Using songs and rhymes in baby or toddler yoga has a number of benefits:
With all these benefits, you probably don't need a great deal of encouragement to use songs, rhymes and music in your baby yoga or toddler yoga sessions!
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- It aids interaction between parent and child
- Songs and rhymes engage different parts of the brain with singing and movement
- It encourages fun times in the sessions
- It creates repetitiveness of sounds and movement of mouth which is good for language and speech development
- It teaches parents nursery rhymes and positive ways of interacting with their child
- It makes the movement fun and more interesting for babies and toddlers
- It can re-engage children who may have disengaged from the class
- Songs and rhymes teach language for actions, for example, 'touching your nose' encourages the learning of the body part
- Parents and children can continue to enjoy the songs from when they're a baby, to being a toddler and beyond
- It brings out the inner child in parents
- It increases relaxation
With all these benefits, you probably don't need a great deal of encouragement to use songs, rhymes and music in your baby yoga or toddler yoga sessions!
Not yet teaching but would like to become a baby yoga instructor or toddler & child yoga instructor? Check out our online distance learning courses in the learning portal.