Birthlight

The Birthlight Trust is an educational charity that promotes an integrated, holistic approach to pregnancy, birth and babyhood. Its main objective is to enhance well being and enjoyment for parents and their babies before and after birth. The application of simple yoga-based body movements, breathing techniques and relaxation, both on land and in water, has proved beneficial and is reaching increasing numbers of parents and professional carers, educators and instructors.

Two of Birthlight's techniques are used extensively in our swimming courses:

Birthlight Aqua Yoga

These Aqua Yoga programmes have been developed over many years, with training methods being tested in popular workshops and short courses in the UK and the USA.

Aqua Yoga is the ideal form of prenatal exercise and preparation for childbirth. In water, fitness can be achieved without strain and safely throughout pregnancy and many of the benefits of advanced yoga practice are made readily accessible to women through our carefully designed, comprehensive programme.

Infant Aquatics

Birthlight also promotes early infant aquatics with teaching methods designed to create an excellent foundation for a child's future in the water, promoting safe practice and water confidence.

Birthlight Infant Aquatic classes are an ideal environment for mothers and their new babies to bond, for children to begin to socialise and for whole families to spend quality time together.