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! 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!
Last updated Nov. 22, 2014, 9:46 p.m. UTC