Peter Walker

About Peter Walker - Baby Massage Pioneer

Peter Walker has been a physical therapist and yoga teacher since the late 70s. His books have been published in more than 18 different languages, he has trained more than 9000 students in more than 20 countries in his certified courses and appeared on countless UK TV, Radio & Documentary broadcasts. He is a true pioneer for massage & movement for mother’s and babies across the world and is employed by the World Health Organisation.

Peter studied Iyengar style yoga and experiential anatomy with Arthur Balaskas Associate Member of The Philadelphia Association.

He 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. He has also worked with mothers and fathers and supported women during labour and childbirth and from the mid eighties onwards has taught massage and movement to mothers and babies and some unique techniques to parents with babies with additional needs.

Peter specializes in supporting parent and child relationships and the well-being and fitness of mothers and babies especially those babies and children with developmental delay. His certificated Teacher Training Courses for professionals working with mothers and babies from 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 nine 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”.
Sarah Forester RGN HV Cert. Ed. Professional Officer (Education), Health Visitors Association

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 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.

His books, sold in eighteen different languages, include:

  • Baby Gymnastics (Unwin)
  • Baby Relax (Unwin)
  • Going for Gold with DaleyThompson (Unwin)
  • Natural Parenting (Gaia)
  • The Book of Massage (Gaia)
  • Baby Massage (Piatkus)
  • Hop,Skip and Jump (Gymnastics for Children) (Carroll and Brown)
  • Developmental Baby Massage (Carroll and Brown 3rd reprint October 2009 special edition)

He has also made the following videos/DVD’s:

Married and a father of five, Peter lives and works in Australia and also throughout the United Kingdom and in Japan

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Peter Walker