Zen Babies

Baby Yoga uses movements and gentle stretches incorporating breathing techniques and songs to create a happy and relaxed environment in the group setting.

Baby Yoga helps develop a feeling of being loved and respected, can alleviate trapped wind and colic symptoms and helps with bonding and attachment. Yoga can also help regulate your babies’ digestive system, strengthens and tones muscles and promotes relaxation which can improve the quality of sleep.

Baby Yoga is suitable from 8 weeks until approximately 11 months

Venue: Ronin Goju Karate Deanfield Mill Morley LS27 7QS

Toddler Yoga is a fun and energetic 30  minute session for 18 months to 5 year olds. Although energetic, during your session there will be a breathing technique and a relaxation technique allow your toddler to learn to calm themselves and feel more settled. Each session is themed such as going to the zoo, beach, having a party, or based on a popular book like Dear Zoo, or Everywhere Bear and other stories. There are so many benefits to toddler yoga like increased bond between parent and toddler, the class environment and some of the activites encourgarages team work and turn taking. The stretches and poses themselves help aid digestion, can allieviate colic symtpms, trapped wind, it promotes relaxation for a better sleep, they will be building stregth and toning and introducing a life long love for excerise. 

Baby massage is one way of expressing love, caring and respect through touch that has been shown to have many benefits to parent-child attachment and children’s development. We start with a chest and tummy routine, each week we add on a body part building up to a full body massage. On your first session you will receive a small bottle of oil and a booklet containing all the strokes used and some songs for you to keep and use in your sessions and at home.

Baby massage is suitable from birth to crawling

Venue: Asquith Primary School, Horsfall Street Morley Leeds LS27 9QY

Baby Massage is a 5 week course covering a full body massage. Week one starts with the chest tummy and legs, each week we repeat these strokes and add on a body part slowly working up to a full body massage. The course costs include a bottle of oil and a booklet containing all the strokes used and some songs. Edmonds Dance centre is a new large space with accessible toilets and baby change. A large clean dance floor is used for the sessions. All Zen Babies sessions are baby led and you work at your baby's pace, the class creates an environment to increase parent and baby bond with no distractions and teaches you a skill to carry on at home for quality time with your baby learning through their first language of touch.