Description
This Intensive online training, over 2 weekends, combines Nurturing Baby Massage with Baby Yoga for pre-mobile babies and Interactive Yoga for parents/carers. This practice-based training will give you the skills and knowledge to start running your own classes for groups or 1:1s, or integrating the practices into home visits for family support, or combining with physiotherapy or occupational therapy. Theory, baby development and scientific research are integrated into this course and inform the practices and perspectives presented.
QualificationTeaching qualification in Birthlight Nurturing Baby Massage and Baby Yoga on completion of all teaching assessments, online quizzes and coursework. Coursework includes teaching and reflecting on case study classes.
Max Participants: 16 Live session Contact Hours: 24
“Absolutely loved the Baby Massage & Yoga course delivered by Amelie. It was well organised and she kept it on track whilst also being flexible. The course was interactive so kept me focused as there was alot of content to cover over 2 weekends. Amelie is incredibly engaging, knowledgeable and patient. Thank you.” Jackie Feb’25
Course Description
Our intensive integrated online training, combines Nurturing Baby Massage, Baby Yoga and Interactive Yoga with babies for parents/carers. Integral to offering baby massage and baby yoga practices, participants learn to support each baby in their developmental stage and each parent in their parenting journey to confidently hold and move around with their baby in a way that is less strain on the parent’s body. This is especially important for new mums in their postnatal recovery.
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.
“I really felt I was in the right place for this course. It’s full of knowledge, skill, science and evidence. The parents we work with are vulnerable and it was such a joy to be in a space where these parents are being supported by science and not heresay. I am really looking forward to adding baby massage and baby yoga to the offerings I have for the families I work with.” EC Feb’25
Classes and sessions can be given on an individual basis but in a group class, 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/
Full participation in al the live sessions with the tutor is required to complete the training. In the case of illness etc extra make up time will have to be made to cover teaching assessments, an additional change will be made for the tutor’s extra time.
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.
You will need a demonstration doll for this training, one with fully flexible limbs. We recommend this 60cm 3-4 months Partially Weighted doll from: https://touchneeds.com/product/60cm-3-to-4-month-old-doll/ or something very similar.
The course is accompanied by online resources and quizzes, 2 digital booklets and a manual to download and you will have access to the recorded sessions with your tutor for 12months.
1 year’s membership of Birthlight is included in the course fee if you are not a member already. (members should log in first to receive their discount automatically before enrolling).
“What a wonderful two weeks spent learning from Amelie for the Baby Yoga & baby massage course. The course structure was fabulous. We were kept engaged throughout. I feel confident leaving the course to go out and teach! I would definitely consider another training with Birthlight ” Nina Feb ’26
