Published: Friday 08 January 2021

If you’re already teaching baby yoga, or you’re thinking about learning to be an instructor, you may get asked how baby yoga can benefit babies. We’ve put together what we think are some of the top benefits of baby yoga:

  • Baby yoga develops a feeling of being loved, respected and secure
  • It can alleviate trapped wind, soothe colic and alleviate constipation
  • Baby yoga helps with bonding and attachment
  • It promotes positive baby handling
  • It can help the transition from womb to the world
  • Baby yoga develops baby's first language: touch
  • It teaches positive loving touch and gentle movements
  • Baby yoga develops body, mind, awareness and coordination
  • It helps to regulate and strengthen baby's digestive and respiratory systems and stimulate circulatory and nervous systems
  • Baby yoga promotes relaxation
  • It can help to reduce 'fussiness' and fractiousness
  • It improves quality of sleep
  • It strengthens and tones muscles
  • Baby yoga builds a lifelong pattern for exercising
  • It offers opportunity for socialization in groups
  • Baby yoga aids and supports development
  • And it can encourage mindfulness

Having read the huge array of benefits of baby yoga for babies, you may be interested sharing the skills with others. Learn to teach baby yoga with To Baby and Beyond, either on one of our open courses, online or on a one-to-one basis. We’ve a range of options to choose from.

Currently our face-to-face courses are on hold until Covid 19 restrictions are lifted and we feel it is safe to run face-to-face courses. Our online distance learning course covers all that is included in our face-to-face course and can be studied from home. Check out the details here.


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