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The original BabyQ (9+9) Programme, now available on one Programme-DVD

and one Resource-DVD, is composed of the following elements

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DVD-UNITS"PRE" Interactive Prenatal Programme

english/deutsch with five Tutorials: T 1 - T 4 & TN

plus "YOGA for Pregnancy" (print version).

DVD-UNITS"POST" Interactive Postnatal Programme

english/deutsch with a pdf-version of CCC-Charts

plus BABY MASSAGE (print version).

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DVD-UNIT"CCC" A reservoir of visual patterns to enhance

postnatal Contour-Contrast-Colour vision.

DVD-UNIT"RSV" Rhythms, Soundscapes, Visualizations: a collection of

sound pieces for listening, dancing, singing,

meditation & moving-sound-sessions (Sound-Yoga).

these two Resource-Units are introduced by the video

"DELIVERY", extract of Signe Baumane's animation "BIRTH" (New York, 2009).

Access via "Face Menu" (part of DVD Main Menu) for your DVD-System/PC.

Supplementary Resource-Units

DVD-UNIT"RSV-WAVE"

DVD-UNIT"RSV-MP3"

DVD-UNIT"CCC-JPEG"

Available as separate files for burning of your private audio-CD's, for

downloading on your MP3-player and for manipulating of your CCC-Charts.

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(CD I)

1. (1) Rhythm, Tango: 7'05, "Tango à trois", tracks 1 & 7, Peter Ludwig (Piano), Anja Lechner

(Violoncello), Andreas Reiner (Violin), LC 3740, FARAO CLASSICS, MUENCHEN

2. (2) Rhythm, Waltz: 12'10, "Herbstgold", tracks 7 & 17,

Juergen Schulz, SalonOrchester "Berliner Melange", BERLIN

3. (3) Rhythm, Oriental Dance: 7'46, "Oriental Fantasy 2", tracks 3 & 4 (Solo Akkordeon & Walla Ya

Walla), Beata & Horatio Cifuentes, LC 7660, TANZSTUDIO CIFUENTES, BERLIN

4. (4) Henry Purcell: 9'13, "King Arthur, Act III, sc. 2", track 7, Deller Consort & Choir, Rosemary

Hardy (Soprano), Maurice Bevan (Baryton), HARMONIA MUNDI, ARLES

5. (5) Vedic Chanting: 6'10, P. Rajan & LEOEVO, PONDICHERRY (India)

6. (6) Veena-Sound: 10'18, P. Bharathi & LEOEVO, PONDICHERRY (India)

http://www.leonardoevolution.com

7. (7) Song of Light: 8'30, "Vedic Sound", track 4, SUB ROSA (Guy-Marc Hinant), LC 6110,

BRUXELLES,

8. (8) Vedic Voices: 10'50, "Vedic Sound", track 3, SUB ROSA (Guy-Marc Hinant), LC 6110,

BRUXELLES, http://www.subrosa.net

(CD II)

9. (1) Moving Sound 1, Alphorn: 7'50, "Mike Svoboda's Alphorn Special d'c6", track 15,

DACAPO gGmbH (Dr. Ingo Ahmels), LC 4937, BREMEN

10.(2) Moving Sound 2, Didgeridoo: 8'09, LEOEVO, MARSEILLE,


11.(3) Musica Variata: 13'04, "Musica Variata II", tracks 7 & 11, Ludmilla Matters

(Soprano), Johannes Kohlhaus (Flute), Klaus Glocksin (Lowland Bagpipes), Heinz-Jacob

Spelmans (Orgue), LC 1083, MUSICA VARIATA, DUESSELDORF

12.(4) Soprano & Jazz-Trumpet: 11'04, "Duke Ellington, A Concert of Sacred Music", tracks 4, 7 & 8,

Lothar Krist, Hannover BigBand & Jazzchor Freiburg, LC 5120, HANNOVER,

13.(5) Hufeisen (Flute) & Bells: 10'31, "Hans-Juergen Hufeisen, Raum fuer meine Seele - nach dem

Kanon von J. Pachelbel" & "Schimmerndes Juwel - Melodiemeditation zu Tochter Zion",

HAMBURG

14.(6) Johann Sebastian Bach: 12'38, "Weihnachtsoratorium BMW 248, selection from cantata 1&2",

recorded in the church of Alt-Tempelhof, BERLIN 2002

15.(7) Sea of Life (PRE): 8'22, CHAIPAN & LEOEVO, BANGKOK, http://www.leonardoevolution.com

16.(8) Sea of Life (POST): 8'13, CHAIPAN & LEOEVO, BANGKOK, http://www.leonardoevolution.com

(CD III)

17.(1) Relaxation "Exercises": 21'05, CHAIPAN & LEOEVO, BANGKOK,


18.(2) Deep Relaxation: 13'20, CHAIPAN & LEOEVO, BANGKOK, http://www.leonardoevolution.com

19.(3) Visualization 1, "Exercises": 12'05: CHAIPAN & LEOEVO, BANGKOK,


20.(4) Visualization 2, "The Ocean": 13'04, CHAIPAN & LEOEVO, BANGKOK


21.(5) Visualization 3, "Getting in Touch": 16'50, CHAIPAN & LEOEVO, BANGKOK,


(CD IV)

22.(1) Soundscape 1, "La Sainte Baume": 25'00, LEOEVO MARSEILLE


23.(2) Soundscape 2, "La Côte Bleue": 25'00, LEOEVO MARSEILLE


24.(3) Soundscape 3, "Cigales de la Provence": 25'00, LEOEVO MARSEILLE,


Early Adequate Stimulation.

We know that during the first trimester of pregnancy both your unborn’s

somato-sensory system (touch) and vestibular system (movement & balance)

mature very fast and we understand these two interconnected systems as the

largest and earliest functioning organ for fetal sensory perception and

motoric action. Therefore as a suitable stimulation during the first trimester

we have selected harmonious somato-sensory and vestibular stimuli:

- Circular and rhythmical harmonious movements : dancing

- Audio-somatosensory stimulation: rhythms, harmonies & melodies

in the medium and lower frequency range.

Please note that acoustical waves with longer wavelengths (lower

frequencies) pass the maternal uterine tissues with only marginal losses in

intensity. They stimulate the Pacini-and Meissner cells of the fetal skin (see

Tutorial T2). Therefore, acoustical stimuli at lower frequencies are our

favourite harmonious stimuli for the interconnected somatosensory-

vestibular system. In our DVD-UNIT "RSV", tracks 5-10 may serve as those

stimuli. Later, in the second and third trimester of pregnancy, sound pieces

with medium and higher basic frequencies will be added, to stimulate

cochlear hearing. If we use sound-pieces as stimuli, we can speak of "sound

seeds" which should be understood as tiny memorable sequences, such as

"twinkle, twinkle, little star" in the famous lullaby, or the mantra "OM NAMAH

SHIVAY" in DVD-UNIT "RSV", track 5, or as well phonological fragments like

the timbre of the male voice in "Song of Light" and "Vedic Voices" (DVD -

UNIT "RSV", tracks 7 & 8). Therefore, a larger variety of sound pieces, played

prenatally for your unborn, will increase the probability that many sound

seeds can become effective, thereby contributing to a luxuriant flowering in

the sensomotoric landscape. There is no "overstimulation" or confusion as

related to a greater variety of sound pieces.

Novelty Stimuli : Curiosity and Inspiration.

The very first stimuli should normally induce a novel but deeply rooted

emotional experience. When your baby perceives first in her life the sound of

the sea, and when the neonate later sees for a first time the ocean, and

listens again to the repeating sound of rolling waves, a lasting experience

might be developed. Your child’s curiosity, once evoked, will motivate and

guide her to select more perceptual fragments and information from the

seaside (see POST activity D.9): such as the blue, green and grey colours of

the water, ships at the horizon, dunes, the endless beach, seagulls and the

white clouds in the blue sky. An engram of THE SEA will be achieved in this

way. Other and sometimes simple stimuli can evoke an immediate surprise.

When watching the CCC-Charts and playing together with the spinner, notice

baby's surprise after an immediate colour-change from blue-and-yellow to

uniform grey-green, when rotating the blue & yellow spinner pattern. Now

she will be highly alert and invest a lot of patience, learning how to rotate the

spinner without your support.

Contrasts.

One of the basic findings in neuroscience shows that neuronal processing in

cortical and subcortical networks is closely related to the contrasting

mechanisms of Excitation & Inhibition. In the visual system, the

interaction between excitation and inhibition has been first studied with black-

and white-contrast patterns like bars or checkerboards. We followed this line,

having included in the BabyQ POST programme a variety of black-white and

colour-contrast patterns (see DVD-UNIT"CCC"), suitable for activating and

enriching neonatal contour- contrast- and colour-vision. Similarly, contrasts in

audition enhance listening experiences and probably support memorization.

In a sound composition, contrasts in rhythmical sequences, melodies, timbres

of instruments, female and male voices etc. contribute strongly to its

emotional content and musical quality. In our prenatal sound stimulation

programme (DVD-UNIT "RSV") we have made extensive use of rhythmical-,

melodic- and cultural-contrasts, contrasts between low and high basic

frequencies, and ethnical contrast between occidental, oriental and south-

american soundscapes.

Cortical imprints from sensomotoric stimulation.

Following some ideas in neurobiology, an engram, as induced by a pre-or

postnatal stimulation, can be understood as a stimulus-dependent

morphological change in related areas of the brain. Stimulus-dependent

morphological changes have been widely observed in cortical and subcortical

networks: Here a repeated external stimulation causes a higher efficiency of

synapses, morphologically expressed by the reduction of the synaptical cleft

size and the enlargement of the synaptical diameter. On a larger scale these

tiny morphological changes may become visible as thickening of some

cortical/subcortical areas (ESSENTIALS, Ref. 7, 28, 75-77). Noninvasive

methods like fetal Magneto-Encephalography/Cardiography (fetal MEG / MCG)

will enable us probably to verify these stimulus-dependent morphological

changes in the human fetal cortex (ESSENTIALS, Ref. 56-63) and to explore

channels related to biochemical and electromagnetic mother-fetus-father

communication.

But what about very noisy acoustical stimuli without any harmonies? Do

these "ugly" stimuli induce morphological changes in the fetal brain similarly

to the "beautiful ones"? Up to now we have insufficient experimental

knowledge to answer such questions and ethical reasons exclude

experiments with ugly stimuli in humans as well as in animals (hopefully).

There is some knowledge on early sensory deprivation, which seems to be

related to "thinning-out processes" in the stimulus-deprived neuronal network

(see Ref. 28 in ESSENTIALS). What we believe is that in conscious human

beings ugly stimuli can be compensated on a small scale by bonding, tender

care and repetitive harmonious stimulation. Therefore on a large scale

BEAUTY should always have an evolutionary advantage as compared with

ugliness!

Examples of lasting prenatal memories.

In the Music Scene of South India we have observed that professional sitar-

veena- or tabla-players practice a very basic form of prenatal stimulation

without much knowledge of modern neuroscience. Knowing that his wife is

pregnant, the musician normally sits several times a week beside her and

plays with all his passion the favourite pieces of his repertoire. He and his

wife both are convinced without any doubt that this is the most suitable and

natural way to imprint elements of traditional indian music into their unborn’s

mind. Together with the very long and intense period of practicing music in

later infancy, the family’s knowledge of indian ragas will be transferred in this

way to the next generation.

We can observe similar practice in African GRIOT-FAMILIES, and also of

course in musical families of Europe, where it is not only on the level of the

BACHS’S, MOZART’S, STRAUSS’S or STOCKHAUSEN’S that prenatal

memorization frequently has been involved in the musical culture of the

entire family.

One of our friends, Dorothea, was pregnant with her daughter, Natasha, about 30

years ago. In those days Dorothea’s favorite music was caribic reggae, and she liked

to dance a lot to these rhythms during her pregnancy. Soon after Natasha’s birth,

they moved from the Caribbean Islands back to Germany, and for some reason

Dorothea had to store all her former records in the cellar, including the reggae

pieces. It was only years later, when Natasha was a grown-up teenager, that

Dorothea was in a mood to listen to her old records again, and then she played the

reggae pieces for herself and her daughter. Natasha’s reaction was very intense, she

was immediately familiar with all those pieces that she had never heard since her

birth. She reported how unique and strong her feelings were at that moment. She

was highly moved by this music, and began singing most of these pieces without

any further listening.

We believe this to be an endearing and obvious example of lasting prenatal

memories. And you will find many of this kind, originally presented or

reviewed in literature like A. Piontelli or J. Raffai et al. (ESSENTIALS, Ref.21

or Ref. 40).

Benefits.

Supposing you are practicing our pre- and postnatal programme in a good

mood, you soon will get the feeling that your communication with your

unborn or newborn child will become much more interactive and

differentiated. You will learn to watch carefully the rapid maturation of your

baby's sensomotoric functions, and you will be able at this early stages to

grasp a bit of her tiny ego, to identify some of her special skills as well as

possible handicaps. If circumstances were to require it, you would then have

the ability to start an early therapeutic intervention together with your doctor,

midwife, doula or bonding therapist.

Therefore BabyQ can become highly important in the field of preventive

medicine: when a PRE activity like "Fetal Doppler" can contribute to a

prenatal identification of frequently occuring fetal cardiac defects, the

appropriate intervention can probably prevent sudden infant death in many

cases!

Please feel free to associate the Q in BabyQ with the french word "QUI":

searching "WHO" you are and "WHO" your baby is in these communicative

months full of new experiences, surprises and adventures. Communication

and Bonding are like a healthy nutrition, essential for the further growth of

your child's and your family's consciousness. Especially with regard to more

than 30 Mio "surprise-babies" per annum, who are normally accepted very

slowly by their initially confused parents & relatives, fetal-maternal bonding

has to be strongly supported. Neglected neonates and unwanted babies have

to bear so much pain, and we recommend all those parents, who are involved

in this complex, to ask for expertise in psychotherapeutic bonding-analysis.

Jenoe Raffai is one of the pioneers in this field, and we invite you here, to

study his original papers together with related articles of Helga Blazy and

Gyoergy Hidas, all included as pdf's in our PRE activity A 1.5.

Movement and rhythm are central aspects in all exercises and activities of

the pre- and postnatal BabyQ-programme. Because rhythm is also important

in early speech development, we can assume that BabyQ PRE, with its focus

set on rhythm, melody & harmony, facilitates musical perception and musical

practicing in the same manner that it facilitates speech and language

acquisition. The embodiment of music & speech has its counterpart in the

priming of musical perception and cochlear hearing through early

movements and rhythmical tapping, as shown by Laurel J. Trainor and her

colleagues (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada).

Further in BabyQ POST, a focal point has been set on activities in contour-

contrast- and colour-vision (DVD- UNIT "CCC") to support baby’s visual

pattern recognition and spatial orientation.

Finally we believe that BabyQ will reduce many risks of premature birth: even

if the body size of the preterm baby is small, sensomotorics as enhanced by

adequate PRE activities, may contribute to healthy survival of the pre-born.

Enjoy the 9 + 9 months of utero- and extero gestation!

Learn to perform an inspiring and sensitive communication with your child.

Enhance your individual skills and talents during your common pregnancy

and early parenthood.

If you have to take a nanny soon after birth, please train her to handle all key

activities of POST by herself. Your nanny then will become included in family

bonding and additionally she will learn, by frequent practicing of POST

activities, to perceive your child with much greater sensibility. We suppose

here, that a new health-care-profession may evolve, fusing the skills of

educated nannies and engaged midwifes to offer expert-supervision in pre-

and postnatal learning-programmes.

Regardless of whether or not a nanny is needed, both parents are the most

important actors and supervisors in baby's very early education, and of course

it is the father who has to take more responsibilities concerning his

fatherhood. BabyQ may help you, dear father-to-be, to enjoy your "male

pregnancy" as well, and to transform at least extero-gestation into a creative

form of "group-parenting", involving clearly yourself, your nanny, relatives and

friends. Similarly it may contribute bridging the gap to couples or single

parents, who adopted a child: familiarity evolves, while practicing BabyQ.

During these 9 plus 9 months BabyQ will become your

experienced guide and companion.

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Noninvasive methods like fetal MEG/MCG (Ref. 56 - 63), MMN-studies (Ref.

55&58) as well as multisensory, especially musical stimulation programmes (Ref.

53,54 & 64-66) will become very important in early human sensomotorics, studying

the roots of human perception, cognition and consciousness during the 18-months-

period of proto-delelopment. New interdisciplinary research-units seem to be

necessary, as well as a new terminology, which will be better adapted to the 9 + 9

months of utero- and extero-gestation. If consciousness is a biological

phenomenon one should be encouraged to search for embryonal/fetal stages of

consciousness using noninvasive methods as mentioned above.

Links to websites & pdf's:

Concerning cortical plasticity and stimulus-dependent changes in cortical

morphology, we recommend articles of Shashi Wadhwa (All India Institute of

Medical Sciences AIIMS) and Norman M. Weinberger (University of California at

Irvine). You may download some of their free pdf's via the websites:

For downloading valuable papers on music perception/performance and cortical

remodeling, please visit the websites of Laurel J. Trainor (McMaster University,

Hamilton, Canada), Isabelle Peretz/Robert J. Zatorre (University of Montreal/McGill

University, Canada), Stefan Koelsch (FU Berlin, Germany), Marie Tervaniemi

(Helsinki University, Finnland) and

Concerning the new wave in the "Science of Consciousness" (D. Chalmers,

C.McGinn, T. Metzinger, T. Nagel, A.Revonsuo and F.A.Wolf), we recommend

original articles to be found via:

and in the amazing website of "Dr. Quantum" (search Google for Fred Alan Wolf").

Acknowledgements:

Many thanks to all of you, our dear friends, relatives, colleagues and partners in Germany, France

and Thailand, in UK, Austria, Switzerland, Turkey, in India and China, Australia, Canada, South-

America and USA :

Thanks to you dear Siriwan, Thitaree, Ampaka & Parinda (Bangkok)

Sarah (Paris), Lloyd & Veronika, Doro, Irene & Esther and Tito (Berlin)

Peter Pan (Melbourne), Bill Sallenbach at University of Alaska (Sitka), Brent Logan (Seattle),

Ludwig Janus (Heidelberg), Eva Reti (Paris), Patricia & Ludovic & Milan Leccese (Marseille /

Gemenos), Maurice Frojmovic (Marseille), Lloyd De Mause (New York), Camilla Alexander (Boulder)

and in INDIA to you dear Rama (Chennai), Sriraamulu & Shanti and J.Manuel Suresh (Pondicherry),

Aurelio, Tina & Holger (Auroville) .

Many thanks to:

Erich Saling (Saling Institute Berlin), Rudolph Bauer, Klaus Eyferth, Heinz Lemke & Ingo Rechenberg

(TU Berlin), Dieter Mrowinski & Barbara Schmidt (FU-Berlin),

to you:

Birgit Arabin (Witten), Colin Barber (Nottingham), Erol Basar (Izmir), Helga Blazy (Koeln), Marie-

Claire Busnel (Paris), Peter beim Graben (Potsdam), A.M. Halliday (London), Christina Hurst-Prager

(London), W. D. Keidel (Erlangen), H.H. Kornhuber (Ulm), Peter van Leeuwen (Bochum), Jenoe

Raffai (Budapest), Julian Sayarer (Brighton), Benoist Schaal (Dijon), Burkhard Schauf (Tuebingen),

Ekkehard Schleussner (Jena), Waltraut Stening (Koeln),

and to you:

Ruth Fridman (Buenos Aires), Beatriz Guzman de Manrique (Caracas), Thomas Verny (Toronto),

Shashi Wadhwa (AIIMS,New Delhi), Jiri Vrba (CTF Vancouver), Hal Weinberg & Janet Werker

(Vancouver), Zhou Jiong Liang, Liu Chuan Hua & Guo Yin Yin ( Sun Yat Sen University,

Guangzhou), Jiang Di Xian & Shao Jing Yu (Shanghai).

Finally thank you, dear friends & colleagues in the USA:

Signe Baumane (New York), Lilian A. Bryan (Atlanta), David Chamberlain (San Diego), Rene van

deCarr (San Francisco), Hari Eswaran & Carolin Sheridan (University of Arkansas at Little Rock),

Lloyd Kaufman (New York), Yoshi Okada (University of New Mexico), Anne Pfannenstiel & Richard

Aubry (SUNY at Syracuse, New York), Arnold Starr & Norman Weinberger (University of California,

Irvine).

We are grateful to the following composers, producers and publishers who helped us continuously, to

finalize the complex BabyQ-Project:

+ Felix Gargerle & Andreas Caemmerer / Peter Ludwig, Producers / Composer,

Farao Classics Muenchen, Germany

+ Harmonia Mundi S.A. Arles

+ Beata & Horacio Cifuentes, Dancers & producers, Tanzstudio Cifuentes, Berlin

+ J. Kohlhaus, Flute Player, Producer, Musica Variata, Duesseldorf

+ H.J. Hufeisen, Flute Player, Producer, Composer, Hamburg

+ Juergen Schulz, SalonOrchester "Berliner Melange", Berlin

+ Guy-Marc Hinant, Producer / Composer, Sub Rosa Production, Brussels,

+ Ingo Ahmels & Mike Svoboda , Composers, dacapo, Bremen

+ Lothar Krist, Big Band Leader, Producer / Composer, Hannover

+ Wolfgang Wedel, KirchenmusikDirektor, Kantorei Alt-Tempelhof, Berlin.

+ Kurt Mattes, Mattes Verlag GmbH, Heidelberg

+ Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen

+ Signe Baumane (New York) / KurzFilmAgentur Hamburg

about us:

Leonie Shihora is a musician and social pedagoque. In her adolescence she became a member of “Berliner

Singakademie“, a renowned german choir directed by Hans Hilsdorf. She carried out workshops on singing,

painting and dancing. She worked as a social worker in Berlin. In 1998 she met Thomas Blum, started travelling

with him in Asia and founded LeonardoEvolution GbR. Both settled for several years in Chennai & Pondicherry

(India). Later they moved to Marseille (France), where she now works as an animatrice for handicapped people.

Chairat Panthuraamphorn is a a medical doctor and obstetrician, who works as director of a hospital in the

Bangkok area. He started in the 80s in Thailand with field studies on prenatal stimulation and can be seen as one

of the pioneers in the field of prenatal enrichment. An initial version of BabyQ has been applied by him and his staff

with great success in Thailand and some results of these studies have been published (ESSENTIALS, Ref. 69-72).

He formerly served as an advisor of the government with his solid expertise in „prenatal education & prenatal

enrichment“.

Thomas Blum is a neuropsychologist, who initiated in the 80s a research project on fetal

magnetoencephalography, suitable for non-invasive experimental studies in human fetal perception and cognition

(textbook “C.Nelson, M.deHaan, KM.Thomas: Neuroscience of Cognitive Development, Wiley 2006“ ). In the 90s,

as an associate professor, he carried out studies on prenatal enrichment and early sensomotoric stimulation in

China. Together with Leonie Shihora he founded the R&D company LeonardoEvolution GbR and is going to

design new multi-sensomotory stimulation programmes, suitable for the period of human proto-development.

Further he continues the LeoEvo R&D-project on SOUND-YOGA..

Impressum:

LeonardoEvolution GbR Berlin-Marseille, email: [email protected]

postal address: 98, Rue Saint Savournin, 13001 Marseille, France

registered: LeonardoEvolution GbR, Thomas Blum, Dr. phil. & Leonie Shihora, Dipl.Soz.Paed.,

Finckensteinallee 78, D-12205 Berlin, Gerichtsstand: Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg.

Account: Deutsche Bank Berlin, BLZ 100 700 24, No. 01850 94 000. Tax-No. 20/232/00045 Berlin

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