Yoga Baby Exercises to Help You Bond With Your Baby Physically, Emotionally, and Spiritually

The Yoga Baby Program Life is filled with rhythms. The planet has rhythms: the ebb and flow of the tides, the seasonal changes as Earth journeys around the Sun, the sequence of night and day as the planet spins on its axis. Your body and your baby's body have rhythms also: the heartbeat, the pulse of the blood flowing through the veins, the breath, the pattern of the brain waves, the pulse of the cerebrospinal fluid surrounding the brain. When the rhythms of the body pull together, there is a coherent and central pulse that becomes the characteristic and identifiable rhythm of the person, like the purr of a cat. Because rhythm is formed by vibrational patterns, we speak of people as having a particular central vibration. Vibrations are said to oscillate like waves and are described by length and frequency. If two or more people vibrate at the same frequency, they are said to be on the same wavelength or in harmony. They have bonded. Once a parent and a baby bond, a parent can intuit the baby's needs.Yoga Babyis about teaching you how to bond with your baby so you can parent intuitively. In this way, you are the expert with your baby; the professionals are then your aids. In this book, I will teach you eight major ways to bond with your baby--spiritually, physically, emotionally, ego-to-ego, empathetically, expressively, mentally, and by empowerment. Each of these corresponds to a different energy center, or chakra, in the body. Getting synchronized will allow you to create a bond of security and trust with your baby that can last a lifetime. In my experience with the Yoga Baby program, I have found that all new parents are concerned with how to connect with their babies and are somewhat anxious about being physical with them. A tiny newborn, in all his vulnerability, can evoke all of a parent's hopes, dreams, and fears. Yet the establishment of trust and security in the bond between parent and baby can change the baby's life. The Yoga Baby program uses yoga as the medium through which this bond is established. Through Yoga Baby, moms, dads, and other caregivers can learn to be comfortable with and relax around their babies. This sense of security and peace of mind can be transmitted to their infants in our ten-session program, strengthening the parent-baby bond and encouraging greater harmony, ease, security, and even serenity. Specifically, the Yoga Baby program combines yoga and psychology. The yoga portion of the program is based on hatha yoga, a form that focuses on spinal alignment, and the development of bodily flexibility and strength. It benefits the nervous system, the endocrine system, and the brain, resulting in increased mental focus, greater emotional stability, and an enhanced sense of well-being for both parent and baby. The Yoga Baby program ties infant development stages to eight energetic centers of the body, which are related to the baby's endocrine and hormonal systems. Specific movements are given to stimulate each of the energetic centers for both baby and parent. I call this "relationship yoga" because parent and baby engage in yoga movements together. As the baby develops, I highlight the developmental task involved in each of these energetic centers and address potential imbalances and difficulties. These are the seven energetic centers in the human body plus one unofficial addition: 1.The permanent centeris not an official center, but a location I added. It is situated at the navel, where the umbilical cord is connected, and is psychologically related to being centered and spiritually synchronized. 2.The root centeris at the coccygeal plexus, is associated with the eliminative organs, and is psychologically related to self-preservation and being physically synchronized. 3.The regenerative centeris located at the sacral plexus, is associated with the assimilative and sexual organs and glanParker, DeAnsin is the author of 'Yoga Baby Exercises to Help You Bond With Your Baby Physically, Emotionally, and Spiritually', published 2000 under ISBN 9780767904056 and ISBN 0767904052.