Sharing loving touch with your baby builds love, respect, and trust as you learn to calm, delight, attune to, and ease fussiness in your little one. Massage nourishes your connection with your baby and enhances well-being, brain development, immune and nervous system health, circulation, digestion, relaxation and sleep. Massage can relieve gas, constipation, colic and stress. And it’s fun!
Build love, respect, and trust with your baby in this 2 hour workshop
Workshop notes:
Please dress comfortably for sitting on the floor in a warm room.
Registration is per baby.
Bring to class: an adult-sized bath towel, a chux pad or other waterproof layer, oil to massage baby with, and class handouts (sent to you once registered).
Two caregivers are encouraged to attend per baby.
Pregnant parents and adopting parents are welcome to attend and practice on a doll.
In this workshop designed for babies 6 weeks through pre-crawling you will:
Learn how to give your baby a full-body massage.
Learn clear protocols to relieve gas, constipation, colic, & stress.
Learn songs and rhymes to accompany massage.
Learn how to enhance brain development, emotional and physical health, and spiritual connection.
Bond with your baby.
Build confidence in caring for your child .
Learn more about the benefits of infant massage, how to build nurturing touch into your daily routine, and more information from Kari on The Fourth Trimester Podcast.
From Kari’s students:
“Kari is lovely – so gentle and warm, supportive, full of information and tips, and clearly an expert. In addition to the obvious (massage setup and strokes), I really appreciated learning about listening to baby’s cues/cries and seeking consent/absence of “no.”
“Kari speaks not just of massage techniques but also on the emotional aspect of infant massage, i.e., how to make baby feel safe, seen and calm.”
“Kari’s Infant Massage class was superb and I will recommend it to everyone I know with babies or expecting. Kari not only provided massage lessons, she also covered understanding baby’s cues regarding when to give a massage, how to be in the right space as the caregiver, how to adapt as our baby gets older, and even how to care for ourselves.”
“A year after taking Kari’s workshop, we still massage our little one and sing the song we learned in class.”
Cost: $95 per couple - includes both partners. (10% off for Metta Yoga members applies automatically at checkout)
TO BOOK:
Step 1) Purchase the credit for this event:
Step 2) Reserve your spot for this event on our class schedule (Do not forget this step!):
About the instructor:
Kari Marble has been a massage therapist, yoga teacher and educator specializing in women’s health and the childbearing year for nearly 25 years.
She started teaching prenatal yoga when her first baby was just weeks old, and soon after added postnatal yoga, baby yoga, infant massage, and birth education, especially touch-focused birth prep through yoga and massage for labor workshops.
She also teaches all aspects of yoga – meditation, breathwork, asana, therapeutics, philosophy, and chanting. Kari teaches Postnatal + Baby Yoga classes once weekly in San Francisco (details) and teaches baby yoga (developmental movements + songs and rhymes) privately over Zoom.
Read more about Kari here.