Our work (and play) is inspired by the principles of Infant Developmental Movement Education, and Body-Mind Centering®. Please follow the links below to find out more about how Babies Project came to be, what our inspirations have been, and who we’re working with.
Watch part of a Babies session with Amy & Sarah
This post was written in 2018 and describes how Babies Project started.
Sarah Barnaby and Amy Matthews created Babies Project in 2017 as a partnership in offering developmental movement to babies and adults.
Read the bios for Amy Matthews and Sarah Barnaby, co-founders and directors of Babies Project.
Read about our principles and beliefs, which start with:
Babies come in as whole people, not as blank slates.
At Babies Project, the principles we teach, play, facilitate, explore and live from arise from our core values of agency, comfort, curiosity and movement. We believe these values are embedded in developmental movement, and they can guide us to be more responsible, resilient, interdependent, self-regulating and relational.
The study of developmental movement is the study of how we learn to move in our first years of life. In Body-Mind Centering®, we specifically study the basic movement patterns, reflexive pathways and integration of our senses, as well as the progressive layering of rhythms, experiences and relationships that help an infant find a sense of self, integration and ease.
All of our classes for caregivers and their babies are taught by IDMEs (Infant Developmental Movement Educators) who have been trained and certified by the School for Body-Mind Centering, and are Professional Members of the Body-Mind Centering® Association.
IDME training includes four core developmental movement courses in addition to two 10-day modules focused on working with infants. This training takes place over several years and includes over 500 hours of course work, observations and sessions.
Body-Mind Centering® is an integrated and embodied approach to movement, the body and consciousness. Developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, it is an experiential study based on the embodiment and application of anatomical, physiological, psychophysical and developmental principles, utilizing movement, touch, voice and mind. Its uniqueness lies in the specificity with which each of the body systems can be personally embodied and integrated, the fundamental groundwork of developmental repatterning, and the utilization of a body-based language to describe movement and body-mind relationships.
Read the short version of our vision, mission, and values.