Your Body Will Benefit From Baby Yoga Too

In Baby Yoga we perform a lot of Yoga moves and stretches for the parent such as "Cat Poses", relax walking, warrior poses, and active stretches with the baby that will help pull up the Pelvic Floor muscles. Doing yoga with babies effectively combined with postnatal postures, to help women re-align and strengthen their bodies after childbirth.

You should plan on Baby yoga not only strengthening your body but also healing your mind. Yoga stimulates the whole physical body including the nervous and endocrine systems but also the subtle energy fields beyond the body itself. If as a mother you did yoga in pregnancy, you already know the power of deep breathing both to stimulate and calm your unborn child, who has carried his knowledge through birth to the outside world. Yoga engages all the memories and consciousness inscribed in your baby's nervous system since her earliest development. Deep relaxation especially with her mother, allows the baby to draw upon this continuity. While young babies in other cultures who still spend most of the day and night in close physical contact with their mother have this continuity passively, it is deliberately recreated in relaxation that is part of yoga.

Yoga with babies can thus benefit all parents and babies, even if the birth was difficult. By moving and relaxing together during yoga, you will help heal the memory of traumatic birth experience as much as you will enhance that of an ecstatic one. In the same way, you can use relaxation with your baby to renew bonding which may have been disrupted during or after the birth.

Zen Baby Yoga, Encinitas, California 92024

North County San Diego