Baby-yoga from birth to eight weeks: balance and relaxation exercises

Many classical yoga poses use a state of balance not only to stretch the muscles of the back and legs, but also to improve the concentration of body energy in the center. Exercises on balance have a positive effect on the nervous system not only of adults but also of babies.

The following exercises are a small complex, which you can do at any free moment. Start with the sitting position, and when you feel confident, go to the standing position.

"Cradle"

This posture will help to strengthen the backbone of the child from the sacrum to the neck.

"Mini-fall"

Many newborns like this exercise, but some can stretch the arms in the so-called Moro reflex. The calmer the newborn, the less he will be surprised. However, mini-fall is not only an indicator of poise. It will help the child to become more confident.

Do this exercise by holding the baby with a "cradle" or a person's face, with a weaker hand holding it across the chest.

Carefully lift the child by the hand-a "seat", and then lower it. Repeat one or two times if the child likes it. Move slowly, trying to nerastryasti child, because this is the first in his life training vestibular apparatus.

Hand through the baby's chest should support his neck and head. Minini-drop is a sure way to calm and comfort the baby.

Mini-swing

All babies love when they are shaken in their arms.

Put the baby on your stomach. Then pick it up. With one hand, grab the chest across so that you can support the head at the same time. The other hand, hold the stomach, while the arm must pass between the hips.

Holding the child relaxed, slowly swing it in your arms from the side to the side, gradually increasing the amplitude, if he likes it.

Relaxation with a newborn

Relaxation is an independent part of yoga, necessary on a par with exercises. In classes with a newborn, relaxation should initially come from you. On the other hand, you constantly observe how the child relaxes, the kakon falls asleep. Classical relaxation pose of yoga, shavasana (the pose of the dead), helps to reach the highest level of relaxation and provides a full rest to you and your baby.

If you are doing yoga recently, start with the simplest relaxation. Choose the moment when the child is in a good mood, for example, after feeding. When breastfeeding, hormones are released, soothing and relaxing. Conscious relaxation before and during feeding helps to tune in to this process and greatly facilitates it.

In this exercise, mainly, the function of respiration is involved. Correct and deep breaths-exhalations will relieve you from both physical and mental stress.

Sit comfortably and gently to take the baby in your arms, holding it with a "cradle". Check that your neck and shoulders are relaxed.

Slightly shake the child from side to side, and then, densely to the stout, tilt your spine to the right and left.

Press the child close to you. With an exhalation, relieve all the tension left in your shoulders and arms. Feel how close your heart is at this moment.

Relax in this way, you can stand up and walking along the circle of the counter-hour hand. Take a comfortable position for feeding and several times deep-breathe out. Let each your breath come from the abdomen, and end in the upper light of the lungs; The exhalation should be complete and begin with an easy retraction of the abdominal muscles. This technique makes breathing as deep as possible, freeing the mind of all extraneous problems and worries.

When you breathe in, feel how your body is filled with power from the influx of the vital energy, lively yoga. Continue to breathe slowly and smoothly throughout the entire feeding.

Even if you are familiar with yoga, follow the points listed below, since the joint relaxation with the child has distinctive features.

At first you will feel insecure due to the fact that you do not hold the baby. Feel the contrast between how you felt the baby inside you during pregnancy and now, when the baby is lying outside, but almost similar to you. Enjoy full soul and physical unity.

On the way out of this state of complete relaxation it takes as much time as you needed to achieve complete relaxation. If the child cries during the session, you must first get out of the relaxation in order to calm him. This can be done with the help of several deep-breaths.

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