Integrative Pelvic Therapy Certification Program
mentorship & certification program
with Dr. Kathryn Kloos
Take your abdominal and pelvic floor work with female-bodied clients to the next level. This certification program is designed for practitioners who want to strengthen their skills working with pelvic floor and reproductive issues, learn advanced bodywork and utilize somatic mind/body techniques to hold a profound healing container for their clients.
Registration Is nOw Open for
Spring 2023
Prerequisites
To qualify for this course you must be an LMT, ND, Midwife, MD, Nurse practitioner, or student in one of these fields. I will be including the introductory pelvic floor level one within the mentorship. No previous pelvic floor therapy training is necessary.
Advanced bodywork For women’s health
Abdominal and Uterine Massage
Pelvic Floor Therapy
Lumbar, sacral and hip assessment and myofascial release and trigger point therapy
cupping therapy for women’s health
Botanical Medicine for Women’s Health
Develop the skills to use botanical medicine to address common women’s health conditions
Create relationships with plant spirit allies and be able to use them with your clients
Learn integrative medicine treatments to support women through life phases
Somatic Awareness & Mind-Body Techniques
Learn how to use your intuition to guide your treatments
Give your clients mindfulness tools they can use for pelvic pain management and body image issues
Learn somatic techniques to increase efficacy of your bodywork treatments.
Provide trauma-informed care for your clients.
Course Content
The course is taught in beautiful Corbett, Oregon.
Organic Lunches provided!!
Winter/Spring Dates are now set!
February 18-19, March 18-19, April 22-23, May 20-21
Topics include: Abdominal/Uterine Massage & Hip Alignment Manual Therapy, Trauma-Informed Care, Somatic Resoucing, Making Friends with the Body, Cupping and Case Presentations.
See Detailed Course Summary below for details of each weekend.
one bonus Q/A video class video chat…
…per month after the last weekend
12 out of classroom client visits…
…that you will document and submit.
This makes up a total of 110-course hours. Participants will be awarded a certification in Integrative Pelvic Therapy.
Eligible for CEUs for LMTs and NDs
Investment: Early Bird. Sign up by April 15th and pay $3200. Afterward, price goes up to $3300.
- payment plans are available!
Why do a mentorship and pelvic health certification?
You have taken a pelvic floor intro class and would like to have mentorship to improve your skills
You want to help women lead vibrant and healthy lives by connecting them with the healing power of their wombs.
You want to be a practitioner who has competent skills and can accurately identify and treat common women’s health conditions.
You want to be able to access your intuition in combination with proven clinical outcomes.
You want to be able to hold a profound healing space for your clients where they feel safe to transform their their wounds and find their power.
You want to be have the diagnostic and treatment tools set that will give your female clients lasting results.
Detailed Course Summary
+ WEEKEND 1: Abdominal/Uterine massage, hip alignment manual therapy
In this weekend we will review the anatomy of the abdomen and pelvis including the muscles, innervation, fascial connections and ligamentous structures. We will fine tune our skills of abdomino-pelvic assessment and treatment.
Objectives
- assessment of sacral and hip alignment using basic orthopedic tests
- blocking and myofascial techniques for hip alignment
- myofascial release and exercises for the psoas
- diastasic recti assessment and treatment
- uterine alignment
- abdominal scar treatment
- pelvic floor myofascial release, trigger point therapy and strain/counterstrain
- learn how to perform self-abdominal massage and teach to your clients
- Energetic plant Ally: Western Peony
+ WEEKEND 2: Trauma informed care and Somatic Dialogue
Offering professional bodywork which has the capacity to navigate the wide range of histories, realities and experiences of all of our clients. Holding space to unravel frozen emotions, Trauma-informed bodywork means offering professional bodywork which has the capacity to navigate the wide range of histories, realities and past traumatic experiences
Use vitalist body based awareness questions to track emotional underpinning of physical symptoms. When we bring awareness to a sensation and really open to the present moment, using the right questions, the body can reveal processes around deeply held emotions and thought patterns. During this weekend we will learn the simple yet profound technique of somatic dialogue.
Objectives
- neurobiology of trauma
- trauma informed intervention and treatment principles
- boundary setting
- recognizing when a higher level of care is needed
- self-care tools for trauma
- mindfulness meditations for pain
- learn the profound modality of Somatic Dialogue to get to the root emotional underpinnings of your clients symptoms.
- how to safely practice the Somatic Dialogue
- how to developing the Art of presence
- How to hold a healing container
- Practicing somatic dialogue skills
- Practice Uterine Massage and Pelvic Floor Work
- Plant Ally: Yarrow and Yellow Pond Lily
+ WEEKEND 3: Rectal Work and Making friends with the body
Body dysmorphia and body shame. Tools to guide clients towards loving themselves.
Objectives
- to understanding shame in the body
- how to develop shame resilience
- mindfulness tools for body dysmorphia
- understand how shame can effect sexuality
- learn tools to give your clients to create a new relationship around their bodies and sexuality
- mindful eating
- learn how to perform rectal work in a safe way.
- how to access pelvic floor muscles without doing internal work
- Conditions covered: Coccyx pain, constipation, fecal incontinence
- Botanical Ally: Red Cedar
+ WEEKEND 4:Fertility, Pregnancy, Postpartum Care and Cupping for the pelvic manual therapist.
Objectives
- Botanical therapy lecture: herbs for pre-conception, postpartum care, miscarriage and pregnancy loss
- Practice pelvic floor and abdominal techniques reviewed in week one.
- learn the history of cupping in women’s health
- motion and static cupping techniques for abdomen, diaphragm and back.
- Practice pelvic floor and abdominal manual techniques reviewed in week one.
- Energetic plant ally: Trillium, Devil's Club
12 hours of bonus online lectures
- Botanical Medicine: Herbal medicine for HPV, interstitial cystitis and chronic vaginal infections.
- Treating pelvic pain conditions: endometriosis, vulvar pain, vulvar skin conditions
- Botanical Medicine: Herbal decongestants and lymphatics for uterine masses (fibroids, adenomyosis and ovarian cysts)
- Special guest to speak about working with the Transgender Community
- Special guest to speak about working with body dysmorhpia