Institute for Birth Healing
Continuing Education Courses
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your pregnant and postpartum clients need and deserve
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Alleviating Pregnancy Pain: A Working Guide for Pelvic Health Therapists
FREE Download
As birth professionals and bodyworkers, you play a vital role in supporting pregnant individuals. This guide helps you understand common pregnancy-related pain conditions, their underlying causes, effective hands-on strategies to support your clients’ comfort and alignment, and educational resources to further your training.
Common Postpartum Patterns
FREE Online Course
Course Length: 45 minutes
This FREE course is designed for any pelvic health therapist or birth professional that wants to learn what to look for to get their clients out of pain and dysfunction after birth. In under an hour, learn how to identify the 4 most common postpartum patterns that cause the majority of issues in the postpartum body.
Course Highlights:
- Introduction to how the pelvic bones move during birth to help guide your assessments
- Learn how to identify 4 most common postpartum patterns in the body
- Discover the correlation between labor positions and these patterns
- Case Studies to deepen your learning
Foundational Continuing Education Courses
Pregnancy Pain and Beyond
Online Course
CEU Hours (see details*): 4.9 hours (online)
This course contains everything you need to know about pregnancy, labor and how to prepare your clients for a smoother birth. This course focuses on the superficial structures of muscles and fascial connections, the uterine ligaments, how to determine baby’s position, and how to correct non-optimal alignment. You will also get a list of techniques to address the most common pregnancy pain complaints as well as references to where you can learn these techniques as some but not all techniques are covered in this course.
Course Highlights:
- Pregnancy and labor terminology and basics
- Baby’s Position and Techniques to Use for Optimal Alignment
- Breech-Positioned Babies and Ironing Board Technique
- Uterine Ligament Releases
- Abdominal Care/Strengthening in Pregnancy and Early Postpartum
- More Superficial Approach to the Pregnant Body
- Pushing Mechanics Palpated Externally
Sacral Flexion Pattern
Online Course
Course Length: 45 minutes
Mini Module from Treating the Postpartum Pelvis (upgrade discount available for full course)
This quick and effective course is perfect for pelvic health therapists and bodyworkers who work with postpartum clients. In less than an hour, you will know the signs and symptoms and be able to successfully assess and treat one of the most common yet hidden postpartum patterns.
Course Highlights:
- Signs and symptoms of the Sacral Flexion Pattern
- Identify and assess the Sacral Flexion Pattern
- Treating the Sacral Flexion Pattern
- Home Self Treatment Program
- Case Study
Treating the Postpartum Pelvis
Online Course
CEU Hours (see details*): 3.25 hours (online)
This course is highly recommended for all hands-on practitioners who want to learn exactly how to identify, assess and treat four of the most prevalent postpartum patterns to immediately get clients out of pain and dysfunction. Knowing what to do to address these patterns will have a huge impact on your clients’ quality of life as restoring the pelvis to its optimal position can prevent complications from issues such as prolapse, back and pelvic pain, pain with intercourse, and more.
Course Highlights:
- Learn how birth’s impact on the pelvis requires a broader approach to pelvic care
- Discover how labor and positioning can prevent pelvic recovery
- Learn how to identify, assess and treat the 4 most common postpartum patterns (Sacral Flexion, Common Birth pattern, Posterior Sacrum, Ischial Splay) and get clients out of pain and dysfunction
- The course content is highly organized and focused to help you learn a highly effective approach to postpartum care that you can use immediately to help clients recover quickly and more fully
Internal Pelvic Floor Treatment
Online Course
CEU Hours (see details*): 5 hours (online)
This course is for those newer to doing internal work and for more experienced therapists wanting to explore a holistic and energetic way to work in this space. This course teaches you the key indicators to know if the body is ready for intravaginal work as well as an approach to working with the body that results in better results with less work.
Course Highlights:
- Anatomy and physiology of the vulva and pelvic floor muscles
- Mechanics of doing internal work – including draping, positioning, safe touch and how to respectfully enter into the vaginal space
- The indicators to determine if the body is open and willing to do internal work
- How to assess the pelvic floor muscles as well as an external hand hold on the pelvis (Schulte Hold) that makes it easier to release and work with the pelvic floor muscles
Holistic Treatment Continuing Education Courses
Holistic Treatment of the Pregnant Body
Online Course | Live Training
CEU Hours (see details*): 7.25 hours (online) and 27.25 hours (live)
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Get the Holistic Treatment 2 Course Bundle for extra savings
This course is a must for practitioners who want to deeply support pregnant clients and set them up for a smoother birth. You will learn 40+ treatment techniques to address pregnancy pain and dysfunction and prepare the body for birth. The curriculum includes an intravaginal protocol, practices to help clients connect with their pelvic floor during labor and pushing, positioning techniques to help baby get into an optimal birth position, and so much more.
Course Highlights:
- 3 focus areas of care to support birth (Abdomen, Pelvis and Pelvic Floor)
- In-depth education on the uterine ligaments structure and releases for optimal positions for birth
- Energetics and energy flow of the body and its impact on birth
- Internal release of the pelvic floor muscles and the Schulte Hold
- Pushing mechanics in all positions
- Pelvic mobilizations for back and pelvic pain issues
Holistic Treatment of the Postpartum Body
Online Course | Live Training
CEU Hours (see details*): 8.5 hours (online) and 28.5 hours (live)
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Get the Holistic Treatment 2 Course Bundle for extra savings
This course is our flagship course and the gold standard in postpartum care. Learn 40+ treatment techniques that will immediately improve client outcomes postpartum. You will learn how to address issues with diastasis recti, pelvic and low back pain, pain with intercourse, stress incontinence, prolapse, and more.
Course Highlights:
- Full postpartum care protocol with assessment and treatment techniques for the pelvis, abdomen, thoracic spine, ribcage, internal ligaments, organs and more
- An intravaginal protocol to help the pelvic floor muscles respond stronger in just one session
- All the pelvic mobilizations including working with the pubic bone and rami bones
- Listening techniques and palpation skills to assess energetic flow and the open birthing pattern
Advanced Postpartum Techniques
Online Course
Course Length: 3.25 hours
Prerequisite: Holistic Treatment of the Postpartum Body
Getting great results with the Holistic Treatment of the Postpartum Body techniques, but ready to go beyond only addressing the physical issues? In this course, you will learn how to improve the effectiveness of your treatments by addressing the nervous system as well as advanced techniques to address more complex postpartum issues.
Course Highlights:
- 3 techniques to calm the nervous system
- Rebalance the connection between the respiratory and pelvic diaphragms
- Techniques for the kidney, OA and first rib
- Advanced pelvic techniques that include the coccyx, inflare/outflare and the sacral scoop
- Work with local, regional and distant connections in the body and understand force vectors
Birth Healing Intensive
Coaching & Development Program
Program Duration: January 31, 2026 – November 8, 2026
NOTE: Enrollment closes January 11, 2026
This is a deep dive into work that is critical to the long term health and well-being of both you and your clients. This is inside out work, meaning that you will learn to use these skills firsthand to empower your own practice. This is the work every practitioner needs to confidently treat clients via both telehealth and in person to create profound and transformational healing.
Program Highlights:
- Develop a strong therapeutic presence
- Learn how to shift and replace limiting beliefs
- Become proficient at dialoguing to better facilitate client sessions
- Learn how to work with clients at a distance for telehealth sessions
- Recognize and address the trauma response in the body
- Understand how to help heal pregnancy and birth challenges
- Help release ancestral patterns
- Find the joy and magic in your professional and personal life
Holistic Treatment 2 Course Bundle
Includes Holistic Treatment of the Pregnant Body & Holistic Treatment of the Postpartum Body Online Courses
CEU Hours (see details*): 7.25 hours (pregnant body online) + 8.5hours (postpartum body online)
Get incredible results at an amazing price with extra savings in this 2 course bundle! Includes immediate access to both online holistic treatment courses. Elevate your practice by learning assessment tools and treatment techniques to get clients out of pain and prepared for a smoother birth and faster recovery.
Specialty Courses
Midwife Course: Facilitating Labor and Postpartum Recovery
Online Course
Course Length: 6.5 hours
Improve birth outcomes and help prepare your client’s body for a smoother birth and a faster recovery. Learn what to look for and what main areas to address to optimize the body’s function, so it can do what it was meant to do. Know what areas to work on after birth to support a healthier postpartum recovery.
Course Highlights:
- Understand the 3 main areas of the body that need assessment prior to birth
- Learn techniques to improve uterine mobility and release fascia to help baby’s positioning prior to birth
- Discover the motions of the pelvic bones during birth and facilitate the opening of the pelvis
- Understand the pelvic floor muscles’ role in birth and how to effectively release them prior to birth
- Learn how to help the abdominal muscles recover and pelvic bones close in postpartum
- Help facilitate healing of the perineum and activate stronger pelvic floor muscle contraction after birth
Doula Course: Supporting Birth and Postpartum
Online Course
Course Length: 4 hours
This course gives you the skills you need to support a smoother birth and faster postpartum recovery for your clients. Learn the body essentials for a natural birth as well as techniques to encourage opening of the pelvis during birth. Navigate and facilitate postpartum healing of issues related to diastasis recti, incontinence, pain with intercourse, pelvic pain, back pain and cesarean births.
Course Highlights:
- Know which activities your clients should avoid that can make birth more challenging
- Instruct your clients in the proper way to do perineal massage prior to birth
- Learn how to help your clients avoid/minimize diastasis recti and prolapse
- Understand how to handle traumatic births in a way that is healing and supportive
Birth Healing Summits
Birth Healing Summits
Virtual Summit
Multiple Speakers | Speaker Gifts
A multi-disciplinary virtual gathering of wisdom, shared knowledge and education from practitioners around the world. Learn the latest discoveries, research and best practices in pregnancy and postpartum care that you can use immediately in your practice to better support and improve the outcomes of your clients.
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