Eye to eye contact is privileged in our visual culture. Images of adorable gazing into babies’ eyes never fail to fascinate. Rightly so. But many new parents miss the early wonder of seeing their babies as “captivating communicators”. They stare at their newborns, wondering how to engage with these little […]
Sally Martin’s Baby Yoga Journey
Back in 2005 I was teaching in a primary school in Tower-Hamlets. I loved teaching, but I also felt I’d left behind my teenage dream of being a massage therapist, so I went back to college to learn Indian Head Massage. At the time we (staff in my school) were […]
A Peek at Birthlight Baby Yoga
Marion O’Connor started offering Baby Yoga sessions in the 90’s training and working with Françoise Freedman. She has been Tutoring with Birthlight in Baby Yoga Trainings for 25 years in many countries and different settings! Marion appeared with her daughter Aimee in Françoise’s first Baby Yoga book published in 2000. […]
Baby Yoga – Really?
BABY YOGA? You must be joking, how on earth can babies do yoga? Surely this is unnatural and dangerous, one of these yoga fads that discredits yoga as a reputable ancient practice brought to the West by famous Gurus after years in their Himalayan caves. Babies are not on ascetics’ […]