Millions Around The World Have Called This Woman Insane, But She Won't Stop. You Have To See This!
Millions of people around the world were completely stunned when they saw a video of Lena Fokina doing something called “Baby Yoga.” The 51-year-old Russian woman was filmed spinning and flipping babies above her head and behind her back in a fashion that would make most call out for child protective services. Now, there are others that are joining her in performing these insane acrobatics with their newborns. Lena insists that this is totally safe and actually benefits the children. I can’t for the life of me see how. Watch this video, and comment below what you think. Is she nuts!?
Lena Fokina, the hardbodied Russian viral video star seen swinging babies here and here, is real. She teaches baby yoga for a living and raised two (seemingly) healthy daughters that way. And she just gave her first American interview!
Lena has a website where she advertises herself as a childrearing expert based in Dahab, Egypt. We tracked her down through her Russian booking agent, but were unable to interview her because of the language barrier. Enter Nathan Thornburgh: He's a daddy blogger and who writes about Russia for Time magazine. He interviewed Lena in her native Russian, and got her to explain her "extreme developmental gymnastics" techniques.
I've never heard of anything like this Baby Yoga. Is this traditional or did you invent it?
Life invented it; it was conveyed to us by the teacher and author of all these ideas, Igor Borisovich Charkovsky. […] Over the last 30 years, Charkovsky's system has lived in Russia and has spread from there. Not everyone accepts it.
The first thing everybody here thought when they saw your baby-swinging video was "Holy shit!" Then they thought, is it real or fake? So: Is it real? If so, who is the baby?
The child was born in the Black Sea region. Her name is Platona, and she was two weeks old when we took that video. We have a lot of children like her here. They are early readers, singers, talkers, swimmers. You haven't seen anything like it anywhere!! And there's swimming with dolphins, scuba diving with them… Come to Dahab!
Platona has since grown into a normal-looking toddler, and still does "dynamic gymnastics." (Above, at right.) Lena's own daughters grew up to be comely freediving instructors. Here are pictures of them teaching baby free-diving classes with their mom:
I've never heard of anything like this Baby Yoga. Is this traditional or did you invent it?
Life invented it; it was conveyed to us by the teacher and author of all these ideas, Igor Borisovich Charkovsky. […] Over the last 30 years, Charkovsky's system has lived in Russia and has spread from there. Not everyone accepts it.
The first thing everybody here thought when they saw your baby-swinging video was "Holy shit!" Then they thought, is it real or fake? So: Is it real? If so, who is the baby?
The child was born in the Black Sea region. Her name is Platona, and she was two weeks old when we took that video. We have a lot of children like her here. They are early readers, singers, talkers, swimmers. You haven't seen anything like it anywhere!! And there's swimming with dolphins, scuba diving with them… Come to Dahab!
Platona has since grown into a normal-looking toddler, and still does "dynamic gymnastics." (Above, at right.) Lena's own daughters grew up to be comely freediving instructors. Here are pictures of them teaching baby free-diving classes with their mom:
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