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The Babywearing Dance Book is coming!

March 1, 2020 / No Comments

The Babywearing Dance Book is on it’s way!

Hi! I’m Paula, Joimove’s Education and E-Learning Consultant. I’ve been working with Selen since 2013 when our first daughters were very little and we have been dancing together with our little ones ever since! Now we have some really exciting news.

After years of welcoming parents and their babies into the amazing world of babywearing dance, Selen and I have pulled our thoughts together on what we think is one of the most amazing things in the world, dancing with babies, and are finishing up our first book together!

Dance With Babies®: The Babywearing Dance Book will introduce you to how much fun it is to dance with your baby. In the book, we talk about babywearing and dancing, fitting more dance into your day, the importance of dance in bringing the whole family together, how dancing can help baby sleep (I think we could all use a little more of that, right?), and so much more!

Joimove is famous for its Joimove Babies classes that bring families and communities closer together through dance and babywearing. They were developed by professional ballerina with two babywearing consultancy certificates, Joimove’s Founder Selen Yilmaz, back in 2013. Now she’s sharing more of her story, her knowledge and training in both dance and babywearing, and her love of babywearing dance in Dance With Babies®.

Stay tuned for updates as we get closer to announcing the publication date for Dance With Babies®: The Babywearing Dance Book.

While you wait, let’s get social! Check us out on Instagram and Facebook, or email us for more information and collaboration opportunities.

We can’t wait to hear from you!

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Dance With Babies®: The Babywearing Dance Book
Copyright © 2020 Selen Yilmaz and Paula Dumas
ISBN:978-0-9957722-8-1

Joyfulness Seminars by Selen

January 28, 2020 / No Comments
Joyful Parenting Seminar by Selen Yilmaz in Lithuania
Joyful parents after the seminar / Kaunas, Lithuania

Joyful Parenting

Learn to communicate joyfully
Learn to resolve conflict joyfully
Create a family motto

In our everyday lives, we parents carry the responsibilities of being an adult, partner, colleague, child, grandchild, sibling alongside our parenting role. We have so many titles and identities to deal with even it does not seem like that. Our communication styles and responses can become repetitive even when life continuously brings us new challenges. We may start to become tired and struggle to find enough time for ourselves, our friends, and our extended families.

Becoming joyful individuals help us to keeping a joyful perspective. We can transform many conflicts into resolutions and can bring so much joy into our homes and help us reorder our priorities with ease.

In this workshop, parents will reexamine the roles they play in their children’s lives and will discover how children can be amazing roles models for us.

You will leave this workshop with the practical tools and activities you need to bring playfulness and joyfulness into your family life.

Upcoming Joimove Training Weekends

August 24, 2019 / No Comments
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We are so excited to able to announce our confirmed Joimove Live Training dates! All Joimove Instructors and Trainees can come join in the fun and the learning, and we would love to hear from dance professionals who want to join our amazing international team this autumn!

Joimove’s Live Training weekends are coming to:

Glasgow 2-3 November /  Joimove LIVE Instructor Training

Vilnius 7-8 December / Joimove LIVE Instructor Training

London 15-16 December / Joimove LIVE Instructor Training

Istanbul / 22 December 2019 / Joimove LIVE Instructor Training

Send your cv to our Education and E-Learning Consultant, Dr Paula Dumas, at training@joimove.com and we’ll get back to you about our training. Hope to see you there!

Joimove Joyfulness Retreat

August 23, 2019 / No Comments

JOIMOVE JOYFULNESS RETREAT 18-19-20 October 2019

You are invited to join us for a holiday weekend full of dance and joy in the legendary Porto Ceneviz Art and Yoga House, Cirali, Turkey. Come enjoy where the emerald green water of the Beydağları meets the clear blue sea of the Mediterranean.

We have created 2 nights 3 days retreat, open to all ages. Program includes adult ballet, yoga, dance, meditation, art awareness and fairy tale circles, tarot and angel card readings that make up the 14-hour workshop program of our “Journey to Love and Joy”.

This camp is for adults and does not require a dance/yoga background or any prior knowledge. You can come with your babies, children, and family. While you are enjoying your lessons, your loved ones can enjoy the nature, the sea and the sun.

£275 per person including 2 nights’ shared accommodation, buffet breakfasts and dinners(with vegan and vegetarian options) workshops, and group sessions. Book now for our early bird price of only £200! Early bird discount only available until 15 September 2019.


Contact us at joimoveglobal@gmail.com for details.

Joyful Parenting Workshop in Kaunas Lithuania

March 11, 2019 / No Comments

Joyfulness Workshop for Parents in Kaunas Lithuania

Joimove joyfulness workshop for parents in Kaunas Lithuania

Joimove Lithuania Representative and Dance Therapy Consultant Rūta Ambrozaitienė

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Joimove’s Founder, author of the Joyfulness Method Selen Yilmaz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Coming soon from Joimove in Kaunas, Lithuania is a wonderful workshop on joyful parenting! Joimove’s Founder, author of the Joyfulness Method Selen Yilmaz, will be joining Joimove Representative and Dance Therapy Consultant Rūta Ambrozaitienė to help with the everyday parenting challenges.

In our everyday lives, we parents carry the responsibilities of being an adult, partner, colleague, child, grandchild, sibling alongside our parenting role. We have so many titles and identities to deal with even it does not seem like that. Our communication styles and responses can become repetitive even when life continuously brings us new challenges. We may start to become tired and struggle to find enough time for ourselves, our friends, and our extended families.


Joyfulness can help! Keeping a joyful perspective can transform many conflicts into resolutions. It can bring so much joy into our homes and help us reorder our priorities with ease.

In this workshop, parents will reexamine the roles they play in their children’s lives and will discover how children can be perfect roles models for us.

You will leave this workshop with the practical tools and activities you need to bring playfulness and joyfulness into your family life.

What you can expect:

  • Learn to communicate joyfully
  • Learn to resolve conflict joyfully
  • Create a family motto

The workshop will run 23rd March 2019 between 10.30am am1pm at the VLC Kaunas – Vaikų ir jaunimo visapusiško lavinimo centras / Savanorių pr.284A, LT-49475 Kaunas

EVENT PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/events/2039194769523405/


Selen Yilmaz is a professional ballerina, dance academic and author of “The Joyfulness Method”, babywearing consultant, and the founder of Dance with Babies and Joimove International.

Join the International Joyfulness Movement

February 5, 2019 / No Comments

Thinking about joining the amazing team at Joimove? The Joimove Instructor Training Program is one of a kind! Joimove offers a range of unique training courses with personal coaching backed by the support of a global network of experienced Instructors, plus internationally recognised CID, UNESCO certification and refresher meetups that bring our team together. We are the Joimovers, dancing to make the world a happier place ❤

New for 2019! Meet Joimove’s Founder for a one-on-one intro to Joimove! Selen Yilmaz will be holding meetings in Berlin, Leipzig, London, Vilnius, Istanbul and Glasgow this spring. Contact us at training@joimove.com to book your time slot with the founder! Take the chance to dance and start your journey towards a more joyful life!

Live Joimove Instructor Training in Istanbul / 6 January 2019

December 25, 2018 / No Comments

Joimove International Live Training

Istanbul, Turkey – 6th January 2019

Join us for two amazing days of training, workshops, community building, and fun! Jump start your learning, plan for the future, and further your skills at Joimove’s first live training event of 2019 this January in Istanbul, Turkey!

This January, you are invited to join Joimove Instructors and Trainees from Turkey and beyond for an amazing dance leadership training Sunday. Make new friends, share ideas, and get ready for a new career with Joimove! We can’t wait to help you get started!

Istanbul Live Training Programme Outline

STAGE 1: Joimove Instructor Dance Leadership Training

Health and safety is at the core of every Joimove Programme. In the morning of Day One, Joimove’s Founder, Selen Yilmaz, will discuss the special needs of each of the groups Joimovers serve, including babies and new mothers, young children, and the elderly. By the end of this session, you will feel confident and ready to assist every member of your community as a Joimove Leader!

After lunch, join in the fun as you learn dance steps and new routines! At Joimove, every Instructor reaches out into their community through dance and movement. In this workshop, Founder Selen Yilmaz will inspire you to develop your own routines that follow Joimove’s dance styles and health and safety guidelines. Learn class leadership skills in preparation for running your own classes. Discover from one another, share your thoughts and goals, and prepare to run a successful business with Joimove while growing and strengthening your communities.

 

Want to find out more?

Fill out our online enquiry form and our E-Learning and Education Coordinator, Dr Paula Dumas, will get back to you as soon as possible. Or if you’re already in Turkey, contact our Joimove Turkey’s National Representative, Nur Niyaz Bildik, at nurniyaz@joimove.com for more information.

Joimove Lithuania / The Miracle of Parents and Children Dancing Workshop

November 16, 2018 / No Comments

Joimove Lithuania at Vaikų šalis (Baby Land)

On 25 November 2018, Ruta Lelyte, our amazing Joimove Representative for Lithuania, will be running an exciting workshop during Vilnius’s largest family fair, Vaikų šalis (Baby Land)!

Ruta’s workshop, ‘The Miracle of Parents and Children Dancing’, will include dance and activities for all to boost mood and energise everyone in attendance while also highlighting why dance is so important in our lives. Like all of us here at Joimove, Ruta believes that it is vital that, as parents, caregivers, and leaders in our communities, we make time to dance with our children. Let’s take the time to be joyful together!

You can find out more about the fair here (English) and here (Lithuanian)  and about Ruta’s work with families in Lithuania here on Facebook. We wish Ruta all the best and can’t wait to hear how it goes!

https://www.facebook.com/sokiaisukudikiais/videos/878042855733148/

 

Want to become a Joimove Representative for your area and bring the joy of dance to your community? Contact us today to find out how you can be a part of the global joyfulness movement!

Exciting News from Joimove Singapore!

November 13, 2018 / No Comments

Exciting News from Joimove Singapore!

Two of our newest Joimovers, Tiffany and Kevin, are already bringing joy and togetherness to families in Singapore!

Working alongside local politician, Patrick Tay, Tiffany and Kevin are developing a community-led initiative to celebrate the birth of newborn babies and the growth of young families in their region through a series of Embracing Parenthood Celebrations. These events include family-oriented activities, gifts, and support to strengthen familial bonds for families with children born in 2017 and 2018.

Families are able to come together to share joy, socialise, get informed, and form connections with other families in their communities as part of the new ‘embracing parenthood movement’. Dancing together is at the centre of their activities, and Tiffany is excited to be the Chairperson of the new Joimove Families community that they are building.

Congratulations go out to Tiffany, Kevin, and Mr. Tay. We can’t wait to see how this exciting venture reaches more families and gets more people dancing!

Joimove Live Training Glasgow UK 28-29 April 2018

April 8, 2018 / No Comments

Joimove Live Training, Glasgow UK
28-29 April 2018

It’s great to be able to announce that Joimove International will be holding another inspiring training session in Glasgow this month! Here’s a quick wrap up of the weekend’s events:

Health, Safety and Movement Training

Throughout the training weekend, attendees will able to practice their dance and dance leadership skills, study new ways to use available space while leading groups of dancers, and be introduced to new moves and routines for a variety of dance styles by Joimove’s Founder and professional dancer, Selen Yilmaz.

Business Planning and Development

Success for small businesses comes from thinking ahead, learning from others, and planning for the future. Founder Selen Yilmaz will be leading a vital session on strategic planning for success in business that will be adapted to suit each Instructor’s and Trainee’s individual goals for the future. Attendees learn from one another, share their thoughts and plans, and bond in their mutual goals of growing successful businesses while making their own communities and the Joimove community better.

Joimove Flash Mob

One of the highlights for everyone will be having the opportunity to participate in a Joimove Flashmob in Glasgow. Dressed in their new Joimove Instructor T-shirts, Instructors and Trainees will take turns leading one another (and some onlookers!) in original dance routines.

Want to join in the fun while developing new skills? Contact us to become a vital part of Joimove’s growing international community. Write the Joimove team today via our online form and we’ll get back to you shortly.

Why We Dance with our Babies and Children

March 6, 2018 / No Comments

Chapter One: Why We Dance with our Babies and Children

Babies want to communicate with you in many ways. Even in the early stages of communication and development, they express themselves through movement and react to music. In fact, babies start exploring their environment in the womb and continue to discover new moves, expressions, and reactions to sounds and object all of the time. Very young babies will wriggle and dance to music and are delighted when other grown-ups and children take part too. Dancing and moving around helps to create an amazing connection between you and your baby.

Music and dance gives you a chance to create a powerful connection with your baby. When you move together to the music and the beat, your most basic moves can help to improve your baby’s coordination, balance, and strength. Dancing can also help to boost baby’s self-esteem, happiness, and encourage you to both be active. Dancing with babies and toddlers and enjoying this time together is a great way to have fun! This is probably the most important benefit of dancing; it makes you both happy and amazed at how lucky you are to have each other.

When you hold, carry, or wear your baby and sway to the music, you know that your baby is learning from their world, enjoying your company, and creating memories that will affect them throughout their life. Dancing stimulates coordination, balance, and listening skills in even the youngest of dancers. Dance can also help children to improve their social and communication skills, improve their cooperation skills as the learn to move and work as part of a team, and taking part in dance and activity classes encourages them to make new friends. Shy children who participate in dancing and who see their parents being happy when they are dancing can gain confidence when it comes to meeting new people and visiting new places. Dancing, therefore, is a powerful tool for communication, development, and socialisation.

Joimove 2017 Year End Review

January 13, 2018 / No Comments

Joimove’s 2017 Year End Review

It’s the time of year when we all start to think about all that’s happened over the past 12 months and then look to the future and the hope that the new year will bring. 2017 was an amazing year of growth, community-building, and new initiatives for Joimove International. As such, we wanted to share a few of our highlights with you as we wish you all a wonderful 2018!

New Instructors Around the World

Joimove has always been an international organisation and movement, and in 2017 we continued to expand. New for 2017 we are proud to now have Joimove Instructors and Trainees in Malta, Germany, India, Spain, Ireland, North Cyprus, Virginia, Macau, Mexico, and China. We can’t wait to see where Joimove will go from here!

Live Training Events

While Joimove is known for its innovative online training programmes (the first of their kind in the field of babywearing dance!), in 2017 we also reached out to new communities and strengthened the skills of and bonds between existing Joimove Leaders through live training and business and leadership development workshops. Trainees and Instructors met to train and learn together across Europe and Asia. Live training events in Turkey and London, England are already scheduled for early 2018!

Fundraising Efforts

We are always proud of the efforts that our Joimove Leaders make to have a positive impact upon each of their communities and countries. In 2017, Joimovers in the UK, Ireland, Taiwan, Mexico, and Turkey held fundraising events in aid of local and national charities that benefit children in their regions. Well done everyone!

This year, Joimove will be supporting Lend with Care, Care International to help fund local projects on behalf of every instructor who joins Joimove in 2018.

The Joimove Bursary Programme

New for 2017/2018 is the Joimove Bursary Programme. This programme aims to bring the benefits of Joimove’s training, including leadership skills, health and wellness awareness, community building, business development, and specific programmes for helping vulnerable segments of the population to new communities around the world by offering training in Joimove’s programmes at little to no cost for scholarship recipients. More details will be available shortly.

Stay Tuned!

2017 may have been a great year, but we can’t hold back our excitement for what 2018 will bring! Stay tuned!

Want to find out more about our training opportunities? Fill out our inquiry form today and Dr. Paula Dumas, our Education and E-Learning Coordinator, will get back to you with all the details.

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year

December 24, 2017 / No Comments

Happy Holidays from Joimove!

From the whole team here at Joimove International, we would like to wish you and your family a wonderful holiday season! We’ll be spending time with our families and friends, and getting ready to start 2018 with more joy!

Here’s our holiday schedule:

Joimove’s Head Office will be closed December 24, 25, and 26, and will reopen December 27. The office will also be closed December 31 and January 1, and will reopen on January 2.

Wishing you all the best for a happy break!

Joimove Live Training, United Kingdom / November 2017

December 15, 2017 / No Comments

Joimove Live Training, November 2017

It’s great to be able to report that Joimove International held another successful and inspiring training session in Glasgow in November. Here’s a quick wrap up of the weekend’s events:

Born to Carry Babywearing Peer Supporter Course

Babywearing Peer Supporter Training

For the first half of the weekend, all of our attendees were treated to an amazing day of learning from Born to Carry. Under the guidance of Born to Carry’s Anne and Emma, Joimove Instructors and Trainees studied wraps, materials, anatomy, babywearing safety, and more. At the end of this intensive workshop, we’re proud to say that every attendee achieved his or her Babywearing Peer Supporter Certification. Congratulations everyone!

Babywearing Dance Refresher Training

Safe, joyful babywearing has always been at the heart of Joimove as a world leader in Babywearing Dance Safety Programmes. Throughout the training weekend, attendees were able to practice their dance and dance leadership skills, studied new ways to use available space while leading groups of dancers, and were introduced to new moves and routines for a variety of dance styles by Joimove’s Founder and professional dancer, Selen Yilmaz.

Business Planning and Development

Success for small businesses comes from thinking ahead, learning from others, and planning for the future. Founder Selen Yilmaz led a vital session on strategic planning for success in business that was then adapted in small groups to suit each Instructor’s and Trainee’s individual goals for the future. Attendees learned from one another, shared their thoughts and plans, and bonded in their mutual goals of growing successful businesses while making their own communities and the Joimove community better.

Joimove Flash Mob

One of the highlights for everyone was having the opportunity to participate in a Joimove Flashmob in front of the historic Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, Scotland. Dressed in their new Joimove Instructor T-shirts, Instructors and Trainees took turns leading one another (and some onlookers!) in original dance routines. Everyone had a lot of fun while learning from one another and bringing joy to the gallery’s visitors.

Upcoming Trainings

Great news! We have upcoming live trainings already in the works for early 2018! Istanbul, Turkey: 3-4 February 2018 and London, England: 1-4 March 2018.

Want to join in the fun while developing new skills? Become a vital part of Joimove’s growing international community. Write Dr. Paula Dumas, our Education and E-Learning Coordinator, via our online form today and we’ll get back to you with all the details.

Joimovers are dancing at Dahu Park

November 10, 2017 / No Comments

Day 2 / Joimove Live Training in Taipei

Second day at Joimove Live Training in Taiwan was full of learning but fun! After workshop and wokrshops in the afternoon Joimove trainees met at Dahu Park to have their ballet and dance sessions in nature with wonderful scenery in the background. At the end of the dance training session they performed their first time ever impromptu public dancing. They picked 三天三夜, a song by famous Taiwanese singer 張惠妹 and our founder Selen improvised the routine. Everyone danced Joimove in harmony together with participants from the audience. A huge congratulations to everyone!

Joimove Training in Taipei / November 2017

November 9, 2017 / No Comments

Joimove Training in Taipei
7-11 November 2017

Joimove’s founder Selen has landed in Taiwan and was met by our amazing Joimove Asia community leaders. Joimove Instructor and Business Training has just began and we gathered together photos for you from an exciting day at Joimove Taiwan! Watch this space and follow our Joimove channels on facebook and instagram for updates from the Joimove live training sessions throughout the week and weekend.

Our wonderful trainees have completed their first day at Joimove training. 8 hours of study dedicated to health and safety at Joimove and learning joyful ways of communication to deliver the safety information suits for all ages. Now all set for the next 2 days!

Joimove’s founder Selen said: “Pure joy to be here, teaching and learning with wonderful women. I am loving it every single minute we share our message! World needs JOY, and we Joimovers are here for!

Joimove Taiwan’s Representative Diana Chendana said “There are so much love, joy and laughter on our 1st day of Joimove babywearing dancing training. We will have great bunch of baby wearing dance instructors. Thank you Selen Yılmaz for creating such a great program to encourage people to bond, move and communicate joyfully.”

 

©Joimove 2017. Licenced content on babywearing dance training since 2013. All rights reserved.

Joimove’s founder Selen Yilmaz shares her babywearing journey

October 7, 2017 / No Comments

My babywearing journey starts like most, from a place of love and devotion to my new baby. For me, it was a natural choice. A way to create a strong and lasting bond, a way to give my darling the warmth, comfort, and confidence she needed.

I found life as a new mum beautiful but not so easy. Ten days after birth, my husband went abroad to set up what would be our new life in Scotland. Babywearing became my life saver. It helped me calm the frantic moments all new mums experience and helped to create a bond with my beautiful daughter while her dad was away. And, as a former professional ballet dancer, I had continued dancing and teaching until the last days of my pregnancy and babywearing helped me to keep moving after birth, sway and dance; chest to chest, heart to heart with my Lydia.

We left Istanbul 3 months later to meet up with my husband. I never stopped babywearing or dancing. In fact, it became a family affair. My husband took up babywearing too, and it was beautiful to see how daddy and daughter’s relationship flourished by babywearing.

Soon after we settled I started holding babywearing dancing classes as an expat mom in Glasgow. There were so much to learn from English to setting up a business. And, through my Dance with Babies classes and Dancing Families movement, I found my new babywearing community with so many beautiful parents and babies from all over the world living in Glasgow and they were inspirational in helping me uniting my two passions, babywearing and dancing. I journeyed from high street carriers to ergonomically correct ones, becoming a peer supporter and to babywearing consultant. I established a school and team of experts at Joimove where we created the safety course on active babywearing to help babywearing dance instructors deliver their classes safely.

Our growing team of Joimove leaders, Instructors, and Joimovers now form a global community of loving, caring, skilled individuals who are spreading a love and awareness of safe babywearing in 14 countries and growing. Through our Joimove Babies classes, flash mobs, International Babywearing Dance Day, fundraisers, and special events, Joimove has introduced more than 4000 new parents to babywearing in three years.

No matter what lens I viewed the world, whether through Joimove, my personal training and learning, or my babywearing social community, babywearing and dance continued to be integral to mine and my family’s life. From Lydia’s inspired dances at home, to her excitement in taking part in my babywearing dance classes, or when she tagged along with my husband and I when we went to tango practices, dance and babywearing were our lives.

At the end of 2015, babywearing became a healing tool in our lives. Lydia was diagnosed with Leukaemia, when she was 3, during our family visit in Turkey. In the space of a week, our beloved dancing fairy’s life had come crashing to the ground, no longer able to walk. This new chapter started abruptly in the hospital.

Lydia’s illness had a deep effect on all of us. Despite the constant needles, the cannulas and the tubes during Lydia’s first cycle of chemo, we kept the baby carrier beside us. Babywearing turned to toddlerwearing, keeping Lydia close to our bodies and hearts.

Music and movement, and just general toddler-wearing continued to play a healing part of our lives with Lydia strapped on to us as much as we could; as we walked/danced in hospital corridors, in the room together, wherever we went. It has been 2 years with treatment and we have couple of months left to complete. She is now back to her health and shines her joyful personality where ever she goes. We are grateful to our health team, family and friends both in Turkey, Scotland and beautiful Joimove community around the world. Recently Lydia published a book called “I Like To Go To The Hospital” and all proceeds from the sale of this book goes to Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity.

Our journey through cancer may be unique to us, but I strongly recommend babywearing, dancing, and never missing a chance to enjoy life as a way to get through the tough times. It’s brought my family closer together and given us strength. I hope it does the same for you, no matter your situation. I am very excited to sharing more with you on my upcoming books “The Babywearing Dance Book” and “Dance Your Life Up: 14 Healing Remedies to Overcome Life’s Challenges”. As I always say “Be grateful, celebrate life and spread love!”

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Selen Yilmaz is an international author, former professional ballet dancer, choreographer with over 25 years experience, babywearing consultant and entrepreneur whose work has spread to fourteen countries in three years.

This post has been adapted from an original post from Selen Yilmaz’s blog. Want to find out more about Joimove’s founder Selen’s journey? Follow her on Instagram.

Joimove Babywearing Dance Lithuania Ruta Lelyte / Pozityvus dienoraštis

October 6, 2017 / No Comments

Joimove Babies babywearing and family dancing by Joimove Lithuania’s Representative Ruta Lelyte filmed by Pozityvus dienoraštis Lithuania.

There are wonderful women and men in 14 countries! They are Joimove leaders start a new day to bring more joy to the world! In their meet ups, all ages come together through joyfulness, share the power of positivity and gratefulness. We spread our wings for a happier world. We are Joimovers!

Registration is now open for the last two Joimove live trainings of 2017!

October 3, 2017 / No Comments

Joimove Instructor Training / Babywearing and Family Dance

Registration is now open for the last two live trainings of 2017!

2017 has been an amazing year for all of us here at Joimove! In Europe, America, and Asia, Joimove Instructors led family get-togethers, fundraising events, classes, and took part in festivals and celebrations. This year we held our European summit in Istanbul, where Instructors, Trainees, and Representatives from Lithuania, United Kingdom, Germany, and Turkey came together for a full weekend or training and community building.
It was an amazing and powerful experience to have so many Joimovers together, sharing our vision to make our world a better, happier place. We are proud to have widened Joimove’s aims for the future wider and and are now focussed on creating more opportunities to serve and train individuals all over the world. We are now creating additional business opportunities for Joimovers with our online, live, and refreshment training courses and community meetups all around the world.
As such, we’re happy to announce that registration is now open for the last two live trainings of 2017:

7-11 November 2017
Taipei, Taiwan

4 days of Live Training for Joimove Babies
Who is it for and who can attend? Joimove online trainees, new trainees, new graduates
Location: Oovi Family Center
Live Translation: English – Taiwanese

25-26 November 2017
Glasgow, United Kingdom

Refreshment Training for Joimove Babies & Kids & Families
Born to Carry Peer Supporter Course
Who is it for and who can attend? Joimove Online Trainees, New Graduates, Joimove Instructors and Representatives
Location: Glasgow West End
Language: English

3-4 February 2018
Istanbul, Turkey

Joimove Leadership Training
Who is it for and who can attend? Joimove Babies, Kids and Families Instructors and Joimove Representatives
Location: Istanbul Etiler
Language: English – Turkish

21-22 April 2018
Kaunas, Lithuania

Joimovers Training
Who is it for and who can attend?  Joimove online trainees and new graduates
Location: Kaunas
Language: English – Lithuanian

1-3 June 2018
Istanbul, Turkey

3 days of Live Training for Joimove Leaders
Who is it for and who can attend? Joimove Online Trainees, New Trainees, New Graduates, Current Joimove Babies and Kids Instructors
Location: Acarken 37 Sanat Merkezi
Live Translation: English – Turkish

Want to know more? Email us today at training@joimove.com

The Joimove Scarf Hack for Babywearing

August 28, 2017 / No Comments

The Joimove Scarf Hack for Babywearing

We love babywearing, and we know lots of babies who love it too! It is so important to find the comfortable and safe carrier that fits you and baby correctly, and that means that baby’s head, neck, body and legs and your spine need to be supported.

When you arrive at a Joimove Babies session, or if you have been there before, you may see our instructors help participants with narrow-based carriers using the Joimove Scarf Hack or even replace their carriers with fully ergonomic ones. If your carrier isn’t providing knee-to-knee support for baby, a gentle, cuddly shape for your baby’s spine, and comfortable positioning for yourself, the Joimove Scarf Hack can help you out as you begin your search for a carrier that’s ergonomically correct for you both.

1-Put on your carrier and check that the size adjustments are set correctly. Straps should be pulled tightly and baby should be sitting high enough that you can kiss your baby on her head. 

2-Fold a 2-meter long scarf in half.

3-Tuck the centre of the folded scarf in between the carrier and your stomach.

4-Open the scarf and move one half to each side of your body.

5-Place baby deep in the carrier facing inwards, supporting her bottom, legs, and knees with the help of the scarf.

6-Tighten the scarf, gently lifting baby’s knees so that they are naturally higher than her hipbones. *Remember: never force a baby’s body into any position.

7-Tuck the scarf into the side straps of your carrier.

8-Knot the scarf at your back.

9-Do not forget to support baby’s head and neck with your hand!

10-Let’s get dancing!

Read more about babywearing dance safety here. To help you in your search, check out some of the great advantages of a local sling library, babywearing peer supporters and consultants in your area!

Joimovers in the News

August 12, 2017 / No Comments

Joimovers in the News

We are so proud of our Joimovers! Joimove Babies, Kids, and Friends Instructors have been making the news lately with their great work and are inspiring others to get active and spend quality time with their babies and children. Let’s take a look at some of these amazing news stories from all around the world!

Taiwan

Our amazing Joimovers in Taipei, Taiwan, were featured on evening news to share information on the benefits of babywearing dance classes and Joimove’s expertise in safe, fun babywearing. Diana Chendana and Phoebe Chiang were interviewed alongside Dr Yin Chang-Sheng, an expert in obstetrics and gynaecology, who lent support to the great work and high safety standards that Joimove Babies classes offer to parents with babies and young children. 

Dr Yin Chang-Sheng noted, “Music and dance helps adults to produce happy hormones, generally referring to endorphin, serotonin, dopamine, and oxycontin. These happy hormones can be transferred from adults to the child by babywearing and dancing. It [babywearing dance] will help to lower your blood pressure, reduce your risk of heart problems, but also develop skin to skin contact and attachment between you and your baby.” 

Lithuania

Ruta Lelthe Ambrozaitienė, a Joimove Babies and Kids Instructor from Vilnius, Lithuania, had an article published in Mažylis, Lithuania’s parenting magazine. Ruta was so happy to be able to share information about working as a Joimove Instructor with babies and new mothers with Mažylis’s readers.

We asked Ruta to tell us more:

“I shared that dance is in human nature, that living with a beat and rhythmic movement starts in the mother’s womb and continue on in a mother’s hands with nursery songs, calming down a baby, etc. But we stop dancing when we start to think that dance needs special abilities, specialised knowledge, and technique. Usually such messages as ‘I can’t dance’ comes from parents and a child accepts this idea that dancing is something that you have to learn. 

“Dance is emotion. We all have hearts that beat, we all move in one way or another, so we all can dance! Also, dance is a perfect, easy way to stay active and produce hormones of happiness, which is important! It’s not about some technical dance steps. If baby feels your movement and your happiness, he doesn’t care about what your legs are doing.”

Turkey

Joimove’s Founder, Selen Yilmaz, was recently interviewed by Bebegim ve Biz about the history of Joimove International and the progress Joimovers have made in promoting active living, safe babywearing and babywearing dance, and in bringing people together in communities all over the world. We were honoured that the magazine chose to create a special edition for Joimove in honour of the amazing powers of babywearing and babywearing dance in their August 2017 issue.

United States of America

This week, one of Joimove’s newest Joimove Babies Instructors, Kailey McNeill, held a well-attended flashmob in her home state of Virginia. The flashmob of babywearing dancers and their little ones was even featured on Fox 5 News. Great work Kailey!

 

 

A big ‘Congratulations!’ goes to all of our Joimove Instructors and Trainees who continue to inspire community spirit and active living in every one of their communities.

Want to find out about Joimove events in your area? Check out Joimove’s Facebook page and Instagram account for updates, or contact us today to find out more about becoming an inspiration in your own community through our unique Joimove training programmes.

International Babywearing Dance Day 2017

August 5, 2017 / No Comments

Joimove International and International Babywearing Dance Day 2017
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Joimove Scotland / Babywearing Dance Day

Joimove is so happy to be taking a leading role again this year in organising International Babywearing Dance Day, IBDD2017. On 21 September 2017 and during the week and weekend, babywearing dance groups from all over the world will be celebrating their love of safe babywearing dance by taking part in a global flash mob by dancing the new ‘Mother Earth’ routine to Madre Tierra’s ‘Chayanne’.

This year Joimove’s staff and volunteers are playing key roles in administrative tasks, organising the event, creating marketing materials, and answering questions about the day as they come in from across the globe. But you won’t just find Joimove’s influence behind the scenes. We are so happy to announce that we have Joimovers in 12 countries busy planning their own events to get more parents and children dancing!

That’s right! Joimovers will be running events in 12 countries, including Scotland, the USA, Lithuania, Turkey, and Taiwan. Babywearers in these countries and many more are busy learning the new dance routine “Mother Earth” and planning to take part on 21 September, plus they’ll record their performances to share with their friends, members of the IBDD community, and a global online audience.

Want to take part in an IBDD event? Contact IBDD at babywearingdanceday@gmail.com, check the IBDD Facebook page and Instagram account for updates, and visit the IBDD website,  for more information about this amazing celebration. Join us today!

5 Reasons Why We Love Babywearing

July 8, 2017 / No Comments

5 Reasons Why We Love Babywearing

It’s no secret that all of us here at Joimove love babywearing. The very first Joimove class, Joimove Babies, celebrated babywearing by mixing safe babywearing with dance and movement.

Family health professionals, paediatricians, physiotherapists, psychologists and babywearing experts alike all know that there are plenty of benefits of babywearing for baby; from helping to sooth colic and create a safe sleeping environment, to deepening the connection between baby and wearer, babywearing helps us to create joyful parenting moments and encourages a nurturing touch.

So let’s take a look at five great reasons why we love to wear babies!

1- Freedom to Move

When baby is safe, warm, and snuggled into her carrier or wrap, we can go for a walk, hop on a bus, or even get moving to some great music. Carrying babies in a carrier distributes weight equally, unlike when they’re being carried in arms, and is more comfortable for the wearer and baby alike. With the right carrier or wrap we’re free to go anywhere we want!

2- Security

Choosing an ergonomically designed carrier should help maintain correct posture and give full support for baby while preventing lower back pain for the carer. The right wrap or carrier is sized to a child’s needs and provides ergonomically correct support for baby’s head, neck, spine, hips and legs. When worn correctly, baby (or toddler) is safe and secure. What a great feeling!

3- Bonding

Chest-to-chest (face-in) carrying is wonderful for building that crucial bond between parent and child. Baby listens to our heartbeats, feels our breathing, and is reassured that he or she is loved and supported by their caregiver. When we wear our babies comfortably and safely, and maybe dance a few smooth moves while keeping our hearts open, we find a joy that lasts.

4- Relaxing

Let’s not forget about one of those great moments in parenting in new baby: helping baby fall asleep! As one of our Joimovers shared, “My little girl was not a sleeper. She’d sleep less than an hour at a time around the clock. I popped into a lovely stretchy wrap and – guess what – three solid hours of sleep while I got to relax and simply enjoy being her.” Amazing! Do you have colicky baby? A snuggle and some gentle movement or rocking while in a carrier can help to calm and sooth your little one.

5- Cuddles

Who doesn’t love cuddles?! Cuddling, hugging, and holding our babies close to us is vital to growing their sense of security, assisting their development, and strengthening the parent-child bond that we all want to have with our children for the rest of our lives. Hold your baby close and give her/him a big cuddle today!

Why not share our love of babywearing with us on Instagram?

Tag your favourite photo of you wearing your baby with #myloveofbabywearing for your chance to be featured on Joimove’s Instagram account!

Follow us: Where to find Joimove on Social Media

July 2, 2017 / No Comments

Where to find Joimove on Social Media

Looking to contact Joimove or learn about our programmes? You can send as an email at training@joimove.com, but to find out more about us online, come check out what we’re sharing on social media today!

Here’s a list of places you can find us online. Follow us to keep up to date and be sure to say hi!

JOIMOVE FACEBOOK

Our main Joimove Facebook page has all the latest info, photos, and videos from our trainings, programmes, and events from around the world, but you can also find country/region-specific and instructor-run Facebook pages, too, so don’t miss out!

JOIMOVE Instagram

Our Instagram is buzzing with behind-the-scenes shots of the work that goes into spreading our love of babywearing dance and health and fitness at every age, plus a glimpse at our energetic instructor trainings, new works in development, and life around the Head Office in Glasgow.

JOIMOVE PINTEREST

Our Pinterest boards are fantastic! We’re continually gathering resources from all over the web on the topics that mean the most to us: babywearing, child safety, attachment parenting, family fitness, and dancing for everyone. Plus we’ve included a dose of inspirational quotes to keep us all feeling joyful and ready to face the day!

The Blog

Check here for the latest news from the babywearing universe, advice from Joimove’s international community of babywearing instructors and professionals, and our top tips and tricks for babywearing, dancing, and simply sharing joy with our children and our communities.

Find out what we’ve been up to on any of these channels, then contact us in the comments below, on any of these platforms, or email us today and start your journey with Joimove!

Joimove Babywearing Dance Training Testimonial Video

June 30, 2017 / No Comments

Joimove Babywearing Dance Training Testimonial 

Ruta is one of our Joimove babywearing dance instructors! She’s a professional dancer and dance therapist from Lithuania and now teaches Joimove Babies classes. She’s getting ready to set up the first babywearing community and sling library in her country. Here Ruta shares some of her Joimove journey with us and her experience at the recent Joimove European Summit training weekend in Istanbul.

Joimove Babies Babywearing Dance Training

June 24, 2017 / No Comments

Babywearing Dance Training for Joimove Babies Instructors

On June 3 and 4, 2017, Joimove held its first multilingual European summit in Istanbul. Joimove Babies Trainees and Instructors gathered together from all over the world to meet for two days of intensive babywearing dance training, learning, sharing together, and of course, dancing!

Bringing People Together

Joimove loves bringing people together to share their passion, knowledge, experience, and joy, and this training was no exception! This year Ruta, our representative from Lithuania, Ally, from Scotland, Basak from Izmir, Cigdem from Germany and Nazli from Antalya flew with their babies in slings to Istanbul, Turkey to join in the training at 37 Arts, Acarkent.

Our Training Programme

The highlight of the Joimove training summit was when Joimove’s Founder, Selen Yilmaz and Joimove’s health and babywearing consultants, spoke about health and safety when babywearing, post-natal health and wellness, infant anatomy, and creating powerful, joyful communication in Joimove Babies classes and in the wider community.

Dance and Joimove Babies

Joimove Babies is also about dance! As a dance professional and former ballerina, Selen explained about the importance of choosing the right music and safe movements for Joimove Babies babywearing dance classes.

Over the course of their training, Joimove Babies Instructors learn why certain dance moves are safe and what to consider when creating routines rather than set routines, so that our Instructors have the freedom to design routines that suit their own style and the individual needs of their students. In Istanbul, Joimove Babies trainees and Instructors worked through specially prepared case studies on babywearing dance and practised routines in many different styles, from belly to salsa to ballet!

Babywearing Dance Safety

Babywearing dancing is a special field within dance that requires careful work with young babies, new moms, and loving parents. As a world leader in the field, Joimove is proud to have babywearing and health professionals in our team and explore every aspect of babywearing dance safety in detail with our trainees and Instructors during our Joimove Babies training sessions.

Joimove Babies Instructors: Experts in The Field

Our Instructors are the heart of Joimove and are making an impact in each and every one of their communities! Our international team of Instructors are proud to be some the first ones in their countries to set up sling libraries, sling meets, and bring wonderful babywearers in their regions together for the first time. We encourage our Joimove Babies Instructors to upgrade their Babywearing Peer Supporter knowledge to the Babywearing Consultant level where available and to study first aid so that they are prepared and ready to help.

Upcoming Joimove Live Trainings

Today, Joimove International operates in England, Germany, India, Ireland, Lithuania, Scotland, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey and USA. At Joimove, we hold refreshment training for our Joimove Babies Instructors several times each year to keep our Instructors motivated, safe, and connected to one another. Upcoming trainings include Istanbul, Turkey in September and Taipei, Taiwan in November, and we will be holding live training in Lithuania in April 2018.

We are always looking to bring the joy and knowledge of the Joimove Babies Instructor training programme to new regions and communities. If you would like us to come to your region, or you would like to find out about our ground-breaking online training programme that brings our experience and knowledge to you wherever you are and fits around your schedule, email our Education and E-Learning Consultant, Dr Paula Dumas, today at training@joimove.com for more information.

Dr Ally Baker is launching Joimove Babies in Dumfries and Galloway

May 22, 2017 / No Comments

Dr Ally Baker, psychologist and mum of two, attended Joimove Babies in 2013 and 2014 in Glasgow and loved it! Took part in Get Scotland Dancing 2014 with Joimove and is now dedicated to the cause of getting more people dancing all round the world! She is launching babywearing dance sessions and Joimove Babies Community in Dumfries by 1st June 2017, 12.30pm.

Contact her at ally@joimove.com and join her on facebook.

Mother’s Day Surprise from Joimove Lithuania / Pozityvus Dienoraštis

May 15, 2017 / No Comments
Happy Mothers Day to all Joimovers! Here is a wonderful video from Joimove Lithuania. Last Monday, dads and kids prepared a surprise dancing gift for the moms. Joimove Instructor Ruta Lelyte said “Their dancing, giggles and the joy they shared all together were precious”.
This beautiful gift was also part of the happiness project which created by Pozityvus Dienoraštis took place in Vilkės Namai. Their goal is to collect 1000 positive stories and reflect more happiness the world needs. We are delighted that our award winning Joimove Babies was selected as positive movement. 

Welcome to Joimove Italy / Vanessa Leamy Corsini

May 13, 2017 / No Comments

Vanessa Leamy Corsini the representative of Joimove Italy, has recently graduated from Joimove Ladies Instructor Training Program. We would like to congratulate her and share her story with you!

“Dance has always been part of my life since I was a child. I trained professionally as a ballet dancer in Florence, Italy. I have explored different dance styles such as flamenco, contemporary, jazz and folklore. Having in recent years discovered Argentine tango I have devoted myself to use the power of social dancing to bring people together and build connections.

I currently reside in Glasgow, Scotland where I founded Glasgow Tango Collective and now I am teaching, performing and developing the tango community in Glasgow and across Scotland.

Dancing has always been pivotal to my happiness. Discovering Joimove and being part of this amazing team is allowing me to celebrate life. I look forward to share my love of dancing with babies, families and individuals from all backgrounds.

Selen’s Yilmaz positive attitude and generous spirit, combined with a great network of support and expert training has made my transition into becoming a Joimove leader!

I am now completing my training of Joimove babies, kids, ladies and friends programs. I am getting excited to deliver classes and events in Glasgow and across Scotland and also becoming the Joimove representative for Italy.

My mission is to continue spreading joy by making dancing more accessible, creating stronger connections within individuals, families and communities and celebrating life though the power of movement.”

Vanessa Leamy Corsini
Representative of Joimove Italy, Certified Joimove Ladies Instructor, Dancer, Tango Master, Founder of Glasgow Tango Collective and Milonga Del Corazon.