Benefits of Baby Yoga
Baby yoga holds both physical and emotional benefits for a baby and its parent/carer:
| PHYSICAL | EMOTIONAL/PHYSCOLOGICAL |
| Strengthens and improves muscle tone baby and parent | Enhances bonding between parent and baby |
| Maintains flexibility in the joints and spine | Builds trust |
| Improves immune system | Promotes relaxation and calming |
| Regulates digestive system | Through the high quality of attention a baby receives from the parent and the two-way interaction, a baby learns to play actively and interact with others |
| Balances the nervous system | Parents more confident handling and interacting |
| Stimulates senses | Enhances communication between parent and baby |
| Improves blood flow, Stimulates oxytocin production | Heals birth trauma they will be better equipped to deal with shocks after gentle yoga |
| Balance, co-ordination, body awareness | Offers stimulation for babies when they wish to play and then relaxation as they quieten and calm, this helps to maintain the baby’s interest and so both parent and baby can have fun together |
| Helps baby sleep more deeply and improve sleeping patterns generally | Increases babies ability to cope with future challenges |
| Babies behaviour should be more settled | The deep relaxation and breathing techniques that are part of yoga help parents cope with the stresses of early parenting |
| Relief from colic | Confidence in handling baby |
| Helps move from reflex to voluntary movements | Helps with Post-natal Depression |
| Helps them experience the world from many angles, forward, backward, upwards, downwards | Pleasure and Fun |
| Provides daily routine of activity which parents can engage constructively with baby from birth | Enhanced positivity for both and interaction |
| Helps with babies brain developments | |
| Aids gross motor skills | |
| Gives baby ability to move freely while supporting development of postural reflexes and helps to inhibit the primitive ones | |
| Helps parent to regain strength and maintain posture
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| Helps parent tones the abdominal muscles and pelvic floor | |
| Nurturing oneself whilst enjoying activities with your baby | |
| Deep relaxation |