Baby yoga stimulates the physical development of the baby, strengthens the joints and the spine, helps to cope with such classic problems of babies as colic, crying and poor sleep, as well as postpartum depression and worries due to difficult childbirth in the mother. As with yoga for adults, the main thing in baby yoga is, of course, not the physical training itself. Classes enrich and expand the ways in which parents interact with the baby, establish their emotional connection.
The yoga system for babies from birth to one year described in this book is a real find for young parents. Baby yoga stimulates the physical development of the baby, strengthens the joints and the spine, helps to cope with such classic problems of babies as colic, crying and poor sleep, as well as postpartum depression and worries due to difficult childbirth in the mother. As with yoga for adults, the main thing in baby yoga is, of course, not the physical training itself. Classes enrich and expand the ways in which parents interact with the baby, establish their emotional connection. The author of the method Francoise Friedman is a yoga therapist, lecturer in medical anthropology at the University of Cambridge (UK), a specialist in the use of yoga in preparation for childbirth and obstetrics. She founded the Birthlight yoga school for children and mothers, a branch of which also exists in Russia (www.birthlight.ru)