The Massage for Babies workshop is a special time for the parents and their children. They spend a good time in a enjoyable place.
Benefits of Massage : it makes the baby relaxed, calm and secure, develops and strengthens the bond between parents and children, improves sleeping, contributes to the baby’s development, and decreases a baby’s colic.

Participants : the baby with one or both parents (individual lesson) or maximum 4 babies with one or both parents
Duration : 1.30 hour for each session. It’s strongly recommended to participate to 3 consecutive times, with one or two weeks interval.
Cost : contact me
Material : Please bring a towel with you, and eventually a pillow. Massage oil is provided during the workshop.

Come learn how carry your child with the baby-carrying cloth. You’ll discover different ways to do it, depending on your needs and the age of your child. You’ll quickly understand that this cloth is more than just a way to carry your baby.

Participants : maximum 6 babies with one or both parents.
Duration : from 1.30 to 2.00 hours
Material : given during the workshop
Date, cost and place : contact me

To sing for her baby while pregnant gives a mother well-being and serenity. When parents are singing, the sound vibrations of their voices imprint on the baby.
Later, when the baby hears these songs again, he will remember those prenatal impressions and feel secure.
During the workshop a specific effort – physically and vocally – is made, to think about birth.

Participants : possible as an individual or in a group
Duration : 1 hour.
Date, cost and place : contact me

Singing for and with your baby.
A wonderful way to share the everyday, by accompanying it with musical notes.
A way to reassure your baby, and make him calm and secure.

Participants : 7 babies accompanied by one of the parents, grand-parents, or nanny.
Duration : 1 hour.
Date, cost and place : contact me

Virginie Vogtenberger-Loth, pediatric nurse State Diploma, instructor in massage and baby-carrying, is a presenter accredited by the College of Psychophonie in prenatal and family singing.
Founder of the association : Well-born to Well-Being, and is the mother of 4 children.
Contact : 06 62 85 01 93 – v.loth@free.fr

Petit d’Homme Naturellement is a parenting organization in Jouy le Moutier, operating for now in Val d’Oise (next to Paris, France) and open to all.

Parenting in our day and age is a consciously involved choice of lifestyle and education. It’s no longer the old dominant pattern. If you choose it, you understand that another kind of education is possible.

In this kind of education, you find : breastfeeding for several years when the baby is hungry, non-violent education, washable diapers and natural hygiene, carrying the baby next to your body, no over-medications during pregnancy and birth, sleeping with the baby, massage, responding when the baby is crying, and respectful communication.

Everybody chooses what he needs. And often, you can add : prenatal and postnatal singing, haptonomy, understanding a baby with intensive needs, studies of alternative teaching, reflections about the marital couple and the parental couple, respect of the person, in all his forms, action in the ecology movement, finding arguments to explain ideas about education to friends and relatives.

This list isn’t exhaustive and to continue….

PONA is also a communication network where the members of this community can speak together about their life and their questions by discussions and exchanges of knowledge.

Angélique and Sophie-Céline, the two founders of PONA, think that the building of bonds is primordial, whether between parents and babies, later children, and between children, grand-parents and all the people who take care of children.

This bond is primordial for the future of the world we hope to leave to them. If we have hopes for another world for them, less violent, more ecologically conscious, more respectful, we have to show them a good example first. We have to show respect so our children can learn about it. We have to respect their tears, their sorrows and their anxiety, but also, their joy and their life's rhythm.

PONA thinks that parenting is a good methode to spread, in a meaningful way, to help parents and children build good relationships, far from a disapproving regard which still exists.

PONA tries to let discover, share and promote mothering and parenting, by meeting and workshops.

PONA regularly organizes encounter meetings, workshops : « Sign with me » (about sign language for the deaf and speech-impaired), mother and baby sings, respectful education, brothers and sisters, washable diapers, needlework, baby carrying, pottering around…. And visits, with refreshments.

Price depending the workshop. Speaking meeting are free.

Website : www.petitdhommenaturellement.sup.fr