Baby yoga is an activity that both carer and baby practice together, which builds up the bond between them, encourages both parties, to relax, feel comfortable around each other, and play together. The benefits from this activity help to stimulate your baby’s mental and physical abilities, by using gentle movements and rhythm. A typical baby yoga class includes gentle stretches and rhythmic movement, singing, chanting and massage.

Physical benefits for your baby are as follows:

• Helps to prevent colic, constipation, help induce sleep and gain confidence in handling.

• Helps to relive any tensions they may have in their intestines

• Open the hip and knee joints

• Help to develop balance in their sitting, crawling and walking

• Help to strengthen the spine, develop supple joints, strengthen all functions of the nervous system and give an immediate sense of wellbeing

• The positions provide the opportunity for the baby to have ‘tummy time’. By being placed on their front, this enables them to lift their neck muscles, shoulders, arms, and their backs.

Benefits for the mother areas follows:

• To re-align and strengthen a mother’s body after childbirth
• To alleviate common postnatal aches, pains and ailments
• To increase vitality
• Postures chosen are to re-energise mother’s whilst entertaining the baby