Carole Osborne (Author)
>Carole's major career accomplishments include:
>Publishing Deep Tissue Sculpting, Second Edition.
Authoring the definitive pregnancy massage training textbook, Pre- and Perinatal Massage Therapy in1998; second edition (Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins) in 2012; Japanese translation, 2015; and now the third edition, co-authored with Michele Kolakowski and David M. Lobenstine.
>Contributing to Teaching Massage and to When Survivors Give Birth.

Being one of a select group of practitioners for the Massage Research Agenda Workgroup (1999) for the Massage Therapy Research Foundation, providing input to their 10-year research agenda.
>Carole has trained over 5,000 therapists and other perinatal specialists throughout North America and in the United Kingdom. She has taught in hospital and visiting nursing programs, at innumerable massage schools and conventions, and in spas, resorts and businesses of all sizes. She has also developed a dynamic team of authorized instructors of her work. Her numerous articles have appeared in many professional and mainstream publications. In addition to her continued enthusiasm for her practice, teaching and writing, she is highly motivated to work with individual therapists and small groups in practice supervision and mentoring. She is a professional member of the Alliance for Massage Therapy Education (AFMTE) and the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA), and is Board Certified in Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (BCTMB).

Carole's earliest bodywork studies were with the Arica Institute, Milton Trager, and Tai Chi Master Abraham Liu. A 1976 private apprenticeship with Edward Maupin, Ph.D., one of the first seven Rolfers, added a foundation in the perspective of Ida P. Rolf. Throughout her career she has sought balance between the art and science of hands-on therapies. Her curiosity and inspiration continue to spiral within her own and her clients' physical, emotional, mental and spiritual experiences. In addition to her professional passions, her children, grandchildren, dancing and spiritual development are paramount. For more about Carole and her work: [...] or [...] Michele Kolakowski (Author)
>Michele 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. She 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 [...] David Lobenstine (Author)
>David was certified in Pre- and Perinatal Massage Therapy soon after graduating from massage school, and has been gestating his own work, with mamas at all stages of the parenting journey, ever since. He was a teaching assistant for both Carole Osborne and Linda Hickey for over a decade, and he is now an authorized teacher of the Pre- and Perinatal Massage Therapy workshops. David feels the glorious challenge, and a continual honor, to work with clients across pregnancy and into the postpartum period, to facilitate a process that he will never experience himself. He can empathize, but not embody, that experience, which encourages him to listen more and assume less, and makes him a more effective therapist for each and every client. When he is not working with pre- and perinatal clients, or teaching other therapists to do so, he also designs and teaches his own continuing education workshops, both around the country and online, at Body Brain Breath. His aim, for his clients and students and readers, is to encourage us all to inhabit our bodies more fully, so that we can do the things we love with greater ease and effectiveness. Find him at [...] and [...]