This unique class offers a gentle blend of baby massage, mum and baby yoga and relaxation over a 6 week term, the perfect way to take time out for you and your little one together.
Each class takes you through a gentle mum and baby yoga routine helping to ease out any tension, promoting relaxation and a lovely way to bond with your baby. Each week you will learn new massage strokes leading up to a full body massage for your baby with additional massage routines for common ailments such as teething and colic.
Classes are 1 hour long with an extra 30 minutes at the end for a cuppa and a biscuit.
These classes are suitable from around 6 weeks of age until your little one is crawling.
Class times: 11.15-12.45pm
Venue : The Space, Northease Drive, Hangleton, Hove, BN3 8LH
Each term provides:
Baby Massage – Benefits:
- Fun and enjoyable
- Helps both of you to relax
- Encourages infants to sleep deeper and longer
- Improves colic and constipation and calms irritable babies
- Boosts serotonin levels which is known to reduce the risks of SIDS
- Establishes a close, loving communication and relationship with your baby
- Massage can also be adapted for use with children of all ages
- Babies and children who are massaged regularly are more likely to have a secure relationship with parents and so tend to have better relationships with others, both as children and adults
Mum and Baby Yoga – Benefits
- Increase strength, muscle tone and flexibility
- Aids ailments and tummy troubles
- Improves quality of sleep
- Helps to calm a fractious baby and promotes relaxation
- Enhances bonding and attachment
- Stimulate brain development
- Strengthens the immune system
- Aids co-ordination and increases body awareness
- Increases self confidence and self esteem
- Strengthens the back, abdominal and pelvic floor muscles
- Releases tension in the back, shoulders and neck muscles
- Helps to improve posture
- Decreases overall stress and promotes relaxation
- Rejuvenates the mind and increases energy
Each Member of our Embrace Baby class will have access to their own WhatsApp group and at the end of each class you will receive a baby massage handout so that you can go home and practice your massage routine from the comfort of your own home and incorporate it into your day.