The International Association of Infant Massage (IAIM) trains and certifies CIMIs who in turn teach parents and caregivers to massage their babies. The CIMI teaches small parent/baby classes, classes in conjunction with agency programs in the community or one-on-one classes.

The process for becoming a CIMI is as follows:

1. Attend a four-day Infant Massage Certification Training
2. Complete required reading.
1. Infant Massage: A Handbook for Loving Parents and Infant Massage Instructor's Manual by Vimala Schneider McClure. Students will receive one copy of each of these books at the training. The cost for the books is included with training fee.
2. The Baby Book by William Sears, MD and Martha Sears, RN. and Vital Touch by Sharon Heller. These books are not included with training materials.
3. Complete the take home exam (open book).
4. Teach the five sessions of Infant Massage to five parent/baby units. All five parent/babies can be in one class for five sessions or taught as five sessions on a one-on-one class. At the end of the five sessions CIMI¼s obtain written evaluations from each participant.

To learn more about training dates and locations please visit http://www.infantmassageusa.org/teach/trainingSchedule.shtml.

Thank you for your inquiry into our training schedules. We hope that you will find classes close to your area. However, if there is no class near to you, please feel free to call any of the trainers, they are frequently adding new classes to their schedule.