Integrated Nurturing Baby Massage and pre-mobile Baby Yoga Training Course

• Health professionals (nursery nurses, health visitors, family support workers) with a related interest
• Childrens’ Centres Staff (child development practitioners, family support workers, outreach workers)
• Yoga teachers with an interest in babies
• ‘Mothers’ route to training’ (Birthlight apprenticeships)

Note: Applicants with no previous knowledge of infant development need to complete the anatomy and physiology pre-reading module as preparation for taking this course. 

Relaxed, fun interactive sessions help in reducing stress and anxiety for both baby and parent/carer supporting and strengthening the bonding process between them. Simple tension easing stretches and movements for the parents are included along with some very simple appropriate practices for postnatal recovery. We teach various ways for parents to relax with their baby as a mutually beneficial activity – walking, sitting, feeding even lying down. Dropping worries and the ‘to do’ list for a few minutes can help parents rekindle their energy for the rest of the day when sleep is so often lacking in the early months of parenting.

For professionals working with new families providing early support through baby massage can help build regular contact times evolving into baby yoga sessions as babies grow and develop. For families of babies born prematurely this can provide a ‘catch up’ time for them and their baby at their corrected age with the added bonus of building parent confidence after a challenging and stressful start.  

Classes and sessions can be given on an individual basis but in a circle of other parent and baby pairs interactions and connections are facilitated, experiences shared and friendships are often formed.

For more details see: https://birthlight.com/baby-yoga/

This course is taught  livestream on Zoom, this training also includes online learning, ensuring that students can review, practice, deepen and test their skills and knowledge beyond the course contact hours. The supporting resources are substantial and will involve an investment of time and commitment alongside the live interactive contact, and will enable you to create a professional range of enjoyable sessions of nurturing baby massage and baby yoga for babies from 4 weeks to pre-mobile. Contents can be adapted to suit your families’ and groups’ needs or individual pairs.

All live online sessions are recorded and you will have access to them for at least 12 months.

There is coursework to be completed following the course, including a case study for 4 sessions, all of the forms for which are provided.  Ideally this coursework is completed within six months following the course but you have a year to submit it. Extensions after that will be given at the tutor’s discretion. 

If you wish to add the mobile Baby Yoga curriculum at a later date you can join the second weekend of the Baby Yoga Diploma course.

Friday 5-6.30pm, Saturday 9am -5pm, Sunday 9am -1pm UK Times both weekends

Tutor: Emma Philip

The course will be taught live by the tutor in a Livestream course format via Zoom with online course component.  See our faq for details about the course format.  

Note: Zoom with broadband connection is a requirement (you will be emailed a Zoom invite link before the course starts)

Birthlight annual membership fee is included in the price of this  course (worth £35 annually). If you are already a Birthlight member then to receive your Birthlight membership discount please login and it will be automatically applied.

A yoga mat and a suitable demonstration doll. The doll should be big enough that your demonstrations should be clear for parents and have soft flexible limbs so you can effectively demonstrate the holds, ways of picking up and baby yoga practices.

If you need to purchase a doll, we recommend the 60cm semi-weighted doll from:

https://touchneeds.com/demonstration-dolls/60cm-3-4-month-size-dolls

A Digital manual and booklets can be downloaded from the online resources accompanying the course:
BINBY  Manual
Nurturing Baby Massage Handbook
Pre-mobile Baby Yoga Moves Booklet