YogaBellies for Mum & Baby

Our YogaBellies for Mum & Baby classes are a gentle, restorative postnatal yoga class, giving new mums a safe space to ease back into exercise after giving birth. This is a unique course designed to help rebuild your postpartum body, bond with baby and find your inner calm.

We focus on strengthening the back, abdominal and pelvic floor muscles, helping mum to regain strength and muscle tone at her own pace.

Each week we focus on a different part of the body for both YOU and YOUR BABY, so your little one can also enjoy the benefits of yoga from just a few weeks old.

Baby yoga has also been scientifically proven to help with baby’s brain development, growth, self soothing and common ailments such as colic, reflux and disrupted sleep.

You will also learn breathing and relaxation techniques, which help to increase energy levels and allow you to relax while with your baby.

As every aspect of your life will include baby now, we help you integrate baby into your yoga practice, while feeling the benefits of yoga for you too.

So if you have a baby, this is a yoga class for you.

Benefits for mum:

• Focuses on rebuilding the abdominal muscles and the pelvic floor.
• Helps alleviate back and neck pain.
• Allows mum to regain strength and muscle tone at her own pace.
• Studies show decreased incidence of postnatal depression.
• Encourages mum and baby bonding time and makes for baby’s enhanced social skills in the future.
• Allows mum to heal and relax along with baby.

Benefits for baby:

Baby is fully integrated into mums yoga practice and life. Enhances baby’s immune system. Helps brain and nervous system development and growth. Offers sensory stimulation but also enhanced relaxation leading to better sleeping patterns. Baby learns to self soothe and develop key relaxation techniques for the future.

YogaBellies for Mum & Baby classes run:

Monday - Groby Village Hall - 10-11.30am
Tuesday - Syston Community Centre - 10-11.30am
Wednesday - Long Whatton Friendship Centre - 10-11.30am

We always finish with 30 minutes of tea and biscuits, which is a lovely chance to get to meet other mums and talk all things baby! The classes are really relaxed so please don't worry if your baby starts to fuss or cry, or if they need feeding! You'll still be learning the techniques to use at home.

Our classes are suitable from 6 weeks postpartum (8-10 weeks post c-section) and we run them in blocks of 5 weeks, which costs £60.