Baby yoga helps to attune to your baby’s needs and to calm or stimulate them as appropriate with a sense of security and wellbeing. It is beneficial for all babies, you don’t need to practice yoga or even know anything about yoga to get started with your baby. From Birth babies respond positively to the stimulation of movement and touch together. Baby Yoga includes a wide range of different practices that can be combined to suit the needs of each baby or toddler through their individual development:
Gentle body strokes
Yoga moves adapted to babies (mini twists, mini stretches, upper and lower body movements, diagonal movements) These moves have been transmitted though generations in India for at least 2000 years
* A blend of postnatal yoga and baby yoga for new mothers
* Playful moves with rhymes
* Joint parent/baby relaxation (walking relaxation, instant relaxation, relaxation to sleep, feeding relaxation)
* Transitional practices (head control, sitting, crawling, standing, early steps, first jumps and balances)
Baby Yoga offers quality physical stimulation that has become essential in an urban sedentary lifestyle. For every hour that babies spend strapped in cars seats or home seats, 5 minutes of Baby Yoga provide stretching as a start to a healthy lifestyle. Baby Yoga can be practiced instantly anywhere at anytime and always generates a joyful interaction.
Last updated Nov. 22, 2014, 9:49 p.m. UTC
I am a Birthlight qualified baby yoga instructor based in Grantham, Lincolnshire.
I've always really enjoyed yoga for myself but when my youngest daughter was born I came across 'Birthlight Baby Yoga'. I loved being able to do something that I enjoyed alongside bonding and learning with my little girl. When I first heard about 'Birthlight', I was interested straight away. As I found out more I was completely inspired by the founder, Françoise Freedman, what she had learnt in India and in the Peruvian Amazonia and how she had used that as a base for the programme that Birthlight instructors teach today. This increased my passion about baby yoga for new mums and babies. I found that I was nurtured during my classes, so that I could nurture my daughter and now I want to pass that feeling on. My classes take you into a safe place where there is time to relax together and help you deal with the pressures of being a new mother, while making new friends and learning along the way.
I look forward to meeting you soon
Lisa x
