Baby Bare

09/24/2026

The common thread in Baby Bare Professional Training is not whether you work with babies.

It is whether you are curious about what is happening underneath the symptoms you see.

This training brings together educators, OTs, PTs, SLPs, therapists, infant professionals, doulas, somatic practitioners, bodyworkers, pediatric providers, and whole-child educators.

On the surface, these roles look different.

But all of these professionals work with humans whose bodies and nervous systems are organizing, compensating, adapting, or asking for support.

Some participants work with babies.
Some work with school-aged children.
Some work with teens or adults.
Some work with families.
Some work in classrooms.
Some work in clinics.
Some work through movement, touch, speech, counseling, or education.

The richness of the training comes from that mix.

Baby Bare gives us a shared developmental movement lens for understanding what may be happening underneath learning struggles, emotional overwhelm, sensory concerns, posture, coordination, and behavior.

The work begins with infancy, but it does not end there.

Full cohort and Module One registration are open for the 2027 Minnesota training.

Learn more here:
https://www.babybare.net/for-professionals-2

09/22/2026

If you saw the name Baby Bare and thought, “That’s probably just for infant workers,” this is your reminder to take another look.

Yes, the work begins with infancy.

But we begin there because early movement is where so much nervous system organization begins.

Those early patterns do not stay in infancy.

They show up later in the child who leans on the desk to write.
The student who cannot track smoothly across the page to read.
The bright child who cannot follow multi-step directions.
The teenager whose anxiety lives in their body.
The adult whose nervous system is exhausted from years of compensating.

Baby Bare Professional Training is for professionals who want to understand how early movement, primitive reflexes, and nervous system organization shape learning, attention, posture, emotional life, sensory processing, and wellbeing across the lifespan.

If you wrote this off because you don’t “work with babies,” it may be worth a second look.

Full cohort and Module One registration are open for the 2027 Minnesota training.

Details:
https://www.babybare.net/for-professionals-2

09/17/2026

Sometimes a child’s body tells the story before their words do.

A child may not be able to say:

“I don’t feel organized enough to sit here.”
“My eyes are tired from tracking across the page.”
“My body is using all its effort just to stay upright.”
“My nervous system is overwhelmed.”
“I can’t access what I know right now.”

Instead, adults see:

• wiggling
• collapsing
• leaning
• avoiding
• resisting
• melting down
• shutting down
• not following directions

In Baby Bare, we don’t look at these patterns as proof that a child is not trying.

We look at them as information.

What support is the body asking for?
What early movement patterns may still need attention?
What primitive reflexes may be influencing what we see?
How can we help the nervous system organize so the child has more access to learning, relationship, and emotional steadiness?

This is the kind of lens we explore in Baby Bare Professional Training.

The work begins with early movement, but it does not stay in infancy. We trace those early patterns forward into the classroom, the therapy room, the family system, and the adult body.

Registration is open for the 2027 Baby Bare Professional Training in Minnesota.

Details here:
https://www.babybare.net/for-professionals-2

09/14/2026

By this point in the school year, teachers and parents are often starting to see the patterns emerge.

The child who is bright, curious, and capable, but...

• cannot stay comfortably seated
• leans, twists, kneels, or folds over the desk to write
• melts down around transitions
• struggles to follow multi-step directions
• avoids reading or written work
• seems emotionally unavailable once the task becomes demanding

These are often treated as separate problems.

A reading problem.
A behavior problem.
A sensory problem.
A motivation problem.
A posture problem.

But sometimes these patterns are connected.

In Baby Bare Professional Training, we look at how early movement, primitive reflexes, and nervous system organization shape a child’s capacity for learning, attention, posture, emotional steadiness, and academic access.

The body is always part of learning.

When we understand what the body is showing us, we can support children with more clarity and compassion.

The 2027 Baby Bare Professional Training is open for registration in Minnesota. Full cohort and Module One registration are both available.

Details here:
https://www.babybare.net/for-professionals-2

08/30/2026

When the day finally quiets down, many parents find themselves replaying the hard moments.

The meltdown.
The transition that fell apart.
The moment you wondered if you were too firm, too soft, too late, too much.

If you’ve ever asked yourself, “Did I miss something?” you’re not alone.

And it doesn’t mean you’re doing it wrong.

It often means you’re trying to understand your child with the tools you have, and you may simply need a different lens.

In my work with children and families, I’ve found that behavior is often communication. Children don’t always have the words, skills, or nervous system organization to explain what is happening inside, so their bodies and behavior speak first.

That’s why I’m glad to be part of this free online parenting summit:

Why Is My Child Acting This Way?
Helping You Understand Your Child... So You Can Enjoy Parenting Again

The summit runs September 1–6 and includes one conversation each day with professionals offering different ways to understand what may be underneath children’s behavior.

My conversation focuses on the body, early movement, and the nervous system, and how these pieces shape the way children learn, regulate, relate, and move through the world.

If you’re looking for a more compassionate, grounded way to understand your child’s behavior, this may be a helpful place to begin.

Register here:
https://www.raisingchildrentakesavillage.com/summit?utm_source=StephanieJohnson

And please feel free to share this with families, colleagues, or communities who may find it helpful. The more thoughtful adults we have around children, the better.

Helping You Understand Your Child... So You Can Enjoy Parenting Again. Join Dr. Rachel McConnell and six experts online, free September 1-6.

08/27/2026

When learning is hard, the body tells a story.

Many children are very bright, yet still struggling in school. The underlying cause may be in the body and the tells are often misunderstood.

Do you know a child who is very bright and......

They aren’t reading at grade level.
They can’t stay seated with the group.
They melt down over transitions.
They struggle to follow step-by-step directions.
Their body seems restless, tense, floppy, or overwhelmed.

Baby Bare Professional Training looks underneath these patterns through the lens of early movement, primitive reflexes, and nervous system organization.

This work helps professionals ask a different question:

Not “How do we get this child to try harder?”
But “What developmental support might their nervous system still be asking for?”

The 2027 Baby Bare Professional Training is open for registration in Minnesota.

And through Sept. 1, full-year registrants can use the Study Buddy option to invite a colleague to join them at a discount.

Learn more here: https://www.babybare.net/for-professionals-2
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08/26/2026

When a child is struggling, it’s easy to get pulled into the question:

“How do I stop this behavior?”

But often, the more useful question is:

“What is my child trying to tell me?”

Children don’t always have the words, skills, or nervous system organization to explain what is happening inside. Their bodies and behavior often speak first.

That’s why I’m glad to be part of a free online parenting summit called:

Why Is My Child Acting This Way?
Helping You Understand Your Child... So You Can Enjoy Parenting Again

During the summit, you’ll hear from several professionals offering different lenses on children’s behavior and what may be happening underneath it.

My conversation focuses on the body, early movement, and the nervous system, and how these pieces can shape the way children learn, regulate, relate, and move through the world.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re only managing the surface and want to better understand what may be underneath, this summit may be a helpful place to begin.

Register here:
https://www.raisingchildrentakesavillage.com/summit?utm_source=StephanieJohnson

08/16/2026

I want to clear up something that can be confusing:

**Baby Bare Training is not just for people who work with babies.**

The name came from my book, and it made sense there. But the professional training has always been for a wider circle of people.

Yes, infant workers are very much at home in this work.

And also, Baby Bare Professional Training is for educators, therapists, special education professionals, body-based practitioners, caregivers, and helpers who want to understand how **early movement and the nervous system wire us for life**.

This training is for people who look at confusing symptoms and think:

**There is something else going on here.**

The child who leans on the desk to write.
The student who struggles with horizontal eye tracking for reading.
The child whose emotional regulation feels out of reach.
The teen whose anxiety lives in the body.
The adult whose nervous system that is exhausted from compensating for unfinished business from early development.

This work starts with infancy because early movement is where so much of our nervous system organization begins.

But it does not stop with babies.

We follow those early patterns forward into learning, regulation, posture, coordination, attention, sensory processing, and wellbeing across the lifespan.

The **2027 Year-long Baby Bare Professional Training** is a live, in-person, slow and deep learning cohort in Minnesota.

It includes three in-person weekends across the year, with time to move, learn, practice, integrate, and return with better questions.

You can register for the full year, or begin with Module One.

If you’ve been wondering, “Is this really for me?” this may help you decide.

Details are here:
https://www.babybare.net/for-professionals-2

And if someone comes to mind as you read this, please feel free to share it with them.

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07/13/2026

“What kinds of challenges does Baby Bare help with?”
Many professionals find their way to Baby Bare because they keep seeing the same patterns in different children.

On the social–emotional side:
• “Big” emotions and frequent meltdowns
• Anxiety and sensory overwhelm
• Trouble settling in their bodies and nervous systems

And on the academic / classroom side:
• Very bright kids who aren’t reading at grade level
• Children who can’t sit in the chair or stay with the group
• Students who are capable, but can’t follow step‑by‑step directions

In their own settings – classrooms, clinics, homes – professionals are doing everything they can, but it still feels like something deeper is driving the challenges.

In Baby Bare Professional Training, we look underneath the surface at early movement, primitive reflexes, and the nervous system. We explore how the way a brain “wires up” through movement in infancy can later show up as attention issues, regulation struggles, and learning difficulties – and how to use movement to gently support re‑organization over time.

The goal isn’t to add one more strategy on top of symptoms, but to give you a clearer map of what might be happening underneath, so your existing academic and therapeutic tools can land more effectively.

In 2027, I’ll be offering a three‑weekend, in‑person Baby Bare Professional Training cohort in Minnesota for professionals who want this kind of developmental, body‑based lens in their work with children and families.

Details about the 2027 cohort: https://www.babybare.net/for-professionals-2