JustExhale Baby Massage and Baby Yoga classes Watford are now available to book.
I’m now taking bookings for the new terms of baby classes that will be starting on Wednesday the 8th September and thought that you might like to hear a little about them.
I run two baby classes, Baby Massage and Baby Yoga.
Baby Massage is suitable from birth, I recommend anytime after about 4 weeks is a great time to come along to Baby Massage classes. Sooner is better in relation to starting classes as research shows that your baby’s brain is developing from the experience and activity.
Baby massage is designed to help both parent and baby to relax, both physically and mentally. Babies experience a rush of oxytocin hormone with massage which helps them to sleep longer and deeper. During our baby massage course we concentrate a lot on baby’s internal organs and help to strengthen and develop systems such as digestive, immune and respiratory.
We focus on helping mums with baby ailments such as wind, constipation, colic, congestion and poor sleeping patterns. Massage also really enhances the bonding experience for mum and baby as this is normally the first form of group activity that mums do with their newborn.
Over the course you will learn a comprehensive massage routine adding new areas and techniques every week whilst building and recapping on what we covered in previous weeks. This way we ease babies into the massage routine and allow you to both enjoy your time together. By the end of the course you will be fully equipped to give your baby a head to toe massage. Baby Massage is a specifically designed age appropriate class for this stage of your baby’s development.
Every week we start the class with a warm up which includes a little post natal movement for Mum and lots of singing.
Familiarity is really important for your baby as it cues them about what is to come next. Everything in class is designed to help your baby meet their next milestones. Songs, rhymes and movement are all great fun but also aid development, and the warm up has some mum stretches in there too. These classes are different, as they really are about mum as well as baby.
Sometimes it can take a few weeks for babies to settle into any class so please don’t worry if your baby doesn’t settle immediately. Keep an eye on what we’re doing in class and you can practice the techniques at home when your little one is ready.
Most mums start with the Baby massage class and naturally progress onto the baby yoga course with all the mums from Baby Massage. This is a lovely way of building your new Mum and baby social network.
Baby yoga is designed for the slightly older baby, suitable from around 20 weeks. At this age your baby will be looking for more stimulation and activity. Classes are designed to encourage the development of hand and eye co-ordination, fine and gross motor skills, speech, listening, visual development, play and laughter. We build week on week on a baby yoga routine so that you can practise at home and learn each move perfectly. We warm the babies up with our warm up and once they are all ready we then start our yoga moves.
There is a lot of singing, we bounce the babies and have lots of fun whilst helping mums tone up too. We have certain cross over moves which help babies with neural development as these moves are designed to help babies engage both sides of their brains. This is particularly important for babies when they wish to start crawling and using both sides of their bodies. We incorporate a much more multi sensory element into this class which is all designed to stimulate your baby’s brain via the different sensory experiences. This helps your baby to improve co-ordination, aid their physical development, body awareness and brain development and helping them to move on to their next milestone.
The class is completely baby led and very relaxed please feel free to attend to your baby at anytime. If your baby needs feeding, changing, cuddles or nap during the class this is all absolutely fine. There is no judgement, no criticism, just support for your parenting journey.
Not too sure if this is the class for you? give me, Sally Mistry a call on 07581 538767 or drop me an email at hello@justexhale.com