Baby Yoga Course | 3 Weekly Classes + Christmas Special (combined) | GRAFT, Kings Heath | From Wed 11 Nov

A four-session baby yoga course: three weekly classes and the Christmas workshop, A Stretch by Starlight, to finish.

Somewhere around three or four months, your baby changes. The sleepy newborn settles and a wrigglier one turns up, kicking legs and reaching hands, twisting round to see what's going on. Baby yoga is built for exactly that stage, and it's the natural next step after massage.

Over four weeks we work through a sequence of supported holds, stretches, balances and movement, including the big swooping holds babies love. It builds the strength and balance that sitting and crawling need, along with the cross-body movements (one hand reaching to the opposite foot) that lay the ground for rolling and coordination. You learn it properly across the weeks, so you can carry it on at home.

It looks like play, and it works like real developmental support. The same movements that build strength also shift trapped wind and take the edge off the difficult end of the day. A baby who has moved and had a good giggle tends to feed and settle a little more easily.

And there's the laugh. The flying holds get a proper belly laugh out of nearly every baby. That laugh is a baby feeling safe enough to let go, which is really the whole point of it.

It's a more active class than baby massage. There's eye contact, a bit of song and rhythm, and a back-and-forth that suits a baby who is awake to the world now and wanting more to do. It stays gentle, and it grows with them, the sequence getting a little harder as they get stronger week by week.

There's time kept for you in every session too. Some breathing and gentle movement to reconnect with your core and pelvic floor, and room for the postnatal questions this older stage tends to bring.

We finish with A Stretch by Starlight, our Christmas baby yoga special. It's a slightly longer session with a festive set-up and a few twinkly extras, and a lovely way to round off the year together.

What the four weeks build, for them and for you:

• The strength and balance behind sitting and crawling

• Cross-body movement that helps with rolling and coordination

• Easier digestion and softer evenings through gentle movement

• The belly laugh that comes from feeling safe and held

• The same small group from massage, carrying on together

• Postnatal wellbeing woven through, kept for you

Dates: Wednesday 11, 18 and 25 November, 12.30 to 1.30. Then A Stretch by Starlight on Wednesday 9 December, 1.30 to 2.45 (an hour later, and 15 minutes longer).

Location: Graft Pilates, Kings Heath

Suitable for: approx 3 months to crawling

£65

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