Although a relatively new concept to the UK, Baby Yoga has been practiced in other cultures for hundreds of years. In India, it is traditional for new born babies to receive a daily massage and some yoga from birth.
Joining a Baby Yoga activity group is a great way to meet other mums, dads or carers and share experiences.
Baby Yoga classes provide a low impact workout for both Mum and Baby, including some gentle postnatal exercises for Mum.
Baby Yoga is also a wonderful way to bond with your baby and have fun together as you are interacting closely with your baby and communicating with your baby all the time through positive touch and singing songs and nursery rhymes!. It encourages instinctive parenting and promotes many well used techniques for calming, soothing and reassuring baby. A session of Baby Yoga stimulates all of your baby’s body systems and helps to integrate all of baby's senses. Baby Yoga classes use fun rhymes and songs to help you learn the simple and rhythmic movements and to help relax your baby. This helps both the parent and the baby to get to know each other, enhancing communication and the natural bond.
Jessica is the Director of Bliss Yoga Norwich and a mother of her beautiful daughter Aylah who joined Jessica in her Baby Yoga classes and continues to enjoy Yoga with her todler today.
Jessica teaches Baby Yoga classes on Mousehold Avenue and also for the Norfolk County Council Drayton and Taverham Sure Start Childrens Centres.
Jessica has been practicing yoga since 1999 and it instantly resonated within her.Jessica’s passion and love for yoga was such that she withdrew from her IT career and completed her ISHTA* yoga teacher training in 2006 in Byron Bay, Australia and has since become YTAA (Yoga Teacher Association of Australia) accredited. Jessica is also a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) accredited and insured with Yoga Alliance UK.
ISHTA is an acronym for the Integrated Science of Hatha (physical practice) Tantra (yogic philosophy) and Ayurveda (Indian science of healing) it is also Sanskrit for Individual. ISHTA is a style of yoga that is dynamic and safe for all ages and abilities.
Jessica has studied yoga all over the world including Ubud, Bali, studying ISHTA style meditations, pranayama (breath control), the philosophy of yoga and yoga traditions of Tantra, Hatha and Bhakti (devotional yoga); Staying at an Ashram in Kerala, India; Studying with her mentor in Santiago, Chile; Practicing with ISHTA Founder, Alan Finger, in New York and attending various classes and workshops in New York and Vancouver, Canada.
Jessica completed her pregnancy yoga teacher training in March 2009 with Triyoga, London and her baby yoga teacher training in September 2009 with Camyoga, Cambridge.
Jessica is always inspired by students and teachers alike and continues her studies with teachers from around the world.
*ISHTA is a Yoga Alliance registered school
