FAQ
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What’s the difference between Baby massage, Baby Yoga and Wrigglers classes?
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What kinds of emotional and psychological support sessions do you offer?
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How does booking for the Baby Yoga Classes work?
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Do I need to be familiar with yoga to come to these classes?
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What's the difference between The Baby Village subscription and The Growing Together Village subscription?
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If I'm ill or away, can I swap my Baby Yoga class or give my place to someone else?
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What can I expect when I arrive at Baby Yoga?
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Should I book Baby Yoga or Wrigglers for my almost mobile baby?
Q – What’s the difference between Baby massage, Baby Yoga and Wrigglers classes?
My online Baby massage and Transitioning to Motherhood course is designed to help you find your way in the early weeks and months. It is a self led online class that covers the early transition to motherhood. You will learn how to massage your baby, how to support the bonding process, how to hold and soothe, and methods of approaching baby care that is respectful, mindful and realistic.
The course also covers the basic foundations of postnatal practice, in terms of breathing to heal from birth and gently reconnect with your pelvic floor and abdominals, and some simple movements that you can use to ease out the daily aches and pains. It’s suitable for any kind of birth experience, including caesarian or forceps or where there have been complications during or post birth, and the physical movements are gentle enough to begin right from birth.
Mindfulness and positive mental health practices are built in to support your transition into motherhood. This course has a slow gentle pace to it suited to the early months, and is built in short easily digestible videos.
If you have the option I recommend this as a foundation course and then to move onto the Baby yoga class after this.
My Parent and Baby yoga classes are face to face at Satyam Yoga centre and are bookable by the school half term. Babies should be at least 10 weeks old (it’s fine to start later than this) and can stay in this class as long as they are non mobile. (Once they start moving, they can move up to the Parent and Wrigglers class.) In this class we do 50% dry massage, movement and mindful play for babies, and 50% gentle postnatal yoga including mindfulness. There is time for chatting built into the class to build friendships and supportive mental health practices are also woven into each class.
The physical yoga for parents is gentle and suitable for those recovering from Caesarean births. If you have a complicated healing pathway, feel free to get in touch to see if this class will suit you.
It is a vibrant busy class where we support parent-baby bonding; group connection; mindful interaction; self nurture and positive mental health practices.
This class runs throughout the year and can be attended multiple terms. Many people stay until they go back to work or move up to the wrigglers class
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My Wrigglers classes are for parents and babies who are crawling up to 2 years old. These are designed for mobile babies with more playful and dynamic movement and massage, songs and practices to learn about their bodies.
Babies are free to move around and explore the space as they wish, building social skills and confidence within the group at their own pace. At this stage parent yoga becomes more dynamic as well, with opportunities to build strength, balance, patience and relaxation skills as you move towards the toddler years.
Q- What kinds of emotional and psychological support sessions do you offer?
~ Counselling ~
Weekly Sessions to work through any issues that feel stuck or difficult. I offer both short and long term counselling to people of all genders on wide range of issues.
Available online Monday afternoon or Tuesday daytime, or Face to face Tuesday daytime in the Chesterton area. More info HERE
Please note ongoing counselling is not available to paid subscribers of the Baby Village or currently attending my classes.
~ Mentoring ~
Monthly sessions to check in with how you’re doing, talk over any challenges you’re having and celebrate any triumphs. Supporting your needs, thought processes and resilience strategies so you can manage the juggle of life to flow smoother.
Sessions can be for one parent or as a couple.
Available Wednesday daytimes and Friday mornings.
Open to all (including those in my classes or WhatsApp groups).
More info, including current availability HERE
~ General Support Sessions ~
Adhoc sessions booked to support you through pregnancy, postnatally or into life beyond. These sessions can be a scaffold for you when you need some support working through an issue (such as an upcoming birth, debriefing after birth or other parenting/life issue), or just to have a ‘top up’ when life feels heavy for any reason.
Between 1 and 6 sessions depending on what you need.
More info HERE
Open to all (including those in my classes or WhatsApp groups)
Short Term Perinatal/Maternal Counselling
This kind of short term counselling can be around any issue that pertains to pregnancy, birth, or the postnatal time. It is open to those of all genders and focuses around your needs at the time. It may be about working through birth trauma, or around preparing for birth if you are finding that prospect challenging. It may be about coming to terms with a new medical situation you find yourself navigating through pregnancy, or the transition to becoming parent. It might also be about processing the experience of a miscarriage or managing difficult family or relationship issues during this time of your life. Perhaps you're experiencing low mood or anxiety a lot, or you don't even know what you're feeling, but you feel it would be helpful to have some support.
Between 1 and 6 sessions depending on what you need.
More info HERE
Open to all (including those in my classes or WhatsApp groups)
Therapeutic Groups
Sometimes I run therapeutic groups for mothers. These can be transformative spaces in which a small group of mothers come together to discuss their inner experiences of navigating motherhood, identity changes, emotions and relationships.
You can read more about my Matrescence therapeutic group HERE
Q – How does booking for Baby Yoga work?
These classes are booked directly through the classes page of my website
My Parent and Baby yoga classes are very popular and almost always book up in advance.
Because of this, I have a system set up to manage booking in a way that feels fair.
Booking for each term opens around 3-4 weeks before the term begins.
When booking opens, places are offered to the following groups in this order. Please note I do not hold waiting lists.
Stage 1- Booking will open to those already in the classes. This means, once you have a space in the class, you can carry on for as many terms as you wish.
Stage 2. Booking opens for my Baby Village Subscribers. One of the added perks of subscription is that you get priority booking for my classes as well as a discount on the classes. Please note that this does not necessarily guarantee a spot when classes are particular busy. You can read more about the Baby Village here
Stage 3. Booking opens for my free Peer Support WhatsApp groups. Anyone who is in my classes, or interested in joining classes can join these groups. They are a mindful and supportive community of mothers with babies in Cambridge. Please email me for the links.
Stage 4. If any spaces are available after this, I advertise them on my Insta and Facebook accounts
BABY YOGA TERMS
Next term begins: Week beginning 2nd November.
Stage One- current term open- 12th Oct
Stage Two Subscribers open - 15th Oct
Stage Three WhatsApp group open- 19th Oct
Q – Do I need to be familiar with yoga to come to these classes?
No. I regularly have people in the class who have never been to a yoga class before and also those who have regularly practiced for years. I teach with an inclusive perspective for all sizes, shapes, fitness level and experience.
I have a Health at Every Size approach and facilitate a space in which you can connect to your body through breath, movement and relaxation in a manner that helps you to feel and move better (through gently building strength, balance and awareness) and supports positive body image and mental health.
I also teach all classes with a trauma informed foundation.
If you are struggling with your mental or physical health and have any concerns about attending or participating in the classes, please feel free to be in touch to discuss with me.
Q - What's the difference between The Baby Village subscription and The Growing Together Village subscription?
People often ask me what the difference is between The Baby Village and The Growing Together Village, so here’s the simplest way I can explain it 😊
💛 BOTH MEMBERSHIPS INCLUDE
🧘 Monthly online Deep Relaxation / Yoga Nidra
🌳 Monthly weekend family gatherings
🌱 Three 6-week Community Practice Challenges each year — Regulation, Mindfulness & Compassion
📝 Monthly Check-In — a chance to pause and reflect on how the month has been for you, share what’s going on in your world, and stay connected with what’s happening for others in the community
📸 Joy Tuesdays — our weekly invitation to share a little moment of joy from your week and enjoy everyone else’s too
🧸 Access to the Toddler Talk WhatsApp group
👶 THE BABY VILLAGE — £15pm
For parents from pregnancy through the first years of parenting — there’s no upper age limit, so you’re very welcome to stay as your children grow.
The Baby Village is a bigger, busier, chattier community. Lots of members are on maternity leave, so there tends to be plenty of day-to-day conversation — questions, recommendations, solidarity, sharing the joys and struggles, and general parenting chat.
Baby Village also includes:
☕ Coffee, Chat & Chill meet-ups
💬 The Baby Village WhatsApp community
📚 Online resource library — blogs & podcasts
🧘♀️ Discounts on Baby Yoga classes
✨ Subscriber discounts and extras throughout the year
You can read more about The Baby Village here:
https://www.bryonyvickers.co.uk/the-baby-village
🌿 THE GROWING TOGETHER VILLAGE — £35pm/£15 second parent
For parents of all genders, with children up to 11 years old.
The WhatsApp group is less busy and more intentional, partly because most members are working. There’s still space for the everyday parenting stuff, but much more of the conversation is structured around therapeutic inquiry and reflection — how we want to parent, the patterns we’ve inherited, our values, relationships, triggers and the kind of family life we’re trying to create.
It’s also a much smaller group, which means there’s a real opportunity to get to know people and build relationships over years. The hope is that when we hit the inevitable road bumps of parenting and family life, we already have a trusted community to turn to — somewhere we can bring the worries, questions and vulnerabilities we might not necessarily feel able to ask elsewhere.
Membership only opens two or three times a year, rather than having new people joining all the time. This helps the group stay cohesive and contained, giving people time to get to know one another and helping to build the trust that makes those more open and vulnerable conversations possible.
Growing Together Village also includes:
🌿 Regular Growing Together topics, with videos, prompts & practices
💻 A Gather & Reflect Zoom meeting for every topic, giving us space to explore it more deeply together
💬 A smaller WhatsApp community for ongoing conversation & reflection
🧺 Three family potlucks a year — a chance for whole families to gather, eat and spend time together
GTV is £35/month for the first parent + £15/month for an additional parent from the same family.
The Growing Together Village also has a more specific set of shared community values that everyone signs up to when they join. These help us create the kind of trusted, thoughtful community where people can have more vulnerable conversations and explore parenting and ourselves with curiosity.
You can read more about The Growing Together Village and its values here:
https://www.bryonyvickers.co.uk/growingtogether
Can I swap my class or give my place to someone else?
Yes! If you can’t make your class, you’re very welcome to offer your place to someone else — either in one of my WhatsApp groups or to a friend.
This is an extra bit of flexibility I’m happy to offer within the Village, but it relies on everyone self-organising. I don’t have the admin capacity to arrange or keep track of swaps and substitutions myself, so please organise everything directly between yourselves.
If you’re offering your place in a WhatsApp group:
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the day, date and time of the class
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whether you’re giving the place away or selling it on
Anyone interested can then message you privately to arrange it.
Once you’ve confirmed with someone that the place is theirs, please add a ⛔ emoji to your original post so everyone knows it’s gone. (Search “no” in the emoji menu if you can’t find it.)
If you’re taking someone else’s place:
Just let me know when we check in at the beginning of class. If it’s your first baby class with me, please come and say hello before we start so I can welcome you and quickly check in with you.
If you’re giving your place to a friend who isn’t in my groups:
Please ask them to come and introduce themselves before class and let me know that they’re new and subbing in for you.
👉🏽 The golden rule: 👈🏽
Feel free to self-organise and create no extra admin for thy teacher! 🙏🏽😅
I’m really happy to offer this flexibility, and it works brilliantly as long as swaps stay member-organised rather than becoming something I need to arrange or monitor.
What can I expect when I arrive at Baby Yoga?
If it’s your first Baby Yoga class, here’s everything you need to know about arriving and getting settled.
When should I arrive?
Doors open five minutes before the class starts. Please don’t arrive earlier than this, as I’ll still be busy getting the room ready for you.
Don’t worry if you’re running late, though — babies have their own ideas about schedules! Just come in quietly when you arrive, find yourself a mat and join us wherever we are.
What happens when I arrive?
Leave your shoes at the door and bring everything else in with you. Buggies can be parked in the room, and there’s also a cloakroom and toilet available.
A yoga mat and cushion will already be laid out for you, so you can come in, find a space and plonk yourself down. If you prefer to use your own yoga mat, you’re very welcome to bring it and lay it over one of mine.
I’ll be there to say hello as you come in. The start of class is deliberately relaxed — people arrive, settle themselves and their babies, have a chat, sit quietly, feed their baby… whatever they need to do.
We then begin with a round of check-ins while I take the register. Over the course of the term, these check-ins also help everyone gradually get to know one another.
What do I need to bring?
Very little! Just bring whatever you would normally need to look after your baby.
Some people like to bring a blanket for their baby to lie on, particularly because it feels and smells familiar to them, but you don’t need to.
Please bring your own changing mat and any toys, blankets or other baby bits you’d like to have with you.
For you, wear something comfortable that you can stretch and move in. The yoga is gentle, so full sports kit is definitely not required.
What if my baby cries, needs feeding or needs changing?
This is a very baby-friendly class. Babies vocalise. Babies cry. They need feeding and changing. They fall asleep. All of this is completely normal and happens throughout the class.
You can simply respond to your baby as you need to. Feeding and nappy changes can happen right there on your mat — there’s no need to leave the room.
The only thing I ask is that you take dirty nappies away with you rather than putting them in the bins at the centre.
How old does my baby need to be?
Baby Yoga is generally pitched at babies from around 10 weeks onwards.
However, if your baby is younger and you’re ready to get out of the house and would like to be in a warm, welcoming, baby-friendly space with other mums, you’re very welcome to come along earlier.
What about meeting other people?
There’s no pressure to be sociable when you arrive — you’re equally welcome to have a chat or just settle quietly with your baby.
Our check-ins at the beginning of each class mean that people naturally get to know one another as the course goes on. Introverts, extroverts, neurodivergent folk and everyone else are all very welcome in my classes.
And quite often after class, a group will decamp to Stir Café across the road for coffee, cake or lunch and a chat. You’re always welcome to join if you fancy it.
What’s parking like?
There are three parking spaces directly outside Satyam Yoga Centre, although these tend to go quickly.
There are various other bits of parking in the surrounding side streets, as well as some paid parking around Elizabeth Way roundabout and De Freville Avenue.
There is also free four-hour street parking on St Andrew’s Road and Church Street, around a seven-minute walk from the centre.
Unfortunately I can’t guarantee parking, but plenty of people do drive to class and usually find somewhere in the surrounding streets. Just check the signs carefully, as some nearby streets have residents-only parking.
Should I book Baby Yoga or Wrigglers for my Almost Mobile baby?
There's a lovely in-between stage when babies are starting to move around more, and either class could be a good fit!
If your baby is over six months old or has started moving around, they're welcome to join Wrigglers.
Wrigglers is quite different from Parent & Baby Yoga. It's a more dynamic class, with no chatting circle at the beginning, and the yoga for us grown-ups steps up a pace too! We have nothing in the room except our mats and ourselves, so there's less to distract from the class. Babies are free to move around, explore and interact with one another.
The class also reflects the changing experience of parenting a mobile baby. As our babies develop, what they need from us changes too. The practices we explore, and the things we talk about, are designed to support us in navigating this new stage of parenting.
So, which class should you choose?
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Book Wrigglers if your baby is already moving around confidently, or you think they'll reach that stage during the next term. It's also a great choice if they're just starting to roll, shuffle or explore, and you'd like them to have space to move freely and be around other mobile babies.~
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Stay with Baby Yoga if your baby is still quite happy spending most of the class on their mat, and you'd prefer to enjoy the slower, gentler pace (and the chatting!) for one more term.
Once babies are confidently and quickly moving around, Wrigglers really is the better fit.
There's no need to rush the transition, though. That in-between stage is different for every baby, and you're very welcome to choose whichever class feels right for you both.
Can I book a drop-in class instead of the full term?
I take bookings for the full term initially, as this helps create a lovely, consistent group of parents and babies who get to know each other over the weeks.
Once the term has started, if there are spaces remaining, I'll open up bookings for individual drop-in classes. Some terms there are a handful of drop-in spaces available, while other terms the classes are fully booked, so availability does vary.
Any available drop-in spaces can be booked directly through my website, and you're welcome to book as many sessions as you like. Drop-ins cost a little more per class than booking the full term, so if you know you'd like to come regularly, booking the term is the best value (and guarantees your place!).