Pregnancy & Perinatal Care
Module #3 of Our Women's Health Series
Saturday, November 14th & Sunday, November 15th, 2026
Mississauga, ON
*Includes Recorded Virtual Theory*
From Conception to Postpartum Recovery - Are You Ready to Support Women at Every Stage?
Pregnancy brings your clients into contact with the healthcare system more consistently than almost any other life event — yet many allied health practitioners feel underprepared to treat across the full perinatal care spectrum.
The gap isn't in your clinical awareness. It's in structured, stage-specific training that integrates manual therapy, functional assessment, and evidence-based support from early pregnancy through postpartum recovery.
This pregnancy course gives you the clinical framework to treat confidently at every stage — prenatal, perinatal, and beyond.
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💛 Treat Across The Full Perinatal Timeline With Confidence
From managing pelvic girdle pain and low back pain to supporting c-section recovery and postpartum tissue healing, you'll have assessment and treatment tools that are appropriate, safe, and clinically grounded at every stage — not just "pregnancy-modified" versions of what you already do.
⚖️ Go Beyond Pain Management To Whole-Person Perinatal care
Pregnancy affects sleep, nutrition, posture, nervous system regulation, and more. This module equips you to address the full picture — integrating phase-specific exercise guidelines, nutritional considerations, and sleep support alongside hands-on treatment — so your clients leave with strategies, symptom relief, and knowledge.
🙌🏽 Add Specialized Skills That Set Your Practice Apart
Taping techniques for a changing body, c-section scar tissue management, and perinatal-specific manual therapy are not commonly covered in foundational training. Practitioners who offer this level of care become a go-to resource for OBs, midwives, and the growing population of clients actively seeking informed, integrative support during pregnancy and postpartum.
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Buy the BundleRegister for all five Women's Health modules for only $2,900 (a $725 savings!)
The Certification Difference
💡 Clinical Expertise
Assessment-based, not attendance-based.
The credential means you've demonstrated competency — not just sat through the hours. You'll complete a high standard certification criteria. That distinction matters to your patients, your colleagues, and the public you serve.
🌀 Integrative Care Model
A collaborative scope across the female lifespan.
Five connected modules — puberty, fertility, perinatal, pelvic health, menopause — so you see how patterns in one life stage shape the next and how health disciplines intersect to provide the best possible care.
⭐️ Professional Credibility
Built by clinicians, for clinicians.
Evidence-informed content delivered by practitioners who work with these patients every week — and who respect your unique expertise. You'll become a part of a network and community that promotes excellence in practice.
Who This Is For:
Physiotherapists ✦ Chiropractors✦ Osteopathic Practitioners ✦ Registered Massage Therapists ✦ Athletic Therapists ✦ Naturopathic Doctors ✦ Pelvic Health Specialists ✦ Occupational Therapists ✦ Nurses ✦
Any other manual therapy or health practitioner working in reproductive health and fertility care.
It's the right fit if you:
- Want to specialize in or expand your pregnancy-related practice
- Are already seeing pregnant patients and want deeper clinical grounding
- Are ready to work confidently alongside reproductive specialists, and other allied health providers
- Believe that the best patient outcomes happen when disciplines work together — not in silos
- Care deeply about providing whole-person care at one of life's most pivotal moments
What You Will Walk Away With:
✅ Apply evidence-informed manual therapy and taping techniques adapted for the physiological changes of pregnancy and the postpartum period, including c-section scar tissue assessment and care.
✅ Identify and assess common pain presentations in perinatal clients — including pelvic girdle pain, diastasis recti, and musculoskeletal dysfunction — and select appropriate treatment approaches for each stage.
✅ Integrate current exercise prescription guidelines, nutritional considerations, and sleep support strategies into a comprehensive perinatal care plan.
✅ Demonstrate clinical reasoning that accounts for trimester-specific, postpartum-specific, and birth-type-specific factors when developing and adapting treatment plans for perinatal clients.
Meet Your Instructors
Valerie Namer, MD (France, DO(MP)
Valérie Namer brings a rare combination of medical and osteopathic expertise to women's health education. She holds a medical degree with a specialty in endocrinology from France and is a graduate of the Centre Ostéopathique du Québec, where she now directs the post-graduate program.
In her Montreal clinical practice, Valérie works exclusively in women's health — from puberty and hormonal health through fertility, obstetrics, and postnatal care. She has been teaching and lecturing on osteopathy and women's health across Canada and internationally for many years, including in the Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Clinical Practice course at McGill University.
Valérie currently supervises Master's dissertations at the School of Health Sciences Fribourg, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO), and has been a member of the Science and Health Committee at Séréna Québec since 2023. She is a registered member of Ostéopathy Québec.
Sharmila Kulkarni, PT, DO(MP), MSc Aging & Health
Sharmila Kulkarni is a physiotherapist and osteopathic manual practitioner with over 25 years of clinical experience and a Master's degree in Aging & Health. Her practice has always centred on the full arc of women's health — and on the gaps in practitioner training that leave patients underserved at every stage of it.
That clinical frustration became a professional mission. As co-founder and director of Integration Health + Education, Sharmila has built a continuing education community grounded in multidisciplinary collaboration, rigorous curriculum, and the conviction that better-trained practitioners produce better patient outcomes.
She brings that same standard to the Women's Health Certification — co-teaching and shaping a program designed not just to add knowledge, but to build genuine clinical competency in women's health across the lifespan.
Sandhya Sahi-Jain, DPT, DO(MP)
Sandhya Sahi-Jain is a physiotherapist and osteopathic manual practitioner with a clinical foundation spanning neurology, orthopaedics, and pediatric care. She completed her Physical Therapy degree at the University of Toronto, including thesis work with SickKids Hospital, and holds an undergraduate degree in Neuroscience from Carleton University.
Sandhya earned her Master of Osteopathic Manipulative Science from the Canadian Academy of Osteopathy in Hamilton in 2012, and most recently completed her Doctorate in Physical Therapy in 2025. Her depth of training across manual therapy, neuroscience, and pediatric practice makes her particularly well-suited to the clinical complexity of adolescent health.
Sandhya is the creator of the Paediatric Foundations series of courses for manual therapists and teaches extensively in Canada.
Sandy Antunes, DO(MP)
With 20 years of practical experience, Sandy has evolved throughout her professional career, from Shiatsu Therapy into Osteopathy in the last 10 years. As well as running her own successful practice and serving as a highly respected Anatomy and Physiology Teacher, Sandy is also now an International Lecturer for The Institute of Classical Osteopathy.
Graduating from The Canadian Academy of Osteopathy and Holistic Health Services Sciences, with a Diploma in Osteopathic Manipulative Theory and Practice in 2008, she went on to complete her Master Osteopathic Manipulative Science Education.
Sandy initiated her Health and Wellness career at the Shiatsu School of Canada in 1995. She continued her education at the Shiatsu Academy of Tokyo with over 4400 hours of hands-on learning.
Before starting her private practice in 2004, Sandy worked for over 5 years alongside various healthcare professionals including; MD's, RMT's, Chiropractors and Physiotherapists, whose shared goal was to create the most effective treatment plan for the individual patient.
Sandy is a Director and Volunteer for The Society For Osteopathic Wellness and is constantly updating her knowledge base and techniques. She is also a Guest Speaker for Running Room, Community Centres and Special Interest Groups
Terra Nicolle, RMT, DO(MP)
Terra has been in the health & wellness industry for over 30 years, she started in fitness and continued into nutrition and lifestyle coaching.
She is a Pelvic Floor Specialist and has worked in Africa educating midwives and physios in pelvic floor health. Terra is also a Trauma Informed Yoga Therapist
Terra has been lecturing and teaching extensively in Canada and internationally on osteopathy, hypermobility, and women's health for many years.
Women's Health Series/Certification
at Integration Health + Education
The series is comprised of five modules which can be taken individually or as part of the full Women's Health Certification.
