tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10869646680115458762024-03-08T10:43:46.124-08:00In-Touch with Touch-LearnStay 'In-Touch' with Touch-Learn International Ltd. www.touchlearn.co.ukTouch-Learn International Ltdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18062735615546937098noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086964668011545876.post-57466131442572419812011-11-21T10:00:00.000-08:002011-11-21T10:00:52.707-08:00Baby Yoga News from Deb Green<h1 class="pic-right" style="background-color: white; color: #562252; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: bottom; width: 585px;">Baby Yoga with Ruby! <img alt="ruby-300x277" class="pic-right" height="277" mce_src="images/stories/touchlearn-images/ruby-300x277.jpg" src="http://www.touchlearn.co.uk/images/stories/touchlearn-images/ruby-300x277.jpg" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; float: right; height: auto; margin-left: 20px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 3px; width: 250px;" width="300" /> </h1><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">Hello to you all.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">Some of you reading this may remember that on my last few Baby Yoga courses I was pregnant, well now Ruby is 8 months old and is a beautiful, smiley, bright bundle of energy. Baby yoga was something that I was so excited about doing with Ruby. Before I started any yoga with Ruby I followed the Touch-Learn’s programme and used the lovely Pocket Book of Baby Massage, co-written by Anita Epple & Pauline Carpenter. I found it to be fantastic, as it is suggested, in helping Ruby to get used to positive touch.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">Getting started ......</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">I must admit that I had very high expectations of baby yoga for my own baby ... this may have been due to my very compliant demo doll ‘Bernard’ and Bernard loved the entire sequence and never did display ANY no cues! I officially started the baby yoga with Ruby when she was about 3 months old – this was an age that really suited me as prior to this she was feeding up to 12 times a day and trying to find a time that wouldn’t adversely affect her digestive system seemed impossible.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">Elements I loved and will treasure forever...</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">The way she focused on me; the eye-to-eye contact was beautiful.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">It made me see just how much she loved her hands in her mouth, so poses like ‘Little Bird’ and ‘Loving Hug’ almost always had to be missed out.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">The confidence it gave me in handling her was amazing, especially poses such as ‘Tick Tock’, ‘Roly Poly’ and ‘See Saw’.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">The first time I heard Ruby laugh was during baby yoga – leaping lions, with Daddy pulling a silly face as I lifted her up. This was a moment her Dad and I shall never forget; in fact Leaping Lions went on for a good while as we didn’t want her to stop laughing!</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">The fact that ‘Wind the Bobbin’ ended up being a sing-song with Ruby watching ME doing the actions as she would not un-clamp her arms from her side. BUT it still makes her smile at 8 months and we do it with her sitting up as she is too busy rolling off and crawling now to stay still for long!</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">It was time for “us” – play time for her and for me. It helped me to understand her more. I saw her non-verbal cues in action, which helped enormously in other situations.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">The skin-to-skin contact helped so much with bonding with Ruby - again, this was so, so important for me as Ruby spent her first week in the Neo-Natal Unit so contact was unbelievably limited in comparison to mums who are lucky enough to go home with their first baby.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">For me, it didn’t always have to be a set-out routine – there have been many times when I chose her favourite poses and we repeated them and sung alongside the movements.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">I am really fortunate to have these skills to introduce Ruby to yoga and I love that it can be picked up again at any point that suits her, even now (when she is actually still) she still giggles during Marching and Kangaroo Hop and Leaping Lions happens every day!</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" mce_name="em" mce_style="font-style: italic;" style="font-style: italic;">Deborah Green</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" mce_name="em" mce_style="font-style: italic;" style="font-style: italic;">BSY, QBYT</span></div>Touch-Learn International Ltdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18062735615546937098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086964668011545876.post-34327153865099730582011-11-21T09:00:00.000-08:002011-11-21T10:05:31.960-08:00Free Resources for Touch-Learn Baby Massage Teachers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><h1 class="pic-right" style="background-color: white; color: #562252; font-family: 'Gill Sans MT', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: bottom; width: 723px;"></h1><h1 class="pic-right" style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: bottom; width: 585px;">Baby Massage Teacher Resources.<img alt="PTLLS2" class="pic-right" height="225" mce_src="images/stories/touchlearn-images/PTLLS2.jpg" src="http://www.touchlearn.co.uk/images/stories/touchlearn-images/PTLLS2.jpg" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; float: right; height: auto; margin-left: 20px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 3px; width: 250px;" width="300" /></h1><h2 style="color: #e53685; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: middle;">New Free Resources.</h2><div style="color: black; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</div><div mce_style="text-align: justify;" style="color: black; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"><span mce_style="color: #333333;" style="color: #333333;">As you know we strive at Touch-Learn to improve the resources we offer our students and alumni and over the past 6 months we have added new resources to our website for you to download from the members' section and use when teaching baby massage, baby yoga and Rhythm Kids with your parents. Resources will continue to be added to the site, so we urge you to log in and check regularly for these.</span></div><div mce_style="text-align: justify;" style="color: black; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span mce_style="color: #333333;" style="color: #333333;"><br />
</span></div><div mce_style="text-align: justify;" style="color: black; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span mce_style="color: #333333;" style="color: #333333;">We have now uploaded simple massage handouts for parents. These handouts have one body area on one page and as you know we feel, less is more, when it comes to giving good quality information to parents. Please use your Touch-Learn website members login to access these new resources. Contact Head Office if you have forgotten this or do not have one.</span></div><div mce_style="text-align: justify;" style="color: black; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div mce_style="text-align: justify;" style="color: black; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span mce_style="color: #333333;" style="color: #333333;">The handouts are:</span></div><ul mce_style="text-align: justify;" style="color: black; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><li><span mce_style="color: #333333;" style="color: #333333;">Opening sequence handout</span></li>
<li><span mce_style="color: #333333;" style="color: #333333;">Leg and foot massage handout</span></li>
<li><span mce_style="color: #333333;" style="color: #333333;">Tummy massage handout</span></li>
<li><span mce_style="color: #333333;" style="color: #333333;">Chest and arm massage handout</span></li>
<li><span mce_style="color: #333333;" style="color: #333333;">Back massage handout</span></li>
<li><span mce_style="color: #333333;" style="color: #333333;">Head and face massage handout</span></li>
</ul><div mce_style="text-align: justify;" style="color: black; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span mce_style="color: #333333;" style="color: #333333;">We would welcome your feedback on these resources. Thank you. </span></div><div mce_style="text-align: justify;" style="color: black; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span mce_style="color: #333333;" style="color: #333333;">Anita Epple</span></div><div mce_style="text-align: justify;" style="color: black; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span mce_style="color: #333333;" style="color: #333333;">Managing Director, </span></div><div mce_style="text-align: justify;" style="color: black; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div mce_style="text-align: justify;" style="color: black; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span mce_style="color: #333333;" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" mce_name="strong" mce_style="font-weight: bold;" style="font-weight: bold;">Recent feedback from our qualified teachers:</span></span></div><div mce_style="text-align: justify;" style="color: black; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"><span mce_style="color: #333333;" style="color: #333333;">Hello, I just wanted to say what wonderful materials you have provided in your members area! I am really looking forward to using these in my classes and they will really help with creating a professional image. I love the simple handouts for parents. Thank you! Nicky QIMT 17.11.11</span></div>Touch-Learn International Ltdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18062735615546937098noreply@blogger.com0