Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Jane Dorrian and Julie Powell and first published in July 2025.

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Figure 2: Yan Krukau/Pexels

Figure 3: Early Years Wales activity card: courtesy Early Years Wales. Early Years Wales, membership services to the Early Years sector in Wales.

Figure 4: UK Chief Medical Officers’ Physical Activity Guidelines, p. 23 (Published 7 September 2019). Crown Copyright 2019 Open Government Licence https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ .

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Video 2: Crawling – Feldenkrais with Baby Liv’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14gWirURq6I courtesy Irene Lyon.

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