Baby Yoga as it is known in the UK was pioneered by Francoise Freedman, Founder of Birthlight.
As a medical anthropologist at Cambridge University, Francoise spent many years living with and studying indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon.
During her first visit, she was given a baby to look after to learn what she needed to know. She was assigned a 10 year old to show her how to handle, play and care for the baby’s needs. During her second visit, she herself was pregnant and cared for by the people she was studying.
What she learned revolutionised her relationship with her own children and eventually led to the birth of Baby Yoga and Birthlight.
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Baby Yoga offers quality physical stimulation that has become essential in an urban sedentary lifestyle.
- For every hour that babies spend strapped in cars seats or home seats, 5 minutes of Baby Yoga provides stretching as a start to a healthy lifestyle.
- Baby Yoga can be practiced instantly anywhere at anytime and always generates a joyful interaction.
Birthlight baby yoga comes with a debt of gratitude to the people who have taught Françoise their traditional forms of closeness with babies around the world, most particularly grandmothers from India and South America.