Nurture & Bond | Baby Massage Course
Alexa Dean | 11:00 - 12:00 pm | Wednesdays from 16 October to 6 November 2024 | Intro Offer Price: £75
(*usually £95)
This 4-week baby massage course offers intimate, community-building sessions for parents & babies.
This class is a beautiful way for new parents to develop, deepen and nurture their bonds with their babies.
And, if you attended our Pregnancy Yoga classes, it provides a perfect continuation of your journey into parenthood, allowing you to evolve your practice and connect with your baby. Our classes and courses support our parents-to-be and new parents from preparing for birth through delivery to the early months of your baby’s life.
This class emphasises connection and presence and experienced teacher Alexa Dean provides a relaxed and supportive space for dedicated parent and baby time, learning a valuable skill for life to support you and your baby.
You’ll learn techniques to: relax the baby’s diaphragm for full and efficient breathing; bring flexibility to hips and shoulders; and strengthen their back, arms and legs in preparation for sitting and standing. All of this happens in an atmosphere of loving, joyful play.
*As with most our courses and classes there is a “Low Cost Course” option available for anyone who is unable to pay the full price.
Benefits of Baby Massage
reduces crying
helps relieve colic
improves sleep
encourages parent-baby bonding through physical contact
sensory and muscle stimulation
relaxes both parent & child
What You Need to Know
Please bring a towel for the baby and anything else you might need, including your own massage oil.
We recommend organic virgin coconut oil. (Avoid commercial baby oils as these are usually highly perfumed. As mineral oil they are cheap derivatives of crude petroleum and they tend to feel greasy and gritty and have no organic value.)
As a suggestion maybe also bring a teddy bear or doll in case your baby falls asleep so you can still practice the sequence.
We strongly recommend you arrive carrying your baby in a sling. Unfortunately, there is no space to leave prams in the ground floor. We apologise for any inconvenience.
We do ask that you take away any dirty nappies with you when you leave the studio after class
Partners are welcome.
Alexa Dean
Alexa is a Doula, Hypnobirthing Childbirth Educator, Yoga Teacher, Massage Therapist and Co-Founder of ‘London Bliss Doulas’ established in 2012. She runs the Pregnancy and Mum & Baby classes and workshops at the Shala as well as the Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training Course at the Shala School of Yoga. She passionately believes in active, positive and conscious birthing and in supporting women all the way through their own private and amazing experience of becoming a parent. She encourages women to intelligently align mind and body, enjoy their pregnancy and the empowerment obtained through knowledge and understanding of the process of birth.
Alexa qualified as a Hatha Yoga Teacher at TriYoga London and Vinyasa Flow Teacher in India. She then specialised in Pregnancy & Postnatal Yoga with Nadia Narain and continued her studies with YogaBirth, a program set up by Active Birth teachers that combines Yoga with Childbirth Education. Lastly she took up the Khalsa Way Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training, developed by Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa (USA) based on Kundalini Yoga and Meditation as taught by Yogi Bhajan. Alexa is also a Relax & Renew® Restorative Yoga Teacher having trained with Judith Hanson Lasater (USA). She certified as a Doula guided by revolutionary childbirth pioneer Dr Michel Odent, studied Hypnobirthing with Katharine Graves and EFT Tapping with Sue Beer and Emma Roberts.
Alexa is a Massage Therapist with experience in Fertility, Pregnancy, Postnatal and Baby Massage. Alexa also trained as a Midwife Assistant at The Farm Midwifery Center in Tennessee, founded by Ina May Gaskin, the pioneer of natural birth in the United States.