Optimal Maternal Positioning

Australia. We are coming for you.
Ten workshops. Eight cities. April and May 2026.
Swipe or scan — find your city and secure your spot.
🔲 Perth — Intro to OMP for Physiotherapists · 18 April
🔲 Perth — Full Day OMP · 19 April
🔲 Brisbane · 22 April
🔲 Townsville · 24 April
🔲 Sydney Day 1 — OMP Foundations · 26 April
🔲 Sydney Day 2 — OMP Practice & Integration · 27 April
🔲 Canberra · 29 April
🔲 Newcastle · 1 May
🔲 Hobart · 3 May
🔲 Melbourne · 5 May
🔲 Bendigo · 7 May
Each city has its own QR code. Screenshot yours. Registration closes when spots fill.
OMP teaches you what each maternal position and movement does to the pelvis during labour — and how to use that knowledge to change the trajectory of a birth.
For midwives, doulas, obstetricians, physiotherapists, yoga & pilates instructors, osteopaths and chiropractors.
Tag a birth professional in your city.
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Physiotherapists do extraordinary work preparing women’s bodies for birth.
But most physio training stops at pregnancy.
You reduce pain. You correct misalignment. You prepare the pelvis. And then your client walks into that birth room — and you’re no longer there.
What needs to happen during labour, and how to make it happen, is the piece that’s missing from most physio education.
The surest way to help a woman avoid the cascade of interventions in hospital is a fast birth. A fast birth happens when a woman’s body is ready — when the pelvis is aligned and mobile and the baby can navigate through with ease.
That’s the butter slide birth. OMP teaches you how to make it possible.
This dedicated Intro to OMP session for physiotherapists was driven by Perth physio Alison Worth — ex-APA committee member — who attended a full day OMP workshop and immediately pushed for a physio-specific session through the APA.
Because she recognised what was missing.
Perth · 18 April 2026 For pelvic floor physios, women’s health physios and exercise physiologists. Registration link in bio.
Tag a physio who works with pregnant women. https://australian.physio/pd/pd-product?id=13381

Most labouring women move between contractions and freeze when one hits.
It’s instinct. But it’s the wrong way around.

The contraction is the force that drives the baby through the pelvis. That’s exactly when we want her moving — in the right position, with the right movement — not resting and waiting for the next one.
This is the foundation of Optimal Maternal Positioning (OMP).

OMP is built on one core concept: dynamic equilibrium — bringing alignment and mobility to the mother’s pelvis so the baby’s cardinal movements can facilitate labour progress.

In practice this means knowing:
→ Which maternal position opens which part of the pelvis
→ Which movement to use and when
→ How to read a labour that isn’t progressing and respond with intention

Whether you’re a midwife, doula, obstetrician, physiotherapist, yoga or pilates instructor, osteopath or chiropractor — if you work with pregnant and labouring women, this methodology will change how you see birth.
OMP workshops are coming to 8 cities across Australia in April and May 2026.

Perth · Brisbane · Townsville · Sydney · Canberra · Newcastle · Hobart · Melbourne
Registration link: https://www.ibirthprofessionals.com/omp-live-australian-priority

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