Mum and Baby Yoga
Move, Bond, and Grow Together
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Join a unique postnatal yoga experience where your baby becomes an active part of the session, moving alongside you! This special class is designed not just for your recovery, but also to support your baby’s development through coordinated movements, balance exercises, and playful interaction.
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Dedicated sections of the class focus on your baby’s growth, encouraging coordination, balance, and healthy development of their nervous, digestive, and circulatory systems. Baby yoga is woven with fun, interactive songs and actions, sparking joy while supporting their learning and social skills.
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For mums, the yoga practice incorporates your baby into many of the poses, ensuring they feel included and engaged. We’ll focus on strengthening the pelvic floor, relieving common postnatal aches like back and shoulder pain, toning abdominal muscles, and fostering peace through mindful movement and breathwork. Breathing techniques also play a key role in regulating the nervous system and promoting deep pelvic floor healing from within.
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Your instructor, Zoe, is a qualified yoga teacher with advanced training in postnatal care and is currently training as a Yoga Therapist. With her deep anatomical knowledge and therapeutic approach, combined with her background in antenatal and postnatal care, Zoe creates a supportive space where mums can heal, bond with their babies, and find their inner calm.
Benefits for Mums
Postnatal yoga offers numerous physical, emotional, and mental benefits for new mums. Here are some of the key benefits:
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Pelvic Floor Strengthening: Postnatal yoga focuses on rebuilding strength in the pelvic floor, which is often weakened during pregnancy and childbirth.
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Core and Abdominal Muscle Toning: Gentle yoga poses help strengthen and tone the abdominal muscles, promoting recovery from diastasis recti (separation of abdominal muscles).
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Improved Posture: Postnatal yoga can correct posture issues caused by pregnancy and caring for a baby, such as slouching from breastfeeding or carrying the baby.
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Alleviates Common Aches and Pains: Yoga helps relieve tension in areas like the lower back, neck, and shoulders, which often suffer from strain during postpartum life.
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Stress Reduction: The mindfulness and breathwork in yoga promote relaxation, helping new mothers manage stress and anxiety by regulating the nervous system.
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Improved Mood: The practice can boost endorphin levels and other "feel good" hormones.
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Increased Energy Levels: Yoga can help combat fatigue by improving circulation and stimulating a greater energy flow.
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Social Connection: We have a strong Sangha (community) in our groups, so you can meet other mums and be part of a supportive network.
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Shared Experience: Sharing experiences and challenges with other mums in a relaxed environment can ease feelings of isolation during postpartum. This also promotes Oxytocin as we feel a sense of connection and bonding with the people around us
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Breathwork for Healing: Focused breathing techniques help regulate the nervous system, promote relaxation, and encourage healing of the pelvic floor.
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Mindfulness Practice: Yoga helps new mothers reconnect with their bodies and mind, cultivating a sense of presence and calm amidst the demands of caring for a newborn.
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Increased body awareness: Postnatal yoga encourages mindful movement, helping new mums reconnect with their bodies and regain confidence as they recover from childbirth.
Benefits for Babies
Baby yoga offers a variety of developmental, physical, and emotional benefits for babies, as well as strengthening the bond between baby and caregiver. It's also so much fun! Babies LOVE Baby Yoga!
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Improved Motor Skills: Baby yoga encourages movements that help strengthen muscles, enhance flexibility, and promote coordination, aiding in the development of motor skills.
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Encourages Balance: Through gentle poses and movements, baby yoga helps babies develop balance, an essential skill as they prepare to roll over, crawl, and eventually walk.
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Stimulates Circulation and Digestion: Gentle stretching and massage-like movements in baby yoga help stimulate the circulatory and digestive systems, which can aid in relieving wind, constipation, and colic.
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Supports Brain Development: Baby yoga promotes sensory stimulation and body awareness, which are crucial for cognitive and neurological development.
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Regulates the Nervous System: Gentle movements can help regulate a baby’s nervous system, helping them to feel calm and relaxed as well as engaged and energised, learning to move between the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems.
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Coordination: Through guided movements, babies learn how to control and coordinate their body, enhancing both gross and fine motor skills. This is important for future physical activities like crawling, walking, and playing.
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Increased Bonding: Baby yoga fosters bonding between baby and caregiver through physical closeness, eye contact, and gentle touch. This connection enhances the baby’s sense of security and trust.
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Social Interaction: In a group setting, babies are exposed to other infants and caregivers, promoting early social skills like interaction, observation, and even mimicking.
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Builds Confidence: Regular interaction and positive reinforcement during yoga can build a baby’s confidence as they begin to explore their movements and environment.
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Better Sleep: The soothing movements and regulated breathing involved in baby yoga may lead to improved sleep patterns, as babies feel more relaxed after a session. (Some babies sleep for hours after classes!)
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Increased Body Awareness (Proprioception): Babies start to develop a sense of their body and its movement in space, which enhances spatial awareness and overall cognitive function.
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Stimulates Learning: Songs, rhymes, and interactive activities during yoga stimulate auditory and language development, enhancing a baby’s learning experience.
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Eases Digestive Issues: Some poses can help improve digestion and alleviate issues like colic, wind, and constipation.
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Improves Breathing: Gentle movements and stretches can open the chest and improve lung capacity, helping babies breathe more deeply and efficiently.
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Foundation for Healthy Habits: Starting physical movement at an early age encourages a lifelong enjoyment of exercise, body awareness, and mindfulness. Baby yoga provides the opportunity for a love for movement, which can positively impact physical development and emotional health as they grow.
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The best part of yoga for Mums and Babies is the fun you have with your baby and the precious memories you gain. Come and join us for a session to see if Zoe's classes are for you.
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Read Zoe's 5 star reviews here
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Come as you are - all are welcome!
This isn't just another baby class... its about giving you and your baby a soothing space to settle into while learning so much about each other.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
Victoria Griffiths
I started attended Zoe’s pregnancy yoga in the spring and I’m so glad I found this class. It’s such a peaceful class, I really struggled with SPD but everything could be adapted so I never missed out. It was so good to meet other mums from the local area too and the check ins and group WhatsApp’s are so lovely.
Now little one is here we have nearly completed Zoe’s baby massage course and it has honestly been lovely. It’s just a wonderful relaxed hour with time to chat to other mums and whilst baby gets to enjoy a nice massage session I feel like I get even more from this session than her. I get to feel like my own person and it’s so nice to have met other mums and babies of the same age. I’m so excited that we have booked onto yoga for mums for when our baby massage course finishes.
I’d recommend any of Zoe’s classes to anyone! 100% worth it and so enjoyable.
Emma Eaton
I did Zoe's baby massage course with my little one and we both really enjoyed it! Zoe created such a welcoming, healing space, offered support and advice as well as a place to talk (as much or as little as we wanted), and her guidance for the massage has given us another way to connect with each other that is relaxing and fun for us both.
Natasha Graham
I started attending one of Zoe’s baby massage courses when my daughter was just a few weeks old just under a year ago. I genuinely cannot recommended Zoe and her classes enough. Zoe is kind, caring and welcoming and creates and wonderful environment where mums feel, cared for and nourished as well as creating a stimulating experience for the babies weather that be in massage or yoga or just play. I have learnt so much from Zoe’s classes but more than that I have made wonderful friendships and discovered things about myself too.
