Baby Yoga / Benefits

How can yoga classes benefit you and your baby?

For Mums

• Engaging in physical activity and being aware of your breath and body helps stimulate energy levels enabling you to cope better with daily child caring tasks

• Relaxation with your baby develops and deepens bonding and understanding between you.

• Practicing breathing techniques during the relaxation session at the end of the class helps you to let go of worries, strains and stresses

• The social support offered through meeting other mothers and the fun experienced in class can help counteract isolation and loneliness.

• New mums are sensitive at this time due to hormone changes, recovering from birth, lack of sleep and feeding responsibilities, A friendly, warm class helps mothers overcome any postnatal anxiety or depression and brings about a profound sense of well being, contentment and calm.

For Babies

• Yoga applied to babies offers physical stimulation and enlivens all their body systems. It improves coordination, strengthens the muscular skeletal system as well as the respiratory and digestive system.

• Touch encourages body awareness and stimulates neurological and emotional development.

• Common difficulties such as constipation, colic and respiratory problems can be eased by Baby Yoga practices

• The combination of touching, handling and movement provides a multi sensory stimulation, that is well suited to the sensitive needs of babies.

• Yoga and touch will give your baby an immediate sense of well being through the interaction that s/he experiences with his/her mother/father

• Babies being naturally good communicators will relish the chance to engage in a shared communication between you and him/herself, helping you both to understand each other better.