Ongoing classes for babies and parents/caregivers
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with Amy Matthews
Mondays, 2:00-3:00pm PT
Portland, OR
These group sessions are structured as open exploring time, where certified Infant Developmental Movement Educators will support the infants in their process, talk to parents and caregivers about their observations, respond to any questions that might come up, and offer suggestions.
with Sarah Barnaby
Thursdays, 12:30-1:30pm ET
147 W 24th St (6th & 7th Ave), NYC
register at Kids at Work
These group sessions are structured as open exploring time, where certified Infant Developmental Movement Educators will support the infants in their process, talk to parents and caregivers about their observations, respond to any questions that might come up, and offer suggestions.
with Amy Matthews
Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30pm PT
5433 NE 30th Ave, Portland OR
register at Ready Set GROW
These group sessions are structured as open exploring time, where certified Infant Developmental Movement Educators will support the infants in their process, talk to parents and caregivers about their observations, respond to any questions that might come up, and offer suggestions.
with Sarah Barnaby
occasional Wednesdays, 1-2pm ET
988 Fulton St, Brooklyn
upcoming dates: Aug 12, Aug 26
register at House of Wonder
Are you interested in learning to observe, appreciate, and support your baby's exploration of movement? Join Sarah for a warm and welcoming movement workshop open to babies from birth to standing.
with Sarah Barnaby and Amy Matthews
Mondays, 2:00-3:00pm ET
online, by donation
These virtual gatherings are intended as opportunities for you and your little ones to check in with Sarah and Amy, say hello, ask us questions, and share community.
This post was written in 2018 and describes how Babies Project started.
Sarah Barnaby and Amy Matthews created Babies Project in 2017 as a partnership in offering developmental movement to babies and adults.
Read the bios for Amy Matthews and Sarah Barnaby, co-founders and directors of Babies Project.
Read about our principles and beliefs, which start with:
Babies come in as whole people, not as blank slates.
At Babies Project, the principles we teach, play, facilitate, explore and live from arise from our core values of agency, comfort, curiosity and movement. We believe these values are embedded in developmental movement, and they can guide us to be more responsible, resilient, interdependent, self-regulating and relational.
The study of developmental movement is the study of how we learn to move in our first years of life. In Body-Mind Centering®, we specifically study the basic movement patterns, reflexive pathways and integration of our senses, as well as the progressive layering of rhythms, experiences and relationships that help an infant find a sense of self, integration and ease.
All of our classes for caregivers and their babies are taught by IDMEs (Infant Developmental Movement Educators) who have been trained and certified by the School for Body-Mind Centering, and are Professional Members of the Body-Mind Centering® Association.
IDME training includes four core developmental movement courses in addition to two 10-day modules focused on working with infants. This training takes place over several years and includes over 500 hours of course work, observations and sessions.
Body-Mind Centering® is an integrated and embodied approach to movement, the body and consciousness. Developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, it is an experiential study based on the embodiment and application of anatomical, physiological, psychophysical and developmental principles, utilizing movement, touch, voice and mind. Its uniqueness lies in the specificity with which each of the body systems can be personally embodied and integrated, the fundamental groundwork of developmental repatterning, and the utilization of a body-based language to describe movement and body-mind relationships.
Read the short version of our vision, mission, and values.