By Sharon Baker
These yummy mummies are stretching themselves – and their babies – with the introduction of a new yoga class for tiny tots.
Cleethorpes yoga teacher Claire Roach conducts the classes every Thursday, from 10am to 11am, at Humberston Country Club and swears by yoga’s ability to calm and relax your little ones.
She has been teaching yoga for the last 10 years and first discovered baby yoga when she had her first child.
Claire (29) said: “I teach children’s yoga in schools and do a class called Yoga Bugs for children aged from two-and-a-half years.”
Using her experience with children as her starting point, Claire set up The Yummy Mummy Baby Yoga Club in Humberston in the hope that she can pass on her expertise to other mums – with the help of her assistant and demonstrator, 18-week-old daughter Halle.
She said: “This is only the fourth week we’ve been running the class here, but baby yoga is a brand new concept and I think we’ve all found it really rewarding.
“The babies are so relaxed afterwards and with all the problems that babies can have, yoga seems to help with things like irregular sleep patterns and colic.”
Baby yoga promises to help children with their sleep, digestion and immune system while also promoting peaceful bonding between mother and baby.
Mum Emma Parkes (22), of Grimsby’s Columbia Road, has been attending the classes with her son Owen (23 weeks).
She said: “I started doing it just through knowing Claire and my five-year-old son Jordan really enjoyed doing Yoga Bugs.
“It’s very helpful for calming him during the times when I just don’t know what he wants, and Jordan loves helping me do it too.”
Find out more
For more information about baby yoga and the other classes that Claire runs, contact 07931561760 or email [email protected].
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