Frederick Leboyer

Frederick Leboyer was born in France in 1918. He studies medicine and specialised in gynaecology and obstetrics, becoming head consultant at the Paris Faculty of Medicine in the 1950s.
After undergoing psychoanalysis Dr Leboyer started working out new ideas about the process of birth. His book ‘Birth Without Violence’ revolutionised the vision of how we bring our children into the world.
Frederick Leboyer first visited India in 1959 and spent two months of every year there in the following two decades. He developed a keen interest in yoga and its applications for pregnant women and new mothers, particularly the use of breathing and sound.
In 1977, ‘Loving Hands’, a book about Shantala’s massage of her baby son in Calcutta, initiated western mothers to the power and magic of Infant Massage. Most of the training in Infant Massage in America and Europe stems form Shantala’s loving hands.
Frederick Leboyer, through these two books and other publications, has contributed, perhaps more than anyone else in the twentieth century, that the emotional environment of birth has a profound impact and life-long effects on everyone.
Frederick is also an accomplished poet.
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