The episode explores the beauty of Indian baby massage and the experience of witnessing traditional Indian baby massage. It also contrasts Western and Indian baby massage practices, highlighting cultural differences and the importance of honoring diverse traditions.

Takeaways

• Indian baby massage tradition
• Cultural differences in baby massage practices

Chapters

• 00:00 Contrasting Western and Indian Baby Massage Practices

The conversation delves into the challenges of modern parenting, the essence of babies, and the concept of somatic parenting. It also introduces the Feel It Out method and the Somatic Parenting Guide as tools for navigating the complexities of parenting.

Takeaways

• Parenting overload and overwhelm
• Somatic parenting and the Feel It Out method

Chapters

• 00:00 The Overload of Modern Parenting
• 07:09 The Feel It Out Method and Somatic Parenting Guide

The First Forty Days — Somatic Nurture for Mothers and Newborns

In this deeply tender episode, Prema explores how to nurture both mother and baby in the first forty days after birth — a sacred window of transformation, rest, and bonding that has been honoured in cultures around the world for thousands of years.

Across time and tradition, this early postpartum period has always been seen as a time for slowing down, staying warm, receiving nourishment, and surrounding the mother with love and care — so she can heal and bond with her baby. In our modern world, much of that wisdom has been forgotten.

Drawing on somatic awareness, neuroscience, and ancient postpartum care, Prema reveals why reclaiming this sacred time is key to emotional wellbeing, recovery, and connection.

You’ll learn:
What happens to the mother’s and baby’s nervous systems after birth
How gentle somatic practices support co-regulation and bonding
Why slowing down, resting, and receiving help are biological necessities, not luxuries
How to reimagine the first forty days as a time of love, safety, and sacred repair

With a guided practice for grounding and attunement, this episode invites you to soften into your body, honour the threshold of motherhood, and remember that love begins in rest.

In this heart-opening episode, Prema explores how nature supports the somatic baby — the baby who feels, learns, and connects through the body.

You’ll discover how time in nature regulates both parent and baby, reduces stress, and deepens co-regulation through the body’s natural rhythms. Prema shares her personal story of how daily walks with her children during the pandemic became a lifeline of calm and connection — a practice that later blossomed into the Tree Babies movement.

Blending science, spirituality, and somatic awareness, this episode reveals how the earth herself co-regulates us. You’ll learn how nature’s patterns, sounds, and sensations nurture your baby’s developing nervous system and restore your own sense of safety and belonging.

With gentle guidance and a grounding nature meditation, this episode invites you to step outside, breathe with the trees, and remember: you and your baby are nature — breathing, feeling, and growing together.

Episode 3: Somatic Practices for You and Your Baby — Learning to Listen to the Body’s Wisdom

In this episode, Prema invites you to slow down and rediscover the natural intelligence of your body — and your baby’s. You’ll explore how simple somatic practices like breathing, grounding, and mindful touch can help you both feel safe, connected, and deeply attuned to one another.

This is your invitation to parent from presence, to co-regulate through your body, and to remember that love is a felt sense, not a mental task. With guided practices, gentle science, and heart-led wisdom, this episode helps you return home — to yourself, to your body, and to your baby.

In this episode, Prema explores the magical world of the somatic baby — the understanding that before babies speak in words, they communicate through the body.

You’ll discover how your baby’s first language is one of sensation, rhythm, breath, and touch, and how every heartbeat, movement, and gentle gaze builds the foundation of safety and love within their nervous system.

Drawing on the latest insights from early development and somatic awareness, Prema weaves science and soul to show how your calm becomes your baby’s calm, and how co-regulation through the body creates emotional wellbeing for life.

With a soothing guided practice to share with your baby, this episode helps you reconnect to your own body’s wisdom — and remember that love begins not in words, but in the felt experience of being seen, held, and safe.

In this foundational episode of The Somatic Baby I explore what it really means to parent somatically — to use our bodies as instruments of love, safety, and connection.

Before babies understand words, they understand rhythm, warmth, and presence. They learn about the world through our touch, our breath, our movement, and the tone of our voice. These are somatic experiences — the body-to-body conversations that tell a baby, you are safe, you are loved, you belong.

Together, we’ll look at why practices like baby massage, baby yoga, and time in nature are far more than gentle rituals — they are powerful forms of co-regulation that help shape a baby’s developing brain and nervous system. Drawing on the work of leading researchers like Dr. Stephen Porges, Dr. Allan Schore, and the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, I’ll explain how love literally becomes biology in the first 1,001 days of life.

You’ll discover how simple, embodied practices — a soft breath, a slow touch, a shared moment beneath the trees — can transform stress into safety and presence into peace.

This is the heart of somatic parenting: the science and soul of connection, where love is not just an emotion but a physical experience shared between parent and baby.

Because when we nurture through the body, we nurture the future.