Practicing baby yoga is a joy for both carer and baby. Suitable from birth to approximately 9 months or crawling, these simple techniques can be practiced at home as part of your nappy changing or bath routine or simply as an opportunity to play!


Hannah, Mother, Wolverhampton:

"We started baby yoga when Poppy was about 3 months old and we loved it. It was great to sing new songs and do actions that were helping Poppy develop. I grew in my confidence and loved to swing Poppy around, she loved it too! It was also helpful to meet other Mums, a great place to pick up good tips! I do feel it's helped her co-ordination and flexibility."


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 the 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 increasingly fast 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 benefits of Baby Yoga include stimulating healthy nerve development, balanced muscle growth and coordinated movement. Emotionally the sessions aid bonding between parent and child, creating an environment for the healthy growth of emotional intelligence. The sessions also provide an environment in which the babies can learn to communicate and interact with each other.


For details on Baby Yoga classes in Wolverhampton see the classes page or if you would like to set up a class with a group of at least 5 parents/carers contact us on mumyoga@hotmail.com
Also check out the 'Frequently asked Questions' page.