What is ‘Tree Babies’ all about?
All about Connection:
Connection is everything. In fact, there is nothing other than connection, we are connected to ourselves, loved ones, to nature and the universe.
Tree babies is all about closeness and connection to your baby and being outside with nature taking it all in with your different senses. Tree babies is a way of connecting with nature with beautiful outdoor classes all year round creating emotional connections to nature incorporating mindfulness, baby wearing and forest bathing. Here we find out a bit more about all of these.
When you do a Tree Babies session, we embrace this closeness by doing some breathing and mindfulness practice. We then take a moment in the session for something called forest bathing, this comes from the Japanese term ‘Shinrin-yoku’. Studies show that 15 minutes of forest bathing (walking around the outdoors) in nature/forests can reduce stress, anger, anxiety, and depression.
Tree Babies is all about slowing down and deep appreciation of nature. It’s also shown in studies that when we breath in the compound from coniferous trees called “Natural killer” it helps boost our immune function.
In Tree Babies we encourage lots of baby wearing. You and your baby will feel connected together, the babies will see and hear what you can. When we think about connecting with nature, we also know that babies sleep better out in nature. Being in the outdoors is also a way of engaging all yours and your babies’ senses.
We will also enjoy some group activities such as collecting items from around us to make nature mandalas. We then end our session with a Tea ceremony and gratitude to discuss the session.
We are looking forward to hosting some Tree Babies sessions with parents soon!
