Baby Massage Course // 23rd April to 21st May 2025

Baby Massage Course // 5 week course // 23rd April to 21st May 2025

"Touch is the simplest and most effective way to communicate to babies they are loved, respected, secure and cared for"

Being massaged helps babies relax and cope better with stress, improves their muscular coordination and flexibility, improves circulatory and respiratory rhythms, as well as helping to relieve symptoms such as colic, constipation and improve digestion. It also helps you as a parent to learn useful techniques to help calm and relax your baby, create a deep connection to your baby and helps with bonding. It helps facilitate the importance of loving touch, and aids in the creation of happy parent-baby relationships. Massage shows babies they are loved. Mums also have the opportunity to meet other new mums, and connect and share their experiences, and find a support network who know just how you feel.

This course will run on Wednesdays

Wednesdays // 10am to 11am

Location:  Southlands Community Hall // 97, Bishopthorpe Road, York, YO23 1NX  (a short walk from the city centre, lots of parking options available too)

Price: 5 week course, just £50 (includes all the extras)

Wednesdays: 23rd, 30th April. 7th, 14th and 21st May 2025

All about Baby Massage

Massage is a wonderful and special gift that you can share with your baby. Baby massage is an ancient art used in many diverse cultures to help with a variety of physical and emotional needs and to promote relaxation. Babies naturally crave skin contact. Touch is your baby’s most developed sense at birth and through it you can communicate love, security and trust to your baby immediately. Baby massage is simply a method that helps to reinforce the natural power of touch.

Baby massage will allow you to understand your baby’s subtle non verbal language and develop your ability to listen to your baby through the creation of a special intimate time together. When you massage your baby you lay down the foundations of trust and security which will help you to build a happy and confident relationship with your baby for the future.

Specific benefits for you and your baby include: 

~ Baby massage can help relieve wind, colic, constipation, teething and much more

~ Baby Massage may help create and develop the bond between you and your baby

~ Baby Massage provides relaxation for you both

~ Baby Massage stimulates and supports your baby’s physical, emotional and social development

~ Baby Massages helps you feel more confident in handling your baby

~ Baby Massage is great fun to learn and a brilliant way to meet other parents and spend special time with your baby.

Science and research have confirmed that the use of skin to skin practices, nurturing touch and massage enhances the physical and emotional wellbeing of parents and babies. Studies have repeatedly shown that responsive parenting and attachment is the key to the emotional wellbeing of children. When we massage out babies we are teaching love, compassion, empathy and understanding to create positive early experiences and secure loving relationships. This has an effect on the child, the parent and society as a whole.

About the classes:

Classes are small, friendly and relaxed and held in a warm and calming setting.  Massage techniques and strokes are demonstrated to you, with emphasis on loving touch, and responding to baby’s cues and communication.

Suitable for babies anytime from 5/6 weeks old to crawling. 

I'll also help you navigate through the realities of the first year of parenthood with evidence-based information about a variety of topics including the realities of baby sleep and how to navigate this, tips and ideas to help soothe your baby, baby's microbiome and gut health, and developmental leaps and the sleep regression that can come with those, tips for introducing solid foods amongst other things.

There will be also time to chat and connect with the other parents at the end of the class too, and you'll get a lovely hot cup of tea/coffee/herbal tea/hot chocolate provided for you too (a hot cuppa for once - Yes!)

In addition to the in person classes, you'll get to take home: 

~ A 50ml bottle of organic vegetable-based massage oil 

~ A Certificate of completion (a lovely keepsake)

~ A printed full colour booklet of the massage techniques for your reference to use at home

~ A lovely guided relaxation MP3 for mum/caregiver to use at home to help YOU rest and relax too.

~ Lots of self-care tips and techniques for new mothers - vital to help you in the first year of motherhood and beyond.

~ Unique free online mini video course of baby massage techniques for you to use at home

~ A £10 discount on my brilliant ‘Calm & Empowered Motherhood’ my online yoga, relaxation and self-care for mothers course.

If you have any questions at all about the course, of it's suitability then please get in touch with Susan - susan@formodernmothers.com

Terms & Conditions - PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU BOOK

• All classes must be booked in advance due to limited places
• Refund Policy: 60 days prior to course start date. If a cancellation is made 60 days prior to the start of the course, then 100% of your payment will be refunded (minus payment processing fees).
• If cancellations are made after this time I cannot provide a refund, unless I have people on a waiting list who can fill your place. But you are welcome to find someone to fill your place and come in your place (which is totally fine to do, and I will also try my best to fill it for you too).
• We reserve the right to cancel a course if we have insufficient numbers. Should this happens we will offer you a place on another course, or refund your money - whichever you prefer. This is highly unlikely, but we just have to mention it.
• If the course is unable to run in person due to any kind of restrictions  due to Covid-19 (including venue not being open, lockdown or tier system in place), then the course WILL run livestreamed via Zoom instead. Your place automatically transfers to this Zoom course. Please note no refunds will be given due to Covid if the classes run via Zoom and not in person .
• Sorry we cannot offer a refund for any missed classes. But you may be able to 'make up' a missed class on another course, subject to availability.