babymassageuk.org.uk is a small independent company that has been set up to try to help towards making baby massage much more mainstream and accessible throughout Herts, Beds and Bucks.
Many cultures have used massage as part of baby care for hundreds of years, and research shows it can have many benefits. Massage enables you to learn about and respond to your baby's body language. It is a wonderful way to make your baby feel safe and secure by showing that he or she is loved and cared for. It is very important to remember that massage is something you do with, rather than to, your baby.
The art of baby massage has been practised throughout the ages in India as a sacred art, handed down from generation to generation, from grandmother to mother to daughter. This form of massage can be traced to its origin in Kerala in the south of India.
Frederick Leboyer believes that the emotional environment of birth has a profound impact and lifelong effects on everyone.
"Being touched and caressed, being massaged, is food for the infant. Food as necessary as minerals, vitamins, and proteins. Deprived of this food, the name of which is love, babies would rather die. And they often do." Dr Frederick Leboyer
We offer courses in baby massage by qualified teachers from the International School of Developmental Baby Massage & Movement, trained by the world renowed baby massage expert, Peter Walker.
Currently, Peter Walker has over six thousand teachers, all teaching 'Developmental Baby Massage' in over twenty different countries, all individually certificated by him. With the benefit of over 25 years teaching experience only Peter teaches and certificates his teachers.
Peter Walker has been a physical therapist and yoga teacher since the 1970's, and has specialised for the past 30 years working with mothers and babies. Peter has developed unique techniques and pioneered the practice of Baby Massage and Soft Gymnastics for babies and toddlers.
At babymassageuk.org.uk, we teach Peter Walker's baby massage techniques. All teachers have been individually certified by Peter Walker and are CRB (Criminal Records Bureau) checked.
babymassageuk.org.uk is a small independent company that has been set up to try to help towards making baby massage much more mainstream and accessible throughout Herts, Beds and Bucks.
"Being touched and caressed, being massaged, is food for the infant. Food as necessary as minerals, vitamins, and proteins. Deprived of this food, the name of which is love, babies would rather die. And they often do." Dr Frederick Leboyer
At babymassageuk.org.uk, we teach Peter Walker's baby massage techniques. All teachers have been individually certified by Peter Walker and are CRB (Criminal Records Bureau) checked.