Certified Educator of Infant Massage (CEIM) Infant Massage Instructor Certification Training

(Participation in this training is resctricted to Erikson Institute staff, students, and alumni only)
Becoming a Certified Educator of Infant Massage (CEIM) starts here!

This evidence-based training is where infant mental health and caregiver psychoeducation meet! Come engage in a hands-on learning experience about nurturing touch and how to empower parents/caregivers to share it with their children. This special 3-day class offers everything you need to start the process and become a Certified Educator of Infant Massage (CEIM) through Infant Massage USA.


The Infant Massage USA® Program

• Brings knowledge into practice using the coaching method and reflective practice.
• Skills are learned and developed during three parent/baby sessions while under a skilled trainer and throughout the training.
• The Infant Massage USA®/ protocol supports the Strengthening Families Five Protective Factors.
• Has been recognized by health and child development experts as the highest quality program of its kind (Underdown & Barlow 2011).
• Healthy Start Coalition Miami-Dade encourages and supports its field staff to become Certified Educator of Infant Massage (CEIM).

Students learn to model massage strokes using a doll while coaching parents with their babies.
• This encourages parent/infant communication to support infant and parent mental health
• Gentle Movement activities are learned to enhance infant brain development

Additional adaptions are learned to support parents with:
• babies with special needs
• babies born premature, (which support NIDCAP principles).
• their growing child
• babies who are fussy, gassy or colicky

The Infant Massage USA® protocol can help:
• reduce stress for baby and parent
• reduce adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
• help babies sleep better,
• stimulate early brain development.
• dads feel more connected.