Instruction is offered in person or virtually, depending on your health and safety needs related to COVID-19.

In the case of inclement weather, sessions may be offered virtually rather than in person.

As a parent you will learn how to include therapeutic touch and massage to enhance the health, feeding, and development of your baby. Instruction is designed for specific age groups of infants to exactly match your baby’s developmental stage.

- Workshops -

Offered in collaboration with Haumea Family Wellness Center
Every eight weeks on Thursday mornings

Upcoming workshops:
Infant Massage for Sleep, Feeding, and Development
Thursday, June 12th, 2025
10:15 - 11:45 AM

Class fee: $42

Infant Massage for babies from newborn to 5 months of age helps parents learn to use positive touch and massage strategies to communicate with and comfort their young infants. This course also teaches parents how to increase their baby’s digestive comfort at a time when colic and gas pains are a common problem,

Workshops are 90 minutes and $42 per class. Workshops are small groups, with parents and babes receiving personalized attention and instruction to meet their individual needs.

- Individual Instruction-

By Juelaine Druckrey, OTR/L, NTMTC

Newborns to 8 weeks of age
Breastfeeding support: Sensory strategies for how to position and calm your baby, how to create muscle relaxation and alignment. Parents learn powerful ways to help when feeding is challenging. Massage to soothe babies and promote sleep, digestion, and alleviate colic and abdominal discomfort.

2 to 6 months of age
Individual hands on coaching of parents in their homes to support essential developmental skills for feeding, sleep, and physical development.

Maturing babies
Parent instruction to support development of older infants and to address specific parental concerns.

Keys To Infant Soothing and Sensory Development (KISSD)
KISSD is a course Juelaine created to provide new parents with understanding and tools to soothe their young babies and support their overall development.

This education is offered in individual or small group settings in two 60 minute sessions.

Class One can be attended before baby’s birth.
Class Two is attended when baby is up to three months old.

CLASS ONE
Positions for comforting and for play
Motor skills & tummy time play
Pros & cons of electronic devices, slings and carriers
Developmental Bathing
Addressing head turn preference concerns
Daily routines to support transitions & sleep

Fees

Individual class (1 infant): $45.00 virtual or $65 in person at your home
Small group (2-6 infants): $30.00 virtual or $40 in person

Individualized instruction to meet the special needs of an infant or older child: $75.00 in person

All classes are 60 minutes.

Group classes are an excellent value and fun, so gatherings of friends are most welcome!