birthlight Mother and Baby Yoga & Massage
Gentle exercise for babies, mums and dads. Congratulations - your baby/ies has/have arrived. You are now fully initiated into motherhood maybe for the first or maybe for a subsequent time. Mother & Baby Yoga classes aim to help you and your baby/ies to form a strong bond and build the foundations for a happy & healthy life together.
What are the Benefits?
Mother and Baby Yoga is a combination of postnatal exercises for mums as well as playful exercises that aid baby's physical, mental and emotional development, through mutual involvement.
For mums:
- It helps you to get to know your baby more deeply.
- It helps you to develop physical play with your baby and confidence in handling and holding them.
- Helps mums to regain tone & shape and maintain a good posture whilst caring for baby.
- Teaches you movements, songs, rhymes and rhythms to aid baby's development.
- You will enjoy your baby more as you will feel rested and energised
For babies:
- Helps your baby to get to know you more deeply.
- Helps to integrate reflexes into the higher brain.
- It helps to prevent/soothe colic and associated crying
- Helps to develop a well-functioning digestive system
- Helps spinal development and good motor function
- Promotes deep, peaceful sleep
What the Course Covers
Suitable for babies from 0 - 12 months
- Strengthening & toning mums pelvic and abdominal regions
- Pelvic floor exercises
- Overall toning & strengthening
- Posture exercises
- Relaxation & deep rest together to compensate lack of sleep
- Baby holds
- Baby massage elements
- Playful exercises to aid babies physiological development
- Baby movement with songs, rhythms & rhymes