Baby Yoga - Softcover

"Baby Yoga" is a unique work-out that is fun for your baby and helps you get back in shape at the same time. For example, Iying on your back and lifting the baby up on your knees is excellent for toning the abdominal muscles - and for entertaining your baby! Lightly manipulating your baby's limbs will maintain suppleness, ease digestive problems, and reinforce the loving bond between parent and child. Written by the foremost practitioner in this new field and filled with step-by-step colour photographs, this book is suitable for those new to yoga and the more experienced, as well as health professionals and teachers. 'Learn how to optimize your child's development in the first year of life".

Francoise Barbira Freedman is an anthropologist and a yoga teacher/ therapist with special expertise in reproductive health. She pioneered Baby Yoga with her babies as a combination of traditional Indian massage learnt directly from Indian grandmothers and of the gentle but vigorous parenting style of Amazonian forest people whose lives she shared. She is the founder of the charitable trust Birthlight (www.birthlight.com) with the mission of promoting a greater enjoyment of pregnancy, birth and babies as a best foundation for well being and optimal development.