Music For All Ages

Tired of listening to baby music?  I’ve raided my children’s CD collection to bring you a list of our favorites.  Music that even the adults will want to sing along too!

Be sure to catch some of the local groups in live shows, check out your local library to borrow CD’s or tune into Pandora for kids music.

Our Favorite Local Bay Area Artists:

Asheba  http://www.asheba.net/

The Sippy Cups  http://www.thesippycups.com

Francis England http://francesengland.com/

Banana Slug String Band (ok, santa cruz) http://www.bananaslugstringband.com/

Others We Adore At Our House:

Laurie Berkner  http://twotomatoes.com
They Might Be Giants  http://www.theymightbegiants.com/
Trout Fishing In America  http://www.troutmusic.com/
Jose-Luis Orozco (spanish)  http://www.joseluisorozco.com/
Alain Le Lait (french)  http://www.yadeeda.com

Compilations:
For The Kids
Mother Goose Rocks
Lullaby, A Collection
The Planet Sleeps
Mother Earth Lullaby
Putumayo Kids (large selection)

Broadway shows, classical, drumming, jazz, rock, etc.

Local Bay Area Places To See Kids Music and Family Dance:  All of these offer kids concerts sometime during the year.

Ashkenaz (for music and Sunday mid day Soul Sanctuary all ages dance)  http://www.ashkenaz.com/

Starry Plough  http://www.starryploughpub.com

La Pena  http://www.lapena.org/

Freight and Salvage  http://www.freightandsalvage.org

The Park Chalet at Ocean Beach, SF

Craniosacral Therapy Appointments for Babies-Feb. in Oakland

The Bay Area CranioSacral Children’s Collective invites you to participate in the second Sunday of the month Infant CranioSacral Free Clinic. Precrawlers and their parents are encouraged to RSVP for an appointment.

If you have been curious about what CranioSacral is and how it can help your baby, this is a no risk opportunity to get to know the work, therapists in our community and meet with other parents with babies.

CranioSacral is a gentle hands on healing modality that is guided by the flow of the cerebrospinal fluid, the liquid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord. Just like blood, it circulates continuously and can be sensed as a pulsation in well trained hands. Where the body has limited motion, the pulsation is lessened and gives us a map to where to work. Therapists encourage mobility, circulation and nerve conduction with very light touch to help fine tune your baby’s perfect little body.
Some babies come into the world with big stories that need to be listened to. We allow them to share these with us, give them permission to express and unfold, creating a greater sense of well being. Many parents seek out CranioSacral Therapy for breastfeeding, sleep, and developmental issues, traumatic births, colic or digestive concerns, torticollis, or cranial malformation. Many families find that babies that receive the work sleep better, breastfeed and digest more efficiently, and can be generally happier.

Date: February 12
Times: Appointments at 10am, 11am, and noon, by RSVP.
Location: Grand Lake area in Oakland

RSVP for appointments to Holly Edson RN CST
email: info sfcranio com
or call/text 415-509-5493

Our March clinic will take place in Noe Valley in SF.

New Pilates Mat Class for Mamas & their Wee Ones

Jessica and Lucinda Bliss (her beautiful baby girl) and are continuing their Pilates Mat class for mamas and their babes.

Here are the details:
Tuesdays 11am-12:15pm
Alley 49 Somatic Arts
482E 49th Street
Oakland, CA 94609

Located in the smaller of the two alleys on 49th Street between Telegraph and Clarke. Walk all the way down to the bench and you’ll see them.

Please don’t hesitate to contact Jessica if you have questions, concerns, thoughts, or what have you. And… They have some special deals for the next three Tuesdays of January:

  • First class only $5 (that’s barely more than a good latte)!
  • Returning students bring a friend and get the $5 price
  • Book a private Pilates session (babes are welcome) and receive 50% off! (That’ll buy you several good lattes!)


Jessica Damon, MFA
Alley 49 Somatic Arts
415.418.8357