Infant and Baby Massage Classes

"Being touched and caressed, being massaged, is food for the infant,
food as necessary as minerals, vitamins and proteins."
-Dr Frederick Leboyer

Next Series:

Register ~ Dina ~ 11am-12:30pm ~ Jan 14, 21, 28, Feb 4, 11 ~ Centre for Social Innovation ~ 720 Bathurst
Register ~ Dina ~ 11am-12:30pm ~ March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 ~ Blissful Spaces ~ 672 Woodbine Ave

Our infant massage classes allow you to connect with your baby in a warm, relaxing and nurturing environment while having a positive impact on the health and well being of the entire family. 

Parents who have taken our infant massage classes have found that besides the innumerable physical benefits it fosters, the bonding and communication between them and their baby deepens and grows as a result of the intentional and relaxing touch of massage.

Touch is a very powerful element in human bonding, as are communication-both verbal and non-verbal-and prolonged eye contact. Infant massage encompasses and supports all of these vital aspects of bonding.

Baby massage may be particularly impactful for families who have had a difficult time bonding with their baby from the onset of birth. Parents who experience premature birth, recovery from caesarean, medical complications, adoption, lack of physical and emotional support and post natal depression experience significant shifts in their ability to relate to their child and themselves as parents through the bonding that infant massage offers.

Babies Love Infant Massage Because:

• Emotionally nourishes babies
• Begins a loving, intimate communication between a parent and child
• Helps to strengthen and regulate the baby’s primary systems (ie: respiratory, circulatory, nervous, musculature and gastrointestinal, enhances immune system)
• Reduces gas and colic and allows the baby to sleep better
• Encourages the baby to relax and release the tensions of daily stimuli

Parents Love Infant Massage Because:

• Better understanding about their infant’s cues of responsiveness
• Enhances communication and emotional ties
• Increases confidence and handling skills
  
• Greatly improves the bond of affectional attachment
• Provides a means to develop quality interaction time
• Helps the parents relax and listen to their baby
• Massage becomes a perfect avenue for conversation as the child gets older

Infant Massage is also beneficial to Special Needs Children and older children and facilitates deeper understanding, integration and connection with their parents and caregivers.

Course content overview:

• Benefits of infant massage: relief, relaxation, stimulation, and interaction
• Appropriate oils to use on babies
• Strokes for the entire body
• Baby’s daily cycle and when to massage
• Parent relaxation
• Infant body language during massage
• Ways of understanding and dealing with crying
• Strokes for colic, wind and constipation
• Infant reflexes
• Adaption of the massage as the baby grows
• Exercises to keep babies flexible and assist with lymphatic drainage

Classes are small and designed to be flexible to allow you to meet the needs of your baby during class. Articles related to infant massage and a package with all the strokes will be provided for each family.

Classes can be arranged at your home or one of the three locations listed below:
-Blissful Spaces, 672 Woodbine Ave
-Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina Ave.
-Centre for Social Innovation, 720 Bathurst St.

Cost, including all materials: $200 for group classes, $300 for private classes.

For more information and to register, please contact Dina Khorasanee, Infant Massage Instructor at 416-879-6715.