Baby Yoga Classes

Baby Yoga

As you all know, breathing exercises or Pranayama teach how you can recharge your body and control your mental state by regulating the flow of Prana - the life force. This helps you achieve a calmer and more focused mind, and increases your energy level.

The parasympathetic nervous system supports our autonomic functions such as breathing, heart and metabolic rates, and restores balance. Conscious breathing and conscious execution of yoga postures actually strengthens nerve transmissions from the body to the brain, decreasing our stress and muscular tension. Fully supported, restorative yoga poses activate the parasympathetic nervous system, allowing anxiety, fear and anger to leave our minds.

In baby yoga we move, swing and dance with baby to help to develop the vestibular system. Baby yoga also helps to integrate information from many types of sensory experience through its multi discipline approach using music, movement and massage.

What is the main difference in Baby Massage and Baby Yoga?

The main difference in Baby massage and Baby Yoga is that baby massage focuses on stimulation and soothing and settling babies, where as baby Yoga focuses on developmental play and exercises. Baby massage relaxes the baby and calms him. Whereas Baby Yoga works on improving flexibility and activates the mind and enhances the sensory integration.

Yoga poses help to strengthen muscles by providing gentle exercise. We rely on our muscles to maintain our posture throughout our daily activities. The body’s sense of balance (vestibular system) and sense of body awareness (proprioceptive system) holds it upright against the forces of gravity. If we repeatedly hold the body in one position or posture for long periods, the posture of the body can change leading to over contracted muscles (e.g. rounded shoulders and protracted jaw.) Muscles can begin to tighten continually and out of habit to hold a misaligned posture. This can have effects on the skeletal system and the spine as muscles pull the skeletal system out of alignment and symmetry. Yoga helps realign the spine, relax over contracted muscles and allows the body to return to its optimum posture and position. This can help to ease muscular pain.

Benefits Of Baby Yoga


Baby Yoga is a way to reinforce the power of TOUCH and DEVELOPMENTAL PLAY.
The four main benefits of baby yoga are:

RELIEF

  • Yoga relieves or eases the following conditions suffered by babies:-
  • Colic and Wind.
  • Teething pain.
  • Cold and congestion.
  • Gastrointestinal function(movement of rocking)

RELAXATION

Yoga:-

  • Aids relaxation for parent and baby.
  • Produces OXYTOCIN (love hormone).
  • Helps reduce ACHT (cortisol-stress hormone).
  • Helps activate the parasympathetic nervous system.

STIMULATION AND DEVELOPMENT

Yoga:-

  • strengthen muscles and joints.
  • stimulate all the other body systems including circulatory, lymphatic and nervous system.
  • helps the development of baby’s sensory awareness and processing by providing input into the proprioceptive and vestibular system.
  • non-stimulation leads to aggressive and antisocial behaviour.
  • speeds Myelination of nervous system.

BONDING

Yoga helps:-

  • Fasten the process of Bonding between Baby and Mother (and Father).
  • Overcome Postnatal Depression.
  • Enhance the Bonding with play

Yoga empowers parents to positively Touch and Communicate with their babies, helping to Create Loving Relationships for Life.

Our classes are:

Private Sessions

Held in one to one private sessions and ensures the learning done in the comforts of your house for moms and babies. Baby led – it’s okay for babies to cry

Pregnant women can also take private classes, especially if due to medical reasons have been asked to take bed rest. The aim of the sessions will be primally focused on helping you stay positive and learning the skill of baby yoga and mothers relaxation techniques will help reduce your stress and enjoy your journey.


In these hour-long 4 session (1session per week) you’ll learn:

  • That Baby Yoga is as important for parents as it is for the baby, in that it relaxes both of you and strengths your muscles..
  • How Yoga enhances neurological development and stimulates muscle growth.
  • Ways that Baby Yoga can relieve digestion ailments such as colic, constipation, and painful gas.

Breathing and the asanas which are designed to free the mind and body from tension and stress. They relax, rejuvenate, and energise the body and aim to bring the body and the mind into a harmonious union. Asanas should be done with comfort, ease, alertness and steadiness, achieving a balance between ease and effort.

Baby yoga combines soft stretching inspired by traditional yoga poses to help support the development of babies and to aid relaxation and bonding. In a typical baby yoga class, parents will learn baby yoga stretches, baby holds and swings and relaxation exercises to practice with baby. Parents will also be encouraged to practice gentle yoga inspired poses with their baby and breathing techniques to aid relaxation. Come join us connect with other mums and learn how.

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