In is self-initiated and self-directed. It is considerably more effective than time outs. Time-In empowers. Time out alienates. Since the goal of Time In is to restore feelings of peace, being at peace and knowing what it feels like is essential when teaching this skill. |
| Aromatherapy |
| Aromatherapy involves the use of essential oils to improve a child's psychological and physical well-being. It enhances mood, lifts spirit and relaxes the body. The same oils used in therapy can be used at home to elicit a similar healing response experienced in therapy. |
| Music |
| Music is soothing and healing. Sound and vibration elicit healing responses throughout the body which opens the mind and renews the spirit. Music played during therapy can be used between sessions to elicit similar healing responses experienced in therapy sessions. |
| Touch Research Associate Touch Research Institute University of Miami School of Medicine |
| I am empowered with choice. |
| I feel comfortable saying yes. |
| I feel comfortable saying no. |
| Listen to my Inner Wisdom as I Heal. |
| Within me is the Power to Heal. |
"As I heal the world heals." |
When a child becomes aware of their thoughts, feelings and emotions; when they feel grounded, empowered, and positive about themselves and their environment, something wonderful happens: living healthy, being healthy and making healthy choices comes naturally. |
| Finding a Practitioner |
