Helping Families to Function

Epona Therapy Services, LLC

Loving Touch, Inc Certified Infant Massage Instructor

Infant Massage Instruction and Child Enrichment Classes

Epona Therapy Services, LLC offers private and group infant massage instruction for parents and their children.  Instruction can be provided in your home, daycare or in the community to groups.  It is never too late to begin massage... Whether your baby is a newborn or several years old, massage can bring immediate and lasting results. Expectant parents who take infant massage instruction in advance are ready to begin this wonderful loving touch right from the start. Infant Massage is a very old parenting practice that has been modernized and is in active use today supported by evidence-based research.  Specialized instruction provided for premature infants, developmentally delayed and special needs children of all ages.

 

Benefits for Infants and Children

· Improves general well-being

· Improves circulation

· Enhances neurological development

· Helps child to sleep deeper and more soundly

· Provides intimate time with parents

· Enhances release of hormones in the body. The growth hormone can be stimulated which helps weight gain.

Benefits for Parents

· Provides all of the essential indicators of intimate parent-infant bonding and attachment: eye-to-eye, touch, voice, smell, movement, and thermal regulation.

· Provides all of the essential indicators of intimate parent-infant bonding and attachment: eye-to-eye, touch, voice, smell, movement, and thermal regulation.

· Encourages pre-verbal communication between caregiver and infant

· Helps parents feel more confident and competent in caring for their children

· Gives parents the tools for understanding their child's unique rhythm and patterns

· Teaches parents how to read their infants cues and recognize their states of awareness

· Daily massage helps parents to unwind and relax

Infant massage is a bonding process for the whole family.

Parent Education