What is Baby Yoga?
Baby yoga, offers quality physical stimulation including flowing postures, holding, movement, touch, voice and deep relaxation. It induces a happy, care-free and lively parent-infant interaction which develops as babies grow.
The experience of movement combined with touch is probably the richest stimulation we can offer babies from birth. In yoga, this stimulation occurs through the mutual involvement of parent and baby, at a pace at which the baby can absorb and integrate it. As yoga postures induce deep relaxation in adults, so in babies they bring a state of deep contentment and promote deep sleep.
In the increasinglyfast pace of the modern world, our babies need all the help we can give them in order to create a foundation of well-being that will serve them all of their life. Yoga offers babies a resource that will enable them to deal positively with stress and know how to relax. Our handling of babies is a loving one, in which the conversion of a challenging movement into a safe game, to play and enjoy, is repeated again and again. This playful stimulation through yoga-based exercise is the best possible way of helping babies relish life, with all its demands, as they grow.
The benefits of baby yoga
Physical
- in one short session, the baby is given as much physical activity as they would receive if they were handled and carried all day. This activity will help the baby sleep more deeply
- the baby’s behaviour will be more ‘settled’
- it provides a daily routine of activity through which the parent can engage constructively with their baby from birth
Physiological / developmental
- all the baby’s bodily systems are stimulated, including the digestive and nervous systems
Psychological
- baby yoga helps the parent and baby to get to know each other, enhancing communication between them
- yoga helps to heal any birth trauma; the baby will also be better equipped to deal with shocks
- the baby’s enjoyment of the positive stress of yoga will increase the babies ability to cope with future challenges
- through the high quality attention the baby receives from it’s parents , the baby learns to interact with others and play actively
- the deep relaxation that is part of yoga helps parents cope with the stresses of early parenting
The Important thing to remember is to have Fun with your baby. You do not need to have practiced Yoga before, classes are relaxed with the majority of the exercise being done withbaby (although there are a few light / post natal exercises for the grown ups too). Each class is 1 1/4 hr long with the last 20 mins set aside for a drink and a well earned break!
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Information courtesy of Birthlight
