So much more than learning how to massage your baby.

Those first weeks with a new baby can be wonderful, exhausting, overwhelming and incredibly precious, sometimes all at once.

And while you’re getting to know this tiny new person, you’re also learning how to be their mum.

Baby Massage gives you time to slow everything down.

Over six weeks, you’ll learn simple massage strokes, holds, stretches and songs that you can use at home with your baby. But we’ll also explore how to handle and pick up your baby with confidence, ways to soothe and settle them, how to begin recognising their cues and ways to calm and replenish yourself too.

Because this course isn’t just about learning to massage your baby.

It’s about getting to know your baby and trusting yourself.

Each week gives you uninterrupted time to simply be together. No washing to put on. No dinner to make. No feeling that you should be doing something else.

Just you and your baby.

And you don’t need a baby who will lie quietly on a mat while we work our way through a perfectly ordered routine.

Feed them. Change them. Pick them up. Walk around. Have a cuddle. Stop and start.

Your baby doesn’t have to fit around the class. The class fits around you and your baby.

What will we do?

Across the six weeks we’ll gradually build your own toolkit of massage, touch, movement and calming techniques, including:

• Simple, memorable baby massage strokes
• Different ways of holding, handling and picking up your baby
• Ways to soothe and settle
• Understanding your baby’s cues and their own unique way of communicating
• Massage and movement that may help ease wind and digestive discomfort
• Gentle stretches for baby
• Gentle yoga-based movement for you
• Music, sound and song
• Breathwork to help you calm and replenish
• Relaxation

And there’s always time to talk, share what’s going on and meet other mums who are navigating these early weeks too.

The Baby Nomad Massage Menu

After more than 20 years of teaching baby massage, I’ve learned one very important thing:

Babies don’t read the manual.

What they loved yesterday they may have absolutely no interest in today!

That’s why I teach The Baby Nomad Massage Menu — a collection of massage strokes, holds, stretches, songs and practical skills that you can choose from depending on what you and your baby need at that moment.

I’m not interested in giving you a rigid routine that you feel you have to get “right”.

I want you to leave with the confidence to notice your baby, respond to them and trust yourself.

These are skills you can take home, share with your partner and weave into everyday family life long after our six weeks together have finished.

Of course, massage can feel wonderful for your baby. But the real benefits of these six weeks go much further than learning a set of strokes.

For me, it comes down to three things:

Connection

Massage gives you permission to stop and simply be with your baby.

Through touch, eye contact, movement, sound and song, you begin to notice the tiny ways your baby communicates with you — when they’re enjoying something, when they’ve had enough, when they want closeness and when they need something different.

There’s no phone to answer, washing to put on or dinner to think about.

Just time to get to know each other.

Confidence

Nobody hands you a manual when you leave hospital with your baby.

During our six weeks together you’ll build a toolkit of simple, practical things you can draw on at home — massage strokes, different ways to hold and pick up your baby, gentle movement, songs and ways to soothe and settle.

But more importantly, you’ll become more confident in noticing what your baby needs.

I’m not here to teach you the “right” way to be a mum.

I’m here to help you trust that you’re learning your own baby every single day.

Calm

Babies don’t need us to be calm all the time — thankfully!

But having a few ways to slow things down can make a huge difference when everything feels a bit much.

Massage, touch, gentle movement, breathing and relaxation can create moments of calm for both of you. Sometimes that might help an unsettled baby. Sometimes it’s Mum who needs it most.

And sometimes the best thing is simply being in a room with other women who understand exactly what these early weeks can be like.

And perhaps most importantly…

This is an hour each week when neither of you has to achieve anything.

Your baby doesn’t have to perform.

You don’t have to get everything right.

You can feed, cuddle, change, walk around, join in, sit something out, ask questions, laugh, talk — or simply be.

Baby Massage is time to learn your baby, enjoy your baby and grow in confidence together.
Then you can move onto Massage and Movement for Mums and Babies.