Advanced Abdominal and Sacral Therapy Pregnancy Training | Toronto, Ontario, CA, Spring 2027

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Lisa Kelly, LMT
LMT

Lisa Kelly
Lisa Kelly, LMT

LMT

Lisa Kelly

Lisa is the owner and founder of The Red Tent Healing Arts Center and it’s sister site Amazing Births. She brings more than 36 years as a full time licensed massage therapist in women’s health, 20 years as a busy birth doula, midwives assistant and training facilitator to her work with women & families and her dedication to teaching.
In her hands on practice she specializes in women’s reproductive health, holistic fertility, healing vulvar conditions, pre and postpartum massage therapy,  most prominently her Arvigo® Maya Abdominal Therapist work since studying directly with Rosita Arvigo in 2007.
Lisa holds a passionate belief in the innate wisdom of women’s bodies and is dedicated to her teaching this sacred work and passing on the tradition healing to others so it not be forgotten.
As a teacher for the esteemed Arvigo Institute since 2015, Lisa has created a few of her own popular  professional trainings and offerings in her “Womb School, programs in Pelvic Hydrotherapy, Botanical Hydrosols for Pelvic Health and Moxibustion for Pelvic Health.

Lisa’s background and experience in women’s holistic health education and program facilitation, provide depth and expansiveness to her lesson plans, teaching style,  and her well thought out course syllabus, organized for a balanced, cohesive and transformative and immersive experience backed by her lived and extensive clinical experience.

 

Addition teaching experience:
Presented Nova Southeastern School of Osteopathic medicine 2017
Hypnobirthing and Blissborn Hypnosis for Birth classes for hundreds of couples over 20 years
Conscious Pregnancy, Prenatal Kundalini Yoga hundreds of classes over 15 years of practice and all the womb stories that come with the honoring of being present for women in the most intimate of spaces.

 

 

 

 

email:lisa@redtentwellness.com

Advanced Abdominal and Sacral Therapy Pregnancy Training | Toronto, Ontario, CA, Spring 2027

  • If you're hearing the call to go deeper, to enhance your skills, and to specialize in prenatal bodywork using the Arvigo techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy, this is your invitation. Join Lisa Kelly in Spring 2027, in Toronto area, Ontario, CA.

Class Details

Class dates & times

TIMES: TBA on Zoom

In person dates in Toronto area, Ontario, CA: TBA (Spring 2027)

Advance Your Pregnancy Massage Skills: Join Our Red Tent Womb School Advanced Pregancy Skills, The Maya Way.

Advanced Abdominal and Sacral Therapy Pregnancy Training -The Maya Way offers a comprehensive approach to support women throughout the childbearing year with Maya Abdominal Therapy skills for the pregnant belly and more.

What to Expect:

Maya Abdominal Therapy techniques for pregnancy as taught by Rosita Arvigo

Childbearing anatomy & physiology with detailed considerations for every phase of pregnancy.

Specific techniques for centering, lifting, and balancing the uterus itself—improving comfort, correcting malpositions like breech, posterior, and aiding better births.

Sacrum and pelvic techniques for all trimesters, labor, and postpartum care.

Learn Miss Hortence’s birthing wisdom, herbal recipes, and fourth trimester postpartum guidance.

Recommendations for common complaints, conditions, cesarean, and VBAC birth recovery.

Hands-on practicum: Daily bodywork, emotional, physical, and spiritual support for every phase.

Positioning mastery: Confidently position pregnant and postpartum clients with ease using pillows and body cushions, perfect for integrating into your massage, midwifery, ND, PT, or acupuncture practice.

Handouts and treatment guidelines for complementary modalities—steams, castor oil packs, belly supports, and herbs—all within your scope of practice.

Instructor deeply passionate about this lineage of healing from Don Elijio Panti, Rosita Arvigo, and Miss Hortence Robinson, with Lisa Kelly’s 30+ years of hands on and birth experience.

Certification & Support: Certificate of completion, mentorship calls, and a private group for continued learning and connection

Where

 
Toronto Area, Ontario, CA
 

LODGING

Food and lodging not included with plenty nearby as well as food. Please email Lisa about possible Air B&B shares.

Tuition

$350 deposit or paid in full is required to register. Registration closes after 8 deposits or full payments are received.

$1500 tuition 

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Class Description

Details on this unique training 4-day advanced course for professional Arvigo® , Abdominal Therapy Practitioners,  Midwives or LMT who have prenatal massage training. This Hybrid training is 4 days in person and 4 hours on zoom

Who is this training For?

Any Arvigo, Abdominal Therapy practitioner, midwife or LMT, manual therapist, chiropractor with prenatal massage experience who wishes to expand their practice with advanced abdominal skills, deepen their knowledge, intuition and connect with to the multicultural wisdom around conception, pregnancy birth and beyond.

Would you like to become a channel for traditional healing ways to create easier births, less complicated pregnancies and happy healthy postpartum period for their clients, women, children and families? 

  • Midwives and nurses who wish to expand their offerings to include hands on client sessions for fertility, prenatal, postpartum massage and bodywork as well as a non medical holistic approach to women’s wellness in all cycles.
  • Massage therapists, Physical therapists, pelvic bodyworkers, Occupational Therapists, Chiropractors who wish to be seen as an expert in their community and a specialist in Pregnancy Birth and Postpartum massage therapy.

Prerequisites

Completion of Arvigo® Professional Care Training OR equivalent Abdominal Therapy practitioner training. And OR a Midwife. OR any PT or LMT, DC, AP who has Prenatal massage training of at least 24 in person hours training ( such as Carol Sheets or Leslie Stager’s training) is a prerequisite as well as deep desire to heal birth and be of service to pregnant women. 

What to Expect with this Advanced Abdominal and Sacral Therapy Pregnancy Training:

  • Maya Abdominal Therapy Supporting Pregnancy manual. 
  • Manual includes guidelines for Preconception, fertility enhancement including ART 
  • Childbearing year anatomy & physiology with considerations for every phase of pregnancy 
  • Specific techniques for the preganant uterus for centering, lifting and balancing uterus for better births, correcting breech and malpositions, and happier more comfrtable pregnancies.
  • Specific techniques for the sacrum and pelvis
  • Considerations for every trimester including labor and birth. 
  • Miss Hortence’s birthing wisdom, herbal recipes and recommendations 
  • Fourth trimester postpartum wisdom and considerations
  • Recommendations for common complaints and conditions 
  • Treatment recommendations for Cesarean and VBAC births 
  • What techniques to use when and in what phase of the childbearing year and more!
  • Daily practicum, demos and hands on trades for each cycle of pregnancy with loving attention and guidance on how to support each emotional, physical and spiritual phase.
  • Take optimal pregnancy positioning for ultimate comfort, to take back to your massage, midwifery, ND, PT and acupuncture practice.  Confidently position pregnant and postpartum clients with pillows or body cushion,  including sideling practice.
  • Feel confident with handouts and treatment guidelines for modalities such as steams, castor oil, belly supports, herbs within your scope of practice and mentoring in using your own intuition in treatments and practice.
  • Instructors with passion and a deep love and respect for this work and this lineage of Don Elijio Panti, Rosita Arvigo and Miss Hortence Robinson as well as all of the practitioners that have so selflessly contributed to this program as well as the wisdom Lisa holds as a dedicated practioner and birth attendant of 30+ years.
  • Certificate of Completion
  • Mentorship calls and private group support
  • Connection and friendship in circle with our soulful group of  practitioners who are called to this training, to learn from Lisa in this special  location.
  • ncbtmb and Florida CE approval is pending and expected 24CE hours.

Getting there:

TBA

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