{"title":"Michele Holland","description":"Michele Kolakowski, LMT, CD \u0026amp; CPD(DONA), CLC, has decades of diverse experience serving women and babies since 1992. This passion began after watching a video of an Indian mother on the other side of the world lovingly massaging her baby outside her simple lean-to home. Michele became fascinated with the baby's experience of touch and the transformative bonds between mothers and their wee ones. She believes how women and their infants experience pregnancy, birth, the \"fourth trimester\" and beyond, matters for all of us. She is an authorized instructor of Pre- and Perinatal Massage Therapy workshops and has taught  maternity massage at massage schools, spas, destination resorts, hospitals, and conferences nationwide.\r\n\r\n\r\nMichele studied with a number of maternity massage pioneers before designing and teaching 150- and 200-hour maternity and infant massage certificate programs for the Boulder College of Massage Therapy and Cortiva Education. She also led a hospital-based integrative medicine program providing inpatient maternity massages to thousands of new mothers. She has joyfully attended births in homes, birth centers and hospitals. She is passionate about improving maternity care's interdisciplinary teamwork and bringing high touch, patient-centered care practices to the care of childbearing women and their babies.\r\n\r\n\r\nShe founded Sanctuary Healing Arts LLC specializing in hands-on care of women and their wee ones including massage therapy and doula care in Boulder County, Colorado. Michele is passionate about improving maternity and newborn care - one pregnancy, one birth and one new family at a time. She treasures the opportunity to help families, nurses, midwives and physicians improve family-centered care and interdisciplinary teamwork. Michele enjoys sunshine, gardening, Carolina blue sky days, hikes to the summer mountain wildflowers and lakes, her meditation and yoga practice, and being witness to her sons becoming amazing young men. Visit her at sanctuaryhealingartsllc.com","products":[{"product_id":"pre-and-perinatal-massage-therapy","title":"Pre- and Perinatal Massage Therapy","description":"This is the third edition of a highly successful guide to using massage therapy through all stages of the birth process, from pregnancy, through labor and birth, and into the long postpartum period. It is primarily for massage therapists but is also intended for physical therapists, other manual therapists and bodyworkers, nurses and midwives, physicians and doulas - any professional who wants to integrate more therapeutic touch in their work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe text combines what anyone who works with pregnant people needs: an exhaustive distillation of current scientific knowledge, alongside hands-on recommendations, specific techniques and business success from almost a century of the authors' combined experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe reader will gain a detailed understanding of what is happening to the body during pregnancy and beyond, how massage techniques can impact those changes, and very concrete, applicable strategies for how to work with maternity clients to make them feel better.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmidst this abundance of detail about what to do, the authors also explore the flipside - what therapists need to modify and avoid to ensure that their work with pregnant and postpartum clients is safe; how to recognize high-risk factors or other complications; how best to adjust treatment; and how to work with medical healthcare providers throughout the process.","brand":"Handspring Publishing","offers":[{"title":"EBook","offer_id":42887818477726,"sku":"9781912085743","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":42139077214366,"sku":"9781912085736","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0464\/6191\/1198\/products\/9781912085743-original.jpg?v=1769759950"}],"url":"https:\/\/us.singingdragon.com\/collections\/author-michele-holland.oembed","provider":"Singing Dragon - US","version":"1.0","type":"link"}