Birthlight о Чарковском и Фокиной.
Очень много в последнее время информации об этих людях. Еще одно мнение основателя birthlight Франсуазы Фридман, которое я некомпетентным назвать не могу:
Thirty years ago I took my baby to London to train with Igor Tjarkovsky, a Russian pioneer of baby water training with methods that he linked to his ? ancestral shamanic heritage in the Urals. His 1982 demos and trainings caused an uproar in London, so much so that Sheila Kitzinger dubbed him 'the apostle of pain'. It could not have been more different than the ease and laughter of water play that my eldest daughter had experienced with Amazonian small children. The screaming was horrendous in the echoing pool but it was not recorded. The images seemed falsely relaxed because the babies were ducked again and again and had to gasp for breath. A few had been conditioned to stop screaming but they did not smile nor look excited. When I look at this U tube video filmed in Egypt, with parents who seem to be Russian tourists, I see the same expressions and I am as shell shocked as I was in London in 1982. Call it 'shock tactics'!
Add the baby gymnastics that are also part of Igor's popular come back in Moscow over the last decade. Mothers on the Russian Birthlight courses proudly showed Sally Lomas and me demos like those on the DVD, actually better executed than by the mums on this Egyptian beach. They said they liked Baby Yoga and they also liked Russian baby gymnastics, both could be done together. The babies seemed fine and they were loving mums. Perhaps our previous insurers, who refused to cover us for gentle progressive baby inversions with cushions to the sides of sitting mums to guarantee safe landing, should see this DVD for good measure... but either in the water or on dry land, this is completely antithetical to our birthlight practices. We are not conditioning babies forcefully, we support the expansion of their spontaneous development process in keeping with the signals they give us. We communicate with them in mutual delight.
The contact who sent me the link, says: 'where is the nurture, the bonding, the signalling, the gentleness?' She also writes that although she has been raised to respect all cultures and their traditions, she finds these practices upsetting. Babies are amazingly tough and resilient and I suppose they receive their parents' loving intent of being cruel to be kind. Cambridge kids used to be thrown from the railway bridge over the river Cam and handed a pole if they did not make it to the bank. Once again I feel so privileged to have been shown the gentle yet firm and very physical parenting ways of Amazon forest people. If there is scope for choosing traditions, this is the one that inspired Birthlight, together with the popular Indian baby massage portrayed in Frederick Leboyer's book and film "Loving Hands".
Ingrid Lewis has just alerted me to the fact that Russian baby gymnastics, as they used to be called even a few years ago, are now referred to as Baby Yoga. All Birthlight teachers need to be aware of this slippage and to clearly demarcate themselves from these extreme forms that are alien to what we do under the label 'baby yoga'.
Françoise.
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