Infant Massage (Fourth Edition)

Infant Massage (Fourth Edition)
Author: Vimala McClure
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2017-07-11
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0425286673

Master the techniques of infant massage and incorporate this joyful and wonderful healing art into your baby’s life with this revised and updated edition. For generations, mothers around the world have known that the soft touch of their hands soothes, calms, and communicates their love to their babies. The latest scientific research confirms that physical affection is vital to the development and wellness of children—easing discomfort, releasing tension, improving sleep, helping premature infants gain weight, even aiding asthmatic children to improve their breathing. Now Vimala McClure, founder of the International Association of Infant Massage, has revised and updated her beloved classic. Inside you’ll find • specific routines tailored to help relieve colic, fever, and chest and nasal congestion • easy-to-follow instructions and photographs demonstrating each step • new information on the benefits of skin-to-skin contact • instructions for premature infants and babies with special needs • lullabies, rhymes, and games to enhance the massage experience • a special chapter dedicated to fathers • compassionate advice for foster and adoptive parents Praise for Infant Massage “Speaking as a pediatrician, the best advice I can give you is to try the techniques described in this book.”–Stephen Berman, M.D., F.A.A.P., former president, American Academy of Pediatrics “What a brilliant way to love and nurture a child! The first connection between parent and child is physical, through the body; by using the techniques Vimala McClure has developed, your parental relationship will be off to a magnificent start.”—Judy Ford, author of Wonderful Ways to Love a Child

Baby Massage and Yoga

Baby Massage and Yoga
Author: Anita Thomas-Epple
Publisher: Teach Yourself
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2010-02-26
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 144412904X

Baby Massage and Yoga shows you how to get in touch with your baby using the technique of gentle massage and yoga exercises. It offers practical information demonstrating which tools, techniques and insights you'll need to best expose both yourself and your child to the many physical and emotional benefits of massage - including when the best times are, which oils to use and how to set the environment. It connects massage and yoga with story-telling, music and rhyme to increase mental and physical development, giving step-by-step guides simple massage routines for every part of the body. You'll learn simple yoga routines which you can try safely and effectively with your baby. Parents of children with special needs are shown simple, therapeutic exercises and plenty of practical and useful advice. Discover the healing power of touch with this authoritative, helpful and expertly written guide. ABOUT THE SERIES People have been learning with Teach Yourself since 1938. With a vast range of practical, how-to guides covering language learning, lifestyle, hobbies, business, psychology and self-help, there's a Teach Yourself book for whatever you want to do. Join more than 60 million people who have reached their goals with Teach Yourself, and never stop learning.

Baby Om

Baby Om
Author: Laura Staton
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2014-04-08
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1466867604

A dynamic yoga program for new mothers and their babies How does a new mother get back her shape without giving up precious time with her baby? In Baby Om, authors Laura Staton and Sarah Perron -- both dancers, yoga instructors, and moms themselves -- answer the new mother's need for a calming and rigorous way to align and strengthen her body while having fun with her baby. Based on their popular New York classes of the same name, Baby Om takes mothers through a yoga practice they can do with their infants -- anytime and anywhere. The techniques help new mothers enjoy the spiritual and physical benefits of yoga, allowing them to nurture themselves as well as their babies. This easy-to-use book includes: --Baby Om basics -- the practical information you need to get started --baby engagement -- how to play with and stimulate your baby during yoga --four step-by-step Baby Om classes -- each concentrating on a unique stage in your child's development The beautiful illustrations and photographs in Baby Om capture the intimate sharing between mother and child, and create a visual model for how to achieve the poses at home. Safe, effective, and easy to learn, Baby Om brings mother and baby together, ensuring the health and happiness of both.

Itsy Bitsy Yoga

Itsy Bitsy Yoga
Author: Helen Garabedian
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2009-11-24
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1439188750

The ancient practice of yoga will help your baby sleep better, digest easier, be happier, and stay healthier. Start today. If you've been searching for an excellent way to bond with your baby and improve his or her health, Itsy Bitsy Yoga is the solution you've been looking for. Helen Garabedian, a certified instructor in yoga and infant massage, has developed over seventy yoga postures and thirty-five series for moms and dads to enjoy with their growing babies. You don't need any previous yoga experience. Learn the many benefits of yoga, posture by posture, in this accessible guide, with seventy beautiful black-and-white photos, at-a-glance reference charts, and memorable Itsy Bitsy Yoga rhymes. Yoga can help babies up to two years of age: sleep better get relief from gas pains and colic digest food easier stay healthier with a strong immune system receive neuromuscularm stimulation learn to relax The book also features seven Magic Poses that can soothe fussy, upset babies within minutes! So start enjoying more time with your happy yoga baby right now.

The Art and Business of Teaching Yoga (revised)

The Art and Business of Teaching Yoga (revised)
Author: Amy Ippoliti
Publisher: New World Library
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2023-12-05
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1608688798

Originally published in 2016, The Art and Business of Teaching Yoga immediately became the essential resource for those looking to start or maintain a successful career in yoga. Since then, the landscape has changed. Online yoga and social media are now a crucial part of most teachers’ repertoires. Yoga teachers also face broad cultural shifts, an evolving environmental crisis, and resulting anxiety among students, all of which bring fresh challenges to their leadership and teaching abilities. This expanded edition will help you: • plan dynamic classes, including engaging digital content • build a loyal student base and become more financially stable • optimize your own practice • maintain a marketing plan and develop a unique brand • teach yoga to facilitate ease and inspire creative action in a troubled world

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Yoga with Kids

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Yoga with Kids
Author: Jodi Komitor
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2000
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780028639352

Teaches ways to help kids, and the whole family, use yoga to promote better mental and physical health.

The Little Book of Baby Massage

The Little Book of Baby Massage
Author: Jo Kellett
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0744022053

Easy massage routines to soothe your baby and communicate love. To a baby, touch is talk, and with these soothing techniques, you and your child can share some of your most fulfilling communicative moments. Calm and comfort your baby from head to toe with a step-by-step full-body massage; discover ways to incorporate massage into your baby's day-to-day routine; and ease common ailments such as colic, teething, and constipation. With expert guidance from a Certified Infant Massage Instructor, explore the physical and emotional benefits of baby massage and enjoy this most intimate way to relax, soothe, and nurture.

The Book of Massage

The Book of Massage
Author: Lucinda Liddell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 586
Release: 2012-11-20
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0743211510

A beautifully illustrated introductory guide to the healing powers of a massage, from traditional massage to shiatsu and reflexology. The Book of Massage is the classic guide to the relaxing and healing skills of the hands. Featuring both Eastern and Western methods, it presents step-by-step, beautifully illustrated instructions on everything from traditional massage to shiatsu and reflexology. The Book of Massage offers easy-to-follow techniques for giving the perfect massage, including advice on creating the right setting and suggestions for using aromatic oils and lotions. Now revised and updated with fresh color photos and drawings throughout, The Book of Massage is a simple and comprehensive handbook that reveals how you can experience the myriad benefits of giving and receiving a soothing massage.

The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook

The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook
Author: Clair Davies
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Total Pages: 866
Release: 2013-09-01
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1608824969

Trigger point therapy is one of the fastest-growing and most effective pain therapies in the world. Medical doctors, chiropractors, physical therapists, and massage therapists are all beginning to use this technique to relieve patients’ formerly undiagnosable muscle and joint pain, both conditions that studies have shown to be the cause of nearly 25 percent of all doctor visits. This book addresses the problem of myofascial trigger points—tiny contraction knots that develop in a muscle when it is injured or overworked. Restricted circulation and lack of oxygen in these points cause referred pain. Massage of the trigger is the safest, most natural, and most effective form of pain therapy. Trigger points create pain throughout the body in predictable patterns characteristic to each muscle, producing discomfort ranging from mild to severe. Trigger point massage increases circulation and oxygenation in the area and often produces instant relief. The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook, Third Edition, has made a huge impact among health professionals and the public alike, becoming an overnight classic in the field of pain relief. This edition includes a new chapter by the now deceased author, Clair Davies’ daughter, Amber Davies, who is passionate about continuing her father’s legacy. The new edition also includes postural assessments and muscle tests, an illustrated index of symptoms, and clinical technique drawings and descriptions to assist both practitioners and regular readers in assessing and treating trigger points. If you have ever suffered from, or have treated someone who suffers from myofascial trigger point pain, this is a must-have book.

Learn to Relax

Learn to Relax
Author: Mike George
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1998-05
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9780811819084

We all need to relax. If only it were as easy as it sounds! Now, with this beautifully illustrated and practical volume, anyone can learn to let go. Offering almost 30 ingenious and easy-to-do exercises tailor-made for busy people, plus original illustrations to aid visualization and a friendly text that's low on jargon, Learn to Relax presents effective ways to ease tension at work, at home, or on the road. Stress counselor Mike George suggests simple techniques for breathing, massage, anxiety control, time management, sleep enrichment, detachment, and meditation, all designed to calm the mind. Drawn from both Eastern and Western traditions, this book's easy yet highly effective strategies reveal how we can put problems in perspective, deepen self-awareness, and celebrate the positive in life. Practical and inspirational in the style of Teach Yourself to Dream, Learn to Relax is the only accessible illustrated relaxation book on the market -- and an indispensable guide for anyone who wants to rediscover the essential art of relaxation.