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 Walker 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.
Peter Walker's certificated Teacher Training Courses for professionals working with mothers and babies 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”.
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 Walker 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.
Married and a father of five, Peter works throughout the United Kingdom, Japan and Australia
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