Yoga for babies
A growing number of mothers are taking their babies to yoga classes.
Babies taking yoga classes may be a new trend in the West, but the tradition from which it has grown dates back centuries. Harriotte Hurie, a licensed massage therapist and ethnomusicologist, saw firsthand how babies in India are massaged and exercised when she visited the country in 1971. “I’d see women massaging their babies with mustard oil that’s been heated with ajwain [oregano seeds] pretty vigorously,” she says. The women would move the babies’ limbs as they massaged the oil in circular motions.