Massaging your baby is a tactile translation of love, security and physical comfort - a nurturing dance between you and your baby.
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Welcome to Baby Yoga Infant Massage InstructorMassaging your baby is a tactile translation of love, security and physical comfort - a nurturing dance between you and your baby.
Reap the many benefits of this positive touch with our weekly step by step guided massage and gentle baby yoga exercises.
Watch your baby grow and develop throughout the 6 week course with a certified and experienced instructor.
Infant Massage Infant Massage is an ancient tradition in many cultures throughout the world which has been re-discovered in the West.
Clinical evidence now shows that loving nurturing touch when given by a caregiver to an infant has a positive impact upon subsequent development. Many studies reveal the benefits of positive contact as an integral part of a baby's early life. Infant Massage is a lovely and gentle way of providing baby just this.
Recent studies conducted at the University of Miami Medical Centre showed that premature babies who were massaged every day were ahead of others in both physical and neurological development.
Benefits of Infant Massage include the following:
- Helps to strengthen and regulate the respitory, circulatory and gastrointestinal functions often relieving the dicomforts of colic and wind and aids the immune system and lymph.
- Helps the baby to relax and relieves the stresses which build up daily from so many new experiences with the world. We teach specific techniques which help babies to be aware of body tensions and to release them in response to the comfort of nurturing touch.
- Enhances the loving communication between care giver and baby and also helps parents to keep "in touch" with their baby's non-verbal cues. This is especially valuable for parents with fussy, colicky or sick babies.
- Babies with special needs also seem to respond well to massage.
Baby YogaBaby Yoga which compliments infant massage, offers quality physical stimulation including flowing postures, holds, movement, touch, voice and deep relaxation.
It induces a happy, care-free and lively parent-infant interaction which develops as the babies grow. For the babies it's fun to do, but ultimatley helps with their flexibility, co-ordination and balance. These classes are designed to build self-confidence and trust between mother and baby.
The many benefits of infant massage have been confirmed by research. In all cultures the language of touch has been an important component of mothering. Baby yoga adds gentle movement and skills for handling babies with ease and in relaxed ways. Yoga is never done to babies but with babies and parents become relaxed and delight in this creative interaction. Baby Yoga and Massage are pleasurable activities which can help parents and babies discover together the daily routines and style of parenting that suit them best.
Baby Yoga as pioneered by Birthlight has gained rapid popularity in many countries outside of the UK, particulary in the US, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and China, where it has been integrated into national parenting programmes. Baby Yoga and Massage appeal to parents in many different cultures in that it is both traditional, echoing millennial practices and reponding to the needs of today's working parents.
About GailGail Harbers resides in Basingstoke, Hampshire with her husband and son.
She has been teaching Infant Massage for over 14 years, having originally taken the very first IAIM (International Association of Infant Massage)training in the UK in 1993 and following that further training in New Zealand in 1995. In 1997 she certified as a Massage Therapist with ITEC and in 2002, decided to take the Birthlight Baby Yoga certification and successfully became an Instractor and added this element to her Infant Massage courses.
In 2004 she also became MISA certified, a Massage in Schools Instructor for young infant and primary school children and although babies have primarily been her concern over the last decade, her plans in 2010 are to include work with children in schools, which has proven to benefit both teachers and children. (More informations on this can be found on the MISA website) She is also hoping to increase her hassage education by commencing studies in the Lymph Manual Drainage field. Gail and her Yoga associate Fiona Wells are in their tenth year of teaching the successful Mother & Baby Yoga and Infant Massage course in Hook.
Her "Teeny Weeny Massage and Yoga for Babies" courses are held in Basingstoke, Farnham and Whitchurch. Gail is a member of the IAIM (International Association of Infant Massage), Guild of Infant & Child Massage, FHT (Federation of Holistic Therapists) and MLD UK (Manual Lymphatic Drainage).
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Infant Massage, Yoga
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