The Ultimate Pregnancy Massage Workshop for Professionals

Health and Skincare therapists working in:

  • Day Spas
  • Destination Spas
  • Resort Spas
  • Club Spas
  • Medical Spas
  • Wellness Spas/Centres
  • Health and skin care clinics
  • Therapeutic Massage Therapists
  • Therapeutic Aromatherapists
  • Health and skincare learners
  • Health and skincare educators

Past students have included midwives, Therapeutic Massage Therapists and Aromatherapists, Health and Skincare therapists and learners, physiotherapists, spa managers and therapists, and sports science learners.

For Learners:

The workshop furnishes you with the improved skills, knowledge, understanding and techniques necessary for massaging childbearing women.
Imbues you with the necessary confidence to help you expand your career in the delivery of exceptional, compassionate and client-orientated services to pregnant women – thereby adding to your employability.
Provides you with hands-on experience in the side-lying technique, which can also be used for other massages.

For Educators:

This workshop adds to your present skills
Widens the scope of your existing training skills
Enables you to offer your learners more

For Spa/Salon Managers AND Therapists:

This workshop enables you to meet the ever-increasing demand for the specialties of pregnancy and postpartum massage therapy, and helps you satisfy the needs of your pregnant clients with greater confidence.
Allows spa managers to offer this specialized massage as part of a “pregnancy package”, which could include gift packs, special rates and continuing come-backs.

This is an advanced training workshop. Students must therefore have a qualification, or be a registered learner in Swedish massage.

Upon completion of the workshop students will receive an endorsed Certificate of Attendance.

This Workshop is approved by AHPCSA for 4 CEU’s (level one) for 2026 (Therapeutic Aromatherapists and Massage Therapists).

Designed to provide its students with a strong foundation of knowledge, insight and abilities as well as flexibility, this workshop covers the adaptations of massage for the pregnant woman, who is undergoing structural, physiological and psychological changes. These skills can be used in private practice, spas, clinics and hospitals.

Beyond the hands-on techniques mentioned above, the issues of the therapist’s needs, communication with clients and their position as part of a greater network of healthcare providers are addressed.

Although The Ultimate Pregnancy Massage Workshop is based on Swedish Massage techniques and an advanced training in Pregnancy, Post-Natal and Infant Massage, it also integrates features gained from training in Sports Massage and Manual Lymph Drainage.

  • Introduction to the educator
  • The need for this specialized massage
  • The role of the therapist
  • Trends in pre-natal care
  • Indications and contra-indications
  • The use of oil
  • Positioning and draping
  • Alternative positions
  • Focus for the three trimesters
  • Post-natal massage
  • Massage techniques for full body massage
 

4 hours

2026: R 3050

Who will benefit
from this lecture?

  • Health and Skincare therapists
  • Therapeutic Massage Therapists
  • Therapeutic Aromatherapists
  • Physiotherapists
  • Spa managers and therapists
  • Sports science learners.

Claremont, Cape Town

Upcoming Advanced MLD Courses

Gain advanced Manual Lymph Drainage skills through intensive, small-group training with personalised guidance and hands-on practice.

26–30 October 2026

Testimonials

“Carolyn’s ultimate pregnancy massage course was exactly what I had hoped for! She has a world of knowledge about the body, massage and all of its ways, and this course was just brilliant. She taught me so many things and all in all I would recommend this course to absolutely any professional, it was 10/10.”
~ Nurse & Midwife

Meet Carolyn

Professional credentials

  • Therapeutic Massage Therapist
  • Registered with Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa (AHPCSA)
  • Practice Number: 1070000244627
  • Speciality: Lymphoedema Management
  • Special Field Of Interest: Manual Lymph Drainage
  • Local practice: Cape Town

Carolyn specialises in manual lymphatic therapy for swelling, oedema, and post-surgical recovery. Her treatments are tailored, clinically guided, and designed to support the body’s natural healing process, with a focus on safe, effective, and comfortable care.

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