Courses

For Your Baby’s Well-Being

Baby massage is a wonderful way to foster closeness with your child. The shared time of touching and being touched can help connect and strengthen the relationship with your child. Massage goes far beyond the purely physical sensation – it is nourishment for the soul. The intense attention provides comfort, joy, and the feeling of being loved.

Baby massage can help with colic, digestive problems, and restlessness. Blood circulation, the immune system, the cardiovascular system, respiration, and digestion all benefit from baby massage. The gradual coordination and strengthening of muscles are supported through baby massage.

Our baby massage courses follow the guidelines of the German Society for Baby and Child Massage e.V. and costs 85.00 euros. A course consists of five sessions of 90 minutes each and is suitable for babies up to crawling age. To participate in a course, your baby should be at least 4 weeks old.

Children have a strong urge to move and a pronounced curiosity regarding their surroundings. While exploring their environment, accidents can pose a great threat to the health of the child. Most childhood accidents result in scratches or bruises, but sometimes more serious situations leading to emergencies can occur. Therefore, it is important to know what to do in case of an emergency. This knowledge can provide immense reassurance and security.

This course discusses typical everyday situations that can lead to accidents/emergencies. From poisoning to burns to febrile seizures, etc., emergency situations that children may encounter are addressed.

Prevention comes first, meaning that hazardous situations should be identified and avoided before an accident happens. The environment of children must be made safe enough to allow them sufficient freedom to explore and actively conquer their surroundings.

In the event that something happens to the child, immediate measures are explained. The information received here should help bridge the critical time gap until medical help arrives.

Finally, the procedure in an acutely life-threatening situation is explained. From emergency equipment in the household to emergency phone lists, to ventilation and performing CPR, all steps of life-saving measures until the arrival of the emergency physician are discussed.

The Prague Parent-Child Program is an offering for parents who aim to actively accompany their child’s development during the first year of life.

In a warm environment, children can move spontaneously without restrictive clothing. Based on their developmental stage, they are offered play and movement activities.

The aim is to focus on the needs of the children. Through observation, it becomes clear that every child has their own rhythm, displays different behaviors and develops in their own unique way.

Through early pre-verbal sounds, mutual smiles, and touching, children establish connections with other babies and gain experience in interacting with peers. Parents have the opportunity to exchange their new experiences as parents and to obtain information from the course instructor on parenting and health issues.

PEKiP courses group together children of similar ages, who ideally should stay together for about a year. For this reason, the 10-week courses are continued until the end of the child’s first year of life. One course session lasts 1.5 hours (90 min)

The number of participants in the groups is limited to ensure high quality.

PEKiP can be started as early as eight weeks after birth. Of course, joining later during the first year of life is also possible.

The Hungarian paediatrician Emmi Pikler has impressively demonstrated that a child’s natural movement development and their enjoyment of independent play can unfold undisturbed if they can be active in a carefully prepared environment without being guided or ‘pushed’.

“It is essential that the child discovers as many things as possible for themselves. If we help them to solve all tasks, we deprive them of the very thing that is most important for their intellectual development. A child who achieves something through independent experimentation acquires a completely different kind of knowledge than one who is given the solution ready-made.” -Emmi Pikler

The SpielRaum offers children aged between four months and two years the opportunity to pursue their interest in movement, play, contact and balance in a stimulating environment.

There is enough space for parents to let the children’s experiences have an effect on them, to share their zest for life and to calm down themselves. It is possible to observe the astonishing competence with which babies and toddlers follow their developmental path and find solutions to tasks they set themselves.

We can address questions about the children’s development, their care, communication with them and also with older siblings, grandparents and other adults involved during the course and in accompanying parents’ evenings. In this way, we can always find ways to bring the needs and wishes of children and parents closer together.

Course leader Renée Oswald has been studying the free movement development approach of Emmi Pikler and Elfriede Hengstenberg for many years.