Peter
Walker, physical therapist and yoga teacher since the late 1970s.
Studied
Yoga and experiential anatomy with dear friend and teacher Arthur Balaskas.
Worked
for some ten years under the supervision of world famous psychiatrist and
author Dr R D Laing and introduced yoga and massage into a number of Dr Laing's
therapeutic communities.
From the
mid eighties onwards he has taught massage and movement to mothers and babies
and some unique techniques to parents with babies with additional needs.
Peter
specialises in supporting parent and child relationships and the well-being and
fitness of mothers and babies especially those babies and children with
developmental delay.
His certificated Teacher Training Courses for professionals working with mothers
and babies from are given throughout the UK and Japan.
These
courses attract midwives, health visitors, neonatal nurses and other therapists
from all around the world.
A pioneer
of ‘Developmental Baby Massage’ and ‘YogaGym’ for babies and children from the
eighties, Peter currently has some ten thousand teachers in over twenty
different countries all taught and certificated by him.
“Peter's workshops and courses are recognised as having inspired the free
teaching of baby massage to all new mothers in most maternity units and
healthcare centres throughout the UK”.
Sarah Forester RGN HV Cert. Ed. Professional Officer (Education)
Health
Visitors Association
Peter’s course is the only one (with extra study) that attracted a university
merit of fifteen points towards a level three honours degree in midwifery and
neonatal nursing.(Greenwich University London)
Peter has made numerous radio and television appearances, has featured in
documentaries and breakfast shows on all the UK’s major channels and interviewed
by Frank Bough, Anne Diamond, Richard and Judy, Emma Freud, Tara Newley,
Melinda Messenger and others.
He has also given talks on BBC Radio One, Woman’s Radio, Radio Wales and other
radio stations and has been featured in articles in Woman, Cosmopolitan,
Harpers & Queen, The Telegraph, Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Observer, The
Times, Japan Times and Australia’s Natural Parenting Magazines and many other
national publications including most UK mother and baby publications.
His books, sold in eighteen different languages, include:
Baby Gymnastics (Unwin)
Baby Relax (Unwin)
Going for Gold with DaleyThompson (Unwin)
Natural Parenting (Gaia)
The Book of Massage (Gaia)
Baby Massage (Piatkus)
Hop,Skip and Jump (Gymnastics for Children) (Carroll and Brown)
Developmental Baby Massage (Carroll and Brown 3rd reprint October
2009 special edition) )
He has
also made the following videos/DVD’s:
Loving Baby Massage (East Atlantic Videos)
Baby Massage Step 1 2 and 3 (Little Venice Films)
Massage and Movement: Birth to Three Years
Sharing Pregnancy
In the light of a seriously increasing epidemic of inner city violence that features worldwide in all of todays modern societies many of those involved with mental health and physical wellbeing, the environment, criminal rehabilitation, politics and care in general within their communities are searching for ways in which this problem can be solved.
However the importance of the fact that every human being carries with them and is influenced by their developmental history still seems to be largely overlooked.
When this developmental profile begins and to what extent this influences our lives has always been and still remains and issue for debate.
The fact that some of our deepest fears and anxieties come from our pre-natal, birth, post-natal and early childhood experiences is still a long way from being given the credence that it deserves.
About Peter Walker 
