Anna Semlyen BWY Dip, MA PPE (Oxon), MSc Health Econ. Tel: 01904 654355, Email: anna@yogainyork.co.uk |
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Anna Semlyen has taught baby yoga since 2002. Classes are on Tuesdays 11am-noon at St Clement's Church, Scarcroft Road, South Bank. Tuesdays will include some pre-crawling and crawling babies. Or, Fridays 11-noon at the Healing Clinic, Museum St (next to Pizza Express) which is for pre-crawling babies. Spaces limited. Book for Fri 3 Sept (not 17 Sept) until 22 Oct or Tues 7th Sept - 19th Oct. Pre-book at £38.50 for 7 weeks (£5.50 per class) by sending a cheque to Anna Semlyen, 24 Grange St, York YO10 4BH. Yoga is recommended exercise from 6 weeks postnatally. Baby yoga is for adults and children from 6 weeks through pre-crawling on Fridays and on Tuesdays pre-crawlers, crawlers up till walking. If you have an older child who would like to do yoga please contact me. After class there is an optional social. Families with more than child, Mums, Dads, Grandparents and carers are all welcome.
Classes aim to:
Enjoy exercising with your child. Keeping mobile through gentle toning, stretching and breathing as well as relaxing helps to minimise postnatal problems such as bachache, pelvic floor weakness, shoulder strain and fatigue. Children are naturally flexible and love the closeness of being sensitively handled. We learn:
Anna Semlyen is a mother. She has taught yoga since 1996 and baby yoga since 2002, is fully CRB and child protection checked and operates within the British Wheel of Yoga Child Protection guidelines. Newborns can do the easier exercises, however women are advised to wait 6 weeks before attending a postnatal exercise class. Adults can change or feed their children and everything is optional. Practice is of a mix of bends and counter poses. Plus, specific abdominal and pelvic floor exercises with modifications for those who are pregnant. Everything is done at least twice to give the children time to imitate. Parents manipulate their children, for instance lying on their backs and cycling the legs. Sometimes we sing action songs. We massage, do simple somersaults and 'fly' children on their parent's shins. There is also relaxation. Parents recieve handouts on:
Private baby yoga tuition is also available for £35 per hour or £150 for 5 hours. "7 week old Kaitlyn's sleep improved from three hours up to six hours a night on starting baby yoga. I recommend it to everyone." Jenny Shaw "Baby yoga is great. Anna is very relaxed with the children. It's my haven in the week. My boy's been since he was 6 weeks. He gets so much out of the class. At first it really helped me to be physically confident with him. Now it helps with trying to show him how to use his hands as well as with doing yoga and play exercies. It's worth the money because it encompasses so much: learning about yoga together; being physical together; focussed one to one time; social time and an opportunity to be quiet." Kate West "Orla's a natural yogi. At baby yoga she's the best behaved she is all week." Alison Toolan, mum to Orla, 6 months "I have found Anna's one on one mother/baby yoga sessions an absolute delight. Both myself and Alfred have felt the benefits. For me personally i feel stronger, have toned up and definitely feel calmer and more energetic. Alfred loves his yoga sessions and I have found that not only does the yoga tire him out, which makes him sleep better!! Anna has taught me a number of techniques to calm him when he is upset and crying which are invaluable.
The really lovely thing about mother/baby yoga is its something that benefits us both, but it also helps us bond, there is nothing nicer than doing yoga with Alfred and looking at his face giggling whilst we are doing our movements.
Importantly it also allows me to fit in some exercise in the day which is fun for us both and means that i can do it because Alfred isn't getting bored!
I really cann't recommend mother/baby yoga enough and Anna is a wonderful teacher who focuses on both mother and baby as a whole."
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