Birthlight pioneered what is now known as ‘Baby Yoga’ as an inclusive set of practices to enhance playful interaction and communication between parent and baby and to promote their healthy development. Baby Yoga perfectly complements baby massage and expands the benefits of touch with those of movement and relaxation, together with gentle postnatal yoga for new mothers helping to regain core strength and fitness after birth by restoring tone to the body and deep muscles of the pelvis and lower back.

Birthlight Mother & Baby Yoga classes are offered to women eight weeks after birth.

Newcomers to yoga are welcome.
Birthlight Mother & Baby Yoga Classes are held on Monday mornings: 1.30 -2.30 pm. Classes run continually throughout the year (except Christmas/New Year & Bank Holidays). Students are requested to pay for a block of 5 classes, £40.00 (classes may be carried over if 48 hours’ notice is given).

Physiological/developmental benefits

• ·All the babies bodily systems are stimulated, including the digestive and nervous systems
• Baby Yoga offers recourses to keep babies contented between feeds and helps alleviate wind and colic
• Baby Yoga reduces the frustration of babies in the transition of one developmental stage to another while assisting their transitions
• Tactile stimulation has been shown to contribute to the development of the brain and the nervous system.

Psychological benefits

• Baby yoga helps the parent and baby to get to know each other better through active means of communication that are easy to learn and practice.
• New challenges introduced at a pace that babies can absorb and integrate increase their ability to cope positively with new situations.
• Active interaction with parents is the foundation for future positive social relations over the early years and beyond
• Joint relaxation is mutually beneficial for parents and babies and enhances non-verbal communication between them. Early birth trauma can be resolved and healed through this loving interaction.