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Fireside / Simon & Schuster
Pub date: April 2004
ISBN #: 0743243552

"Helen Garabedian's Itsy Bitsy Yoga program has provided hundreds of moms and dads with a nurturing, cuddly way to bond with their young children…and it’s fun! Parents will love this book."—Dr. Harvey Karp, author of The Happiest Baby on the Block

“An imaginative, loving and developmentally attuned yoga practice for baby and you. I am delighted with this book...it sets the perfect foundation for infants to grow into YogaKids® and onto strong, caring, conscious adults!” -Marsha Wenig
Founder, YogaKids International and author of YogaKids: Educating the Whole Child Through Yoga

" Helen Garabedian’s book on baby yoga offers parents a fun and loving way to bond with their babies while guiding them in experiencing and developing their bodies through simple gentle yogic postures.”—Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Founder of the School of Body-Mind Centering® and author of Sensing, Feeling, and Action


The ancient practice of yoga will help your baby sleep better, digest easier, be happier and stay healthier. Start today.

If you’ve been searching for an excellent way to bond with your baby and improve his or her health, Itsy Bitsy Yoga is the solution you’ve been looking for. Helen Garabedian, a certified instructor in yoga and infant massage, has developed over seventy yoga postures and thirty-five series for moms and dads to enjoy with their growing babies. You don’t need any previous yoga experience. Learn the many benefits of yoga posture by posture in this accessible guide, with 70 beautiful black and white photos, at-a-glance reference charts, and memorable Itsy Bitsy Yoga Rhymes to help your baby.

Yoga can help babies up to two years of age:
• sleep better
• get relief from gas pains and colic
• digest easier
• stay healthier with a stronger immune system
• receive neuromuscular stimulation
• learn to relax herself

The book also features seven Magic Poses that can soothe fussy, upset babies within minutes! So start enjoying more time with your happy yoga baby right now.

HELEN GARABEDIAN is a Certified Yoga Teacher; Infant Developmental Movement Educator; Reiki Master/Teacher; and Certified Infant Massage Instructor. Helen founded Itsy Bitsy Yoga® a child-centered movement program for newborn infants thru age 4 with a parent or caregiver. She is the author of Itsy Bitsy Yoga: Poses to Help your Baby Sleep Better, Digest Easier and Grow Stronger (Fireside, A division of Simon & Schuster, May 2004). Helen currently conducts classes, workshops and IBY Facilitator Trainings nationwide. Helen’s highly acclaimed Itsy Bitsy Yoga program has been featured in USA Today, MSNBC, CNN, CBS News, Baby Years Magazine, and many television stations, newspapers and magazines across the country!

Book's interior and cover photos by Millicent Harvey Photogaphy